Hours after posting a large patch series for enabling the Nouveau kernel driver to use NVIDIA's GSP for improving the support for RTX 20/30 series hardware and finally enabling accelerated graphics support on RTX 40 'Ada Lovelace' GPUs, the Red Hat maintainer has resigned from his duties.
Brian Exelbierd, RHEL Business Strategist at Red Hat, talks about Fedora's relationship with Red Hat and the terms of their sponsorship.📢 Check out all the ...
HB 4164, which passed both chambers and took effect on September 1, makes the false representation of animals as service animals a crime punishable by $1,000 and up to 30 hours of community service. Both locals and legislators alike are saying the misrepresentation of service dogs has increased challenges for those really in...
Hopefully this will squash the "pets everywhere" thing that has been going on over the past few years. Service animals are for the disabled, not so you can parade around your dog in public.
This roundtable-style panel brings together several downstream communities of the Fedora Project. Each downstream community will start the panel with a short...
Fairly new to Kbin, for some reason my "notifications" are always empty. If someone responds to one of my comments, I don't see anything that tells me that they did. Both my notifications and messages are permanently empty....
I have a PC I have installed Portainer on, with various docker services (home assistant, jellyfin, etc..) with an ISP supplied router fixing various device IP addresses and reaching out to dyndns....
I have free wildcard certs provided from my domain registrar. I host with Kubernetes, which allows for TLS secrets using Ingress. For external/public usage, I also have an NGINX reverse proxy in front of it.
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.
Basically, which linux distro is the best for a non-power user? Someone who wants to be able to get up and running without having to learn how to manage the OS using the cli....
It's well known that Fedora is connected to Red Hat and Red Hat is connected to IBM but what influence does IBM and Red Hat actually have on Fedora Linux
SUSE is committed to working with the open source community to develop a long-term, enduring compatible alternative for RHEL and CentOS users. SUSE plans to contribute this project to an open source foundation, which will provide ongoing free access to alternative source code.
The new license terms for RHEL are structured to stop subscribers from exercising their rights under the GPL. For now they are still providing source code albeit in a less convenient form, but technically they only need to do this for GPL licenses packages and they could remove code for BSD /MIT / Apache licensed packages....
Linux magazine reports that "Former Snap co-developer Alan Pope, who left Canonical in 2021 after 10 years with the company, has developed unsnap, a script that replaces snaps with Flatpaks where available. The script, hosted on GitHub, has been tested by the developers for use on Ubuntu and all de...
Considering how good Firefox is, and how much of a monopoly that Chrome-based browsers have over the web, I'd run Firefox just to support freedom of choice.
'Some people relax with a nice drink by the pool, I relax by playing around with inline [Assembly code],' as a nice quote of the day as Linus Torvalds explained after he took on improving upon a performance optimization patch that was proposed for the ongoing Linux 6.5 merge window.
Instances exist for more than just to access singular communities. You can access our stuff here, and we will go to y'all as well. This is no small community either. We choose to be on kbin for a reason.
Thanks for the heads-up! It's not meant to be a list of official communities. Just a list of magazines that exist. Nothing stopping kbin users from wanting to use it, and do their own thing locally.
The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source "Nouveau" Linux Kernel Driver Resigns ( www.phoronix.com )
Hours after posting a large patch series for enabling the Nouveau kernel driver to use NVIDIA's GSP for improving the support for RTX 20/30 series hardware and finally enabling accelerated graphics support on RTX 40 'Ada Lovelace' GPUs, the Red Hat maintainer has resigned from his duties.
Red Hat's Relationship With Fedora ( www.youtube.com )
Brian Exelbierd, RHEL Business Strategist at Red Hat, talks about Fedora's relationship with Red Hat and the terms of their sponsorship.📢 Check out all the ...
OpenSUSE seeks a Leap replacement, but will distro community rise to the challenge? ( www.zdnet.com )
Will it be Slowroll or Linarite -- or nothing at all? Programmers are conflicted about where the venerable Linux distro should go from here.
