Steam Linux Marketshare Surges To Nearly 2% In November (www.phoronix.com)
store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
Firefox 121 Is Looking Good For Having Wayland Enabled By Default (www.phoronix.com)
KDE 6 Megarelease - Release Candidate 1 (kde.org)
Introducing Spiel (blog.monotonous.org)
A new speech API for the free desktop stack that hopes to improve upon speech-dispatcher and implement more speech options to better fit the different text-to-speech needs of today.
libcamera v0.2.0 released! (gitlab.freedesktop.org)
Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance For Many Concurrent Connections By ~40% (www.phoronix.com)
Just found about the BORE scheduler from solus. Anyone know if it actually improves responsiveness for desktop use? If so why is it not used more? (github.com)
Fedora Asahi Remix Officially Released for Apple Silicon Macs (9to5linux.com)
Announced in early August and initially planned for the end of the month, the Fedora Asahi Remix distribution is finally here for those who want to install the Fedora Linux operating system on their Apple Silicon Macs....
Looking for LogoFAIL on your local system – Technical Blog of Richard Hughes (blogs.gnome.org)
This Week in KDE – Adventures in Linux and KDE (pointieststick.com)
What Is Linux Mobile - technical explanation of the ecosystem for Linux on smartphones previously (often previosuly android) (connolly.tech)
Super weird error, what's happening? (lemmy.zip)
I’m not sure if this is the best community to post in, but I just bought a used computer and slotted in an RX480 as the GPU. I installed KDE Neon 5.27 on it, and it worked flawlessly for 2 days....
(Blog) Vanilla OS 2 Orchid Stable, some clarifications (vanillaos.org)
What is the point of dbus? (lemmy.world)
Does anybody know why dbus exists? I’ve been wracking my brain trying to come up with a usecase for dbus that isn’t already covered by Unix sockets....
KDE Plasma 6 Megarelease - Beta 1 (kde.org)
Linux Containers From Scratch in C (www.lucavall.in)
KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future (www.phoronix.com)
Well known KDE developer Nate Graham is out with a blog post today outlining his latest Wayland thoughts, how X11 is a bad platform, and the recent topic of “Wayland breaking everything” isn’t really accurate....
Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them? (gadgettendency.com)
With support ending for Windows 10, the most popular desktop operating system in the world currently, possibly 240 million pcs may be sent to the landfill. This is mostly due to Windows 11’s exorbitant requirements. This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses. GNU/Linux may be...
Gentoo goes Binary (packages) (www.gentoo.org)
To speed up working with slow hardware and for overall convenience, we’re now also offering binary packages for download and direct installation! For most architectures, this is limited to the core system and weekly updates - not so for amd64 and arm64 however. There we’ve got a stunning >20 GByte of packages on our mirrors,...
The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)
ShellBot Uses Hex IPs to Evade Detection in Attacks on Linux SSH Servers (thehackernews.com)
From The Hacker News
Scribus 1.6 Open-Source Desktop Publishing App Released as a Major Update (9to5linux.com)
Could 2024 be the year of the diagonal linux desktop? (www.tomshardware.com)
Thanks to @redcalcium for providing a better link. This post originally linked to tomshardware.
Wifi stopped showing in linux mint (kbin.social)
Yesterday night I had a problem with a usb port and the touch pad not working, I restarted the system a few times and switched back and forth with windows (which is installed on a different drive), they didn't work even there.After a few restarts the usbport and the touch pad came back to life, but the wifi stopped working. When...
Redox OS - an OS built entirely out of Rust (www.redox-os.org)
This isn’t Linux, but Linux-like. Its a microkernel built from the rust programming language. Its still experimental, but I think it has great potential. It has a GUI desktop, but the compiler isn’t quite fully working yet....