"'"And if you did not know already, that Core app is #Evince, now renamed to #Papers and submitted to Incubation this week. But if you’re still interested after the spoiler, let’s start from the beginning."'"
This applies to people from some parts of northern Germany as well -- including the one I came from (which is just a few kilometres away from the border to the Netherlands anyway).
For users of stable #Fedora#Linux releases out there that might encounter a regression with #LinuxKernel 6.8-* (now or once it becomes stable):
My #kernel vanilla mainline #copr now keeps all daily snapshots around that were build during the merge window. That way you won't have to bisect over the whole range of the merge window to find the culprit , as you can narrow down the bisection range easily with these really available packages.
Side note: yes, you can do the same with the rawhide builds found in koji as well. But those are not vanilla, which sometimes makes a difference (but in the Fedora case often does not).
2/ …kernel vanilla repos for Fedora finally started shipping the kernel-tools stuff recently (e.g. bpftool, perf, ...).
Furthermore, new mainline releases from now on are shipped in the stable repo again: it seems that's what people want/expect. It was like that until two or three years ago, but then I stopped doing that because the Linux stable team sometimes was slow to pick up maintenance for new mainline releases; but that situation improved a lot, so I'm rolling back.
"'"[…] Canonical re-licensed LXD […] Because LinuxContainers community can't lean on to LXD, they've decided not to build and publish LXD images anymore. Non-LTS LXD will gradually start losing access to these images immediately in 2024, while LTS LXD is allowed until ~April-May of 2024 to have a fair chance migrating into #Incus LTS, which is expected to be out in April 2024. […]"'"
The @opensuse project announced that there will be a new vote on the logo:
"[…] there is a plan to organize a vote between the current logo and the proposed new design, allowing our community to have a say in this important decision. Furthermore, members of the project are collaborating with SUSE on the implications of the branding initiatives and some have expressed the desire for SUSE’s input to ensure there is an aligned vision for the future of openSUSE. […]"
"'"There's a decent number of laptops with #fingerprint readers that are supported by #Linux, and #Gnome has some nice integration to make use of that for authentication purposes. But if you log in with a fingerprint, the moment you start any app that wants to access stored passwords you'll get a prompt asking you to type in your password, which feels like it somewhat defeats the point. Mac users don't have this problem […] Why the difference?"'"
There is just a problem: it doesn't really work well currently.
If you for example try to enable the mainline copr it will fail; if you do that on Fedora workstation, you will get the latest package from the mainline-wo-merge copr, as intended. With stable-rc it works, but you get an outdated kernel.
Things many #Linux guides on the net forget to mention:
In which way the given instructions impact how the system behaves differently from then on – both in general and especially wrt to security fixes.
Hence a quick heads-up:
If you followed the guide linked below to install #LinuxKernel 6.6 on #Fedora, you might want to disable the #kernel vanilla repos' "mainline-wo-mergew" copr and activate the "stable" copr[1].
2/ …from tomorrow on 6.7-rc1 or later mainline snapshots will be installed when updating the system.
Side note: yes, the guide describes how to deactivate the copr, but does not tell readers to do so. And it also does not tell its readers that they should enable the "stable" copr afterwards, as they otherwise won't get any kernel (security) updates until Fedora switches to 6.6.y in ~2 weeks.
@knurd42 apps writing random directories in the home directory is unfortunately commonplace (hello VirtualBox). Instead of fighting it, why dont you just hide it with .hidden (for nautilus) and the gnu ls --hide option?