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  • Linux Action News 289

    What we like about Fedora 38, why the Rust foundation is in hot water, and more.

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    • Announcing Fedora Linux 38
    — The Fedora Linux 38 release is here! With this release, we’re starting a new on-time streak. In fact, we’re ready a week early!
  • What’s new in Fedora Workstation 38
  • Rust Foundation apologizes for trademark policy confusion
    • — The Rust Foundation on Monday apologized for confusion caused by the organization's proposed trademark policy changes.
  • A note on the Trademark Policy Draft
  • Rust Foundation - Rust Trademark Policy Draft Revision
  • Canonical Livepatch gets even better
    • — Now supporting Hardware Enablement Kernels.
  • Proton 8.0-1 Published With More Game Support
    • — Proton 8.0-1 is the much awaited re-base of Proton against the Wine 8.0 state
  • Pierre-Loup Griffais on Twitter
    • — “Proton 8.0 is now available with many changes. Our biggest rebase to date! Note: it requires a GPU with Vulkan 1.3 support. Experimental-8.0 will follow sometime this week.
  • LFNW Call for Papers
    • — We invite you to submit your proposal to speak at LFNW2023! We're seeking both experienced technical presenters, as well as first-timers to present to a hybrid audience.
  • LinuxFest Northwest 2023
  • In letter to EU, open source bodies say Cyber Resilience Act could have ‘chilling effect’ on software development
    • — Penalties for non-compliance may include fines of up to €15 million, or 2.5% of global turnover.
  • Cyber Resilience Act
    • 16 min
  • Linux Action News 288

    A classic gadget gets a Linux-powered new lease on life, the next project getting Rusty, great news for Btrfs users, and more.

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    • Linux Tech Sustainability
    — The mainline Linux 6.4 kernel is set to see a new touchscreen driver for supporting the Novatek NVT-ts.
  • Acer Iconia One 7 B1-730
  • Unlocking the bootloader and disabling dm-verity on Android-X86 devices
  • Here Comes WebGPU
    • — After years of development, the Chrome team ships WebGPU.
  • Chrome 113 To Ship WebGPU By Default
  • Muse on Twitter
    • — Breaking news🚨 Chrome's Web GPU has launched after 6 years of development! 🚀
  • A Taste of WebGPU in Firefox
  • Plasma 6 Early Builds
    • — I’ve now got a working Plasma 6 dev session on my machine. It’s still rough, but it’s usable.
  • Early KDE Plasma 6 Development State
  • Rust Support Is Being Worked On For V4L2
    • — Daniel Almeida of Collabora sent out initial Rust V4L2 support patches on Thursday. This provides just enough for working with a prototype VirtIO camera driver written in Rust along with a Rust sample driver.
  • Linux 6.4 Bringing Apple M2 Additions
    • — Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin today sent in the Apple SoC DT updates targeting the Linux 6.4 cycle for queuing into the SoC tree ahead of the merge window opening around the end of the month.
  • Btrfs Improvments
    • — This week a number of patches from SUSE engineer Qu Wenruo were queued into kdave's linux.git for-next branch of the Btrfs file-system driver development code.
    15 min
  • Linux Action News 287

    A fresh take on open-source funding, Fedora’s plan for better encryption out of the box, and our impressions of the latest Ubuntu Beta.

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    • New FOSS Fund to Support Free and Open Source Projects
    — To help maintain and sustain this ecosystem, companies and nonprofits alike have experimented with a framework called a FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Contributor Fund.
  • Bloomberg Launches Open-Source Funding Initiative
  • Encrypted Fedora
    • — Owen Taylor of Red Hat laid out a mailing list post and Discourse thread today around the future of encryption with Fedora.
  • Google’s VM Turbo Charger
    • — With this series, a workload running in a VM gets the same task placement and DVFS treatment as it would when running in the host.
  • Linux Plumbers Conference 2022 CPUfreq/sched and VM guest workload problems
  • Google Posts KVM-CPUFreq Driver To Dramatically Boost VM Performance, Power Efficiency
  • KDE Discuss
    • — KDE Discuss is a place for questions, requests, suggestions, banter, and in general interacting closely with the people actively involved in KDE, as well as with fellow users.
  • KDE Discuss is a new discussion service from KDE for everybody who makes and uses KDE software
  • New MSI Laptop Driver
    • — Functions handled by the embedded controller on recent MSI laptops.
  • new msi-ec driver patch
  • Ubuntu 23.04 Beta Hands On
  • Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup
    • — Two meetups in the month of April, join us!
    15 min
  • Linux Action News 286

    What we're liking about GNOME 44, how Microsoft's Linux distro is trying to attract more users, and we bust a CentOS myth.