[My San Antonio] Texas residents with fake service dogs will be fined $1k under HB 4164 ( www.mysanantonio.com )
HB 4164, which passed both chambers and took effect on September 1, makes the false representation of animals as service animals a crime punishable by $1,000 and up to 30 hours of community service. Both locals and legislators alike are saying the misrepresentation of service dogs has increased challenges for those really in...
Roundtable panel with Red Hat, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, and CentOS Stream at Fedora Flock ( www.youtube.com )
This roundtable-style panel brings together several downstream communities of the Fedora Project. Each downstream community will start the panel with a short...
Why are my notifications always empty? ( kbin.social )
Fairly new to Kbin, for some reason my "notifications" are always empty. If someone responds to one of my comments, I don't see anything that tells me that they did. Both my notifications and messages are permanently empty....
How are people doing HTTPS? ( kbin.social )
I have a PC I have installed Portainer on, with various docker services (home assistant, jellyfin, etc..) with an ISP supplied router fixing various device IP addresses and reaching out to dyndns....
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.
Lemmy and Kbin: The Best Reddit Alternatives? ( www.pcmag.com )
Love Reddit but tired of what's happening to it? We check out Lemmy and Kbin, two open-source fediverse alternatives that are growing fast.
Is there a terminology for all the various different types of fediverse platforms? ( kbin.social )
Like we've got Mastodon which is a microblog platform....
What is the most opinionated linux distro?
Basically, which linux distro is the best for a non-power user? Someone who wants to be able to get up and running without having to learn how to manage the OS using the cli....
[Crosspost] Does Red Hat & IBM Influence Fedora Linux? ( kbin.social )
It's well known that Fedora is connected to Red Hat and Red Hat is connected to IBM but what influence does IBM and Red Hat actually have on Fedora Linux
SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment ( www.suse.com )
SUSE is committed to working with the open source community to develop a long-term, enduring compatible alternative for RHEL and CentOS users. SUSE plans to contribute this project to an open source foundation, which will provide ongoing free access to alternative source code.
Open source developers - have the recent moves by RedHat changed your opinion of using non-GPL licenses? ( kbin.social )
The new license terms for RHEL are structured to stop subscribers from exercising their rights under the GPL. For now they are still providing source code albeit in a less convenient form, but technically they only need to do this for GPL licenses packages and they could remove code for BSD /MIT / Apache licensed packages....
Former Canonical Developer is Working on a Script that Replaces Snaps with Flatpaks ( linux.slashdot.org )
Linux magazine reports that "Former Snap co-developer Alan Pope, who left Canonical in 2021 after 10 years with the company, has developed unsnap, a script that replaces snaps with Flatpaks where available. The script, hosted on GitHub, has been tested by the developers for use on Ubuntu and all de...
Firefox 115 ESR Is Here with Hardware Video Decoding for Intel GPUs on Linux ( 9to5linux.com )
Firefox 115 is available for download as the new ESR (Extended Support Release) series with hardware video decoding for Intel GPUs on Linux.
The Current Challenges With Using Linux On Airplanes ( www.phoronix.com )
Currently most avionics real-time operating systems for airplanes are proprietary and very specialized for safety assurance reasons
Linus Torvalds Takes On A Performance Patch: "I Relax By Playing With Inline Assembly" ( www.phoronix.com )
'Some people relax with a nice drink by the pool, I relax by playing around with inline [Assembly code],' as a nice quote of the day as Linus Torvalds explained after he took on improving upon a performance optimization patch that was proposed for the ongoing Linux 6.5 merge window.
Wine 8.11 Brings Various Improvements For Windows Apps On Linux ( www.phoronix.com )
A new bi-weekly release of Wine is now available for enjoying Windows applications and games on Linux and other platforms.
Check Out These Linux-Related Magazines on Kbin ( kbin.social )
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