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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....

Hyprland is a toxic community (drewdevault.com)

Hyprland is an open source Wayland compositor based on wlroots, a project I started back in 2017 to make it easier to build good Wayland compositors. It’s a project which is loved by its users for its emphasis on customization and “eye candy” – beautiful graphics and animations, each configuration tailored to the unique...

Making NixOS modules for fun and (hopefully) profit - Xe Iaso (xeiaso.net)

Linux 6.6's in-kernel SMB networking server graduates (www.theregister.com)

The next release of the Linux kernel, 6.6 [will] include the KSMBD in-kernel server for the SMB networking protocol, developed by Samsung’s Namjae Jeon....

Outdated snap packages - Issues Canonical Needs to Address Before Releasing an "All Snap" Desktop (popey.com)

Canonical is planning an ‘All Snap’ desktop next year. It will likely be available side-by-side with the traditional deb-based installation we’ve been used to since 2004....

Wine 8.16 Released (www.winehq.org)

The Wine development release 8.16 is now available....

Fedora Linux 40 to Offer the KDE Plasma 6 Desktop on Wayland and Drop X11 Session (9to5linux.com)

This week in KDE: more Plasma 6 dev (pointieststick.com)

Quick Fedora shirt update and sale of last stock with the old logo (fedoramagazine.org)

Wine 8.16 Restarts Work On Implementing Microsoft's Deprecated DirectMusic API (www.phoronix.com)

openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the weeks 2023/36 & 37 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)

OpenSUSE seeks a Leap replacement, but will distro community rise to the challenge? (www.zdnet.com)

LibreOffice 7.6.1 Is Now Available for Download with More Than 120 Fixes (9to5linux.com)

PipeWire 0.3.80 Released With Vulkan DMA-BUF Support, Tag Param (www.phoronix.com)

KDE Gear 23.08.1 Improves Dolphin, Gwenview, Kdenlive, and Other KDE Apps (9to5linux.com)

On the Road to Plasma 6, Vol. Ⅲ – Kai Uwe's Blog (blog.broulik.de)

Variables in GNU Make: Simple and Recursive (www.bahmanm.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/4908824...

Mounting the AWS Elastic File Store on Fedora (major.io)

Slowroll: openSUSE's New Take on the Rolling Release Model - FOSS Force (fossforce.com)

Xfce's Wayland Roadmap Updated (www.phoronix.com)

The Xfce Wayland road-map on the project’s Wiki has been updated a few times over the past two weeks, namely around the desktop panel plug-ins and applications support for Wayland. There still isn’t a firm timeline or release where they expect to have a complete Xfce Wayland transition complete, but ultimately are aiming to...

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