PipeWire 1.0 Planned For Release Later This Year ( www.phoronix.com )
Arch Linux Installer Update Allows More Control Over Parallel Downloads, Ly ( www.phoronix.com )
Archinstall 2.6.1 key features include allowing a custom number of parallel downloads to be specified, the option to use Ly, an ncurses-like display manager, the option to use Slick-Greeter with LightDM, and adding Kitty/Dolphin/Wofi to Hyprland....
Deb package app shows sponsor ad at first start up
I mentioned this in a post here several weeks back, but couldn’t remember which app installed from a .deb package had displayed an ad when I first started it....
Wine Wayland Driver Updated With Basic Window Management Capabilities ( www.phoronix.com )
Ubuntu's 'Mantic Minotaur' peeks out of the labyrinth ( www.theregister.com )
Announcing Fedora Linux 39 Beta ( fedoramagazine.org )
Fedora 40 Eyes Dropping GNOME X11 Session Support ( www.phoronix.com )
XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.18 Released With Accent Color Support, New Clipboard & Input Capture Portals ( www.phoronix.com )
So let’s talk about this Wayland thing - Adventures in Linux and KDE ( pointieststick.com )
Wayland. It comes up a lot: “Bug X fixed in the Plasma Wayland session.” “The Plasma Wayland session has now gained support for feature Y.” And it’s in the news quite a bit lately with the announcement that Fedora KDE is proposing to drop the Plasma X11 session for version 40 and only ship the Plasma Wayland session....
Never-before-seen Linux backdoor is a Windows malware knockoff ( arstechnica.com )
Is there an alternative to Netlimiter software (Windows) on Linux ?
cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/2644831...
PipeWire 0.3.80 Released With Vulkan DMA-BUF Support, Tag Param ( www.phoronix.com )
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous 0.3.x releases....
Fedora 40 Looks To Offer KDE Plasma 6 Desktop, Drop The KDE X11 Session ( www.phoronix.com )
Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 Reaches Beta ( www.phoronix.com )
Xfce's Wayland Roadmap Updated ( www.phoronix.com )
Bcachefs Merged Into Linux-Next ( www.phoronix.com )
Bcachefs making progress towards getting included in the kernel. My dream of having a Linux native RAID5 capable filesystem is getting closer to reality.
Defect GPU?
So, for the longest time i’ve had a Nvidia GTX 1080 card im my linux server for a few different self-hosted services.I got this card for free of a friend who wasn’t using it anymore. However, today i put that card into my main gaming computer(Garuda), instead of my old trusty 1070ti. Then, after installing drivers, i...
Slow boot time, 38-second difference between network.target and systemd-user-sessions.service ( lemmy.world )
It takes my PC (which should be fast enough; Ryzen 9, NVME) running OpenSUSE TW 42 seconds to boot, more than 30 seconds longer than before. Does anyone know what could cause the 38-second discrepancy between network.target and systemd-user-sessions.service? Is there a way to gather more information about what steps happen in...
WORDY: A TUI WORD PUZZLE ( gitlab.com )
https://gitlab.com/christosangel/wordy...
netris – Terminal-based multiplayer Tetris clone ( playnetris.com )
Also available via SSH:...
AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT & RX 7700 XT Linux Performance - Phoronix ( www.phoronix.com )
This week in KDE: Custom ordering for KRunner search results ( pointieststick.com )
Neo-nazi group Combat 18 learned OPSEC from Roy Schestowitz ( ameliasconjecture.wordpress.com )
As we walked through the dimly lit streets of Manchester, my heart raced with unease. My boyfriend, Roy Schestowitz, had always been passionate about Free Software and Linux, but I had no idea he was involved in something so sinister.
ELI5: a tool to check my disks while mounted?
On Windows, we’ve had the defrag tool and others, that happily works on a drive even while it is in use, even the OS disk....
ReiserFS is now “obsolete” in the Linux kernel and should be gone by 2025 ( arstechnica.com )
