Over at Tux Machines...

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 29, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. New renderers for GTK

   Recently, GTK gained not one, but two new renderers: one for GL and one for Vulkan

2. AMD Open Sources Drivers for XDNA-Based NPUs

   AMD Open Sources Drivers for XDNA-Based NPUs, Boosting ML and Signal Processing Performance

3. Annotating the Debian packaging directory

   In my previous blog post Providing online reference documentation for debputy

4. Niri: A Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor

   The first stable Niri v0.1.0 release offers scrollable tiling

5. 5 Compelling Reasons Why You Should Learn Linux

   Linux is a powerful operating system that fuels most of our digital world

6. 9 Best Free and Open Source Graphical YouTube Tools Bypassing the Web-Only Barrier

   All of the tools are free and open source software

7. GNOME battery charge control

   As someone who has to use a laptop for work, I keep my laptop plugged in 8 hours or more a day

8. Budgie 10.9 Desktop Adds Initial Wayland Support, Redesigned Bluetooth Applet

   The Budgie desktop team announced today the release and general availability of Budgie 10.9 as the latest version of this modern desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions.

9. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

   Some FOSS links

10. Security and Windows TCO Leftovers

    a few bits of security news

11. today's leftovers

    BSD, IBM, and more

12. Arch Linux-Based SystemRescue 11 Released with Linux Kernel 6.6 LTS

    Arch Linux-based SystemRescue 11 live Linux toolkit for system rescue and recovery tasks has been released today with a newer kernel, new packages, and various enhancements.

13. today's howtos

    first long batch for today

14. The Land Before Linux: The Unix desktops

    Way back in 1993, I oversaw a PC Magazine feature review on Unix desktops. Yes, that's right, before I was a Linux desktop user, I was a Unix user.

15. Perl Leftovers

    Some perl picks

16. Parch Linux: A Simple Arch-Based Distribution for All

    We review Parch Linux, based on Arch Linux and relatively new in the distribution space.

17. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

18. Events: FSD Meeting Recap and Canonical at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2024

    a couple of "events"

19. Security and Windows TCO Leftovers

    incidents and bugs

20. Microsoft Layoffs and Prolonged Downtimes

    more mass layoffs

21. Programming Leftovers

    R, Rust, Python, and more

22. Open Hardware: Arducam, Raspberry Pi, and ESP32

    3 devices that are hackable

23. Bootable USB and CD Rescue Systems (Mostly GNU/Linux Based)

    2 new links

24. Applications and Free Software

    various FOSS links

25. KDE, Plasma 6, and Qt (Now Proprietary)

    Some Qt-centric news

26. Microsoft Trying to Capture Developers by Paying Projects to Spread .NET and C#

    3 links, mostly Godot

27. Openwashing by OSI and Linux Foundation (Promotion of Proprietary as "Open")

    Typical capture by Microsoft et al

28. Fedora Family / Red Hat / IBM Leftovers

    Lots of Red Hat stuff

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