Nvidia Display Driver 560.35.03 Released (www.nvidia.com)
Wayland Merges New Screen Capture Protocols (www.phoronix.com)
The ext-image-capture-source-v1 and ext-image-copy-capture-v1 screen copy protocols build upon wlroots’ wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1 with various improvements for better screen capture support under Wayland. These new protocols should allow for better performance and window capturing support for use-cases around RDP/VNC remote...
How to Get Wifi Signal Strength via CLI using nmcli on Fedora or Ubuntu (blog.benyamin.xyz)
Hello, I just want to share here. Hopefully it’s useful. Thanks
LWN report about the "Rust for filesystems" session which a Rust for Linux maintainer referred to for context when retiring from the project this week (lwn.net)
Their resignation is already being discussed in another post here from yesterday: One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites “Nontechnical Nonsense”...
Andries Brouwer on the OOM killer (quuxplusone.github.io)
Via Andy Miller (2007), an amusing metaphor for Linux memory overcommit. Originally posted by Andries Brouwer to the linux-kernel mailing list, 2004-09-24, in the thread titled “oom_pardon, aka don’t kill my xlock”:...
This week in KDE: System Settings modernization and Wayland color management (pointieststick.com)
First Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Point Release Delayed By 2 Weeks (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/970397...
An Initial Benchmark Of Bcachefs vs. Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. F2FS vs. XFS On Linux 6.11 (www.phoronix.com)
Elevate Your KDE Plasma Experience With These 15 Essential Widgets (itsfoss.com)
KDE Plasma is a fantastic desktop environment. It is popular for its feature set that allows a user to customize the experience, add widgets, and multiply the usefulness of the desktop with various elements....
Advice for a newbie - Multiple drives setup (fedia.io)
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WINE / PlayOnLinux (www.playonlinux.com)
Hello all, In a previous installation I was able to successfully use PlayOnLinux to run a few Windows apps. My most recent system, though, is not liking it. Currently on Kubuntu 24.04...
"Let scaling-aware Xwayland clients scale themselves..." merged in Gnome (gitlab.gnome.org)
Hopefully this means no more blurry Xwayland apps.
vkd3d 1.13 Released (gitlab.winehq.org)
Gentoo Linux Ending Itanium IA-64 Support (www.phoronix.com)
Gentoo Linux was one of the last few Linux distributions continuing to maintain Itanium (IA-64) architecture builds but that is now being phased out for those discontinued Intel processors.
Help running AMD iGPU and NVIDIA dGPU on 2 monitors (fedia.io)
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This week in KDE: SVG Breeze cursors and more thumbnails (pointieststick.com)
First up is something cool: support for SVG-based cursor themes! This allows compatible themes to always display beautiful sharp cursors at any size, and has already been rolled out for the Breeze Light and Breeze Dark cursor themes. It does not use the Hyprcursor system, and we have not yet upstreamed it to be a different...
Try COSMIC Epoch 1 (alpha 1) on the Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS alpha. (system76.com)
The isos with Cosmic alpha are now downloadable from system76’s site!
AMD Ryzen 5 9600X & Ryzen 7 9700X Offer Excellent Linux Performance (www.phoronix.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18878746...
Manjaro Linux Starts Experimenting With An Immutable Offering (miniza.pages.dev)
SLUBStick Linux Vulnerability Let Attackers Gain Full System Control (freedomproject.pages.dev)
Guide To GNU Coreutils (blog.robertelder.org)
Wine 9.16 Released (www.winehq.org)
wayland-protocols 1.37 released (lists.freedesktop.org)
Adds xdg-toplevel-icon for changing icon in places like the titlebar without needing to create desktop entries....
On Rust, Linux, developers, maintainers (airlied.blogspot.com)
There’s been a couple of mentions of Rust4Linux in the past week or two, one from Linus on the speed of engagement and one about Wedson departing the project due to non-technical concerns. This got me thinking about project phases and developer types.
Asahi Lina's experience about working on Rust code in the kernel (vt.social)
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