Enterprise Linuxes release version 9.5 and other somewhat recent cool crap

Yep, when I started the draft of this post it was a couple recent links. By the time I hit publish they were stale. But I'm releasing anyway!

Red Hat Enterprise Linux has released version 9.5. Soon after both AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, and Oracle Linux announced availability of versions 9.5 as well.

Also, it seems Red Hat is available for WSL. I've used WSL, and don't hate it, but this seems to be an odd choice. Maybe someone can enlighten me why someone would install a commercial distribution in WSL.

Other somewhat recent cool crap

• Foursquare announces Foursquare Open Source Places, an open source places of interest database which will be updated monthly and released under an Apache 2.0 license.
  Website
• Thunderbird has announced that Thunderbird Mobile for Android is now available.
  Website | Github
• Traefik v3.2 (codename Munster) offers a new, experimental fast proxy engine that's gives a 50% performance boost.
  Website | Github
• John O'Nolan (CEO and one of the founders of Ghost) released a great blog post entitled Democratising publishing which discusses the Ghost non-profit foundation.
• Yunohost 12 was released and is based on Debian 12.
  Website | Github
• AlmaLinux announces Raspberry Pi 5 support.
  Website | Github
• COSMIC DE, the new desktop environment by System 76, sees it third alpha release.
  Website | Github
• Signal has released call links. Now you can start a conversation with a group of friends by generating a link and sending to everyone.
  Website | Github
• Dan Brown released an enlightening blog post, Common Misconceptions of the AGPL.
• So I just found out VestaCP, a lightweight (and stagnant) web hosting control panel was acquired earlier this year by Outroll and is being rewritten for a version 2 release. This version will focus on LXC and Incus containerization. Back in the day I used VestaCP, and I'm a huge fan of Incus, so I'm excited to see what might become of this.
  Website | Github
• NethSecurity, the Linux firewall built by the NethServer people based on OpenWRT releases version 8.3
  Website | Github