Solus 4.5 Released (getsol.us)
The Solus team is proud to announce the release of Solus 4.5 Resilience. This release brings updated applications and kernels, refreshed software stacks, a new installer, and a new ISO edition featuring the XFCE desktop environment....
The 6.7 kernel has been released (lwn.net)
Some of the headline features in this release are: the removal of support for the Itanium architecture, the first part of the futex2 API, futex support in io_uring, the BPF exceptions mechanism, the bcachefs filesystem, the TCP authentication option, the kernel samepage merging smart scan mode, and networking support for the...
Why would you still want to use strace in 2023? (media.ccc.de)
Interesting watch. strace is your friend before the deep dives imo.
Visualizing ext4 (buredoranna.github.io)
Linux 6.8 To Introduce New Intel Xe & PowerVR Graphics Drivers, Prepare For New AMD & Intel CPUs (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.7 should be released later today as the first stable kernel of 2024. In turn the Linux 6.8 merge window will then open tomorrow and run for the next two weeks. For those curious about the features expected for Linux 6.8, here’s an early look at some of the changes expected to land for that next kernel cycle....
What Is Linux Mobile - technical explanation of the ecosystem for Linux on smartphones previously (often previosuly android) (connolly.tech)
Hardware video acceleration on Wayland Ozone PR merged (chromium-review.googlesource.com)
HW video accel has been possible with xwayland before (unofficially via experimental flags and not without issues) but this change will it make work with the Wayland platform.
openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2024/01 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
Linux Distros Evolution - January 2024 Update: Pop!_OS in Decline? (boilingsteam.com)
An interesting trend graph of the most diffused distros and their adoption by users over time.
JUUL Pods Unveiled: A Deep Dive into Complexity, Controversy, and the Shifting Landscape of Nicotine Consumption (vapeshouse.com)
In the ever-evolving tapestry of tobacco alternatives, JUUL has emerged as a cultural touchstone, capturing the fascination of young adults with its sleek design and widespread popularity. At the core of the JUUL experience are its proprietary pods – compact reservoirs containing a meticulously crafted blend of nicotine,...
#129 Hello 2024 · This Week in GNOME (thisweek.gnome.org)
Microsoft says a Copilot key is coming to keyboards on Windows PCs starting this month (www.cnbc.com)
Debian Bookworm and Bullseye Users Receive Important Linux Security Updates (9to5linux.com)
Building RHEL and RHEL UBI images with mkosi - Fedora Magazine (fedoramagazine.org)
(Blog) Vanilla OS 2 Orchid Stable, some clarifications (vanillaos.org)
Linux reaches new high 3.82% (gs.statcounter.com)
Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: a guide to using Nix flakes the non-flake way (jade.fyi)
Linux Containers From Scratch in C (www.lucavall.in)
Scribus 1.6 Open-Source Desktop Publishing App Released as a Major Update (9to5linux.com)
Hello, world! - A technical overview of the software powering bgammon.org (bgammon.org)
Wifi stopped showing in linux mint (kbin.social)
Yesterday night I had a problem with a usb port and the touch pad not working, I restarted the system a few times and switched back and forth with windows (which is installed on a different drive), they didn't work even there.After a few restarts the usbport and the touch pad came back to life, but the wifi stopped working. When...
Linux Boomers (janethemotherfucker.wordpress.com)
I’m going to start this article off by saying that you don’t have to be born in the boomer generation to be a boomer. You can be a boomer by acting like one. Hate new stuff? boomer. Run a desktop from the naughties? Boomer.
The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell, part 2 (lwn.net)
Part 1: lwn.net/SubscriberLink/955376/b3fba3bbfabbc411/
Fedora Discusses Optimized Binaries For The AMD64 Architecture (fedoraproject.org)
Additional paths will be inserted into the search path used for executables on systems which have a compatible CPU. Those additional paths will mirror the AMD64 / x86_64 “microarchitecture levels” supported by the glibc-hwcaps mechanism: x86-64-v2, x86-64-v3, x86_64-v4. Systemd will be modified to insert the additional...