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Telorand , in RPM to APT distros correspondence
  • RHEL is more akin to Ubuntu LTS with a Canonical support contract.
  • CentOS Stream is more like openSUSE Tumbleweed. I’m not aware of any mainstream apt-based distros that have that kind of rolling release cycle.
  • Fedora is like Ubuntu.

But it’s not really a 1:1 comparison, since they all have different ideologies when it comes to package management and update cycles.

Loucypher OP ,

Opensure Tumbleweed is more like Fedora Rawhide, they get the absolute bleeding Edge. CentOS stream is downstream of Fedora, so you get less newer packages

Telorand ,

I disagree, since both Stream and Tumbleweed are rolling releases with solid bases. openSUSE rigorously tests packages before deploying to the stable branch.

Ultimately, there’s not going to be a perfect analog between all of them, because like I said, they all have different ideologies and packaging goals.

blindbunny , in Tux on Canvas [template]

This beautiful bean should be the one thing all of lemmy/fediverse should agree with 🐧

Canary9341 , (edited ) in GNOME Foundation Announces Transition of Executive Director | Holly Million stepping down after 10 months

The lunatic who scams with pseudoscience is leaving? Fine, but I feel sorry for her future victims.

A couple of links for context: 1, 2

Telorand ,

Do you have any sources? Not trying to imply anything, I just don’t know anything about it, and I’d be interested to do a little reading.

Canary9341 ,

Done, I edited my previous comment.

Telorand ,

Holly holds a Master of Arts in Education from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Harvard University. Her academic background, combined with her extensive professional journey, equips her with a unique perspective that will undoubtedly contribute to the growth and success of the GNOME Foundation.

From the Gnome Foundation page about her. I am genuinely struggling to:

  • Understand how a self-described shaman artist (who also sells “energy cleansing” services) is qualified to be director of anything but her own business ventures.
  • Understand how a person with a background in education and English is qualified to direct a foundation.

Like FFS, do they just let anybody in?

drwankingstein ,

I mean it fits in well when you really think about it, her job was before to scam people into spending money on junk, with Gnome Foundation her job was to scam people into spending money on junk.

I would say when you eliminate the fluff, it’s really the same job.

TeryVeneno ,

Tbf though the results speak for themselves though, GNOME has definitely been thriving under her though much of that is also do to the effort of others. She did put in a lot of work and no one inside GNOME complained so I assume it was a good deal. Also the page you linked shows she’s been working in executive positions in non profits for a while so definitely qualified.

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

She lasted slightly longer than a head of lettuce. I don’t think she’ll be the reason Gnome Foundation lives or dies.

Sentau ,

She lasted slightly longer than a head of lettuce

That must be one plucky lettuce head considering that holly has been the director for nearly a year.

Gnome foundation will continue to thrive with and without her but she has made some decent contributions while she was there

theshatterstone54 ,

Unlike some other leaders that have been compared to lettuce…

Telorand ,

Also the page you linked shows she’s been working in executive positions in non profits for a while so definitely qualified.

That’s certainly something to bear in mind, but as someone who worked in academia, resume ≠ qualified. Especially at the Director+ levels, unqualified people get to become provosts and presidents all the time.

She may be qualified on paper, but given the fact that she voluntarily left after only 10mo, it speaks to the fact that she’s likely a flake and very self-interested. Gnome may have thrived, but it remains to be seen if that was because of or in spite of her; perhaps she was so hands-off that everybody else just ran things the way they needed to be run.

TheGrandNagus ,

Yeah. I do find her “shamanism” to be something to eyeroll at, but her actual work experience shows her running multiple non-profits, and by all accounts she did a decent job at Gnome.

Clearly her shamanism BS didn’t actually affect her ability to work at Gnome or the other places she’s worked.

You can be an absolute moron/a crazy person in some areas, whilst simultaneously being qualified to do some difficult jobs.

Steve Jobs thought a fruit diet would cure pancreatic cancer, but he still had the chops to run Apple. A certain GNU figure that the Linux community loves has some, uh, unusual views on whether children can consent to sex or not, but he was still a great programmer and advocate for FOSS. I have a friend who thought Manchester, not London, was the capital of England, yet he works as an aeronautical engineer (and not for Boeing lol) in a senior design position.

makeasnek , (edited )
@makeasnek@lemmy.ml avatar

A lot of OSS projects and small non-profits? Yes. The cost to entry is “be willing to volunteer” and very few people pay that cost so basically anybody can get in. These aren’t exactly competitive positions. And if they improve the software honestly idk if they’re a shaman healer or whatever. I care about the software. As long as their energy healing garbage isn’t somehow getting into the software who cares?

Telorand ,

As I pointed out elsewhere, if she was a warm body to fill a position and was completely hands-off, and that allowed everybody else to do what was needed, then it was overall a positive. However, a good leader can definitely help propel the group more than one who is just there.

Both examples are positive, but they aren’t equally positive outcomes.

