StarLite: A Tablet Computer Made for Linux ( us.starlabs.systems )
Not many linux tablets look appealing to me, but this one got my attention. Not just its hardware, but also the open firmware....
ReiserFS is now “obsolete” in the Linux kernel and should be gone by 2025 ( arstechnica.com )
Revamped Raspberry Pi OS boasts Wayland desktop and improved imager tool ( www.theregister.com )
PipeWire 1.0.0 released ( gitlab.freedesktop.org )
The PipeWire project is immensely proud to announce the 1.0 release of PipeWire....
GNOME Linux systems exposed to RCE attacks via file downloads ( www.bleepingcomputer.com )
Good news for AMD Linux users - fTPM RNG will soon be disabled ( www.phoronix.com )
For those out of the loop, some AMD users have been suffering from stuttering issues caused by the AMD fTPM random number generator. A firmware/BIOS update appears to fix the issue for some users, but not others, leading to more bug reports being sent in. Last week, Linus Torvalds said “let’s just disable the stupid fTPM...
PipeWire 1.0 RC Available With Jackdbus By Default, Improved IRQ-Based Scheduling ( www.phoronix.com )
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Fedora 40 Eyes Dropping GNOME X11 Session Support ( www.phoronix.com )
Tux Machines — It's False: Those Are Not Alternatives to LibreOffice. They're Proprietary or Not Maintained. ( news.tuxmachines.org )
THE site “It’s FOSS” suggests alternatives to FOSS. At least half of those alternatives are NOT FOSS, so why bother? █
PipeWire 1.0 Planned For Release Later This Year ( www.phoronix.com )
Gnome: Rethinking Window Management ( blogs.gnome.org )
Never-before-seen Linux backdoor is a Windows malware knockoff ( arstechnica.com )
JetBrains Enabling Wayland Support For IntelliJ-Based IDEs ( www.phoronix.com )
JetBrains is working on Wayland support for IntelliJ-based IDEs to enhance the desktop Linux experience as well as for running under Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSLg).
AMD P-State Preferred Core Handling Being Enabled For Linux ( www.phoronix.com )
AMD CPUs since the Ryzen 3000 series (Zen 2) have had the notion of “preferred cores” that via ACPI CPPC are communicated to the OS and could be shown under Windows with the likes of AMD Ryzen Master. Now we have AMD Linux engineers working on properly leveraging the “preferred cores” handling for the modern AMD P-State...
Intel Wiring Up DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.1 Support For Linux ( www.phoronix.com )
elementary OS 8 to Ship with Wayland by Default, Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ( 9to5linux.com )
QEMU 8.1 Released With New PipeWire Audio Backend, Many CPU Improvements ( www.phoronix.com )
Debian turns 30 – and important to Linux world as ever ( www.theregister.com )
Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations ( www.phoronix.com )
I tried to make a beginner's guide for choosing a first Linux distro. Project files in comments. ( imgur.com )
Debian 12.2 released ( www.debian.org )
Note: Existing Debian 12 installations will already have most of these updated packages if they’ve been kept up to date using the package manager. 12.2 is more of a milestone than a new release, with an updated set of installation images.
Fedora Linux 39 is officially here! - Fedora Magazine ( fedoramagazine.org )
On November 6, 2003, the Fedora Project released the Fedora Core 1. One day and twenty years later, we’re pleased to bring you Fedora Linux 39.
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....