Linux

Indian govt offices to use Linux distribution replacing Microsoft Windows.

It’s been a month or two since I (re) discovered the nix package manager (and operating system)....

New trade association brings together open source Enterprise Linux community It will provide an open process to access source code that organizations can use to build distributions compatible with RHEL...

After a few conversations with people on Lemmy and other places it became clear to me that most aren’t aware of what it can do and how much more robust it is compared to the usual “jankiness” we’re used to....

Distro: EndeavourOS...

The Linux Containers project has announced the addition of Incus, which is a fork of LXD 5.16 started by Aleksa Sarai.

NVK, an open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs

Here is a message from his family

I wrote about all the porting work done recently for Plasma in yesterday’s Plasma 6 update. That work consumed a lot of time due to a big push to get it all done, so this week there...

Porting Linux to Apple Silicon

Several people have opined on the recent announcement of Red Hat to change their terms of sales for their software. Here are some thoughts from Jon "maddog" Hall on it.

A deep dive into Qtile Window Manager and BSPWM, which is better and who should use which one?...

So, this sucks. On Mint, Firefox was running super sluggish to the point of being unusable. I reinstalled Ubuntucinnamon because I enjoyed using it when I had it installed, but between me last having it installed and now there seems to have been an update that has broken cinnamon's system tray. Which, for me, is a major...

Summary from LWN.net:...

Excellent progress was made this week towards the goal of full sound theme support in Plasma 6, among other topics–including some important performance work for KWin!

Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! This time I deleted and destroyed my system just to rebuild it from the ground up and to teach you how to install what many fedora-tippers call the "hardest system" known as Arch Linux. Check out the install guide here and have a great day! Thanks for watching!

Disable Search Indexing in options. It uses a buggy piece of garbage called Akonadi in the background and was causing one core of my CPU to stay at 100% for no reason.

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from July 21 to July 28.

Wiz Research discovers CVE-2023-2640 & CVE-2023-32629, 2 privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Ubuntu's OverlayFS module impacting 40% of cloud workloads.

The saga continues.

If so how is it? I'm heavily considering grabbing an M1 and trying it out if it's in a state where I can be productive....

In the past I read Robert Love's Linux Kernel Development Book which is a highly esteemed and recommended book on the topic. However as time passes it become at least half obsolete. https://rlove.org/...

Get a sources.list for your Linux.

Red Hat made being a 1:1 clone hard. So AlmaLinux is pivoting and speeding up.