Thorned_Rose ,
@Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works avatar

WTF does someone’s spiritual beliefs and practices have to do with how well they are able to run an organisation? That’s an ad hominem argument. My country has a Christian prime minister at the moment but oh noes, I’m a non-religious hippy ‘witch’ so I guess our prime minister should step down because he believes in a pseudoscientific giant bearded man that lives in the sky and goes to an expensive building every week to speak magic words in unison with other cult members to call a special spirit to bless everyone that believe the exact same doctrines…

Canary9341 ,

You should not accuse me of fallacies when I have not even argued that… My contempt is due to her actions. Using your example, if I have a problem that requires a healthcare professional, I don’t think your prime minister would try to sell me things that have been proven useless but pretending otherwise, such as energy healing or homeopathy. Far from just beliefs, there is a big difference when one is actively harming others, especially for profit and there is information available about it.

refalo ,

Believing in things that don’t exist sounds tied pretty closely with being a terrible businessman.

And yes, religious leaders should not be leaders IMO.

warmaster , in Games on Whales - Stream multiple desktops and games from a single host

If this works, it will forever change how my family does computing. This project sounds freaking amazing.

abeltramo OP ,
@abeltramo@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks for the kind works! It’s really appreciated

eatham , in Tux on Canvas [template]
@eatham@aussie.zone avatar

I might have to make his right foot a star

sovietknuckles , in RPM to APT distros correspondence
@sovietknuckles@hexbear.net avatar

In the Ubuntu world we would go to an LTS release but on the RPM/Dnf world is there any other distro apart from CentOS Stream?

CentOS Stream is not a distro, it’s the carcass of the distro that Red Hat killed, CentOS. Stream is a beta testing program for RHEL, no more, no less. CentOS wasn’t even a Red Hat project originally, but Red Hat hired the maintainers of CentOS and gained control over it.

When Red Hat killed CentOS, going revising CentOS 8’s previous end of life from the end of May 2029 to the end of December 2021, one of the original founders of CentOS, Gregory Kurtzer, started Rocky Linux as a replacement for what CentOS was supposed to be, an open source, binary-compatible version of RHEL. Rocky Linux works well for this purpose. I’ve heard that Alma Linux does, as well, but I have never tried it.

I know that CentOS stream is more kind of a rolling release but… feels like an LTS distro in practice… or it is just me?

CentOS Stream should not be used for anything beyond hobby projects. It is, by nature, buggier than Rocky Linux or RHEL, and it was never intended to be stable. And there’s no reason to use it: If you want more stable versions than Fedora, Rocky Linux works just fine.

Loucypher OP ,

I have asked the same question on Reddit and a Fedora maintainer has provided some additional info that goes against what you, me and the general public thinks in terms of Stream being a “rolling release”

CentOS Stream definitely has releases. Stream is a build of the major-release branch of RHEL. Every RHEL minor release is just a snapshot of Stream that gets continued maintenance.

The confusion around this came from some early descriptions of Stream from Red Hat staff, who called it a “rolling release.” And one of the reasons I made those diagrams that compare RHEL to other releases is that from the point of view of someone who works on RHEL – which is a set of feature-stable releases – the idea that Stream is rolling relative to RHEL makes sense. But that terminology is very confusing, because from the point of view of people who work anywhere else in the Free Software ecosystem, Stream is just a normal stable release, because most of the Free Software community isn’t building feature-stable release series like Red Hat is.

I’ve seen a number of Red Hat engineers call the use of that term a mistake, and they don’t use it any more

www.reddit.com/r/linux/s/L8qR3QtADf

sovietknuckles ,
@sovietknuckles@hexbear.net avatar

Whatever terms they want to use for CentOS Stream is fine with me. The main thing I was trying to communicate is that it’s not worth using, and nothing in the linked post contradicts that

gramgan , in What's new in Fuzzel 1.10, a Rofi alternative for Wayland

Love fuzzel! Glad to see some much anticipated features!

gramgan , in Aeon Desktop Introduces Comprehensive Full Disk Encryption

Never heard of Aeon—I wonder if it will become as popular as the Fedora immutable distros?

llothar ,

It is the new name for the desktop variant of the immutable variant of OpenSUSE.

unionagainstdhmo OP , in [SOLVED] Using clangd with vscode to develop a flatpak
@unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone avatar

I’ve worked it out, thanks for the responses, maybe I didn’t word the question properly or something, but here’s what I did for anyone interested in the future:

You only need to do this once for every machine you want to work on.

Add the llvm freedesktop sdk extensions to get a clangd executable to your flatpak manifest:


<span style="color:#183691;">"sdk-extensions"</span><span style="color:#323232;">: [
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        </span><span style="color:#183691;">"org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.llvm18"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    ],
</span>

Install these extensions:

  • Native Debug
  • Flatpak
  • Meson Build
  • clangd (optional)

Run the Flatpak: Build command in the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) this might take a minute. Make sure you have the required sdks installed (see the manifest for details).

