FOSS Weekly #19 - Linux driver for M1, Bottles release, Cloudflare Workers, Penpot $8M raise & more

Here's everything happened this week in open source software. Lots of software releases, a couple of new projects from companies, a fund raise, and some Linux news.

🐧 Linux Updates

• Linux Mint 21.1 is coming this Christmas [blog.linuxmint.com]

• Ubuntu 22.10 beta released [discourse.ubuntu.com]

• Asahi Lina writes Linux GPU driver for Apple M1, now running GNOME and Firefox on it [twitter.com]

• Fedora drops H.264 video decoding support [phoronix.com]

📰 News

• Penpot, the open source Figma alternative raises $8M in series A [community.penpot.app]

• LinkedIn open sources their derived data platform, "Venice" [engineering.linkedin.com]

• Cloudflare releases "workerd" - an open source version of Workers [blog.cloudflare.com]

• Plasma Mobile Gear 22.09 - Updates from June to September [plasma-mobile.org]

📝 Releases

• Lyra V2 [opensource.googleblog.com]

• Neovim 0.8.0 [github.com/neovim]

• Theatre.js 0.5 [theatrejs.com]

• Parrot OS 5.1 [parrotlinux.org]

• ONLYOFFICE Docs v7.2 [onlyoffice.com]

• KStars v3.6.1 [knro.blogspot.com]

• Bottles 2022.9.28 [usebottles.com]

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🔗 Also read

• This Week in GNOME [thisweek.gnome.org]

• Apache news round up [news.apache.org]

• Fedora weekly round up [fedoraproject.org]