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The Debian Project mourns the loss of Peter De Schrijver


"Peter was highly regarded for his technical expertise in problem solving and for his willingness to share that knowledge. When asked "what are you working on?", Peter would often take the time to explain something you thought was extremely complicated understandably, or show you in-person his high technical proficiency in action on such tasks as translating a disassembled binary into C source code. Peter's work, ideals, and memory leave a remarkable legacy and a loss that is felt around the world not only in the many communities he interacted with but in those he inspired and touched as well."

https://www.debian.org/News/2024/20240725

#debian #linux #developer #death #peterdeschrijver


For the past several months no one could install flatpaks from our Trade-Free TROMjaro app Library - https://www.tromjaro.com/apps/ - and now we finally fixed it thanks to @Rokosun ! One click installs 😀

We have curated around 700 trade-free apps for the library and we plan to add a lot more the following months. Check it out!

#tromjaro #linux #trade-free #opensource #foss #flatpak


GameShell: a "game" to teach the Unix shell


#Linux #opensource #game

https://github.com/er2/GameShell/tree/devcontainer


#borgbackup 1.4.0 was just released, see:

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases/tag/1.4.0

#linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #openindiana #macOS


I really really REALLY wish that when I comment about #Linux DE #UX people would understand:
1. This is coming from a place of love for Linux, I want it to get better
2. I'm fairly new here and WILL make mistakes
3. I'm very welcome to be corrected
4. I'm not attacking anyone

I'm a #UX expert, not a Linux expert. I'm absolutely going to say stupid things. Could I possibly go a bit slower and be more diplomatic? Sure. Could people also not freak out and assume the worst? Please.

#linux #UX


Casual UT2003 CtF match [against bots] in 2024 🤘🤓🤘


In 2020 I checked some old backup disks of mine and found to my utmost joy a copy of my former UT2003 installation. This is a Linux native 32bit build that is now over 20 years old. Well, LinuxGaming is hard because who can support 500 distributions, right? This worked just fine in 2020 on Fedora 31. Today I gave it another spin in 2024 on Fedora 38 on Wayland with PipeWire 😀

Hell yeah, the muscle memory is still there 🤘🤓🤘

(tbf the SDL1.2 compat lib rocks most of this but it's really all still there)


The Microsoft-Dilemma - Europe as a Software Colony | Full Documentary



What the actual fuck @fedora !!!!!

AI????? I thought we as a community were better than this...

#enshittification #Linux #FedoraLinux #Fedora

https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/strategy-2028-april-2024-update/


I have tried to switch from white-on-black xterms to black-on-white, since it's told to be a less strain on the eyes, but it's kind of impossible due to everyone defaulting their color schemes on WoB. It feels like a hopeless fight.
Otherwise it's really eye-soothing, but it's definitely not mind soothing the guy need to reconfigure everyfuckingthing.

#linux #terminal #theming #blackonwhite #futile


A couple things to think about here:

This appears to be a malicious maintainer - not a compromised account. Meaning the person themselves, coded this in an pushed it out.

So:
1) Did they try and backdoor any other code?
2) Are they part of a greater campaign or is anyone else helping them.

This is a massive breach of trust.

That said! Huge kudos to Andres Freund, Florian Weimer, and others in finding this.

A lot of eyes are on this now. CISA is involved. Major distros are involved, etc. Many eyes and such.

#infosec #linux #foss #hacking #cve20243094 #cve



Dear #photographers & visual #artists running #Linux, what are your tricks for #colour -accurate #scanning photo prints on consumer-grade gear (not a film/drum scanner)?

I have 3+ #scanners, all with wildly different #color results, as you can see below. At least 2 of them can scan directly over LAN (in Simple Scan).

Ideally I'd want #colormanagement / calibration of scans, ideally with "Simple Scan" (otherwise, how do you do it with XSane?). I have a ColorMunki spectrophotometer, if it helps.

Sample scans, without retouching, from:

- A consumer-grade Brother MFP-5840
- An enterprise-grade HP MFP M477dw
- A consumer-grade HP Envy 5055

Surprisingly, the presumably crappy HP Envy scanner seems to yield results that are more neutral (less saturated, less contrasted) and much closer to reality. The histograms vary wildly from one scan to another. We cannot trust our eyes, but if you're reading this, you probably already know this.


Is there concern for snaps or flatpaks? Checking my own stuff it looks like applications using bundled liblzma are running in the 5.2.* - 5.4.* versions, but if someone has a bleeding edge application running an affected version, what would the remediation be? Would uninstalling it be sufficient?

