Big Show 5

Fast forward to the 39:00 mark to actually hear something... sorry about the audio issues in the beginning...

FOSS News Bullets

· Distro News
o Update your Ubuntu 22.10 ASAP, its support is ending on July 20.
§ https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-22-10-kinetic-kudu-to-reach-end-of-life-on-july-20th-2023
o Debian Bookworm out
§ Not sexy, but super stable, here are a few highlights
· Latest LTS kernel by default
· Non-free-firmware repo
· APFS Read/Write support
o HUGE for anyone wanting to switch from or deal with Macs.
· NTFS to BTRFS converter
· Over 11000 new packages
· Most major desktop environments are available
§ More info here:
· https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/12.0.0/
· https://9to5linux.com/debian-12-bookworm-officially-released-heres-whats-new
o Freedom Consultation
§ Free Call
§ Actionable steps to set you free
· https://techfreedom.pro/freedom-consultation
o Ultramarine Linux
§ Fedora-based distro with a twist to make it a bit more user-friendly
§ System76 system scheduler
§ Flagship DE is Budgie
· Also available in GNOME, KDE, and Pantheon
· GNOME is the only one with a full implementation of the System76 scheduler (manages which processes get to use the CPU and when)
· It is present in all 4 options though.
§ More info here: https://9to5linux.com/ultramarine-linux-38-launches-with-system76s-scheduler-based-on-fedora-38
§ Download here: https://ultramarine-linux.org/download/
o openSUSE Leap 15.5
§ Franken-distro
· New & old pkgs
§ Highlights
· KDE 5.27, added default repositories for OpenH264 video codecs, VIM 9.0, Fully functional Python 3.11 stack, in parallel to the system Python (python36), Improvements to the Kate text editor, Fixes for crashes on Kdenlive, Qt 5.15 LTS netavark 1.5.0, Flatpak 1.14.4, fwupd 1.8.6, Ugrep 3.11.0, Network Manager 1.38.6, Mozilla Firefox 102.9.0, and Thunderbird 102.8.0.
§ Release Notes: https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_15.5?ref=news.itsfoss.com
§ Download here: https://get.opensuse.org/leap/15.5/?ref=news.itsfoss.com
§ Reference: https://news.itsfoss.com/opensuse-15-5-leap/
· FOSS News
o Latest in Linux Mobile
§ Mobian
· Now stable on Bookworm
· Sounds promising
· https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2023/06/10/bookworm/
§ PostmarketOS
· Alpine Linux based
· More rolling than Mobian
· Lighter
· No systemd
· All major, functional mobile DE’s
· https://postmarketos.org/
§ Capyloon
· FirefoxOS, built on top of Mobian
· New features
o Web Tiles
§ Immutable: a Tile is a bundle of resources identified using content addressing. Our current implementation uses a tile:// protocol which is similar to the ipfs:// one.
§ Safe by default: a tile can't fetch foreign content. This is enforced by a default CSP applied to all tile:// url loads.
§ Powerful: because they can't leak data to external parties, tiles can be granted access to what are usually considered "dangerous" APIs.
§ Installable and usable offline: being content addressed and local-only, tiles are naturally suited for offline use.
§ Composable: being installed, tiles can register Web Activities like other installed Capyloon apps. This make them ideal candidates to bridge the Http web with new capabilities.
o Peer Discovery
§ Easier to find other devices on your network now
· https://capyloon.org/releases.html#jun-09-2023
§ Manjaro Mobile
· Still in beta
· Plasma Mobile: https://github.com/manjaro-pinephone/plasma-mobile/releases
· Phosh: https://github.com/manjaro-pinephone/phosh/releases
o OnlyOffice 7.4
§ I use it
· Compare to Libre Office
§ Highlights
· Drawing Support
· Save Docs/Sheets as Images
· Plugins Upgrade
· Spreadsheet Improvements
· Radar Charts
· Combine Documents
· Save Objects as Pictures
§ Good stuff
· But... Let us tweak the default settings, please
§ https://news.itsfoss.com/onlyoffice-7-4-release/
o Linus Torvalds Not Conservative
§ Derides the memeing of “woke” and “communist”
§ Tells ostensibly conservative guy to pound sand
§ Mostly libertarian about social issues, other than guns
· Lol
§ I still love linux, even if its creator is a moral and political idiot
§ https://news.itsfoss.com/linus-torvalds-woke-communists/
· FOSS Fun
o Steam Client Updates
§ Good stuff
· Refreshed UI Design
· Enable client hardware acceleration
· Caveats: not on NVIDIA GPUs, as it can cause x11 to crash
· New Compatibility tab to make switching versions of Proton and WINE easier
· Improved flatpak app support
· Better KDE support
o Uses global scaling factor to determine what the scaling should be for Steam
· New game overview panel in the in-game overlay
· And more
§ https://9to5linux.com/steam-client-now-lets-you-enable-hardware-acceleration-on-linux
o NVIDIA Drivers with Better Wayland Support
§ Fixed a bug that caused modesets to fail in some Wayland configurations.
§ Fixed a bug that caused head-mounted displays (HMDs) to display black after a modeset.
§ Fixed a bug that prevented SLI Mosaic controls from being displayed in the nvidia-settings control panel when using GSP Firmware.
§ Fixed a bug that could cause image corruption when unbinding Vulkan sparse textures.
§ Fixed a bug that caused head-mounted displays (HMDs) to display black after a modeset.
§ https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-535-54-03-linux-graphics-driver-released-with-better-wayland-support
§ If you want more of a bulleted list, look here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/nvidia-driver-535-54-03-stable-linux/
o Want to get away from Windows?
§ https://techfreedom.pro/freed-computer/
o Need to Speed Up Your PC?
§ https://techfreedom.pro/free-your-pc
o AMD Progressing Toward Open-sourced Firmware
§ Starting process
§ Migrating from AGESA to openSIL
§ First GitHub release for Proof-of-Concept
§ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/amd-reveals-initial-open-source-opensil-code-to-replace-agesa-firmware/

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