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Linux Distros Evolution - January 2024 Update: Pop!_OS in Decline? (boilingsteam.com)

An interesting trend graph of the most diffused distros and their adoption by users over time.

Microsoft says a Copilot key is coming to keyboards on Windows PCs starting this month (www.cnbc.com)

Debian Bookworm and Bullseye Users Receive Important Linux Security Updates (9to5linux.com)

Building RHEL and RHEL UBI images with mkosi - Fedora Magazine (fedoramagazine.org)

(Blog) Vanilla OS 2 Orchid Stable, some clarifications (vanillaos.org)

Linux reaches new high 3.82% (gs.statcounter.com)

Scribus 1.6 Open-Source Desktop Publishing App Released as a Major Update (9to5linux.com)

Linux Containers From Scratch in C (www.lucavall.in)

Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: a guide to using Nix flakes the non-flake way (jade.fyi)

Hello, world! - A technical overview of the software powering bgammon.org (bgammon.org)

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...

The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell, part 2 (lwn.net)

Part 1: lwn.net/SubscriberLink/955376/b3fba3bbfabbc411/

Fedora Discusses Optimized Binaries For The AMD64 Architecture (fedoraproject.org)

Additional paths will be inserted into the search path used for executables on systems which have a compatible CPU. Those additional paths will mirror the AMD64 / x86_64 “microarchitecture levels” supported by the glibc-hwcaps mechanism: x86-64-v2, x86-64-v3, x86_64-v4. Systemd will be modified to insert the additional...

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.

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.

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,...

Does Wayland really break everything? (Nate Graham's OG post ref'd in the Phoronix article) (pointieststick.com)

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....

Dual Booting Windows 11 and Fedora Silverblue / Kinoite - how to shrink my Windows partition and where to go from there? (kbin.social)

Hello,...

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