For Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we want to recognize the work being done on accessibility by @matt as part of the @gnome Foundation. He is the lead for @accesskit and is currently working on Newton, a Wayland-oriented solution for assistive technologies that can modernize accessibility on the Linux desktop!
Linux distro's heading to where macOS today: where the root filesystem is mostly immutable, but not entirely. #ChromeOS arrived there a decade ago, but everyone seems to be moving in the same direction.
PSA: Fedora Linux 38 will reach end of life on May 21, next Tuesday.
Time to start upgrading. Fedora 39 will be supported for up to one month after the release of Fedora 41 (~6 months). Fedora 40 will be supported until a month after Fedora 42 (~12 months).
I'm having a hell of a day with Firefox today (and part of yesterday). Since 126.0 was released many websites make Firefox crash (for example opening images here in Mastodon but also a Grafana dashboard and others). All in Gnome with Wayland and Ubuntu 24.04. Are other people having the same issues? #Firefox#Ubuntu#Wayland#Gnome
@adelgado I've had no problems with #Firefox 126.0 but I'm on #Fedora 40 with #GNOME & #Wayland. IIRC this can happen when you did not close all instances of Firefox $previous_version. Try closing all Firefox windows and also make sure that there are no lingering instances ($ ps ax | grep firefox). Then start Firefox again and see if that helps.
I am getting a new computer for an elderly and to be able to support it, I'm removing the Windows and want to install a #Linux distro. They have previously used Ubuntu Budgie for about 4 years. Which one of these distros do you suggest for lower maintenance burden in the long run?
@Mehrad
I think you should clarify #fedora atomic desktop, not server or workstation. #bluefindesktop and #Kinoite are specifically designed for low maintenance.
Why dnf upgrade on #Fedora 39 shows me red lines of packageName replacing packageName (name being the same), but only for some? I know a thing or two on Linux #packaging, but not RPM.
@John_Livingston
Une mise à jour récente ?!?
Il y a peut-être un sujet à propos du passage de certaines distributions Linux (#Ubuntu, #Fedora...) à #Wayland au lieu de #X11 pour le rendu graphique...
One of my absolutely favorite Linux utilities is "sshfs", that allows you to mount other machine's file systems locally over ssh. I use it everywhere, between Linux machines, Chromebooks, and even sometimes Windows boxes. Absolutely brilliant and incredibly easy to setup and use compared with various other file system sharing models.
I decided to try building #FreeCAD from source. I used a F39 toolbox on my #Fedora 40 #Silverblue and installed the prereqs; most from packages, but pyside2 from pip (inside the toolbox) since it hasn't been packaged in Fedora for years. The segfault I'm getting from libshiboken isn't illuminating to me. I could imagine a missing dependency on a package causing a segfault, or maybe no one is building FreeCAD on Fedora and it just doesn't work on F39. 🤔
Not clear that I'm close enough to the beaten path for this to be worth a bug report, though. Quite likely PEBCAK...
I have tried #Plasma6 on my #Fedora laptop. Seems all great, but I reverted back to #GNOME. I prefer the simplicity of GNOME. Yes, you can keep Plasma simple as well, but I am too tempted to tinker with all the possibilities there. Looking forward to try out #COSMIC deskop one day, though. But GNOME has been my daily driver (on my personal laptop) for more than ten years and I keep it pretty much in its vanilla config. Most of my work is done in the terminal anyway.
Today we have @Conan_Kudo back on the podcast, the plan was to talk about Change proposals but that happened 2 hours in so have a listen to see how we got so side tracked #Linux#Fedora#openSource#foss
FOSS - ensuring even new hardware stays in use when vendor-support eventually ends!
Whether or not you install GNU/Linux on it today, your new #Mac will eventually lose #Apple support. Thanks to the impressive work of #Asahi#Linux project (@AsahiLinux), it will not need to end up in the landfill once it does.
I'm a novice on Lattice2, so I'd appreciate testing of all the functionality of the workbench both on recent development builds and on stable FreeCAD. I want to make sure that the fix is complete and correct on both stable and development versions before suggesting that it is ready to merge.
If you use git to install workbenches, you can do something like this if you want to test and help:
cd .local/share/FreeCAD/Mod/lattice2<br></br>git remote add johnsonm git@github.com:johnsonm/Lattice2.git<br></br>git fetch johnsonm<br></br>git checkout johnsonm/mkj-attachment-support<br></br>
Feel free to comment on the pull request itself or here, I'll see it either way.
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Apple Introduces Logic Pro 2 With New AI Features
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My boss and I were talking more about how to convince vendors to care about uploading firmware for their devices.
Another suggestion is something like https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/pull/7219 -- to allow us to collect data to say to the vendor '12,345 Linux users are not getting firmware updates for model ABC' which is a bit more convincing than throwing our hands in the air and mumbling about Linux market-share.