Xwayland rootful - part1 (ofourdan.blogspot.com)
Rootful xwayland allows X11 window managers to work on top of wayland compositors like cage....
Debian Resumes Merged /usr Transition By Repealing Moratorium (www.phoronix.com)
Debian 12 had aimed to have a merged “/usr” file-system layout similar to other Linux distributions, but The Debian Technical Committee earlier this year decided to impose a merged-/usr file movement moratorium. But now with Debian 12 having been out for a few months, that moratorium has been repealed....
Arch Linux's October 2023 ISO Release Brings Linux 6.5, Installer Improvements (9to5linux.com)
PipeWire 1.0 RC2 Released With Fixes, Improved Rate Switching (www.phoronix.com)
This week in KDE: time for the new features (pointieststick.com)
Mesa 23.2 Will Try To Release This Week (www.phoronix.com)
gokrazy is really cool (xeiaso.net)
gokrazy is a Linux implementation that I’ve used off and on for a few years now. It’s a very interesting project because everything on the system is written in Go save the kernel. The init process is in Go (and even listens over HTTP to handle updates!), every userland process is written in Go, and even the core system...
Meet the Guy Preserving the New History of PC Games, One Linux Port at a Time (www.404media.co)
[Nouveau] [PATCH 00/44] drm/nouveau: initial support for GSP-RM 535.54.04 (and Ada GPUs) (lore.kernel.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5142305...
This week in KDE: Custom ordering for KRunner search results (pointieststick.com)
Linux From Scratch 12.0 Published For Rolling Your Own Linux Build (www.phoronix.com)
Linux From Scratch 12.0 incorporates GCC 13.2, Glibc 2.38, GNU Binutils 2.41, and other updates. The Linux 6.4.12 upstream kernel is the default kernel version used for the LFS 12.0 guide....
Ubuntu Desktop: charting a course for the future (ubuntu.com)
It has been a little while since we shared our vision for Ubuntu Desktop, and explained how our current roadmap fits into our long term strategic thinking. Recently, we embarked on an internal exercise to consolidate and bring structure to our values and goals for how we plan to evolve the desktop experience over the next few...
KDE Gear 23.08 Released with Lots of Goodies for Your Favorite KDE Apps (9to5linux.com)
QEMU 8.1 Released with New PipeWire Audio Backend, Many Improvements (9to5linux.com)
Budgie 10.8 Desktop Released with New Trash Applet, Budgie Menu Improvements (9to5linux.com)
Joshua Strobl announced today the release of Budgie 10.8 as a new maintenance update bringing various improvements, bug fixes, and other changes....
Open source contributions: Just do it (major.io)
Assuming that (non-free) GPU drivers perform telemetry, can the GPU surreptitiously access the network (internet) to send the collected data? (www.extremetech.com)
[intro] bmakelib: The minimalist Makefile standard library you'd always wished for! (github.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/3413371...
Devuan GNU+Linux 5 is Here for Software Freedom Lovers Based on Debian 12 (9to5linux.com)
State of Solus - August 2023 | Solus (getsol.us)
KDE Neon Experimental Lets You Run Plasma 6 With KF6 Apps Today (www.phoronix.com)
How does Linux really handle writes? (www.cyberdemon.org)
How do I change **User Interface** font of flatpak applications? (lemm.ee)
Question: Is btrfs's compress-force=zstd compatible with x-systemd.automount? (nerdbin.social)
I couldn't find any documentation about this anywhere, but it seems like they do NOT work together...