News: Valkey to replace Redis in the Repository
Valkey, a high-performance key/value datastore, will be replacing redis in the [extra] repository. This change is due to Redis modifying its license from BSD-3-Clause to RSALv2 and SSPLv1 on March 20th, 2024.
Arch Linux Package Maintainers intend to support the availability of the redis package for roughly 14 days from the day of this post, to enable a smooth transition to valkey. After the 14 day transition period has ended, the redis package will be moved to the AUR. Also, from this point forward, the redis package will not receive any additional updates and should be considered deprecated until it is removed.
Users are recommended to begin transitioning their use of Redis to Valkey as soon as possible to avoid possible complications after the 14 day transition window closes.
This is one of the few apps I think should be the part of core gnome apps.
As part of the Digital Wellbeing / Parental Controls work funded by Endless, the GNOME Foundation is seeking proposals from qualified contractors or teams to design and implement a comprehensive desktop-wide web/network filtering solution for the GNOME desktop. Project Overview The proposed solutio...
As part of the Digital Wellbeing / Parental Controls work funded by Endless, the GNOME Foundation is seeking proposals from qualified contractors or teams to design and implement a comprehensive desktop-wide web/network filtering solution for the GNOME desktop.
XDG Desktop Portal 1.19.0 released — The desktop integration portal for Linux
ImportantThis was the first release of xdg-desktop-portal made using automation. If you found any issues with it, please let us know. Completely rework and restructure the documentation website. ...
Add a new «GetHostPaths» method to the Document portal, which allows mapping file descriptors to paths on the host system. This can be used by apps to show more meaningful file paths in the user interface.
Looking forward to this. If you’ve been bothered by /run file paths in Flatpak apps before, you should do so as well, because this finally enables apps to show the «real» path instead.
India secures historic gold in Open Section of the Chess Olympiad
India is winner of women Olympiad 2024
Typing this comment from a Note 7 pro, from 2019. Other than lacking os updates, it serves me well for all my usecases.
This is what i call a feature packed release.
For those who don't know, this feature will allow gnome to remember the positions of applications so they're restored when the app is started again.
Reading the STF news feels exciting after a few weeks of them not present. It makes me so happy that GNOME and Libadwaita, along with flatpaks are attracting a lot of developers into contriibuting and experimenting their ideas.
One less decent politician. RIP
Papers gains support for signing digital certificates.
Add option to sign documents using a smartcard/pkcs11 certificate. I would kindly ask for a initial review please. This is a port of my...
What surprised me was that the author of the feature is an employee of Volkswagen who has worked on this on their behalf.
We are excited to announce that GNOME.Asia 2024 will take place in Bengaluru, India, from December 6 to December 8. This year, the summit will offer a hybrid experience, allowing attendees to participate either virtually or in person. The Call for Participation (CFP) and event registration is now ...
Tiling Shell v13 released with GNOME 47 support, new keybindings and many more features.
New: Show a border around focused window. Can be enabled/disabled from the preferences and you can customize the width as well. Closes #132 New: Added keybinding to span multiple tiles. Closes #45 ...
I personally use the proton-vpn-gtk-app from AUR ( the 1.3 section from wiki ). And in cachyOS, i only had to do
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paru -S proton-vpn-gtk-app
I too use torrents if possiblez but sometimes, the movie we seek maynot be available or won't have enough seeders. Sites like this, and others mentioned in fmhy are useful at those times.
Interview with GNOME Mobile Shell developer Jonas Dreßler (verdre) on the postmarketOS podcast
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
With the speed HDR prep works are going on, we probably get usable HDR in linux around 2025
Nautilus file chooser implementation merged
Resolves #3401
When opening / saving files, you’ll now be presented with a window similar to the main window of Files. The new file picker is actually part of Files, so it utilizes a lot of existing code. It’s also adaptive, and a lot more open for changes than the one built into GTK.
Kerala have a big contribution to this since all the school IT labs + government offices here use ubuntu or its slightly modified versions. Wish if every state did so.
This was the distro that introduced me to linux, followed by raspbian. Brings so much memories.
Tbh, this is just one of the many things that will lead to stable HDR support. But its nice to see these get solved one step at a time.
This branch implements support for transforming SDR (sRGB) to a HDR enabled output, while allowing HDR content to stay intact.
Roughly what it does is, when HDR mode is enabled via the experimental property, all the stage views that represents outputs where HDR actually managed to be enabled starts to composite in a linear variant of the target color space (which will be BT.2020) via an intermediate framebuffer. Each thing being painted should then transform its pixels to fit in this color space, using an EOTF, a color space mapping matrix and luminance adaptation.
Glad they also started to include images which makes easy to really understand the changes, especially the UI related ones.
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This picture somehow reminds me of Mad Max movies.
I think GNOME 47 would be a big one, and my favourite.
nvidia driver version 555.58-1 is now available on the extra-testing packages
Nvidia users will finally be able to use the superior display server
Good news for those who want to run their system Wayland only.
Finally solved the battery drain issue in Firefox Android!!
This is part of the Android release for Firefox 127.0.2.
Please leave a comment on Bug : Android idle battery drain due to Firefox if you still experience this issue after updating Firefox and restarting your phone:
Gnome 47 will be a massive upgrade for sure. And everything I have read are only improvements and not regressions.Many of generally unnoticed ones like in the area of accessibility, thanks to STF.
Firefox 127.0.2 Release Notes
- Fixed an issue where YouTube playback may experience stalling under certain conditions.
- Fixed an issue where the Private Window icon was displayed in the taskbar on Windows when browser.privateWindowSeparation.enabled was set to false.
Nightly can be configured by advanced testers to use custom prompts and any compatible chatbot, such as llamafile, which runs on-device open models, including open-source ones. We are excited for the community to share interesting prompts, chatbots, and models as we make this a better user experience. We are also looking at how we can provide an easy-to-set-up option for a private, fully local chatbot as an alternative to using third-party providers.
I think they could've waited until they properly tried implementing a local llm. Anyway glad to know that we have options and gonna try this.
It is a matrix client. It is maintained by element team itself and still in beta. You can read more and view the source code in the Github repo
I used to be on pure Arch for 2.5 years, but currently uses cachyOS. And its so much removes the pain points of arch, as well as giving super fast performance.