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Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To (www.oracle.com)
Oracle underscores its commitment to helping keep Linux open and free for the global Linux community.
The year of Linux on the desktop is closer. Linux reaches 3% of desktops (web.archive.org)
Why Corporate Owned Linux Distributions are a Bad Idea (youtu.be)
When it comes to Linux Distros, each are either managed by their community or by a company. With recent news, it becomes clearer than ever that those managed...
Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS (www.phoronix.com)
According to these new numbers from Valve, the Linux customer base is up to 1.96%, or a 0.52% jump over June! That’s a huge jump with normally just moving 0.1% or so in either direction most months… It’s also near an all-time high on a percentage basis going back to the early days of Steam on Linux when it had around a 2%...
Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG (www.theregister.com)
Reminder that RedHat makes A LOT of money already. The results of the 2019 fiscal year show that RedHat spends twice as much money on ads and sales people than on developers. (www.businesswire.com)
Our subscriptions mostly pay for the salesmen and the ads. They sell ads first, IT second. So I'm not gonna cry for RedHat. The image of the poor developers working in a cave, struggling to make money is only in our mind. They had a perfectly functional model but decided to sabotage some of it to try to squeeze even more money....
It either runs on Linux or refund (lemmy.ml)
RIP Bram Moolenaar, the author of vim text editor (groups.google.com)
Here is a message from his family
Linux Mint 21.2 “Victoria” Cinnamon is released. (blog.linuxmint.com)
Linux Mint 21.2 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2027....
What is you backup tool of choice?
I don’t mean system files, but your personal and work files. I have been using Mint for a few years, I use Timeshift for system backups, but archived my personal files by hand. This got me curious to see what other people use. When you daily drive Linux what are your preferred tools to keep backups? I have thousands of...
OC Can someone ELI5 the situation with Red Hat and CentOS?
I've been hearing about it a lot over the last few days, but I don't exactly understand what's going on. What's going on with Red Hat, and how does it affect Linux users?
Pop!_OS officially supports Lemmy as Reddit alternative (www.reddit.com)
The official community is hosted at !pop_os...
Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers (arstechnica.com)
Focalboard: a free alternative to Trello (lemdro.id)
Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.
Star Labs reveal their new StarLite, a Surface-like Linux tablet (www.gamingonlinux.com)
My little brother loves the dualboot setup I installed for him. He says "It's like iOS"
My brother is 12 and just like other people of his age he can’t use a computer properly because he is only familiar with mobile devices and dumbed-down computers...
Nvidia Fuck You! (Linus Torvalds) My thoughts exactly (www.youtube.com)
Old but gold. posting for anybody who hasn’t seen this yet.
After 30 Years, Linux Finally Hits 3% Market Share (linuxiac.com)
Linux enthusiasts rejoice! After a long journey, according to StatCounter's data, by June 2023, Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share.
Share Your Favorite Linux Distros and Why You Love Them
So we can clearly see the most popular distros and the reasons why people use them, please follow this format:...
Firefox 115 ESR Is Here with Hardware Video Decoding for Intel GPUs on Linux (9to5linux.com)
Firefox 115 is available for download as the new ESR (Extended Support Release) series with hardware video decoding for Intel GPUs on Linux.
I'm done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux) | Jeff Geerling (www.jeffgeerling.com)
Which distro has the best GUI in your opinion?
I've dabbled with Linux over the years, first with Ubuntu in the early 2010s, then Elementary OS when that dropped, and a few years ago I really enjoyed how customizable the gui was with Xubuntu. I was able to make it look just like WIndows 2000 which was really cool....
ffmprovisr: app to help you through the FFmpeg command generation process (amiaopensource.github.io)
Inkscape launches version 1.3 with a focus on organizing work efficiently | Inkscape (inkscape.org)
With version 1.3 of Inkscape, you’ll find improved performance, several new features, and a solid set of improvements to a few existing ones. This version is squarely focused on helping users get organized and work more efficiently with our free and open source vector-editing software.