arstechnica.com German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating
Schleswig-Holstein looks to succeed where Munich failed.
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60886715
Schleswig-Holstein, one of Germany’s 16 states, on Wednesday confirmed plans to move tens of thousands of systems from Microsoft Windows to Linux. The announcement follows previously established plans to migrate the state government off Microsoft Office in favor of open source LibreOffice.
Versatility wins
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/24573341
Same could be said about other distros, btw ;)
www.gamingonlinux.com Even with SteamOS coming to more systems Bazzite has no plans to go anywhere
We recently had the exciting news that Valve plans to expand SteamOS onto more devices, starting with supporting more handhelds, which caused plenty of people to be curious about the future of the popular SteamOS-like Bazzite Linux.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24273769
Yeah, Neo Launcher is really good. Even though its still in its beta right now, the full release is coming soon. I consider it an upgrade over Lawnchair, and honestly probably the best open alternative to Nova (rip) overall.
Linus Torvalds Lands A 2.6% Performance Improvement With Minor Linux Kernel Patch
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/24467025
+1 from me as well. I almost never have issues with Bitwarden. And when I do its usually in apps that don't allow autofill in a normalish way. So I'm not sure thays really Google's or Bitwarden's fault, but the app developers...
linuxiac.com Tor and Tails Merge to Fight Global Surveillance and Censorship
Tor Project & privacy-focused Tails Linux distro join forces to boost global internet freedom and enhance online privacy.
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/22673014
Yeah, if you don't mind it possibly taking a week to download something... Really like the idea, but in practice it's very slow for something like that, unless you got a lot of seeders for something maybe.
Linux File System
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/41570987
DankPods just switched to Linux!!!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/27784074
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/27756512
(Apologies if the link doesn't work; Google are dicks)
Yeah I permanently switched to Linux in 2019 and even since then things have come a loooong way, let alone from the early 2010's when I began experimenting with Linux. It's sorta would to look back and see just how far things have come in 5 years.
www.gamingonlinux.com Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux
Today marks 6 years since Valve decided to change everything, especially for Linux fans, with the announcement of Steam Play Proton. Thanks to it, the Steam Deck and Desktop Linux gaming have continued to thrive.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/27447560
PSA: pipewire has been halving your battery life for a year+
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/15137437
(not really pipewire itself but an interaction with wireplumber/libcamera/the kernel, but pipewire is what triggers the problem)
As seen in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/2669 and https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/4115
The camera's /dev/video file is kept open (without streaming), sadly causing the camera to be powered on what looks to be most devices. For some reason, this completely nullifies the soc power management on modern laptops and can result in increases from 3W to 8W at idle!
On Intel laptops it's a bit easier to debug because you can see the Cstates in powertop not going low but it also wrecks AMD ones. Some laptops can reach lower cstates, but the camera module wastes a few W anyway.
I can't believe this shipped in Ubuntu, Fedora etc without anyone noticing, and for so long. This bug is quite literally wasting GWh of power and destr
Vanilla OS 2 Orchid - Stable Release
vanillaos.org Vanilla OS - is your next Operating System.
Vanilla OS is an operating system built with simplicity in mind. It's fast, lightweight, beautiful and ready for all your daily tasks.
cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/18702221
Actually, I think there is some value there. It makes it so the fans have to step up and say "we want this game to be preserved and open sourced." Which sorta serves as a bellwether for whether others would be willing to step up and keep it going once it is. If the fans hadn't stepped up like that, it would have been a bit telling that there may not have been much support for it once it was OSS.
www.gamingonlinux.com The community won the battle, so PvP battler Fishards is now open source
Back in June the developers of Fishards put out a bit of an ultimatum: fight them in-game and win to make the game open source, or they will nuke the game from orbit.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17747926
Back in June the developers of Fishards put out a bit of an ultimatum: fight them in-game and win to make the game open source, or they will nuke the game from orbit.
Thankfully, the community came together, and won. So now Fishards has been made open source, and it's still free to play on Steam too.
Custom Linux Distribution just for Gaming
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/18099780
Bazzite comes ready to rock with Steam and Lutris pre-installed, HDR support, BORE CPU scheduler for smooth and responsive gameplay, and numerous community-developed tools for your gaming needs.
This is why we need 3, 4, or even 5 monitors at a time.
Yeah, but I've found that experience to be... Less than desirable. So I just manually cross-posted it here.
10/10 worth reading! He offers DRM-free versions of the ebook from his website too. SO there's no lockin and you can read them wherever. :)
A Southern Wolf Review - Noss Saga II: Masks of the Miscam
(This review is a cross-post of one I posted on the furry.engineer mastodon instance. I wanted to cross-post it here so folks here on the Lemmy side of things could see it as well.)
