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Godot 4.3 Beta 1 Released With Native Wayland Support (www.phoronix.com)

Debian 12 KDE Plasma: The right GNU/Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024. Reasons and complete installation guide. (www.davidrevoy.com)

GNOME Shell & Mutter Broke Their Good Faith With Ubuntu (www.phoronix.com)

KeePassXC 2.7.8 Improves Bitwarden 1PUX Password Import and Passkey Support - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)

Kdenlive 24.05.0 released - Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)

Released: NVIDIA 555.42.02 Linux Beta Brings Wayland Explicit Sync, GSP Firmware (www.phoronix.com)

Canonical Announces Availability of Real-Time Kernel for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)

To get started with the real-time kernel for Ubuntu 24.04, check out the official documentation. One thing to keep in mind if you’re an NVIDIA GPU user is that the real-time Ubuntu kernel does not support the proprietary NVIDIA graphics drivers.

Where did 5 Million EPEL-7 systems come from starting in March? (smoogespace.blogspot.com)

System insights with command-line tools: lscpu and lsusb (fedoramagazine.org)

Mozilla Firefox 126.0.1 Fixes Drag and Drop Quirk on Linux (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

Revive That Old Computer With AntiX Linux (fosspost.org)

A large state corporation in Brazil is currently trialing 800 Linux PCs. If successful, it will deploy and replace 22k Windows installs, comparable to the migration happening in Germany. (www.reddit.com)

Chrome 127 Should Provide PipeWire Camera Capture Support (www.phoronix.com)

Recovering the BIOS on a Dell XPS 13 (9310) (cassidyjames.com)

Microsoft Starts Preparing Its Open-Source DirectX Shader Compiler For "HLSL 202x" (www.phoronix.com)

ytdl: Simple wrapper to yt-dlp with only a subset of options. (github.com)

ytdl is a small script for Linux as an alternative interface to yt-dlp (which itself is a fork from youtube-dl, to download YouTube videos). My goal is to make some of its functionality a bit more accessible for the daily usage. This includes predefined settings and narrowing it down to options I care most about.

Armbian 24.5 Released with Orange Pi 5 Pro and Radxa ROCK 5 ITX Support - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)

Minimal CentOS-Stream 9 KDE Plasma install with latest LTS Kernel (discussion.fedoraproject.org)

DBus and systemd (uyha.github.io)

systemd uses DBus as the mechanism to interact with it. This article introduces just enough DBus concepts and the usage of busctl to communicate with systemd. These concepts should be useful when using DBus libraries.

Evolution of the ELF object file format (maskray.me)

The ELF object file format is adopted by many UNIX-like operating systems. While I’ve previously delved into the control structures of ELF and its predecessors, tracing the historical evolution of ELF and its relationship with the System V ABI can be interesting in itself.

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