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Check Out These Linux-Related Magazines on Kbin in c/linux@kbin.social
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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.

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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.๐Ÿ“ข Check out all the ...

OpenSUSE seeks a Leap replacement, but will distro community rise to the challenge? in c/linux@kbin.social
[โ€“] staticlifetime@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So, is SUSE not doing a traditional Linux distro anymore? I'm not really understanding this ALP move.

Something broke with Bitwarden? Might be good to export a backup just in case in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] staticlifetime@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

I switched from Bitwarden to using Pass for reasons like this.

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Meet the Guy Preserving the New History of PC Games, One Linux Port At a Time - Slashdot (games.slashdot.org)
 

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Historically, video game preservation efforts usually cover two types of games. The most common are very old or "retro" games from the 16-bit era or earlier, which are trapped on cartridges until they're liberated via downloadable ROMs. The other a...

Reccomend applications that don't need a display server? in c/linux@kbin.social
[โ€“] staticlifetime@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You could include pass. It is a password manager that is primarily terminal-based, but because it uses standard GPG encrypted files to do so, they are viewable in your file browser and there are graphical extensions for your web browser.

It also uses Git so you can sync it to a remote repository, and Git can be seen as another application that works in a similar manner. It is terminal-based, but there are graphical front ends like gitg.

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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...

IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddogโ€™s view in c/linux@kbin.social
[โ€“] staticlifetime@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Definitely an eye-opening view from one of the most well-respected veterans of the community. Thanks for sharing.

Check Out These Linux-Related Magazines on Kbin in c/linux@kbin.social
Check Out These Linux-Related Magazines on Kbin in c/linux@kbin.social
[โ€“] staticlifetime@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

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.

What is the most opinionated linux distro? in c/linux@kbin.social
[โ€“] staticlifetime@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Perhaps elementary OS. Although it feels like its dying somewhat.

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[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 in c/linux@kbin.social
[โ€“] staticlifetime@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm really not sure what problem this is supposed to solve. Anyone can fork the current source. People don't care about forks, they want RHEL.

Open source developers - have the recent moves by RedHat changed your opinion of using non-GPL licenses? in c/linux@kbin.social
[โ€“] staticlifetime@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Well, considering Linux is using GPLv2, I think it'd be too late for it to help Linux, which is kind of a big deal I guess.

Open source developers - have the recent moves by RedHat changed your opinion of using non-GPL licenses? in c/linux@kbin.social
[โ€“] staticlifetime@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

No, it's ultimately a product of all the community that works on it. Red Hat doesn't drive the ship.

Firefox 115 ESR Is Here with Hardware Video Decoding for Intel GPUs on Linux in c/linux@kbin.social
[โ€“] staticlifetime@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

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.

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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...

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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.

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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

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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.

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Linux 6.4 Released With Early Apple M2 Code, More WiFi 7, AMD Guided Autonomous Mode (www.phoronix.com)
 

As expected Linux 6.4 is out today as stable as an on-time release following a relatively quiet cycle the past two months.

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Mozilla Firefox 116 To Allow For Wayland-Only Builds (www.phoronix.com)
 

Another exciting milestone has been reached on Mozilla's long journey of improving the native Wayland support for the Firefox web browser on Linux.

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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.

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