We cover events and user groups that are running in the US state of New Hampshire. This article forms part of our Linux Around The World series.
On paper, elementary OS 7 was not a substantial release. The developers didn't drastically overhaul the desktop or introduce game-changing new features. In many ways, elementary OS 7 was about refinement.
But it's a refinement that Linux needs. These are the little touches that turn a Linux-based OS from being powerful to being approachable. Despite its flaws, elementary OS is one of the most accessible versions of Linux, and here's why.
JoshandKurttalk to Carol Nichols about Rust. Carol is an authority on Rust and helps us understand how Rust works, why it’s different. Why Rust doesn’t have the same problems C and C++ have, and what the future of it all could look like. It’s a really fun show with some great questions from Carol along the way.
**Okteta** hex editor, the **Oxygen** theme files, and the **palapeli** jigsaw
puzzle emulator from the Slackware **kde** package set.
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The latest stable kernel is Linux 6.1.11, released by Greg K-H on February 9th 2023.
The latest mainline (development) kernel is 6.2-rc7, released on February 5th 2023.
The 6.2 series continues to be fairly calm, and the only real reason for an rc8 is - as now mentioned several times - just to make up for some time during the holiday season. Not that we seem to really have needed it, but there was also no real reason to deviate from the plan. So here we are. And we did have a few late regression fixes, and a couple still pending that will hopefully make it during next week, so absolutely no harm done.
Most of the discussion I see seems to have already been about future stuff, and I also already have one pull request for the next merge window in my inbox (and I won't mind more if they show up). But in the meantime we did have a scattering of the usual fixes, with networking, GPU and sound drivers being the most noticeable. As is usual.
But there's other fixes in there too - both smaller driver subsystems and to various other code. See the shortlog below for details.
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The Linux Kernel Organization has released a number of kernel updates. While these releases aren't particularly groundbreaking, they offer a number of fixes that will make them essential updates for Linux users.
There’s a wide range of free and open source software that lets you listen to internet radio. With so many different possibilities available it’s easy to get lost trying to find the right one for you.
This article recommends our favourite terminal-based internet radio apps. We only include free and open source software.
This article recommends our favourite terminal-based internet radio apps. Free and open source software only.
Support for the PipeWire audio stack will be available in the next stable release of the lightweight Audacious music player.
Developers working on the player have issued a beta build of Audacious that ships with optional support for PipeWire via a plugin. Since most Linux distributions, including big-names like Ubuntu and Fedora, default to PipeWire for audio handling this inclusion makes sense.
Other changes in the Audacious 43 beta include a plugin providing Opus audio decoding, support for Qt 6 and GTK3 (though the client still defaults to GTK2 on Linux), and a number of rough edges smoothed out through bug fixes.
The lightweight audacious music player announced the beta release of the next v4.3 a few days ago. Usually, the final release will be out in next or next few months with mostly no change since beta. So far, this beta release include the following new features.
Looking for a Linux timer app? Check out this useful GTK-based utility.
It’s called Timer and —shock— it’s a timer app for Linux desktops. You can use it to create a countdown in hours, minutes, and seconds.
Looking for a user-friendly way to sync Google Drive, Dropbox, and Nextcloud files on the Linux desktop?
Check out Celeste. It’s a promising new file synchronization client for Linux desktops built in Rust and GTK4/libadwaita (meaning it runs fast and looks great).
Golang, also known as Go, is a cutting-edge open-source programming language widely used to develop scalable and highly efficient applications. Its concise syntax and ease of use make it a popular choice among developers.
For individuals looking to enhance their gaming or graphic design experience, it is crucial to have the fastest drivers possible. By default, most modern Linux distributions come with open-source Nouveau drivers installed.
There are number of ways to join multiple lines of text and change delimiters if needed. This article shows two of the easier ways to do this and explains the commands.
The awk, gawk and sed commands on Linux are extremely versatile tools for manipulating text, rearranging columns, generating reports and modifying file content.
Metasploit is one of the most popular network penetration frameworks in the world and allows both newbies and professionals to easily exploit vulnerabilities in a huge variety of software and firmware.
You can use Metasploit to test your own security, go after bug bounties, or wreak mayhem across the internet. Whatever color hat you're wearing, it's easy to install Metasploit on Ubuntu.
Valve hasn't locked down the Steam Deck, so you're free to modify it however you wish. That also means you're free to break things. What do you do if the situation goes sideways?
You're in luck—Valve provides a recovery image that makes it easy to get your device back up and running. Here's how to restore SteamOS to its default settings and leave your Deck good as new.
Rust is a programming language mainly associated with software development and is widely used on Ubuntu-enabled desktops. Rust draws its roots from C++ and promotes safety, concurrency, and speed. The programming language has made its niche in technology, especially in memory management.
