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AlmaLinux says Red Hat source changes won’t kill its RHEL-compatible distro (arstechnica.com)

I have recently moved from Windows to Fedora, but I miss the screen ruler from powertoys. Is there any nice equivalent for linux? (learn.microsoft.com)

Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market (www.theregister.com)

Advice on backing up disk images to S3?

Recently my manjaro linux laptop had a pretty bad meltdown. My solution would usually be plugging in the live boot drive and fixing whatever happened, but that takes to long and I lost a working day because of it. I need a more brute-forcy way of backing up and recovering my machines. I’m thinking daily disk image backups that...

Google Posts Experimental Linux Code For "Device Memory TCP" - Network To/From Accelerator RAM (www.phoronix.com)

COSMIC Skies of a Colorado July (blog.system76.com)

Run Linux like original Unix (sysadminsignal.com)

A command-line Fediverse client that doesn’t require a server (lemmy.world)

Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux (techcrunch.com)

Today, SUSE announced that it is creating a hard fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and that it will develop and maintain an RHEL-compatible distribution. SUSE says that it will invest $10 million into this project over the coming years. One major open source company forking another major open source company’s project is...

BusKill v0.7.0 released, now available in Official Debian Repos 💾 (www.buskill.in)

We’re happy to announce the release of BusKill v0.7.0!...

After 30 Years, Linux Finally Hits 3% Market Share (linuxiac.com)

SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment | SUSE (www.suse.com)

SUSE, the global leader in enterprise open source solutions, has announced a significant investment of over $10 million to fork the publicly available Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and develop a RHEL-compatible distribution that will be freely available without restrictions. This move is aimed at preserving choice and...

GNU BRE/ERE cheatsheet and differences between grep, sed and awk (learnbyexample.github.io)

Hello. I wrote this blog post to serve as a reference for BRE/ERE regexp flavors. You’ll also learn the differences between these tools — for example, awk doesn’t support backreferences within regexp definition (i.e. the search portion).

Oracle Pours Fuel All Over Red Hat Source Code Drama (go.theregister.com)

While I’m not a fan of what RH is doing here, the idea of Oracle as a community-minded open source champion is a bit too rich for my taste.

Cold dark place filled with sadness and despair (programming.dev)

Link to post: social.kernel.org/notice/AXWwXVY5yDb8roPXsm

Can `head` read/consume more input lines than it outputs? (unix.stackexchange.com)

Buffering and where it might cause issues

GIMP - GIMP 2.99.16 Released: Wilber Week 2023 edition! (www.gimp.org)

Tangentially related to the Linux ecosystem, since it’s a major software that’s used by many of the platform’s users

Linux Containers - LXD - Has been moved to Canonical (linuxcontainers.org)

Canonical oracles LXD kinda. Who’s surprised?

Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability (github.com)

Firefox 115.0 released: Hardware video decoding is now enabled for Intel GPUs on Linux (www.mozilla.org)

Syncthing: Open Source Continuous File Synchronization (github.com)

Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers.

The Current Challenges With Using Linux On Airplanes (www.phoronix.com)

Thoughts?

systemd by example - the systemd playground (systemd-by-example.com)

The playground allows you to learn about systemd interactively, right from your browser! Create examples without the danger of breaking your system, and without being distracted by hundreds of unrelated unit files.