Linux

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13942074

The Xfce 4.20 schedule can be found on the Xfce.org Wiki. Expect Xfce 4.20 to offer up more Wayland support improvements, bug fixes, translation updates, and other modernization improvements. The developers have been hoping that Xfce 4.20 will feature usable Wayland support while retaining X11 compatibility.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/23601247

cross-posted from: ani.social/post/6217644

This is a really great article about how to use BTRFS snapshots with examples.

cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1167059

Install instructions for OpenSuse Tumbleweed/ MicroOs using Full Disk Encryption secured by a TPM2 chip and measured boot or a FIDO2 key.

One day, Wayland will truly take over the Linux world, but it’s not quite there yet with plenty still using X11 due to various problems some of which the new Frog Protocols aim to solve.

An already working reimplementation of libfprint in Rust, supposedly easier to use.

It’s the simple things really. I’ve swapped back to Linux as my primary about a year ago, and still I have issues I don’t have with Windows.

So why did I even want to do this? Because the front panel of my PC has a 3 1/2" drive hole and I wanted to populate it.

SPIR-V is the intermediate shader target used by Vulkan as well, so it sounds like this may indirectly make DirectX on Linux smoother.

After 20 years, Real-Time Linux (PREEMPT_RT) is finally – finally – in the mainline kernel. Linus Torvalds blessed the code while he was at Open Source Summit Europe. […] The real-time Linux code is now baked into all Linux distros as of the forthcoming Linux 6.12 kernel. This means Linux will soon start appearing in more mission-critical devices and industrial hardware. But it took its sweet time getting here. An RTOS is a specialized operating system designed to handle time-critical tasks with precision and reliability. Unlike general-purpose operating systems like Windows or macOS, an RTOS is built to respond to events and process data within strict time constraints, often measured in milliseconds or microseconds. As Steven Rostedt, a prominent real-time Linux developer and Google engineer, put it, “Real-time is the fastest worst-case scenario.” He means that the essential characteristic of an RTOS is its deterministic behavior. An RTOS guarantees that critical tasks will be completed within specified deadlines. […]

Here is the needed desktop file

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/20329962

The Linux Mint project has at times forked various open-source projects to evolve them on their own such as the Cinnamon desktop starting out as forks of several GNOME 3 components. While their software forks and focus has mostly been at the desktop-level, they are going a bit further down the stack now to develop forks of several APT components that power package management on Debian/Ubuntu systems.

linked from: programming.dev/post/19267200

Radicle is an open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git. Unlike centralized code hosting platforms, there is no single entity controlling the network. Repositories are replicated across peers in a decentralized manner, and users are in full control of their data and workflow.

Linux maintainers are unwilling to get rust into the kernel, so some rust folks decided to start writing a new kernel with same ABI. This allows them to make new architectural decisions. An example being their “frame kernel” (something between a monolithic kernel and a microkernel).

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/13008257

H1_SD is the name of a MicroSD card I’m connecting, it does connect a second later, but it’s annoying to keep dismissing this error every time. I am also getting it with regular SD cards and USB Drives regardless on which USB Port I’ve connected it to, and which format it’s been partitioned too. NTFS, exfat, fat all respond similarly.

cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/15787798

I run Davinci Resolve on my machines and I’ve had a heck of a time trying to install/run it on Linux Mint 22.

There's been some Friday night kernel drama on the Linux kernel mailing list... Linus Torvalds has expressed regrets for merging the Bcachefs file-system and an ensuing back-and-forth between the file-system maintainer.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/21338325

I dont even know how to summarize that machine 😄

A Lemming suggested this to me, and here is my review:

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1014669