LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service) Celebrates 9th Birthday (mastodon.social)
Happy Birthday to the LVFS...
Nvidia Display Driver 560.35.03 Released (www.nvidia.com)
Best Intentions (XDG intents, Gnome News) | Andy Holmes (andyholmes.ca)
“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update (arstechnica.com)
Last Tuesday, loads of Linux users—many running packages released as early as this year—started reporting their devices were failing to boot. Instead, they received a cryptic error message that included the phrase: “Something has gone seriously wrong.”...
GIMP 3.0 Enters String Freeze, Inching Closer To Release (www.phoronix.com)
GIMP 3.0 has been more than one decade in the making as the port from GTK2 to GTK3, also transitioning away from Python 2 to Python 3 support, and a wealth of other improvements from the UI to lower down into enhancing this open-source Photoshop alternative....
So what did it take for you to go to Linux? (kbin.melroy.org)
I'm asking what big motivational factors contributed to you into going Linux full-time. I don't count minor inconveniences like 'oh, stutter lag in a game on windows' because that really could be anything in any system. I'm talking, something Windows or Microsoft has done that was so big, that made you go "fuck this, I will go...
Projects To Watch Out For: Ladybird Browser (ladybird.org)
Finally, another web engine is being developed to compete with Chromium and Firefox (Gecko), and they’re also working on a browser that will use it....
Sway/wlroots status update, August 2024 · emersion (emersion.fr)
Making PipeWire default option for Firefox camera handling in Fedora 41 – Jan Grulich (jgrulich.cz)
2GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $50 (www.raspberrypi.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1001830...
Linux Network Performance Ultimate Guide (ntk148v.github.io)
Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2024/33 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
"In The Beginning Was The Command Line" An essay by Neal Stephenson that talks about proprietary operating systems and FOSS operating systems. Written in 1999. (archive.org)
Why Wayland adoption to have official support in programs is so slow? (wayland.freedesktop.org)
Wayland seems ready to me but the main problem that many programs are not configured / compiled to support it. Why is that? I know it’s not easy as “Wayland support? Yes” (but in many cases adding a flag is enough but maybe it’s not a perfect support). What am I missing? Even Blender says if it fails to use Wayland it...
Release labwc 0.8.0 · labwc/labwc (github.com)
Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.04 Linux Performance For The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Review (www.phoronix.com)
Archinstall 2.8.2 Arch Linux Installer Speeds Up Mirror Loading and Download (9to5linux.com)
Archinstall 2.8.2 menu-based installer for the Arch Linux distribution is now available with various improvements and bug fixes....
This week in KDE: System Settings modernization and Wayland color management (pointieststick.com)
#161 End-to-End Tests · This Week in GNOME (thisweek.gnome.org)
The Open Source Computer Science Degree (github.com)
Debian Day 2024 Party Events (wiki.debian.org)
The Debian Project was officially founded by Ian Murdock on 1993-08-16. The Debian Community celebrates its birthday, Debian Day, on this day each year. (It has also been called Debian Appreciation Day.)...
Minetest 5.9.0 is here! (blog.minetest.net)
I Just Removed Ubuntu for Archcraft and my Linux PC Looks Awesome! (news.itsfoss.com)
Switching away from Ubuntu, again, to try Archcraft. Here’s what I think!...
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X & Ryzen 9 9900X Deliver Excellent Linux Performance Review (www.phoronix.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/19143537...
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.