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    • GNOME 44 Released
    — GNOME 44 is code-named “Kuala Lumpur”, in recognition of the work done by the organizers of GNOME.Asia 2022.
  • GNOME 44 Released With Many Desktop Enhancements
  • GNOME 44 Getting New Background Apps UI
  • Ubuntu Touch OTA-1 Focal Release
    • — This is the first OTA for Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal) with major features, this is an Opt-In and not mandatory update.
  • First Ubuntu Touch OTA Release Based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Is Out Now
  • Ubuntu Cinnamon Flavor Status Announcement
    • — Ubuntu Cinnamon started as a small idea in my head, in 2019. I was ELEVEN.
  • ItzSwirlz (Joshua Peisach)
  • Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix Becomes Official Ubuntu Flavor
  • Microsoft’s CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution Continues Cultivating More Packages
    • — With today's CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230321 they have continued cultivating more packages for the distribution.
  • CBL-Mariner GitHub
  • We’re no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan
    • — After listening to feedback and consulting our community, it’s clear that we made the wrong decision in sunsetting our Free Team plan.
  • Google discloses CentOS Linux kernel vulnerabilities following failure to issue timely fixes
    • — Google Project Zero's security researcher Jann Horn learned that kernel fixes made to stable trees are not backported to many enterprise versions of Linux.
  • Google Security Researchers Accuse CentOS of Failing to Backport Kernel Fixes
  • Project Zero Mailing List Thread on CentOS Kernel Patches
  • CVE-2023-0590
  • kernel-5.14.0-277.el9
  • CVE-2023-1249
  • CVE-2023-1252
  • Berlin Meet Up #2 - Nextcloud Hackfest & Dev Community Introduction, Fri, Mar 31, 2023
    • — NOTE: the time detailed on Meetup.com is strictly set to PST, so don't be confused by the interface!
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  • Linux Action News 285

    Nextcloud moves to the front of the pack with their new release, a moment to appreciate curl, and Amazon goes all in with Fedora.

    Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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    • curl 8.0.0 is Here
    — This a major version number bump but without any ground-breaking changes or fireworks. We decided it was about time to reset the minor number down to more a manageable level and doing it exactly on curl’s 25th birthday made it extra fun. There is no API nor ABI break in this version.
  • Twenty-five Tears of curl
    • — Taking curl this far and being able to work full time on my hobby project is a dream come real. curl is a huge part of my life.
  • curl 8.0.0 with Daniel Stenberg [YouTube]
  • curl 8.0.1: because I jinxed it
  • Amazon Linux 2023
    • — When looking for a base to serve as a starting point for Amazon Linux 2023, Fedora was the best choice. We found that Fedora’s core tenets (Freedom, Friends, Features, First) resonate well with our vision for Amazon Linux.
  • Paving the Road to Vulkan on Asahi Linux
    • — Today we’re releasing a big update to our GPU drivers for Asahi Linux, so I wanted to talk to you about what we’ve been working on since then, and what’s next!
  • Asahi Linux Continues Making Progress On Apple Silicon Graphics, Promising OpenGL Speed
  • Canonical joins the confidential computing consortium
    • — Confidential computing is here to give you back control over the security guarantees of your workloads. As the consortium explains, confidential computing aims to “protect data in use by performing computation in a hardware-based Trusted Execution Environment.
  • Introduction to Confidential Computing [YouTube]
  • Hub 4 pioneers ethical AI integration for a more productive and collaborative future
    • — Today, we are excited to announce a major step forward with Hub 4 – the very first on-premises collaboration platform to integrate intelligent features across its applications.
  • Develop for Nextcloud
    • — Write new applications, extend Nextcloud or integrate other software.
  • Nextcloud Ethical AI Rating
  • Berlin Meet Up
    • — Friday, March 24, 2023
    20 min
  • Linux Action News 284

    Docker's open-source crackdown, the Wayland regression solved this week, and why ipmitool's repo has been locked.

