Mini Fundraiser: Stream Deck Plus for Boatswain support (feaneron.com)
Georges Basile Stavracas Neto, the GNOME dev behind Boatswain, started a fundraiser to get the new Elgato Stream Deck Plus, so they can add support for it in the app, since Elgato offered no support for them.
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Linux Mint Debian Edition officially released (blog.linuxmint.com)
LMDE 6 has been officially released. The big deal about this is that it’s based on the recently released Debian 12 and also that being based on Debian LMDE is 100% community based....
Testing composefs in Silverblue – Alexander Larsson (blogs.gnome.org)
Links for more context on what composefs is and why you’d want to use it for your image-based OS (like Silverblue):...
Financial support for Lutris has decreased by 40% since 2020, not sustainable (www.patreon.com)
This is an excerpt from a post on the Lutris Patreon page a few months ago:...
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13 Best Open Source ChatGPT Alternatives (itsfoss.com)
Clear Course is Set for openSUSE Leap (news.opensuse.org)
Something to ruffle some penguin feathers: The Unix Hater's Handbook (web.mit.edu)
This is a 1994 book about the many woes that Unix derived systems brought to sysadmins that were used to other solutions. Considering the number of commands that Linux still uses, it’s definitely worth a read.
Raising the Bar: Introducing the new App Metadata Guidelines (docs.flathub.org)
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Wayland really breaks things… Just for now? (blog.tenstral.net)
This post is in part a response to an aspect of Nate’s post “Does Wayland really break everything?“, but also my reflection on discussing Wayland protocol additions, a unique pleasure that I have been involved with for the past months....
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Evolve - A brand new GNOME Theme Manager (arcnations.wixsite.com)
Hasn’t been released fully yet by the developer but looks interesting....
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GNOME 46.alpha Released (discourse.gnome.org)
Phoronix...
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Linux Mint 21.3 has been released (blog.linuxmint.com)
Recent GNOME design work – Form and Function (blogs.gnome.org)
Docker team is considering distributing Docker Desktop as a Flatpak and Snap (github.com)
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Why more PC gaming handhelds should ditch Windows for SteamOS (arstechnica.com)
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Fedora 40 Looks To Ship AMD ROCm 6 For End-To-End Open-Source GPU Acceleration (www.phoronix.com)
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Firefox not taking focus when opening links from (EDIT) some apps but not others on Wayland (KDE) (kbin.social)
Dunno if this is Wayland, Thunderbird, Firefox or KDE causing this issue but in the past few days I've been giving Wayland a go. Been much snappier and no issues but for Firefox not taking focus when I open web links in Thunderbird....
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Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC (mfkl.github.io)
Another good lesson about why we should trust only FOSS ecosystems
The 6.7 kernel has been released (lwn.net)
Some of the headline features in this release are: the removal of support for the Itanium architecture, the first part of the futex2 API, futex support in io_uring, the BPF exceptions mechanism, the bcachefs filesystem, the TCP authentication option, the kernel samepage merging smart scan mode, and networking support for the...
Why is Gnome fractional scaling 1.7518248558044434 instead of 1.75? (unix.stackexchange.com)
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Could we add "Distrochooser" to the sidebar? (distrochooser.de)
Quite a few posts about selecting a distro to use. Maybe it’s time to make that link a little more prominent?
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The magic behind configure, make, make install - How it works in Unix (thoughtbot.com)
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Call For Tegra U-Boot Testers (postmarketos.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/10523858...
A list of Wayland compositors using Smithay (A library for writing Wayland compositors written in Rust) (github.com)
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