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Nix package manager ( nix-tutorial.gitlabpages.inria.fr )

It’s been a month or two since I (re) discovered the nix package manager (and operating system)....

CIQ (Rocky Linux), Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association for a Collaborative and Open Future ( openela.org )

New trade association brings together open source Enterprise Linux community It will provide an open process to access source code that organizations can use to build distributions compatible with RHEL...

Linux Containers - Incus - Introduction ( linuxcontainers.org )

The Linux Containers project has announced the addition of Incus, which is a fork of LXD 5.16 started by Aleksa Sarai.

NVK Has landed! ( www.collabora.com )

NVK, an open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs

This week in KDE: porting, Dolphin, and KWin ( pointieststick.com )

I wrote about all the porting work done recently for Plasma in yesterday’s Plasma 6 update. That work consumed a lot of time due to a big push to get it all done, so this week there...

Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix - Asahi Linux ( asahilinux.org )

Porting Linux to Apple Silicon

systemd v254 released ( github.com )

Summary from LWN.net:...

This week in KDE: Sounds like Plasma 6 ( pointieststick.com )

Excellent progress was made this week towards the goal of full sound theme support in Plasma 6, among other topics–including some important performance work for KWin!

#106 GUADEC 2023 · This Week in GNOME ( thisweek.gnome.org ) Dutch

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from July 21 to July 28.

GameOverlay Vulnerability Impacts 40% of Ubuntu Workloads | Wiz Blog ( www.wiz.io )

Wiz Research discovers CVE-2023-2640 & CVE-2023-32629, 2 privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Ubuntu's OverlayFS module impacting 40% of cloud workloads.

LUG's repo file generator ( mirrors.ustc.edu.cn )

Get a sources.list for your Linux.

AlmaLinux says Red Hat source changes won’t kill its RHEL-compatible distro ( arstechnica.com )

Red Hat made being a 1:1 clone hard. So AlmaLinux is pivoting and speeding up.

Debian 12.1 released ( www.debian.org )

As with other Debian point releases, the updates will come automatically through the package manager.

#105 Legendary Saturday Edition · This Week in GNOME ( thisweek.gnome.org )

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from July 15 to July 22.

Release GE-Proton8-7 Released · GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom ( github.com )

FSR IS BACK!!! Huge shoutout/thank you to Ph42oN for completely rebasing, updating and combining all of the old FSR patches to make them compatible with Proton 8. Additionally a bug was fixed by ...

Mint 21.2 is desktop Linux without the faff ( www.theregister.com )

Nifty new features mostly go to Cinnamon users, though

NVIDIA 535.86.05 Linux Graphics Driver Improves Wayland Support, Fixes Bugs - 9to5Linux ( 9to5linux.com )

NVIDIA 535.86.05 graphics driver for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems is now available for download with various bug fixes.

COSMIC Skies of a Colorado July ( blog.system76.com )

Updates on wallpapers, windows, scaling, and text handling from System76’s new desktop environment, COSMIC DE.

HP BIOS Management/Configuration Driver Coming For Linux 6.6 ( www.phoronix.com )

I would love to see more hardware makers expose BIOS settings through the OS, either by developing the necessary open-source drivers themselves or by publishing the specs so the community can do it. The current situation of having to reboot into the UEFI setup makes it impossible to tune those settings for real workloads.

Infrastructure Week - Day 1: What is Infrastructure? ( voidlinux.org )

This week we’ll be taking a look into the infrastructure that runs and operates Void. We’ll look at what we run, where it runs, and why it is setup the way it is. Overall at the end of the week you should have a better understanding of what actually makes Void happen at a mechanical level.