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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 06, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. New systemd-boot Integration in openSUSE

   There are several changes happening in openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed

2. "What will be the end of Windows? Microsoft." [original]

   Things are changing

3. GNU/Linux Usage Estimates in Australia and New Zealand Not High, But They've Doubled in Recent Years [original]

   From statCounter's latest data

   New

4. KDE Plasma 6.0.1 Is Here to Improve the Overview Effect and Fix Several Bugs

   The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.0.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment series addressing various bugs, crashes, and annoyances.

5. Linux Mobile Distro postmarketOS Adopts systemd to Better Support GNOME, KDE Plasma

   The developers of the Alpine Linux-based postmarketOS mobile distribution announced today that they’re now supporting the systemd init system alongside OpenRC and other alternative init systems.

6. Android Leftovers

   The 1Password Android app just got a huge upgrade

7. today's howtos

   second batch for today

8. Windows TCO Leftovers

   Cost of using Windows

9. Red Hat Leftovers

   only from redhat.com for now

10. Arti 1.2.0 is released: onion services development

    Arti is our ongoing project to create a next-generation Tor client in Rust

11. Towards Thunderbird for Android – K-9 Mail 6.800 Simplifies Adding Email Accounts

    Setting up an email account in K-9 Mail is something many new users have struggled with in the past

12. rpki-client 9.0 released

    great stride forward in routing security

13. Android Leftovers

    Lava launches Blaze Curve 5G with stock Android OS

14. Opus 1.5 Released

    This 1.5 release is unlike any of the previous ones

15. FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE Announcement

    just now

16. Panthor open-source driver for Arm Mali-G310, Mali-G510, Mali-G610, and Mali-G710 GPUs to be part of Linux 6.10

    Rockchip RK3588 SoC with an Arm Mali-G610 MP4 GPU will soon have 100% open-source graphics support in Linux

17. X graphics rendering as contrasted to Wayland rendering

    Thomas Adam (of fvwm fame) pointed out on the FVWM mailing list (here, also) a difference between X and Wayland that I'd been vaguely aware of before but hadn't actually thought much about

18. Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi Pico, Router, RISC-V, Arduino

    4 stories for today

19. Silverfox is a Classic Chrome Theme for Firefox ESR

    A new open-source nostalgia project lets you turn back the clock on web browser aesthetics

20. Kaki Pi is a Raspberry Pi-inspired Renesas RZ/V2H AI SBC with four camera connectors, a PCIe 3.0 interface

    Yuridenki will provide a Yocto Linux SDK for the Kaki Pi SBC

21. Industrial OpenWrt gateway features MediaTek MT7628 SoC, WiFi, LTE, and GNSS connectivity

    The AG-702 is said to run OpenWrt 23.05 with the Atreyo Environment V1.01b and Linux kernel 5.15.71

22. Purism Differentiator Series, Part 6: Security

    The more doors you have the more doors can be opened, at Purism we remove the BIOS/UEFI and either install coreboot or PureBoot

23. Games: Nintendo Kills Yuzu, Steam, Wine Updates

    5 stories from Liam Dawe

24. Steam Survey for February 2024 shows a big bump in Simplified Chinese

    Seems like once again we're seeing an Asia influx on Steam

25. today's howtos

    first batch of today

26. Best Laptops for Linux in 2024

    maybe promotionl? Spammy? Not sure...

27. Security and FUD Leftovers

    only 3 for now

28. NVIDIA Blocks Efforts to Expand CUDA Compatibility to Other Platforms

    NVIDIA prevents the development of translation layers to run CUDA on other platforms.

29. Using Fedora Linux as Daily Driver for Years [Real Tips]

    Here are a few tips to keep using Fedora Linux as your daily driver for many years, based on my actual experiences.

30. Introducing NixBSD: Unofficial NixOS Fork with FreeBSD Kernel

    NixBSD Introduces NixOS Fork with FreeBSD Kernel Integration.

31. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

32. The Rise and Rise of GNU/Linux in Malaysia [original]

    estimated GNU/Linux usage in Malaysia based on statCounter

33. Tired of Windows tracking and invasive ads? Here's how to game on Linux

    many Windows users are looking for an alternative

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