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    • Kali 2023.1
    — Today we are releasing Kali 2023.1 (and on our 10th anniversary)!
  • Get Kali | Kali Linux Download
  • Kali Linux Introduces “Kali Purple” for Defensive Security Hardening
  • Qubes OS 4.1.2
    • — We’re pleased to announce the stable release of Qubes 4.1.2!
  • Wayland Crash Survivor
    • — A change merged to Qt this week can allow for Wayland clients to survive compositor restarts, such as when the compositor crashes.
  • OpenMoon Ray Code Goes Live
    • — MoonRay is DreamWorks’ open-source, award-winning, state-of-the-art production MCRT renderer.
  • OpenMoonRay.org
  • ipmitool Repository Archived
    • — Those navigating to ipmitool/ipmitool on GitHub as the official repository for this project will find that it's now in a "public archive" state.
  • Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know
  • Justin Cormack on Twitter
    • — when we remove accounts we do not free up the namespace so squatting is not possible.
  • Some nuance for paid users
  • GHCR was having some issues this morning it seems
  • Red Hat’s Quay is maybe another option, they might offer free plans? public repos are free anyway
  • José Valimon Twitter
  • Deploy a registry server
    • — This page contains information about hosting your own registry using the open source Docker Registry.
    17 min
  • Linux Action News 283

    Nextcloud's big new customer, some last-minute surprises in GNOME 44, and Flathub's ambitious plans for 2023.

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    • Nextcloud’s Big new Customer
    — After a silent migration of millions of users, Telekom and Nextcloud are now unveiling the first feature of the new MagentaCloud: a free office.
  • Last Minute GNOME Awesome
    • — GNOME Shell and Mutter 44 have reached their release candidate milestone ahead of the official release in just two weeks, all is going to plan, and to our surprise, there have been several last-minute additions.
  • GNOME 44 Mutter Adds fractional_scale_v1 Wayland Support
  • GNOME Shell & Mutter Complete Their Migration Away From GTK3
  • wp-fractional-scale-v1: New protocol for fractional scaling
    • — This protocols allows for communicating preferred fractional scales to surfaces, which in combination with wp_viewport can be used to render surfaces at fractional scales when applicable.
  • Asahi Linux Rust Drivers
    • — This is my first take on the Rust abstractions for the DRM subsystem.
  • Flathub in 2023
    • — It’s been quite a few months since the most recent updates about Flathub last year. We’ve been busy behind the scenes, so I’d like to share what we’ve been up to at Flathub and why—and what’s coming up from us this year
  • Flathub in 2023 - Flathub Discourse
    • 14 min
  • Linux Action News 282

    FFmpeg gets new superpowers, Plasma’s switch to Qt6 gets official; what you need to know. Plus we round up the top features coming to Linux 6.3.

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    • Steam Deck one Year Later
    — The Steam Deck has been about a year on the market now (it started shipping at the end of February 2022). This first anniversary is a good chance to review what has happened since then.
  • FFmpeg 6.0 Released
    • — 6.0 was released on 2023-02-27. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release from the 6.0 release branch, which was cut from master on 2023-02-19.
  • FFmpeg 6.0 Released With NVIDIA NVENC AV1, VA-API Improvements
  • FOSDEM 2023 - Dual presentation: FFmpeg 6 and VLC.js
  • Plasma Switches to Qt6
    • — The master branch for Plasma repos will be made Qt6-only tomorrow.
  • Hardware Noise “hwnoise” Tool for Linux 6.3
    • — hwnoise collects the periodic summary from the osnoise tracer running with interrupts disabled. By disabling interrupts, and the scheduling
    of threads as a consequence, only non-maskable interrupts and hardware-related noise is allowed.
  • More Rust Code Readied For Linux 6.3
    • — In the pull request Miguel Ojeda commented, "more core additions, getting closer to a point where the first Rust modules can be upstreamed."
  • EXT4 Getting Direct I/O Performance Improvements With 6.3
    • — Improved performance for ext4
  • Btrfs Enjoys More Performance With Linux 6.3 - Including Some 3~10x Speedups
    • — Some of the performance work is quite juicy, as outlined in today's pull request.
  • Btrfs updates for 6.3 - David Sterba
  • Linux 6.3 Scheduler Updates Bring Fixes & Minor Optimizations
  • RISC-V With Linux 6.3 Lands Optimized String Functions Via Zbb Extension
    • — RISC-V with Linux 6.3 has improved its extension detection and alternative patching infrastructure for dealing with non spec compliant extensions.
    20 min
  • Linux Action News 281