You can safely use the language to develop gaming engines, browsers, and operating systems. If you’re an Ubuntu fan, you'll probably want to use Rust on your favorite OS. We'll show you how you can install Rust on Ubuntu.
There are two Home Assistant versions that you can install on a regular Linux distro. You can either install the supervised version or choose the non-supervised version of Home Assistant, based on your requirements and experience with Linux.
While non-supervised installation is quick and easy, the supervised version requires several additional steps. But if you want to experience the full power of Home Assistant on Ubuntu or Debian, you must go for the supervised version. Let's see how you can set up a Supervised Home Assistant server on Ubuntu.
If you've just installed Ubuntu Server for the first time, you may want a familiar user interface, perhaps similar to Ubuntu Desktop. Here's how to set up a graphical user interface and install a desktop environment on your Ubuntu server.
Google Drive provides 15GB of free storage space, making it a good option for backing up and syncing files. Accessing your Google Drive account on Windows and macOS is easy, but using Google Drive on Ubuntu works a little differently.
It's not hard to access your Google Drive files in Ubuntu; however, you must know how to do it. Here are a few ways to access the coveted Google Drive on your favorite Ubuntu version.
Installing an operating system on a Raspberry Pi is straightforward enough, but one element can be frustrating: configuration.
Network settings, username and password, SSH access, etc., must all be configured once the OS is up and running. Once or twice isn’t so bad, but if you have multiple Pis, or regularly reinstall the operating system, things can get repetitive.
Wouldn’t it be easier is you could pre-configure the Raspberry Pi OS and get started as soon as it boots? Here are X ways you can do that.
The free and open source game manager Lutris has a fresh Beta release out with version 0.5.13 adding in a whole bunch of new features and service integrations.
After another short Beta period, Valve recently released another stable Steam Client update for Desktop and Steam Deck and here's what's new.
Getting a job is tough but college graduate Art was lucky enough to catch the eye of the Grim Reaper.
Just recently the Native Linux port of BioShock Infinite was updated to fix it failing to launch after an update.
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.103.0.
KDE Frameworks are 83 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms. For an introduction see the KDE Frameworks release announcement.
This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner.
GNOME devs want to make it easier to monitor and control background apps in GNOME Shell.
So to this end, they’re exploring a new ‘Background Apps’ feature in the Quick Settings menu.
Paired with a background app monitoring portal, the effort gives modern Linux apps a graceful way to surface their activity — “hey, I’m doing stuff while you can’t see me” — so users are aware of what’s happening on their system even if all app windows are closed.
This new ‘background apps’ menu also gives users a way quit apps running in the background without needing to re-open the app, and include a shortcut to the App Settings panel where, if needed, permission to run in the background can be removed.
An updated installer for EndeavourOS, the popular Arch-based Linux distro, is available to download.
EndeavourOS Cassini Neo offers a more recent jump-on point for those looking to ride this rolling-release distribution going forward. It arrives two months after the release of EndeavourOS Cassini.
In announcing the release, EndeavourOS devs note that the Cassini Neo revision ships with Linux kernel 6.1 LTS, Mesa 22.3.4, NVIDIA DKMS 525.85.05, and Xorg 21.1.7. Updated versions of Firefox and the Calameres installer also feature.
Bug fixes also feature, ranging from work done to better accommodate 12th-Gen Intel ARC CPUs; improving resume/hibernation support; and adding an encryption option when choosing the ‘replace a partition’ option in the Calameres installer.
The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) was established in early 2021 to oversee the well-regarded Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone Rocky Linux distribution. But, its ambitions have always been greater than that. As the RESF Charter and Bylaws state, it aims to bring together open-source communities from enterprises, research, academia, individuals, and other groups. RESF's rules are set to ensure that open-source projects will remain under community control while enabling commercial enterprise use cases.
RESF Board members include Louis Abel, Benjamin (Ben) Agner, Chris DiBona, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Mark Watson, and Gregory M. Kurtzer. Abel, a system engineer and Rocky Linux co-founder, has been involved in the enterprise Linux world for almost a decade and a half. Agner, also a co-founder of Rocky Linux, has over two decades of experience in IT, security, engineering, and governance. DiBona, served as the director of engineering for open source at Google from 2004 to 2023. Kroah-Hartman, a well-known Linux kernel maintainer, is in charge of the stable kernel releases at the Linux Foundation. Watson is a long-term Linux programming expert and former VP and director of the Center for the Advancement of Data and Research in Economics (CADRE). Kurtzer, a 20-plus-year veteran in Linux, open source, and high-performance computing, is the CEO and founder of CIQ.
