Will Linux on Itanium be saved? Absolutely not (www.theregister.com)
Enabling Bluetooth on Arch Linux (itsfoss.com)
GNOME's Dynamic Triple Buffering "Ready To Merge" (www.phoronix.com)
A COSMIC Thanksgiving (blog.system76.com)
Notable changes:...
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Get 12 Years of Updates (news.itsfoss.com)
Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: a guide to using Nix flakes the non-flake way (jade.fyi)
Mozilla Firefox 120 Is Now Available for Download, Here's What's New (9to5linux.com)
Calibre 7.0 E-Book Manager Introduces New Notes Feature, Support for Audio EPUBs (9to5linux.com)
Audacity 3.4 Released with Music Workflows, New Exporter, and More (9to5linux.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.
13 Best Open Source ChatGPT Alternatives (itsfoss.com)
Docker team is considering distributing Docker Desktop as a Flatpak and Snap (github.com)
KDE Plasma Mobile 6 Porting Underway (www.phoronix.com)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Dropping The X.Org Server Except For XWayland (www.phoronix.com)
Red Hat has formally confirmed what many were thinking: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 will be doing away with X.Org Server support aside from XWayland....
GIMP 2.10.36 Released (www.gimp.org)
[Old 1997 story] The Greatest OS That (N)ever Was (www.wired.com)
How does this coverage hold up? It was a fun read from back in my highschool days, when I was still five years from trying Linux on my own AMD Thunderbird 1Ghz. It wasn’t until 2008 that I tried again and it stuck.
[Resolved - now using Onboard] Any recommendations for an on-screen keyboard like the one that Windows has. The one that comes with Gnome is annoying to use... (lemmy.world)
It pops up and down from the bottom of the screen when I don’t want it to
Navigating around in your shell (blog.meain.io)
Metal music with Linux? (youtube.com)
The world of music production is dominated by Apple with Windows running a distant second. Thanks to DAWs like Reaper and open source plung-ins constantly being developed, music production on Linux doesn’t seem like such a crazy idea anymore.
December Updates: The Spirit of COSMIC (blog.system76.com)
7 Ways to Tweak Sudo Command in Linux (itsfoss.com)
I Made Screen Brightness Control on Gnome Much Better (gitlab.gnome.org)
Anyone here struggle with trying to adjust brightness on Gnome in low light? At the low end, the steps are way too far apart, and at high brightness they’re almost imperceptible. Every other operating system uses a brightness curve that better matches human perception....
EndeavourOS Ditches Xfce for KDE Plasma with the Galileo Release (9to5linux.com)
find, grep, sed, and awk (wilsonericn.wordpress.com)
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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Committing Fully To Netplan For Network Configuration (www.phoronix.com)
The Canonical-developed Netplan has served for Linux network configuration on Ubuntu Server and Cloud versions for years. With the recent Ubuntu 23.10 release, Netplan is now being used by default on the desktop. Canonical is committing to fully leveraging Netplan for network configuration with the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 LTS...