“Lago’s eyes reflected the sickly yellow bursts of sapfire blazing in the distance…” and thus begins the epic second book, Masks of the Miscam, of Joaquin Baldwin’s Noss Saga series. From the start, we are thrown right into the action, where we left off from the end of the first book, Wolf of Withervale. We follow the group as they explore further into the stories and histories that surround the mysterious domes located across the lands of Noss. We see much more of the world too, branching far beyond what was shown in Book I. With this are found new allies and friends, mysterious new civilizations, enemies old and new, and the hint at what is to come in the Noss Saga.
::: spoiler Spoilers Much like in the first book, the exploration of LGBT themes is heavily present, and even expanded upon. The slowly bu
Forever young...
WebOS really was so hard ahead of its time. A card based interface, gesture-based navigation, unified and always online email and account systems. There were many things WebOS did that we take for granted now, yet they did it no less than 5 years before Android or iOS. Really it was just the Palm Pre's hardware (I had a Palm Pre Plus) that held it back. Some aspects of it were already a bit dated, even in 2010.
Damn, I didn't know that!
Huh, that's the first time I've heard of this. I like IPFS, but I do wish it was just a bit... Smoother to use?
That's what I mean by a lack of a standard for markdown. There needs to be at least a core standards for stuff (like bolding and italics), that is universal across stuff. Then if a program wants to add onto it, that's fine. But just the core parts being standardized would help a lot.
Markdown really should have more widespread support than it does. It's just the right mix between plain text and an office document, I took my college notes with it in fact cause of how fast it was to format stuff. But as far as I know, there's no default program on any of the (major) OS's or Distros for viewing it.
Maybe it's just due to a lack of standards for formatting or something, but regardless I do wish it was used and supported more.
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It's great seeing HeliBoard come so far, especially after it seemed like OpenBoard was potentially dead. I'm still a (firewalled on CalyxOS) GBoard user, but HeliBoard is the closest I've found to a viable replacement for it. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing what future developments it has in store.
If you run a rolling release distro, or one that tends to ship more updated packages, you may need to check up on this and make sure you're not using the compromised versions of the xz compression library.
Here is a site detailing the current known history of how the malicious exploiter got access to the repository and what he had pushes to it.
https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor
news.opensuse.org openSUSE addresses supply chain attack against xz compression library
openSUSE maintainers received notification of a supply chain attack against the “xz” compression tool and “liblzma5” library. Background Andres Freund report...
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/13377347
openSUSE addresses supply chain attack against xz compression library
openSUSE maintainers received notification of a supply chain attack against the “xz” compression tool and “liblzma5” library.
Background
Security Researcher Andres Freund reported to Debian that the xz / liblzma library had been backdoored.
This backdoor was introduced in the upstream github xz project with release 5.6.0 in February 2024.
Our rolling release distribution openSUSE Tumbleweed and openSUSE MicroOS included this version between March 7th and March 28th.
SUSE Linux Enterprise and Leap are built in isolation from openSUSE. Code, functionality and characteristics of Tumbleweed are not automatically introduced in SUSE Linux Enterprise and/or Leap. It has been established that the malicious file introduced into Tumbleweed is not present in SUSE Linux Enterprise and/or Leap.
Impact
Current researc
Neo-Launcher is still being worked on, they are expecting to push version 1.0 later this year to GitHub, but progress has been steady from what I know. You can get the latest beta version of Neo-Launcher from their Telegram to try out. Don't let the "beta" part turn you off, it's basically production ready, I've been using it now as my launcher for well over a year, possibly even 2 at this point.
Coming up on 5 years here for me. Things have progressed a lot in those 5 years too.
FYI: Malicious/Badly Written KDE theme can wipe out all your data
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/13397700
Malicious KDE theme can wipe out all your data
Or is it just buggy?
Delete Windows Today…
SomeOrdinaryGamer just gave one of the best 1st-time Linux tutorial videos I've seen in quite some time. The fact he did so with an audience of 3.7 million subscribers is even more incredible.
Great video, and while I'm not necessarily a huge fan of Mint, it's still a great starting out point for newbies. Definitely a good video to pass along to any potential/prospective Linux users so they can learn the ropes of things.
news.itsfoss.com Proton Mail Finally Releases Desktop Apps With a Linux Beta Version
Now you can try Proton Mail on your desktop!
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/16308770
Proton Mail Finally Releases Desktop Apps With a Linux Beta Version
The Great Linux Uprising
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/7859245
The Great Linux Uprising
Bonus color version ft. Madagascar Penguins:
We've never been known for our naming skills
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12722680
Died from reading this