Graham indicates that he might be going to move into more of an editorship position with the column going forward.
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KDE started trick or treating early, and will continue after it's late.
The Gnome Foundation indicates increased belt tightening in its new budget due to continuing financial woes.
Two months after Holly Million tendered her resignation -- and a month-and-a-half after leaving -- the financially strapped Gnome Foundation announces that the search is on for a new executive director.
Does Wayland becoming the defacto standard display server for Linux serve to marginalize BSD?
Professional shaman Holly Million, who became Gnome's executive director in October, has evidently participated in a banishing ritual and will disappear from Gnome at the end of this month.
While the alpha release of the new scratch-built-in-Rust Cosmic desktop has been pushed back by a couple of months, that's not expected to delay the launch of the production ready version that will be the default DE in Pop!_OS 24.04 later this year.
We could be wrong, but the FOSS Force crystal ball tells us we'll see a production ready version of Cosmic DE released by late April, just in time for this year's LinuxFest Northwest.
The first beta release of KDE Plasma 6, which exchanges X11 for Wayland, was released last week. The second beta will be released in two weeks.
There's a good chance that when Fedora 40 is released in April, that it will become the first major Linux distro to be released without X.
This week FOSS News Roundup also includes a list of some goodies coming to KDE Plasma 6.