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GNOME 47 Released With Accent Colors, Improved Apps & More

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GNOME 47 is out today as the latest major update to this popular open-source desktop environment.

GNOME 47 brings support within GNOME Shell for accent colors, Wayland DRM lease protocol for better VR handling, support for building with X11 support disabled, transforming sRGB to HDR outputs and other HDR related work for Mutter, hardware encoding for screencast recording, experimental Wayland color management protocol support, GTK 4.16 defaults to using the Vulkan GSK renderer on Wayland, and many app improvements.

Downloads and more details on all of the prominent GNOME 47 desktop changes via [1]GNOME.org .



[1] https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-47-released/23398


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DeCSS T-Shirt Used To Commit Piracy!

College student Cody Potter stunned the world yesterday when he used a
T-shirt with the printed DeCSS source code to illegally copy a DVD of
"Star Trek XXI: We Promise This Is The Last One". Well, it wasn't the
actual DeCSS source code. The shirt contained a Perl script which spits
out a bash shell script which produces a GW-BASIC program which outputs a
ROT13-encoded Python script that manufactures a Pig-Latin-encoded Java
program that finally produces the real DeCSS C source code when executed.