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March has been an exciting month for openSUSE Tumbleweed users as GNOME 46 made its way into the rolling release like KDE’s Plasma 6 did a few weeks ago....

´# pacman -Syyu´

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I’m running Garuda. My laptop screen is on its very last legs. I have an external monitor that connects via USB-C. It has a Display Port connection, but the laptop itself does not. I’m using HDMI to connect to a larger display, but not having two monitors available is driving me insane. I know that the firmware supports...

Plasma Arrives in openSUSE’s Releases...

while true; do; sudo pacman -Syu --noconfirm; done

in last week’s email to the reproducible-builds email list1 about reproducible Arch Linux I mentioned there’s only one unreproducible package left in docker.io/library/archlinux....

Well I did, wanted the git version so uninstalled ncurses to then blissfully install ncurses-git and low and behold my system shat....

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Hi, I am building the Linux kernel, with the following make command to enable multi core compilation: make -j. This ends up freezing the system and eventually some applications get killed (I am using KDE). If I pass an argument to -j, then system compiles normally. However, full multi-core compilation is enabled when no argument...

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Hello ! I recently switched to linux on my laptop and I’m currently on testing (trixie) and since I changed my audio set-up to have a headset for a call and a Bluetooth speaker for media etc my laptop’s speakers aren’t appearing anymore in pulse audio....

Hi, the next TW snapshot 20240311 contains KDE Plasma 6.0.1, Gear 24.02.0 and Frameworks 6.0.0: https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/ Plasma 5 will be replaced, it is no longer part of the ……

There is a growing problem of documentation being locked into walled gardens. Most particularly, Cloudflare and to a lesser extent hosts like gitlab·com where several demographics of people are discriminated against. The discrimination manifests either as an outright blockade or as a CAPTCHA which often requires non-blind users...

Does anyone know when the new KDE plasma 6 is expected to be on unstable?

I usually switch to testing about 1 year after the release of stable. We’re about the 9 month mark and I’m getting anxious. Any major issues running testing? This is for my main desktop.

From Dominique Leuenberger at Tumbleweed - Review of the week 2024/10...

I feel my system is perpetually bloated, and try to maintain what applications I have installed but always seem to veer off into new applications or python modules and what ever else....

With the release of mkinitcpio v38, several hooks previously provided by Arch packages have been moved to the mkinitcpio upstream project. The hooks are: systemd, udev, encrypt, sd-encrypt, lvm2 and mdadm_udev....

The openSUSE Project is thrilled to announce the Beta release phase of Leap 15.6....

How to install KDE Plasma 6 on Debian 12

Hi everyone,...