Not Las Vegas, not Barcelona, not Orlando, not San Francisco and not even France’s nice Nice or London’s ‘OMG that’s too far away’ fabulous ExCeL convention centre.
This time its Vancouver.
Pardon? No, no really, the Open Infrastructure Summit (OpenInfra to its friends) is being held June 13-15, 2023, at the Vancouver Convention Centre overlooking Vancouver Harbor.
Ratified in December 2019 by the W3C standards committee, WebAssembly has promised to change the way web applications are built and deployed.
Nearly a week after the deadly earthquake in southern Turkey, foreign students Abdelaziz, Ahmed Ali, Yassir and Mustafa are helping survivors of the quake in the city of Gaziantep. They say they are happy to give back to the country that has given them so much, and that they have fallen in love with.
The death toll from the catastrophic earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria has now reached approximately 33,000 reports stated Sunday, with the UN warning that the final number could rise by "double or more". Also on Sunday, a new UN convoy arrived in Syria to deliver deperately needed international aid. Follow FRANCE 24 for live updates.
Another continental dune will be unveiled in Lithuania’s southern region of Dzūkija.
Turkish justice officials are targeting more than 130 people allegedly involved in shoddy and illegal construction methods after a pair of earthquakes collapsed thousands of buildings in southeast Turkey and northern Syria six days ago. Rescuers extricated more survivors from the rubble on Sunday, including a pregnant woman and two small children, but the death toll from the quakes also surpassed 33,000. Turkey's justice minister said Sunday that 131 people were being investigated for their alleged responsibility in the construction of buildings that failed to withstand the quakes. He said three were arrested pending trial, seven people were detained and seven other were barred from leaving the country.
Survivors and building experts say poor construction most likely exacerbated the scale of the earthquake’s destruction, as the death toll in Turkey and Syria surpassed 33,000 people.
Most articles on Swedish office culture gush about the lack of hierarchy, the reasonable working hours, and the absence of dog-eat-dog competition. But most newcomers soon realize it's not (always) quite as nice as it appears. Here's how to play Swedish office politics and win.
A baby began her life surrounded by chaos and devastation this week.
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but a Russian spacecraft docked with the International Space Station has sprung a leak. On Saturday morning, Russia’s Roscosmos space agency disclosed onTelegramthat a Progress cargo ship docked with the ISS had lost cabin pressure.
Creating a visionary science future fund that could generate more than $2 billion a year for Australia’s economy would help offset a mounting social services burden and reverse dangerously low research and development investment, scientists say.
Asus, Gigabyte, MSI and ASRock saw motherboard shipments drop by around 10 million in 2022, claims an IT industry journal.
Lithuania, like other EU countries, has been facing a shortage of antibiotics. Doctors are forced to adjust their treatment plans to what’s available, while drug authorities expect supply to revive in spring.
We need scientists and public health officials to put older people at the center of their efforts.
Following public disclosure of the critical VPN flaw in December, multiple reports show threat actors are exploiting it to target high-profile organizations.
Prolonged downtimes and insufficient vulnerability management contributed to a high number of unpatched VMware ESXi servers that fell victim to a widespread, ongoing ransomware campaign.
Last week, threat actors targeted vulnerable VMware ESXi servers with a new ransomware variant now known as ESXiArgs. Reports indicate that the attacks exploit two remote code execution vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2021-21974 and CVE-2020-3992 that still affect thousands of organizations worldwide.
A US fighter jet shot down an unidentified object over Canada on Saturday, the second such incident in North American skies since the dramatic downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon a week ago.
The leader of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner said Sunday that his troops had taken an eastern Ukrainian village a few kilometres from the key city of Bakhmut which Moscow has been trying to capture for months.€ Follow FRANCE 24 for live updates.€ All times are Paris time (GMT+1).
From Taiwan to tech trade, thornier problems lurk in bilateral ties.
Long-serving NATO leader Jens Stoltenberg has no plans to extend his mandate for a fourth time and expects to be replaced in October, the military alliance said on February 12.
The founder of the private Russian mercenary group Wagner has said that the force has taken Krasna Hora, a village in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region that lies on the edge of Bakhmut, a key objective for Russian forces.
Germany has authorised the re-export of Leopards, but Finland has yet to decide whether to send some of these battle tanks to Ukraine.
CNN national security analyst Juliette Kayyem says US air surveillance has increased after the suspected Chinese balloon was shot down.
The U.S. and Canada are investigating three unidentified flying objects€ shot down€ over North America in the past three days. Militaries have adjusted radars to try to spot more incursions.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) acknowledged it was "wild" the U.S. didn't know about the Chinese government's use of balloons "until a few months ago," during an interview on ABC's "This Week" Sunday.
Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.) emphasized the importance of maintaining a "thorough and robust" line of communication between the U.S. and China in light of recent events during an interview onFox News Channel's "Cavuto Live" Saturday.
In the Free Russia Legion, soldiers repelled by Vladimir Putin’s invasion have taken arms against their home country, engaged in some of the most heated fighting in the war.
The Wagner paramilitary group said its fighters had seized a village outside Bakhmut, as Moscow’s forces continue a brutal campaign that has nearly encircled the strategic eastern city.
A third unidentified object has been shot down in the U.S., Canada's Defence Minister said Sunday.
Why it matters:The object, which was shot down over Lake Huron, Michigan on Sunday afternoon, is the fourth to be spotted in North America since late January and the third unidentified object to be shot down in the past three days.
Australian miners are receiving enquiries from Chinese buyers eager to strike supply deals, in the latest sign that a two-year import ban is starting to ease.
Yusuke Narita€ says he is mainly addressing a growing effort to revamp Japan’s age-based hierarchies. Still, he has pushed the country’s hottest button.
Facebook parent company Meta reportedly plans to further reduce its headcount in the coming weeks. According to the Financial Times, work at the tech giant has slowed to a crawl while it plots a new round of job cuts. Meta is likely to announce the restructuring after it has completed staff performance reviews sometime in March.
By Moisés ÃÂvila With his hat, big belt buckle and cowboy boots, Ly looks the part of a Texan and even speaks with a twang.
President Joe Biden publicly rolled GOP members of Congress last week by getting them to stand and agree to no changes to Social Security in debt ceiling negotiations — lest there be political consequences.
Federal and state governments must urgently provide constructive leadership.
As shoppers' wallets show signs of stress, many are cutting back on fresh produce, the Finnish news agency reports.
Scrolling past ads has rarely been enjoyable. But in recent months, people say the experience seems so much worse.
Tens of thousands of Israelis took to the street in several cities across the country Saturday, protesting judicial overhaul plans by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will head to China within days for a three-day visit aimed at strengthening economic cooperation, state media reported on February 12.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov discussed "priorities," including air defense and artillery, ahead of upcoming meetings of Kyiv's allies in Brussels, both sides said late on February 11.
Trump's lawyers told DOJ that the reason people they paid to search Trump's properties found an empty classified folder is because he has an empty classified folder fetish. He does have an empty classified folder fetish. But that cannot explain why it remained in his residence in December, after not being found in August.
A research firm commissioned by former President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign team to prove his electoral fraud claims instead failed to substantiate his theories, the Washington Post reported Saturday.
Self-censorship has spread, along with a shrill Hindu nationalism in news reports that echoes the government line.
The UN's special rapporteur for Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, has called for the immediate and unconditional release of Parisa Mubariz, a women’s rights activist.
The alleged gang rape of a woman in a park in Pakistan has enraged women's rights activists who are protesting against what they see as "increasing sexual barbarism" in the country.
I’m writing this so that hopefully, nobody gets caught in an ambush by the state after reading it. There are two opposing forces in a criminal court proceeding – the government and the defendant. Depending on the situation, you may find yourself in the hot seat.
Rights to use a person's Name-Image-and-Likeness or NIL generally fall within two categories of intellectual property: rights of publicity and rights of privacy.
- Rights of publicity protect commercial value that a person has developed in becoming a celebrity.€ Rights of publicity can also protect against resulting false impressions created by a seeming endorsement.
So, it's been a few months since an update. Partially because I've been a little busy in my life, but mostly because I ran out of steam. Going forward, I think I will try to write an entry once a month.
A few things have happened in recent months, some good, some bad. I had a hard time around December particularly. I ran out of medication and, due to a weird mix up, I wasn't able to get an emergency prescription as promised. I got myself so worked up about it, that my Mum ended up intervening and sending what was probably a very scary message for the doctor, warning that it was potentially dangerous if I went without my medication for this long. It must have worked, as they sorted it pretty quickly after that.
I want Knives to have family building, and playing multiple generations of characters, like in King Arthur Pendragon. I don't want rules for it, so I can write an essay, or an example of play, or both. But it's hard to fit it all on one page. Perhaps I should rename this page from "Family" to "Flirting" and write a second page about playing multiple generations of characters.
Sometimes you have a project or even just a single file in a folder where you want to keep track of different versions. You want to make new versions but be able to rewind time to before you made those versions, or you wanna get suggestions for new versions from other people.
If you've been blessed enough to not even have to learn what files and folders are yet, you're not gonna be able to follow along, but the good news is that you don't need git. Files and folders are primitive beasts and git makes them less bad.
A “repo” (short for “repository”) is the nickname for a folder that git can help you store different versions of. It’s not a good idea to have more than one repo per folder so make separate folders for the separate repos.
* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.