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In, just released, Firefox 115.0 hardware video decoding is enabled by default for Intel GPUs on Linux (www.phoronix.com)

While some of us had it turned on for some time, some didn’t. Looks like it is fully stable now....

Outdated snap packages - Issues Canonical Needs to Address Before Releasing an "All Snap" Desktop (popey.com)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

netris – Terminal-based multiplayer Tetris clone (playnetris.com)

Also available via SSH:...

What is KDE Neon, in simpler or more practical terms? How's your experience with it? (neon.kde.org)

I have read the FAQ of KDE Neon: it is well made and answers ground questions like “Is it a distro?” or “Can I turn Kubuntu into KDE Neon?”...

Fedora Workstation 40 Considering To Implement Privacy-Preserving Telemetry (www.phoronix.com)

Just in the consideration phase, but makes you wonder the timing after the Red Hat move. Maybe alright if they do it the KDE way of needing to manually opt in and not like Cononical’s painful way of manually having to opt out. Or Firefox’s needing to manually opt out though easy.

Why ACPI? (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

Linux advocacy discussion (mastodon) (mastodon.social)

Two main points:...

Webmesh: Now with the ability to peer independent meshes (github.com)

Hey all!...

Solus Is Back, but Can It Survive Its Troubled Past? (fossforce.com)

TBH, as a previous Solus user, I don’t think I’d go back....

Could we make C arrays memory safe? Probably not, but let's try anyway (nibblestew.blogspot.com)

It's time to let go, Apache Software Foundation (rocket9labs.com)

Mageia 9 released (www.mageia.org)

Mageia is a Linux distribution forked from Mandriva....

GNU manuals sorted by number of pages. (gist.github.com)

Why I use Ubuntu (Alan Pope) (popey.com)

This is easily number one. I enjoy my computing experience when using Ubuntu. Whether it’s just using the computer for usual human things, noodling with new software from source, or getting new hardware working. It’s fun. I don’t find Windows or MacOS fun, at all. They work, but they’re not fun....

Guide: From ranger to lf (list files) (github.com)

lf (as in list files) is a modern alternative to ranger with significant improvements in terms of speed and reliability. This guide is intended to help users who are familiar with ranger to switch to lf more comfortably.

IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view (www.lpi.org)

Found an interesting post about Linux saving someone's life. Does anyone else have stories like this that they want to share? (reddit.lol)

Copy of the text:...

Android and RISC-V: What you need to know to be ready (opensource.googleblog.com)

[…] we have begun to mature support for RISC-V in Android.

Interview with KDE’s lead propagandist (pointieststick.com)

Tails 5.17 Anonymous Linux OS Renames Tails Installer to Tails Cloner (9to5linux.com)

Thoughts on makedeb, Debian's unofficial makepkg clone that comes with its own version of the AUR as well? (docs.makedeb.org)

Saw the post here regarding CentOS’s off-springs and a couple of people brought up the excellent point of: why play with fire? Let’s just stick to Debian....

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