Ladybird, a truly independent web browser. ( ladybird.org )
Video announcement by Chris Wanstrath (GitHub co-founder) of the 501(c) non-profit and $1,000,000 donation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9edTqPMX_k
In defence of swap: common misconceptions ( chrisdown.name )
To be clear, I don't blame the poster of this comment at all for the content of their post – this is accepted as "common knowledge" by a lot of Linux sysadmins and is probably one of the most likely things that you will hear from one if you ask them to talk about swap. It is unfortunately also, however, a misunderstanding of...
Linux 6.11 To Offer More Fine-Tuned Control Over Swappiness ( www.phoronix.com )
As part of the memory management changes expected to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle is allowing more fine-tuned control over the swappiness setting used to determine how aggressively pages are swapped out of physical system memory and into the on-disk swap space....
Debian 12.6 released ( www.debian.org )
Booting Linux off of Google Drive ( ersei.net )
A coworker send me this fantastic piece on getting linux to boot off of google drive (and s3). Definitely a fun read!...
Linux 6.11 To Offer More Fine-Tuned Control Over Swappiness ( www.phoronix.com )
This week in KDE: autoscrolling ( pointieststick.com )
Gradience Linux Theming App Has Archived its Github ( www.omgubuntu.co.uk )
aisap: Tool to make sandboxing AppImages easy (using bubblewrap) ( github.com )
Used in Appimage Manager
Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' gets a Beta release ( www.gamingonlinux.com )
Announcing Agama 9 (new openSUSE installer) ( yast.opensuse.org )
HowTo: add the OBS Pipewire Plugin to the Flatpak, also for use with NoiseTorch ( discussion.fedoraproject.org )
OBS can use Pipewire for the mic and desktop sound inputs, but it is not yet packaged on Flathub....
[Weekly thread] GNU+Linux help thread: ask anything!
Microsoft finally updates the Linux kernel in WSL after two and a half years ( www.xda-developers.com )
Tumbleweed – Review of the weeks 2024/26 & 27 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) ( dominique.leuenberger.net )
Linux's DRM Panic "Screen of Death" Sees Patches For QR Code Error Messages ( www.phoronix.com )
Fedora 41 Looks To Finally Say Goodbye To Python 2.7 ( www.phoronix.com )
[Bazzite] Important announcement regarding system updates [Action needed] - FYI ( universal-blue.discourse.group )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23400246...
Drew DeVault on the biggest threats for FOSS, and proposed solutions ( fosstodon.org )
Closed source or open core git forges...
KVM: Google launches bug bounty program for vulnerabities found ( stackdiary.com )
KVM is used on Android, ChromeOS and Google Cloud, so this makes a lot of sense.
Slowroll Set for a Quarter of Updates ( news.opensuse.org )
Fedora HowTo's: a collection of community guides ( discussion.fedoraproject.org )
In the Fedora Forum we collect a lot of useful posts, that are not yet Documentation-ready (or not suited for Docs, as they are "too unofficial"....
uBlue signing broke: here is what you need to do on Bazzite, Bluefin, Aurora or the other images ( universal-blue.discourse.group )
Here is the Youtube video on the topic...
How To install Fyra Lab's Terra repository on Fedora (traditional and atomic desktops) ( discussion.fedoraproject.org )
This is a quite complex process, and their documentation is incomplete and different 🥳...