    Our favorite features in Linux 6.2, the Hollywood tool getting open-sourced, and a systemd update you need to know about.

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    • DreamWorks’ Renderer Used for ‘Puss in Boots’ is Going Open-Source
    — DreamWork animation company is making its in-house renderer open-source very soon
  • OpenMoonRay.org
    • — MoonRay is DreamWorks’ open-source, award-winning, state-of-the-art production MCRT renderer, which has been used on feature films such as How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Trolls World Tour, The Bad Guys, and Puss In Boots: The Last Wish.
  • MoonRay Documentation Home
  • Systemd 253
    • — Systemd 253 has been released. As always, the list of changes is extensive. Support for version-1 control groups and separate /usr systems is going away later this year. There is a new tool for working with unified kernel images, a number of new unit-file options have been added, and much more.
  • systemd 253: The future of enterprise Linux boot processes.
  • Debian Installer Testing Call
    • — Starting with this release, official images include firmware packages from main and non-free-firmware, along with metadata to configure the installed system accordingly.
  • Linux 6.2
    • — Please do give 6.2 a testing. Maybe it's not a sexy LTS release like 6.1 ended up being, but all those regular pedestrian kernels want some test love too.
  • Linux_6.2 - Linux Kernel Newbies
    • — This release includes faster mitigration of the Retbleed vulnerability and a new FineIBT mitigation feature; Btrfs RAID5/6 and performance improvements, sysfs knobs that allow controlling block device writeback, support for TCP Protective Load Balancing, improved Rust support, BPF features like User defined objects, the runtime verification tool, and some optional RCU power savings.
  • The Best Linux 6.2 Features From Intel Arc Graphics To Better Performance For Older PCs
  • LUP 500 Micro Brewery Meetup
    • — Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 4:00 PM at 192 Brewing Company in Mount Vernon, WA
    15 min
  • Linux Action News 280

    Some Git flaws you need to know about, we reflect on 10 years of Steam on Linux, and then dive into the much anticipated Plasma 5.27.

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    • The Coder Robe
    — Celebrate Coder 500! The Robe, the Tumbler, and the Sticker are available for a limited time.
  • Git Vulnerabilities
    • — Today, the Git project released new versions to address a pair of security vulnerabilities, (CVE-2023-22490 and CVE-2023-23946) that affect versions 2.39.1 and older.
  • 10 Years of Steam
    • — Feb 14, 2013–Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the release of its Steam for Linux client. In celebration of the release, over 50 Linux titles are now 50-75% off until Thursday, February 21st at 10 AM PST.
  • Sabayon 9 Review | LAS | s22e08 - YouTube
  • Opening the Valve | LAS | s22e09 - YouTube
  • Ubuntu Gets Real
    • — Canonical today announced the general availability of real-time Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
  • Canonical Promotes Ubuntu’s Real-Time “RT” Kernel To General Availability
  • Here Comes GTK5
    • — Discussions around the GTK5 tool-kit also happened with some developers eager to begin work on that next major release in order to begin facilitating API breaks and removing deprecated code.
  • Plasma 5.27
    • — Plasma 5.27 is out and brings massive improvements to the desktop and all its tools. Another work of love from the KDE devs and contributors.
  • KDE Plasma 5.27 Released
    • — Better Wayland Support, KWin Tiling, Multi-Monitor Overhaul
  • Final Version of KDE Plasma 5 Released – This is What’s New
    • — Notably, this is expected to be the final release in the KDE Plasma 5.x series, with the following stable release set to be KDE Plasma 6.0, due for release towards the end of the year.
    19 min

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