Linux

IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view ( www.lpi.org )

Several people have opined on the recent announcement of Red Hat to change their terms of sales for their software. Here are some thoughts from Jon "maddog" Hall on it.

Qtile vs BSPWM - Which is Better? [The Linux Cast] ( www.youtube.com )

A deep dive into Qtile Window Manager and BSPWM, which is better and who should use which one?...

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

Porting Linux to Apple Silicon

Stuck between distros right now. ( kbin.social )

So, this sucks. On Mint, Firefox was running super sluggish to the point of being unusable. I reinstalled Ubuntucinnamon because I enjoyed using it when I had it installed, but between me last having it installed and now there seems to have been an update that has broken cinnamon's system tray. Which, for me, is a major...

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!

[SomeOrdinaryGamers installs Arch] I Installed The Hardest System Known To Man... ( youtu.be )

Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! This time I deleted and destroyed my system just to rebuild it from the ground up and to teach you how to install what many fedora-tippers call the "hardest system" known as Arch Linux. Check out the install guide here and have a great day! Thanks for watching!

KDE users who value your sanity and CPU. ( kbin.social )

Disable Search Indexing in options. It uses a buggy piece of garbage called Akonadi in the background and was causing one core of my CPU to stay at 100% for no reason.

#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.

AlmaLinux discovers working with Red Hat isn't easy ( www.zdnet.com )

The saga continues.

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

Get a sources.list for your Linux.

Is anyone using Asahi Linux? ( kbin.social )

If so how is it? I'm heavily considering grabbing an M1 and trying it out if it's in a state where I can be productive....

Any recommendation books for learning Linux internals for the recent kernels? ( kbin.social )

In the past I read Robert Love's Linux Kernel Development Book which is a highly esteemed and recommended book on the topic. However as time passes it become at least half obsolete. https://rlove.org/...

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.

Whats the magic word? ( media.kbin.social )

Inkscape launches version 1.3 with a focus on organizing work efficiently | Inkscape ( inkscape.org )

With version 1.3 of Inkscape, you’ll find improved performance, several new features, and a solid set of improvements to a few existing ones. This version is squarely focused on helping users get organized and work more efficiently with our free and open source vector-editing software.

Linux - video editing software? ( kbin.social )

Hello Kbin,...

I want to move to Linux but I need to be able to access my apps that are not supported ( kbin.social )

Hey, I use the Adobe Suite for daily use to build and develop posts and videos for multiple people and can't have my workflow slow down by learning a new application, I've looked into Linux a few times and want to really move over in the future but due to it not having support for Adobe, I'm not sure what to do....