COSMIC: The Road to Alpha (blog.system76.com)
Why more PC gaming handhelds should ditch Windows for SteamOS (arstechnica.com)
PipeWire Camera Support is Coming to OBS Studio for Linux Desktops (9to5linux.com)
Docker team is considering distributing Docker Desktop as a Flatpak and Snap (github.com)
Join the 2nd edition of the Creative Freedom Summit! (creativefreedomsummit.com)
Hey guys, the Fedora shill is back again to invite you all to this year’s Creative Freedom Summit, that will be hosted from 23-25 Jan....
Something to ruffle some penguin feathers: The Unix Hater's Handbook (web.mit.edu)
This is a 1994 book about the many woes that Unix derived systems brought to sysadmins that were used to other solutions. Considering the number of commands that Linux still uses, it’s definitely worth a read.
In-progress COSMIC apps: terminal, file manager, text editor, and settings (fosstodon.org)
COSMIC is a Wayland desktop environment for Linux that is written in Rust with Smithay and Iced. COSMIC applications are developed with the libcosmic platform toolkit, which is based on iced. They are cross-platform and supported on Windows, Mac, and Redox OS in addition to Linux....
The Star Labs StarBook is Qubes-Certified! (www.qubes-os.org)
Kubernetes with CRI-O on Fedora Linux 39 - Fedora Magazine (fedoramagazine.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.
Could we add "Distrochooser" to the sidebar? (distrochooser.de)
Quite a few posts about selecting a distro to use. Maybe it’s time to make that link a little more prominent?
KDE 6 Megarelease - Release Candidate 1 (kde.org)
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)
Solene'% : NovaCustom NV41 laptop review (dataswamp.org)
Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated in any way to any of the parties involved in this review. I just enjoy reading Solène’s writings in general and found myself to be especially in fond of this specific article. I share this in the hopes that others might somehow benefit from this as well!...
Recent GNOME design work – Form and Function (blogs.gnome.org)
Looking for LogoFAIL on your local system – Technical Blog of Richard Hughes (blogs.gnome.org)
Why is Gnome fractional scaling 1.7518248558044434 instead of 1.75? (unix.stackexchange.com)
TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism (en.wikipedia.org)
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)
GNOME Shell & Mutter 46 Alpha Released - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)
Raising the Bar: Introducing the new App Metadata Guidelines (docs.flathub.org)
Writing Docs with Kate - Fedora Magazine (fedoramagazine.org)
Booting up Libreboot T440p laptop with Windows 11 (No NVIDIA GPU Required) (vid.puffyan.us)
youtu.be/OFHiMfVNNeA?si=YfV8zafqnnx9QTsX
Linux 6.8 To Introduce New Intel Xe & PowerVR Graphics Drivers, Prepare For New AMD & Intel CPUs (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.7 should be released later today as the first stable kernel of 2024. In turn the Linux 6.8 merge window will then open tomorrow and run for the next two weeks. For those curious about the features expected for Linux 6.8, here’s an early look at some of the changes expected to land for that next kernel cycle....
