What are the differences between linux distributions?
Hey guys! Trying to understand what developers actually do to create a yet another distro, or what are the differences between existing distros. Lets say we have ubuntu and fedora. What are the differences? Excluding DE, Installer, theme, installed packages/libs and package manager. They both are FHS compliant, both running...
[Video] Red Hat Is About To End Xorg: Is Wayland Ready? (www.youtube.com)
Come the next major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat is officially dropping the Xorg package, whilst it’ll still be available in RHEL 9 until 2032 the countdown has begun, Xorg is on the way out. Are you and your software going to be ready in time....
This CPU is FREE! - LTT video about Milk-V (farside.link)
"We are looking for Text-To-Speak (TTS) expertise to help or advise us on improving the default voice of the Linux desktop." (floss.social)
Hello Fediverse, We are looking for Text-To-Speak (TTS) expertise to help or advise us on improving the default voice of the Linux desktop. :linux: 📣 Please reach out or boost :boost_love: Thanks! #Linux #tts #accessibility #a11y #GNOME #KDE #FreeSoftware #freedesktop #ml...
How to Clean Electron Cache
Electron folder under /home/cache has reached 1.3GB....
What's with all these hip filesystems and how are they different?
You know, ZFS, ButterFS (btrfs…its actually “better” right?), and I’m sure more....
Systemd timer unit
I try to create a timer unit for weekly and daily backups. For example with the weekly unit, it should be executed once in a week, some minutes after login. If the unit was successful, it should shutdown and not start again until the next week. If a start of this unit was missing, it should be start again some minutes after the...
Windows 11 scores dead last in gaming performance tests against 3 Linux gaming distros (www.notebookcheck.net)
Does `cp -v` print out the file name when it starts copying it or when it's done?
So if I had a cp -v operation fail, is the last file name it printed out the last successful file copy, or is it the failed partially copied file? If you had to ensure all files are copied correctly without overwriting anything, would deleting the last filename that was printed from the destination folder delete the partially...
LXLE still good for older devices?
A few years ago, LXLE was my distro of choice for older hardware....
100 Million Firmware Updates Supplied By The LVFS (blogs.gnome.org)
systemd 255 Released With A "Blue Screen of Death" For Linux Systems (www.phoronix.com)
CentOS Stream for a private KDE Desktop?
I currently use Fedora Kinoite and until Plasma 6 some major bugs will simply not be fixed. “Solved in Plasma 6” is a very common phrase now and that is okay....
Darling runs macOS software directly without using a hardware emulator (www.darlinghq.org)
Darling is a translation layer that lets you run macOS software on Linux, not an emulator, it’s like wine but for MacOS apps.
Self Post (lemmy.world)
I used to think I found the perfect, stable, boring system with Debian + KDE Plasma....
Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack (arstechnica.com)
An open-source, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflows (waveterm.dev)
Render anything inline. Save sessions and history. Powered by open web standards....
Fedora 40 Eyes The Ability To Boot Unified Kernel Images Directly (www.phoronix.com)
Broken Rules Sponsors Krita (krita.org)
KDE Plasma 5.27.10, Bugfix Release for December (kde.org)
The Distro Wars are good actually.?
If all the seemingly pointless discussions about which distro is better comes from attachment to a spesific distro and if a distro is just a way to interract with linux than all the discussion about witch distro is better etc. fundementally comes from a a place of love and appreciation for Linux as an OS....
Vote on the new KDE Plasma 6 Logo (discuss.kde.org)
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Hardware video acceleration
So I recently made a discovery that I honesty feel daft for not realizing before....
why does the poster image of c/linux have 3.8mb? (programming.dev)
This is the link to the image. It has 3.8mb. In my opinion that is way too much.