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Kernel/Linux Leftovers

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 09, 2024

GamingOnLinux ☛ Discord Overlay for Linux adds PulseAudio / PipeWire integration

Discover Overlay, an open source Discord Overlay for Linux has a new release available with v0.7.3 adding in some useful new features.

Collabora ☛ New unixfd plugin in GStreamer 1.24

GStreamer 1.24 was recently released, and with it came with a new plugin to help separate pipelines into different processes.

[Old] LWN ☛ The kdbuswreck

Some observers have portrayed the opposition to kdbus as a front in the systemd wars, the intent being to obstruct its merging and set back the perceived systemd agenda. There have been a few messages mentioning systemd and expressing a lack of trust in its developers, but that has been the smallest part of the conversation; it can be safely disregarded. That is not where the serious objections come from.