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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 29, 2024

Links 29/01/2024: Antitrust Matters and More on GAFAM Layoffs
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New renderers for GTK

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Recently, GTK gained not one, but two new renderers: one for GL and one for Vulkan

AMD Open Sources Drivers for XDNA-Based NPUs

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AMD Open Sources Drivers for XDNA-Based NPUs, Boosting ML and Signal Processing Performance

Annotating the Debian packaging directory

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In my previous blog post Providing online reference documentation for debputy

Niri: A Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor

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The first stable Niri v0.1.0 release offers scrollable tiling

5 Compelling Reasons Why You Should Learn Linux

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Linux is a powerful operating system that fuels most of our digital world

9 Best Free and Open Source Graphical YouTube Tools Bypassing the Web-Only Barrier

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All of the tools are free and open source software

GNOME battery charge control

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As someone who has to use a laptop for work, I keep my laptop plugged in 8 hours or more a day

Budgie 10.9 Desktop Adds Initial Wayland Support, Redesigned Bluetooth Applet

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The Budgie desktop team announced today the release and general availability of Budgie 10.9 as the latest version of this modern desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions.

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

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Some FOSS links

Security and Windows TCO Leftovers

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a few bits of security news

today's leftovers

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BSD, IBM, and more

Arch Linux-Based SystemRescue 11 Released with Linux Kernel 6.6 LTS

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Arch Linux-based SystemRescue 11 live Linux toolkit for system rescue and recovery tasks has been released today with a newer kernel, new packages, and various enhancements.

today's howtos

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first long batch for today

The Land Before Linux: The Unix desktops

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Way back in 1993, I oversaw a PC Magazine feature review on Unix desktops. Yes, that's right, before I was a Linux desktop user, I was a Unix user.

Perl Leftovers

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Some perl picks

Parch Linux: A Simple Arch-Based Distribution for All

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We review Parch Linux, based on Arch Linux and relatively new in the distribution space.

Today in Techrights

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Some of the latest articles

Events: FSD Meeting Recap and Canonical at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2024

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a couple of "events"

Security and Windows TCO Leftovers

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incidents and bugs

Microsoft Layoffs and Prolonged Downtimes

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more mass layoffs

Programming Leftovers

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R, Rust, Python, and more

Open Hardware: Arducam, Raspberry Pi, and ESP32

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3 devices that are hackable

Bootable USB and CD Rescue Systems (Mostly GNU/Linux Based)

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2 new links

Applications and Free Software

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various FOSS links

KDE, Plasma 6, and Qt (Now Proprietary)

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Some Qt-centric news

Microsoft Trying to Capture Developers by Paying Projects to Spread .NET and C#

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3 links, mostly Godot

Openwashing by OSI and Linux Foundation (Promotion of Proprietary as "Open")

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Typical capture by Microsoft et al

Fedora Family / Red Hat / IBM Leftovers

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Lots of Red Hat stuffThe corresponding text-only bulletin for Sunday contains all the text.

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