Linux 6.5 Patches Merged For Intel GDS/DOWNFALL, AMD INCEPTION (www.phoronix.com)
This merge adds the kernel-side bits around mitigating AMD’s Speculative Return Address Stack (RAS) overflow vulnerability for Zen 3 and Zen 4. See this earlier article for details on this AMD INCEPTION disclosure....
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GNOME Shell & Mutter 45 Betas Released (www.phoronix.com)
My Debian 12 all of a sudden started freezing up on me. any kind folks that can help troubleshoot?
Its the strangest thing, as it just started recently. I’m honestly not sure if it freezes or my touchpad somehow gets disabled. I’m wondering that because most of the time it happens, my dell xps laptop isn’t under any sort of heavy load. Its strange. Idk know where to start or what commands would help you guys help me?...
Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Merged Into Mesa 23.3 (www.phoronix.com)
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Is there an easy to use Wine GUI to install .exes?
So I’m install Manjaro for a friend and it’s the first time he uses a Linux distribution, but he still needs a couple of Windows applications so I was wondering if anyone could recommend me an easy to use GUI to install .exes (not for video games, but for applications) so that he can install them without too much hassle. If...
GNOME 45's Mutter Implements A Dedicated KMS Thread (www.phoronix.com)
Red Hat’s Jonas Ådahl began working on this Mutter KMS kernel thread implementation a half-year ago and finally it recently was merged for the GNOME 45 release due out in September. By having this dedicated thread there should be lower latency cursor movements and possible avoidance of cursor stutter. It should be a latency...
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Wifi Issues on MSI Laptop
Hey guys, not sure if this is a good place for this, so let me know if this post would be better suited elsewhere....
EFISTUB: If I have both CMDLINE configured in kernel, AND via efibootmgr, which one gets executed / takes precedence?
suppose I enable CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL=y and CONFIG_CMDLINE=“…”, but I also add a cmdline using efibootmgr via -u option, which one takes precedence and gets executed?...
how to listen to podcasts on computer?
My phone is broken and I neeeed to listen to my podcasts while this is resolving. I thought it would be simple enough but I have been banging my head for days now....
Backups, backups, backups. A learning process (and small rant).
TL;DR @ bottom...
Video content creation with Kdenlive (fedoramagazine.org)
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Ubunchu (mangakakalot.com)
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Current Wayland targets devs are working on?
Curious about them and when around they may come to us
Favorite Terminal Emulator
I have recently jumped head first into the Linux space. I’ve installed Arch on my daily driver and I’ve become overwhelmed/overjoyed with my options. I’d like to hear from the community about your Linux favorites....
Killing ssh-agent deletes socketfile on one debian, on another debian it remains (stackoverflow.com)
I asked on stackoverflow for my problem. And i will ask here too…...
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After trying secure boot out, my Ethernet connections don't work anymore?
Hey. Short story: I activated Secure boot on my MSI Mainboard and bootet in my new Debian. I realized that I had no wired internet connection and rebooted the system to deactivate secure boot again. Problem is that now my whole Ethernet is borked? I don’t get a connection in Debian or my older OpenSuse partition and the Debian...
What are the implications of having Anaconda running at the bootloader level as an installer for Fedora WS? (docs.fedoraproject.org)
I’ve been trying Workstation recently. Python dependency issues caused me to switch to Silverblue for the last 2 years. A new machine with Nvidia got me to try WS. I just had a mystery problem with Python after booting today and that got me looking into Anaconda. I didn’t know it was used under the kernel like this. I’m...
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Anyone know of a reverse command script or package to parse args for flags, expand them, and condense a man or help page(s) to just the relevant flags?
I have been working on my scripts for user/group permissions today. This idea has been on my back burner for awhile. I’m sure others have done this before. I just haven’t encountered them yet....
Cannot update flatpak packages (lemmy.world)
Hi,...
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PipeWire 0.3.77 Released (gitlab.freedesktop.org)
PipeWire 0.3.77 (2023-08-04)...
Gnome Networkmanager-Openvpn doesnt even want to connect
When I try to enable my (correctly configured) VPN it just does nothing, not even an error. Opvpn via the Terminal doesnt work seither even though it worked yesterday
Bram Moolenaar, the father of VIM has died (groups.google.com)
Thank you Bram for the great text editor you brought to this world and the many carreers you changed by it.
Is gentoo a good choice?
I mean, is it really worth it to compile every single program that I install? Wouldn’t that be a waste of time? I am inclined to try it out but on the other hand idk
MSI Laptop wakes up immediately after entering sleep mode
UPDATE:...