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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 16, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1

   Unlike the vendor’s non-conformant 4.1 drivers, our open source Linux drivers are conformant to the latest OpenGL versions, finally promising broad compatibility with modern OpenGL workloads, like Blender, Ryujinx, and Citra

   New

2. Italy's GNU/Linux Share Also Growing to 3% This Month [original]

   Italy is back to curious adoption levels of GNU/Linux after a temporary bump a couple of years ago

   New

3. EmbedFire LubanCat 4 card computer – A Rockchip RK3588S dev board with a mini PCIe socket for WiFi or 4G LTE

   The company provides Android 13, Debian, Ubuntu, and ROS

   New

4. Events: FOSDEM, Workshops, and NerdioCon

   Some event coverage and upcoming stuff

5. Security Leftovers

   many more stories about security problems

6. today's howtos

   quite a few additional ones

7. Snap and Ubuntu Can be Tricked (But Media Hypes This Up)

   Some FUD du jour

8. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS “Noble Numbat” Wallpaper Competition Opens for Entries

   Canonical put up a call for all artists, graphic designers, and Ubuntu fans everywhere to submit images to the official wallpaper competition for the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 LTS “Noble Numbat” operating system release.

9. today's leftovers

   Ubuntu, SUSE, and more

10. Programming Leftovers

    Programming links/stories, mostly LWN

11. Linux (Kernel) and Graphics Leftovers

    kernel level stuff

12. Monopolies in 'Open' Clothing

    3 mystifying links

13. Juno Computers Launches Saturn Linux Laptop with Ubuntu and NVIDIA RTX 4070

    Linux hardware vendor Juno Computers announced the 5th generation of the Saturn lineup of Linux-powered laptops featuring Ubuntu Linux pre-installed, a 2K display, and updated internals.

14. Security Leftovers

    only 4 more picks for now

15. today's howtos

    a batch of instructional posts

16. Windows TCO Tales

    Windows harms

17. Games: DOSBox, Steam, Cultist Simulator, and More

    8 stories about gaming

18. What Topped This Month's List of Pages

    "popular" (as in most viewed) articles

19. Huawei proposes to launch a new “sandbox mode” for the Linux kernel to improve memory security

    Chinese tech giant Huawei has proposed a new “SandBox Mode” for the Linux kernel to improve memory safety

20. KDE Gear 23.08.5

    Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations

21. Android Leftovers

    LineageOS 21 Brings Material You and Android 14 features

22. FreeNginx Emerges in Response to F5’s Management Decisions

    FreeNginx, inviting contributions to safeguard open-source values

23. Red Hat Satellite 6.14.2 has been released

    We are pleased to announce that Red Hat Satellite 6.14.2

24. ONLYOFFICE 8 Released with PDF Encryption, RTL Support

    Lots of new features, er feature in the latest update to ONLYOFFICE

25. Raspberry Pi RP2040 Products

    Based on a Raspberry Pi RP2040

26. 4 Best Free and Open Source Tools to Track Cryptocurrencies

    All of the software is free and open source

27. 10 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based YouTube Tools

    Each application featured is released under an open source license

28. LineageOS Android Distribution: Changelog 28 - Fantastic Fourteen, Amazing Applications, Undeniable User-Experience

    "Now, let’s remind everyone about versioning conventions - To match AOSP’s versioning conventions, and due to the fact it added no notable value to the end-user, we dropped our subversion from a branding perspective."

29. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

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