Wine 8.16 Restarts Work On Implementing Microsoft's Deprecated DirectMusic API (www.phoronix.com)
Shoutout to fwupd for updating device firmware (github.com)
It updated a Thinkpad dock with no issues while on Windows, I had to find specific drivers and sketchy update utilities. Awesome!
System76 values and ethics (Opinion)
Please don’t flame me too bad, I understand that although privacy and libre software are important to many in the Linux community, my opinions may be outside the scope of consideration for some and I respect that....
What do you all think of Mental Outlaw
Personally, I find his Linux and privacy-related endeavors commendable, but I widely disregard of his political stances.
What has VALVE (Steam) done for LINUX and KDE? (tube.kockatoo.org)
Rewriting nouveau’s Website (drivers for NVIDIA) (tesk.page)
Bcachefs has been merged into Linux 6.7 (lkml.org)
I got this email this morning: lkml.org/lkml/2023/10/30/1098🥳
Peppermint Introduces PepMini: Minimal OS with Debian (debugpointnews.com)
From DebugPoint
Ackchyually, not every Linux is a GNU Linux
Some examples:...
Ladder: A CLI word puzzle (lemmy.world)
https://gitlab.com/christosangel/ladder...
TUXEDO Announces Nano Pro Gen12 Mini Linux PC Powered by AMD Ryzen 7000U (9to5linux.com)
Linux DNS settings is a total mess
I recently tried to enable system-wide DNS over https on Fedora. To do so I had to to some research and found out how comfusing it is for the average user (and even experienced users) to change the settings. In fact there are multiple backends messing with system DNS at the same time....
I installed Linux on a 10 year-old Macbook and I loved it (lemmy.ml)
Recently I had to return the laptop from my workplace, and was briefly left without a working laptop. Luckily (that’s what I thought at the time), we had a spare old 2013 macbook laying at home with an upgraded battery and a 256 GB SSD. The only problem was – it had MacOS installed. Now, I don’t really have a problem with...
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....
The Wine development release 8.19 is now available. (www.winehq.org)
If you like cats, you might like the oneko command! (files.mastodon.social)
fosstodon.org/
Video codecs: Adding AV1 stateless video decoder support to Linux (www.collabora.com)
Canonical lifts lid on more Ubuntu Core Desktop details (www.theregister.com)
GNOME 45 Release Candidate Arrives with Last-Minute Changes - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)
The final release of the GNOME 45 desktop environment is expected on September 20th, 2023....
Why can't I play H.265 videos on Fedora 38 even though I have the codec installed (lemmy.ml)
gamescope through the heroic launcher is WAY better than steam (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
the heroic launcher was recently updated to support gamescope (installed it through flatpak by installing org.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.gamescope 23.08 through the terminal using >flatpak install)....
Severity HIGH security problem to be announced with curl 8.4.0 on Oct 11 (CVE-2023-38545) · curl/curl · Discussion #12026 (github.com)
cross-posted from: biglemmowski.win/post/224873...
Why is there no music-based platform like PeerTube?
I’m not sure where to discuss this so I’m posting here since this is the hub of FOSS advocates....
yas-bdsm: Yet Another Stow-Based Dotfiles System Manager (github.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...
