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The App Gap and supply chains: Purism CEO on what's ahead for the Librem 5 USA - The Register

Google News - Sat, 07/02/2022 - 18:07

The App Gap and supply chains: Purism CEO on what's ahead for the Librem 5 USA The Register

Firewalld 1.2 Released With New Services Added

Phoronix - Sat, 07/02/2022 - 18:00

Firewalld 1.2 was released on Friday as the newest feature release for this Linux firewall daemon. Bug fix releases for existing stable series were released with Firewalld 1.1.2, 1.0.5, and 0.9.9...

KDE Kicks Off July With UI Polishing, Bug Fixing

Phoronix - Sat, 07/02/2022 - 17:16

The summer months aren't slowing down KDE developers as it's been another busy week of bug fixes and feature work for KDE developers to kick off July...

Vulkan 1.3.219 Released With Two New Extensions

Phoronix - Sat, 07/02/2022 - 17:00

Vulkan 1.3.219 released this week and in addition to a number of documentation clarifications/corrections there are two new extensions...

13 Interesting Distributions Based on Debian Linux - It's FOSS

Google News - Sat, 07/02/2022 - 16:15

13 Interesting Distributions Based on Debian Linux It's FOSS

Linux Mint 21 Is Going To Avoid systemd-oomd - Phoronix

Google News - Sat, 07/02/2022 - 15:00

Linux Mint 21 Is Going To Avoid systemd-oomd Phoronix

ROMA Linux laptop to feature quad-core RISC-V SoC, support Web3, NFT, cryptocurrencies, etc… - CNX Software

Google News - Sat, 07/02/2022 - 12:00

ROMA Linux laptop to feature quad-core RISC-V SoC, support Web3, NFT, cryptocurrencies, etc… CNX Software

Steam On Linux Marketshare Ticks Up To 1.18% For June

Phoronix - Sat, 07/02/2022 - 08:44

With the new month comes the latest figures from Valve regarding the Steam on Linux marketshare and other metrics for the past month as a result of the Steam Survey...

Steam On Linux Marketshare Ticks Up To 1.18% For June - Phoronix

Google News - Sat, 07/02/2022 - 08:44

Steam On Linux Marketshare Ticks Up To 1.18% For June Phoronix

Debian GNU/Linux 9 “Stretch” LTS Support Reached End of Life, Upgrade Now - 9to5Linux

Google News - Sat, 07/02/2022 - 05:09

Debian GNU/Linux 9 “Stretch” LTS Support Reached End of Life, Upgrade Now 9to5Linux

How to Create a Bootable USB on Chromebook - MUO - MakeUseOf

Google News - Sat, 07/02/2022 - 05:00

How to Create a Bootable USB on Chromebook MUO - MakeUseOf

The Linux fold command breaks up text, drives loops - Network World

Google News - Sat, 07/02/2022 - 03:47

The Linux fold command breaks up text, drives loops Network World

Wine 7.12 Released With Theming For Qt5 Apps, VKD3D v1.4

Phoronix - Sat, 07/02/2022 - 03:22

Wine 7.12 is out as the newest development release of this program for running Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms...

Fedora 37 Looks To Better Manage Its 175MB+ Of Linux Firmware Blobs

Phoronix - Sat, 07/02/2022 - 02:38

The size of the linux-firmware.git tree continues to grow with Linux continuing to support more and more modern hardware that is increasingly reliant upon firmware blobs for operation. Most Linux distributions like Fedora end up installing this entire set of Linux firmware files that can easily be 200~300MB even though most systems only use a few select files. With Fedora 37 later this year they are hoping to better deal with the situation by splitting up of linux-firmware and only installing sets of firmware packages depending upon the actual hardware in use...

Here's what makes Spiral Linux so good for new users - ZDNet

Google News - Sat, 07/02/2022 - 02:12

Here's what makes Spiral Linux so good for new users ZDNet

The First RISC-V Laptop Announced With Quad-Core CPU, 16GB RAM, Linux Support

Phoronix - Sat, 07/02/2022 - 01:55

RISC-V International has relayed word to us that in China the DeepComputing and Xcalibyte organizations have announced pre-orders on the first RISC-V laptop intended for developers. The "ROMA" development platform features a quad-core RISC-V processor, up to 16GB of RAM, up to 256GB of storage, and should work with most RISC-V Linux distributions...

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