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Microsoft brings Rust Coreutils to Windows – natively

Microsoft has released Coreutils for Windows, allowing a stack of familiar "Linux-like" command-line utilities to run natively on Windows. The project is based on uutils, the Rust-based reimplementation of GNU coreutils that Ubuntu (mostly) has adopted in recent releases. Microsoft's package bundles uutils' coreutils and findutils as well as a GNU-compatible grep in a single binary. It offers tools like cat, cp, ls, mv and uptime. Commands that use POSIX-only features are excluded, meaning chmod, chown, kill and others aren't included. What's notable – *nix tools working their way into the Windows ecosystem is notable – is that this isn't [...]

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Categories: News, coreutils, Microsoft, rust, windows, WSL
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/microsoft-release-windows-coreutils Jun 10, 2026, 07:21 PM

Firefox for Android's Play Integrity check hits custom ROMs

Mozilla has added support for Google's Play Integrity API, known for blocking users of custom ROMs from accessing banking apps, to Firefox for Android. Per a resolved issue in Mozilla's public tracker, a new lib-integrity-googleplay library was added to Firefox's Android codebase. It requests a Play Integrity token which is then passed to Mozilla's MLPA (Machine Learning Proxy) server. The token is used to access Firefox's server-side AI tools, like Smart Window, for rate-limiting purposes, ensuring only unmodified, Play-installed copies of Firefox on Google-certified devices use Mozilla's compute infra. Per documentation for the API, developers can: "...call the Integrity API [...] to [...]

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Categories: News, Android, Mozilla
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/mozilla-firefox-android-google-play-integrity Jun 09, 2026, 11:55 PM

VideoLAN Announces dav2d as an Open-Source and Super Fast AV2 Decoder



VideoLAN formerly announced the dav2d project as an open-source, cross-platform, and free AV2 decoder focused on speed and correctness, based on the popular dav1d decoder.

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Categories: Drivers, News, AV2, AV2 decoder, dav2d
Source: https://9to5linux.com/videolan-announces-dav2d-as-an-open-source-and-super-fast-av2-decoder Jun 08, 2026, 05:15 PM

Flatpak 1.18 Linux App Sandboxing and Distribution Framework Officially Released



Flatpak 1.18 Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework is now available for download. This is a major release that brings several new features and improvements.

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Categories: Apps, News, app sandboxing, Flatpak, sandboxing
Source: https://9to5linux.com/flatpak-1-18-linux-app-sandboxing-and-distribution-framework-officially-released Jun 08, 2026, 03:56 PM

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 7th, 2026



9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for June 7th, 2026, brings news about Ubuntu 26.10's new features, GNOME 50.2, Linux Lite 8.0, Transmission 4.1.2, Blender 5.2 LTS beta, Clonezilla Live 3.3.2, new Steam Client update, T2 Linux 26.6, Giada 1.4.2, COSMIC 1.0.15, Tails 7.8.1, KDE Gear 26.04.2, LibreOffice 26.2.4, Ardour 9.7, Armbian Imager 2.0, HandBrake 1.11.2, Shelly 2.3.2.2, and more.

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Categories: Weekly Roundup, 9to5Linux roundup, Linux roundup, weekly roundup
Source: https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-june-7th-2026 Jun 08, 2026, 02:57 AM

HandBrake 1.11.2 Video Transcoder Adds WebM MIME Type Support on Linux



HandBrake 1.11.2 open-source video transcoder is now available for download with WebM MIME type support on Linux, improvements to Core Audio AAC encoder 7.1 channel layout, and bug fixes.

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Categories: Apps, News, HandBrake, video converter, video transcoder
Source: https://9to5linux.com/handbrake-1-11-2-open-source-video-transcoder-adds-webm-mime-type-support-on-linux Jun 07, 2026, 10:52 PM

LibreOffice slams Euro-Office as 'de facto ally of Microsoft'

Euro-Office launches its stable 1.0 release on June 9, billed as a 'truly open' sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office – a claim riling The Document Foundation, makers of LibreOffice. In an open letter published today, TDF's Italo Vignoli takes issue with the upstart productivity suite's pitch. He disputes Euro-Office's marketing, which he says positions it as the first open-source office suite developed in Europe. It's historically inaccurate as OpenOffice.org got there in 2001, followed by LibreOffice from 2010. But he calls out another issue. The European Union is making a big push for digital sovereignty, cutting down on how much [...]

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Categories: News, document foundation, Euro-Office, LibreOffice
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/euro-office-ooxml-libreoffice Jun 08, 2026, 06:02 PM

Proton Drive client is (finally) coming to Linux

Proton has confirmed it is working on a Proton Drive client for Linux desktops. The announcement slipped out as part of a broader platform update. Proton has rebuilt Drive around a new shared SDK, with a single codebase powering its official apps on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and web (rather than separate implementations as before). It's this unified approach that makes it easier for the Swiss-based company to add new features and integrations across all its official apps – and make an official client for Linux, which is being build on the SDK "from the ground up", they say. Not [...]

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Categories: News, cloud storage, Proton AG
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/proton-drive-linux-client Jun 08, 2026, 01:04 AM

HandBrake fixes 2-pass encode crashes, WebM on Linux

A new version of HandBrake, the open-source and cross-platform media conversion tool, is available to download. HandBrake 1.11.2 is a maintenance update in the current 1.11.x stable release, which was released in March 2026 and added DNxHR and ProRes encoder support, and an AMD VCN AV1 10-bit encoder compatible with the company's 9000 series GPUs and newer. This update is focused on fixes and finesse. A pair of bugs affecting 2-pass operations are resolved: a crash during 2-pass lossless x265 encodes, and a memory leak that occurred during 2-pass MPEG-4, MPEG-2, VP9 and FFV1 encodes. On Linux, HandBrake adds WebM [...]

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Categories: News, App Updates, HandBrake
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/handbrake-update-open-webm-linux Jun 08, 2026, 12:01 AM

This dev's personal website is a working GNOME 2 desktop

Reliving the glory days of the GNOME 2 desktop is but a browser tab away – well, kinda. The personal website of Benny Powers, a software developer at Red Hat, is not a traditional vertical column of text. Nor is it a slop-soup of purple gradients, rounded glassy cards and monospaced datapoints (a 'vibe-coded' aesthetic everywhere right now). No, it's an interactive GNOME 2 'desktop'. He built it after digesting an essay on how websites used to be weird and playful and unique. Looking at his own site, he decided it wasn't nearly wacky enough, so restyled it to resemble [...]

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Categories: News, community, GNOME, websites
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/website-as-gnome-2-desktop Jun 07, 2026, 05:18 PM