#snap #flatpak #linux #xz #liblzma


How To Use FFMPEG On Linux. - YouTube


When your grandma is a #linux guru!
Kudos!


I want SuperTuxKart to include Voice Acting for these karts in Version 2.0. In fact, One that I knew who Voiced Pepper in Morevna Project's Pepper and Carrot Animated Comics was Samantha Faye Ignacio. If @morevnaproject would know for this 3D open-source racing game, then this would be real. @davidrevoy
#supertuxkart #gaming #linux #pepperandcarrot #racing


Seien Sie am 6. April dabei bei unserem Vortrag "Integrationstests mit Szenarien für Container-Kompositionen" auf den Grazer Linuxtagen!

👉 Samstag, 6. April 2024, 12.10 Uhr mit Wolfgang Silbermayr, Expert Lead Backend bei #OpenTalk

Weitere Informationen zur Veranstaltung finden Sie hier:

https://opentalk.eu/de/news/grazer-linuxtage-mit-opentalk

#OpenSource #Linux #gl24 #linuxtage


I just saw that Mozilla is retiring Mozilla Location Services which provided an open, crowdsourced alternative to proprietary location services from Google and other vendors. 😰

https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065

This is used by GNOME and thus Fedora, Ubuntu, Endless OS, etc. to help provide OS-level location services without requiring every app to implement its own. And apparently a patent troll is part of the reason Mozilla stopped investing in it. 🙃

#OpenSource #Linux #GNOME #Mozilla


Anarch-cow certainly has a point

Certainly, it is already no longer possible, in my view, to call oneself an anarchist without adding a qualifying adjective to distinguish oneself from lifestyle anarchists. -- Murray Bookchin


#anarchy #freedom #state #distinguish #lifestyle #quote #anarch-cow #cli #gnu #linux #foss #cowsay


Boost for visibility.

To the #Windows and #macOS users of Mastodon who have tried #Linux and ended up still using Windows or macOS:

What is it about the Linux distro(s) you tried that made it/them unsuitable for your use? If some problem or set of problems was fully resolved, would it be enough for you to be able to comfortably use Linux?

The poll is just a list of possible things that could make Linux difficult or impossible to use for some, please feel free to comment with specifics.

  • Too buggy (8%, 16 votes)
  • Too unfamiliar (4%, 8 votes)
  • Lacking any good alternatives to critical software (16%, 32 votes)
  • Lacking critical software, alternatives aren't an option (26%, 52 votes)
  • Overwhelming number of choices (3%, 6 votes)
  • Incompatible with media I use (3%, 7 votes)
  • Incompatible with my computer(s) (6%, 12 votes)
  • Simply didn't like it (6%, 13 votes)
  • Other (please comment) (19%, 38 votes)
  • ...what's Linux? (4%, 9 votes)
193 voters. Poll end: 10 months ago



My #Hungarian teacher asked me yesterday if I could help her with her computer, because she had some issues. Old retired woman.

When she started her PC, it turned out, she is using #Ubuntu #Linux.


Salut !
J'ai créé un bundle de brushes pour la calligraphie pour Krita que je mets en partage sur mon site :
https://www.le-stylocalligraphe.com/fr/pages/blog/1283623/brushes-calligraphie-pour-krita

Merci de relayer l'info ! Bonne journée.
#krita_artists #krita #calligraphy #opensource #linux
@davidrevoy


Chemnitzer Linuxtage, 15.3. Vorabend, Essen, Turmbrauhaus?

👇 Anmeldung. 🍶 🍴 🍔 🥕 🍻 🍵

https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/turmbrauhaus-clt-2024

#clt2024 #linux #chemnitz


Dexed is a synthesizer that is closely modeled on the Yamaha DX7. Supports multiple platforms and various formats. Dexed is also a midi cartridge librarian and manager for the DX7.

Dexed is free software and is licensed on the GPL v3.

https://github.com/asb2m10/dexed

#linux #synthesizer #dexed


As a latecomer and occasional gamer I truly enjoyed the game #Witcher3 (+DLC).
Also worths mentioning that it's been done on #linux (using #lutris).



Here's some cool news: libinput - the underlying input API for #Linux nowadays - will support dials on drawing tablets soon! 🎉 A lot of XP-PEN's Artist Pro series have these controls for example.

@whot pushed along the API I originally made about a year ago, many thanks 😮 This means that applications that use libinput can make use of these dials soon, like Wayland compositors. If you're technically inclined, you can see the completed MR here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/merge_requests/967