Nintendo forces to close the opensource Nintendo Switch emulator "yuzu-emu". It's time to clone their source code ( mastodon.social )
Linus Torvalds Throws Down The Hammer: Extensible Scheduler "sched_ext" In Linux 6.11 ( www.phoronix.com )
KDE Plasma 6 is out now! ( kde.org )
New Glibc Flaw Grants Attackers Root Access on Major Linux Distros ( thehackernews.com )
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Thunderbird for Android / K-9 Mail: May 2024 Progress Report ( blog.thunderbird.net )
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....
Linux Server OSes?
I've seen a lot of different enterprise and personal use distros for servers, but what do you guys use?...
After 14 Years of Cantarell, GNOME is Testing a New Default Font ( www.omglinux.com )
COSMIC Alpha coming in July - System76 reveal branding, a big hardware sale with new merch ( www.gamingonlinux.com )
Lindroid is an Android app that lets you run Linux in a container, with support for hardware-acceleration - Liliputing ( liliputing.com )
Linux's New DRM Panic "Blue Screen of Death" In Action ( www.phoronix.com )
Why openSUSE?
First, let me be clear up front that I'm not promoting the idea that there should be one "universal" Linux distro. With all the various distros out there for consumers, there's lots of discussion about Arch, Debian, and Fedora (and their various descendant projects), but I rarely see much talk about openSUSE....
OpenSSH introduces options to penalize undesirable behavior ( undeadly.org )
Fedora 41 Looks To Offer A KDE Plasma Mobile Spin ( www.phoronix.com )
boredsquirrel/awesome-btrfs: A list of tools for the BTRFS filesystem ( github.com )
Systemd wants to expand to include a sudo replacement ( outpost.fosspost.org )
Ubuntu 24.10 Now Defaults To Wayland On NVIDIA ( www.phoronix.com )
These past two weeks in KDE: massive stability work for Plasma 6.1 ( pointieststick.com )
NVIDIA Exploring Ways To Better Support An Upstream Kernel Driver ( www.phoronix.com )
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite prototype that runs Linux emerges from a brand you've probably never heard of — Schenker Tuxedo has 12-core CPU with 32GB RAM and surprise, surprise, Debian ( www.techradar.com )
Purism (creator of FOSS friendly phones and hardware) 2023 Finance Report: Profitable, More Assets than Liabilities, Over $9m in Sales, 50% Margin ( puri.sm )
Custom Linux Distribution just for Gaming ( bazzite.gg )
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/18099780...
What are some preparations you think people should know about in advance of migrating to Linux?
For example, I saw a post the other day detailing how to set up a Brother laser printer on Kinoite. That's not something I would have initially considered a potential problem to be solved. Another I ran into some years ago had to do with an Edimax WiFi dongle that used some weirdly specific Realtek 8812 radio, for which you had...
Redox OS With COSMIC Apps Is Looking Quite Nice ( www.phoronix.com )
