Beachpatrol: A CLI tool to replace and automate your everyday web browser (Wayland support) (github.com)
Does Wayland really break everything? (Nate Graham's OG post ref'd in the Phoronix article) (pointieststick.com)
Firefox 122 Enters Public Beta Testing with Improved Built-In Translation Feature (9to5linux.com)
KDE KWin Merge Request For Triple Buffering (invent.kde.org)
Phoronix: www.phoronix.com/…/KDE-KWin-Triple-Buffering-MR...
Nobara 39 Officially Released (nobaraproject.org)
Aside from being based on Fedora 39 now, KDE is now the official desktop environment replacing GNOME. The reasons why are in the article....
Darktable 4.6 Open-Source RAW Image Editor Released, Here's What's New (9to5linux.com)
The Wine development release 9.0-rc3 is now available. (www.winehq.org)
Kernel 6.6.6 is out 😈 (cdn.kernel.org)
This is the update metalhead nerds have been waiting for.
Best daily use Tips for Desktop Linux, that make life easier but are not well known? (itsfoss.com)
There are many Distros out there, but what they all do is make useful and modern systems....
Linux Boomers (janethemotherfucker.wordpress.com)
I’m going to start this article off by saying that you don’t have to be born in the boomer generation to be a boomer. You can be a boomer by acting like one. Hate new stuff? boomer. Run a desktop from the naughties? Boomer.
NixOS 23.11 released (nixos.org)
Dual Booting Windows 11 and Fedora Silverblue / Kinoite - how to shrink my Windows partition and where to go from there? (kbin.social)
Hello,...
Bluefin | The Next Generation Linux Workstation (projectbluefin.io)
OCI images that you can turn into a full-fledged developer workstation shipping Devbox, Nix, Homebrew, devcontainers and DevPod with one command. Pretty swanky!
OpenDX: An Open Source DirectX implementation for Linux, providing native support for DirectX-based applications and games! (github.com)
Wayland-Proxy Load Balancer Helping Firefox Cope With Wayland Issues (www.phoronix.com)
Among the Firefox Wayland bugs, one of the top crash bugs is over a lost connection to a Wayland compositor. For dealing with it is to have a proxy between Firefox and the Wayland compositor to cache messages and prevent compositor message queue overflows.
Benchmarking The Experimental Ubuntu x86-64-v3 Build For Greater Performance On Modern CPUs (www.phoronix.com)
D-Bus overview (fedoramagazine.org)
nix warnings (rytter.me) en-us
does anyone know what effect these warnings have when installing or running a nix package?...
Plymouth Linux Graphical Boot Manager Now Better Handles Display Rendering (9to5linux.com)
Intel Core Ultra performance in Linux is 15% higher than in Windows (gadgettendency.com)
SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker (arstechnica.com)
XOrg Server and Xwayland Patched Against Multiple Security Vulnerabilities - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)
Even if your distro is using Wayland by default, the Xwayland implementation is probably still used for compatibility with X11 apps, so you still need to patch your systems and make sure that the latest version is installed.
Mini Fundraiser: Stream Deck Plus for Boatswain support (feaneron.com)
Georges Basile Stavracas Neto, the GNOME dev behind Boatswain, started a fundraiser to get the new Elgato Stream Deck Plus, so they can add support for it in the app, since Elgato offered no support for them.
Testing composefs in Silverblue – Alexander Larsson (blogs.gnome.org)
Links for more context on what composefs is and why you’d want to use it for your image-based OS (like Silverblue):...
A list of Wayland compositors using Smithay (A library for writing Wayland compositors written in Rust) (github.com)
