Learning to love a Linux system that's more of a workhorse than an adventure.

Historic 4-bit microprocessor from 1971 can execute Linux commands over days or weeks.

Linus Torvalds says that despite longstanding reports of burnout in the open source realm, Linux is as strong as ever.

The current maintainer hopes to maintain support until 2029.

This is like vi vs Emacs with 'religious overtones,’ project chief laughs

Now you can run your space laser or audio production without specialty patches.

René Rebe, a 25-year veteran of Free and Open-Source Software development, was swatted and taken in for questioning.

How long can the C languages maintain their primacy in the kernel?

Linux Desktop Market Share Climbs to 4.45%

The Linux kernel itself can already boot quite fast but with a simple one-line patch another ~0.035 seconds will be able to be shaved off the boot time.

Task is a task runner / build tool that aims to be simpler and easier to use than, for example, GNU Make.

Since it's written in Go, Task is just a single binary and has no other dependencies, which means you don't need to mess with any complicated install setups just to use a build tool.

Once installed, you just need to describe your build tasks using a simple YAML schema in a file called Taskfile.yml

Fedora has an ableism problem but woe to you if you point it out.

The Linux kernel community has sadly lost one of its longtime, prolific contributors to the wireless (WiFi) drivers.

KDE 6.1 is released today, now we begin the patient wait for the distros to update their mirrors with the latest version.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/6776846

Current features:

• Viewing information about the GPU
• Power/thermals monitoring
• Fan curve control
• Overclocking (GPU/VRAM clockspeed, voltage)
• Power states configuration

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/6776380

Kando will be a pie menu for the desktop. It will be highly customizable and will allow you to create your own menus and actions. For instance, you can use it to control your music player, to open your favorite websites or to simulate shortcuts.

It will be available for Windows, Linux and maybe macOS.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.myserv.one/post/4373297

From The New Stack

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/415302

We met project lead David "Fossfreedom" Mohammed and packaging guru Sam Lane from the Ubuntu Budgie team in Rīga, and they passed on news of a rift – and indeed possible divorce – between Budgie and Enlightenment… and it's caused by Wayland.

While Enlightenment does have some Wayland support, in the project's own words this is "still considered experimental and not for regular end users."

Thus, the Budgie team has been evaluating options to move forward. XFCE are doing some really great work in this area with libxfce4windowing – a compatibility layer bridging Wayland and X11, allowing the move in a logical direction without needing a big-bang approach. To date, most of the current codebase has already been reworked and is ready for a Wayland-only approach without impacting further development and enhancements.

cross-posted from: https://outpost.zeuslink.net/post/7251

Plasma 6 looks to be shaping up quite nicely already! Some really nice quality of life style updates, and I'm quite shocked (though the reasoning makes sense) to see them moving to double-click actions by default instead of single-click.