The ASUS Eee PC and the netbook revolution (including Linux) (www.spacebar.news)
VLC 3.0.19 Improves AV1 HDR Support with Software Decoding, Fixes Linux Issues (9to5linux.com)
Snap Store Restricts Uploads Following Possible Security Issue (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Canonical is enacting manual reviews for all newly registered uploads to its Snap Store following what it describes as a ‘potential security incident’....
Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.6 Release Candidate (9to5linux.com)
*Finally* found a decently priced laptop using AMD's 780m iGPU | Lenovo UK Laptop configurator (www.lenovo.com)
The worst part of using a gaming laptop on Linux is that, despite the great work of open source developers and hobbyists, it’s still way too clunky to use a hybrid graphics setup imo. Once you want to use an interface that’s only connected to one GPU (such as HDMI) you’re left messing with switching utilities like...
Mastering curl: interactive text guide (antonz.org)
Vanilla OS 2.0 Orchid (based on Debian Sid) Developer Preview released to public (fosstodon.org)
Fedora 41 Looks To Finally Say Goodbye To Python 2.7 (www.phoronix.com)
Vulkan 1.3 on the M1 in 1 month | Asahi Linux (rosenzweig.io)
Flathub is launching their new featured banners on April 20 using brand colors provided by publishers (floss.social)
Glaucus Linux - simple and lightweight distribution based on musl and toybox. (glaucuslinux.org)
Probably a long way from being daily-driven, but I really love the idea....
This week in KDE: a deluge of new features (pointieststick.com)
Linux 6.8 TCP Performance Boosts By ~40% For Many Concurrent Connections (www.phoronix.com)
Mutter Merges Experimental Variable Refresh Rate For GNOME 46 (www.phoronix.com)
This week in KDE: real fake session restore (pointieststick.com)
Mixxx 2.4 Open-Source DJ Software Released with Major Changes (9to5linux.com)
The (short) story of how the SSH port became 22. (www.ssh.com)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/9907720...
Firefox 122 Enters Public Beta Testing with Improved Built-In Translation Feature (9to5linux.com)
Plymouth Linux Graphical Boot Manager Now Better Handles Display Rendering (9to5linux.com)
Anyone want to try this "nyancat" docker image? It's pretty big -- 23kIB. :^) (hub.docker.com)
Long, short story: CLI animation with some minor annoyances. “Handcrafted” most of em out of the .c file, followed by a bunch of gcc flags. Made it distroless, and this came up. Then my “sharing itch” started after checking the memory usage of the container at a whooping 0 bytes. (I know it must be way more than that,...
Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.7 Release Candidate (9to5linux.com)
Binder (Android's core IPC) Rust rewrite posted to LKML (lore.kernel.org)
Performance is basically the same (in microbenchmarks), they went as far as preserving the use of red black trees for an apples to apples comparison, but it’s going to improve security as binder runs inside every process....
Martin Goetz, Who Received the First Software Patent, Dies at 93 (www.nytimes.com)
See also ESP Wiki’s entry on Martin Goetz.
Circles do not exist (nibblestew.blogspot.com)
Trayscale, a nice little GUI for Tailscale (github.com)
If you’re not familiar with Tailscale it’s a very user-friendly “overlay network” that lets you securely connect all your devices no matter where they are over the internet....