There should now be two folders: .flatpak and _build. There should also be a script generated at .flatpak/meson.sh. Run:


<span style="color:#323232;">python gen-flatpak-scripts.py
</span>

This will generate .flatpak/gdb.sh and .flatpak/clangd.sh. If you want to use the clangd vscode extension extension add this to .vscode/settings.json:


<span style="color:#183691;">"clangd.path"</span><span style="color:#323232;">: </span><span style="color:#183691;">"./.flatpak/clangd.sh"
</span>

Now run the clangd: Restart language server command in the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) and you should be good to go!

gen-flatpak-scripts.py:


<span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># Simple script to generate scripts to make life easy when using flatpak with vscode
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">import </span><span style="color:#323232;">subprocess;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">def </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#323232;">gen_script</span><span style="color:#323232;">(outfile, exec):
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">with </span><span style="color:#62a35c;">open</span><span style="color:#323232;">(</span><span style="color:#183691;">".flatpak/meson.sh"</span><span style="color:#323232;">, </span><span style="color:#183691;">"rt"</span><span style="color:#323232;">) </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">as </span><span style="color:#323232;">fin:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">with </span><span style="color:#62a35c;">open</span><span style="color:#323232;">(outfile, </span><span style="color:#183691;">"wt"</span><span style="color:#323232;">) </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">as </span><span style="color:#323232;">fout:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">            </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">for </span><span style="color:#323232;">line </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">in </span><span style="color:#323232;">fin:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                fout.write(line.replace(</span><span style="color:#183691;">"/usr/bin/meson"</span><span style="color:#323232;">, </span><span style="color:#62a35c;">exec</span><span style="color:#323232;">))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    subprocess.run([</span><span style="color:#183691;">"chmod"</span><span style="color:#323232;">, </span><span style="color:#183691;">"+x"</span><span style="color:#323232;">, outfile])
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># GDB for debugging
</span><span style="color:#323232;">gen_script(</span><span style="color:#183691;">".flatpak/gdb.sh"</span><span style="color:#323232;">, </span><span style="color:#183691;">"/usr/bin/gdb"</span><span style="color:#323232;">)
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># clangd for suggestions
</span><span style="color:#323232;">gen_script(</span><span style="color:#183691;">".flatpak/clangd.sh"</span><span style="color:#323232;">, </span><span style="color:#183691;">"/usr/lib/sdk/llvm18/bin/clangd"</span><span style="color:#323232;">)
</span>
GolfNovemberUniform , in Tux on Canvas [template]
@GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml avatar

But where’s the red hat on its head???

GolfNovemberUniform , (edited ) in New Release OBS Studio 30.2
@GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml avatar

I don’t understand most of the things in the changelog but NVENC support on Linux is a big deal afaik

boredsquirrel ,
@boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net avatar

A good video codec that is free!

GolfNovemberUniform ,
@GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml avatar

Isn’t NVENC a hardware thing or a middleman for encoding boost?

boredsquirrel ,
@boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net avatar

No idea something GPU related I think. But AV1 is the codec, which is free and performant and high resolution.

mormund ,

It is literally just Nvidia Encoder. So hardware encoding on Nvidia GPUs. What codes are supported depends on the GPU

GolfNovemberUniform ,
@GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml avatar

So it’s definitely not a codec.

wewbull ,

A codec is a module that encodes and decodes (COder/DECoder…CoDec) information into a format. That format might be H.264 or VP9 or whatever.

So yes. NvEnc is a codec, or at least, it is when partnered with the hardware decoding also. It’s a codec for multiple formats.

wewbull ,

A good fast video codec that is free included with some video cards!

You’ve certainly paid for it, and it’s focus is on giving acceptable quality at high speed. For example, for streaming.

Sinclair-Speccy OP , in Yggdrasil Linux working for once (Fall 1995 edition)
@Sinclair-Speccy@fedia.io avatar

I should clarify this is a screenshot I uploaded to Gunkies.org for the Yggdrasil Linux page

buried_treasure , in Yggdrasil Linux working for once (Fall 1995 edition)

Looking at that screenshot, even though I’ve been a very happy KDE user for many years now, I do kinda miss the days when many Xfree86 desktop environments were influenced more by NeXTStep than Windows.

rimu ,
@rimu@piefed.social avatar

Yeah, I long for window decorations and borders like that. Anyone know a good KDE 5 theme that does it?

LunarLoony ,
@LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

There’s a very similar theme called Commonality

lodaket ,
@lodaket@lemmy.world avatar
vii ,

Gorgeous. I need someone to pick up Cantata.

rimu ,
@rimu@piefed.social avatar

Thanks, I spent a couple of hours playing around with that. It didn't work quite right but still I've got some glorious retro ugliness going on. A mishmash of CDE, Windows 2000 icons and KDE 5, it's mental and I love it.

LunarLoony ,
@LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Screenshots please! That sounds brilliant!

rimu ,
@rimu@piefed.social avatar
LeFantome , (edited )

The Motif look, what we are looking at here, is driven by the same UI guidelines that early Windows and OS/2 followed. You will notice a lot of similarity between them.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access

ikidd , in Yggdrasil Linux working for once (Fall 1995 edition)
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

I remember this. It was pretty cool at the time. I think it was the first Live CD I booted.

ikidd , in GNOME Foundation Announces Transition of Executive Director | Holly Million stepping down after 10 months
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

This is my surprised face.

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