ReactOS Newsletter 104 - April/May news (reactos.org)
Ars Technica | Not-a-Linux distro review: SerenityOS is a Unix-y love letter to the ’90s (arstechnica.com)
Here are links to the website, GitHub, and Wikipedia pages....
RainbowSnakeOS (palma3000.itch.io)
A 512 byte OS and snake video game written in 16-bit x86 assembly language (FASM). It can be run from boot sector and MS DOS as .com application.
OMG! We’re at forty! (Announcing the release of Fedora Linux 40) - Fedora Magazine (fedoramagazine.org)
Fedora 40’s Changeset...
German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating (arstechnica.com)
This Month in Redox - March 2024 - Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS (www.redox-os.org)
The Berkeley Software Distribution (www.abortretry.fail)
Porting Strategy - Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS (www.redox-os.org)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/9979951...
System-hardening pinsyscalls(2) work on OpenBSD, summarized by Theo de Raadt. "The direct-syscalls-inside-the-binary model used by go ... provided the biggest resistance against this effort." (www.undeadly.org)
TIL about KDE @ KDE Social (lemmy.kde.social)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/8098358...
openSUSE's Logo Competition Results (en.opensuse.org)
Nala: a frontend for APT, so you can have prettier output, faster downloads of packages, and a history. (linuxiac.com)
Fedora Linux 39 is officially here! - Fedora Magazine (fedoramagazine.org)
I rebased my Silverblue install yesterday. The most notable change in my opinion is the tweaks to the UI and theming of Gnome 45....
Zorin OS 16.3 is now available and ready to make using Linux even easier (www.zdnet.com)
If you’re looking for what might well be the most polished and user-friendly Linux distribution on the market, Zorin OS has a new release for you that covers all the bases.
Systemd-Free Immutable Distro Nitrux 2.9.1 Is Out Powered by Liquorix Kernel 6.4 (9to5linux.com)
Nitrux uses OpenRC instead of systemd, unlike most mainstream distros. It also features the Liquorix kernel, described as “an enthusiast Linux kernel designed for uncompromised responsiveness in interactive systems, enabling low latency in A/V production, and reduced frame time deviations in games.”...
Linux Mint 21.2 Released with Gesture Support, UI Changes & More (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
The cool way consoles/terminals work on the Hurd (floss.social)
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23493 (blogs.windows.com)
highlights:...
Barrier, it just made my Linux life so much better! (github.com)
For a long time I’ve been using Windows only on my private computer even though I might’ve wanted to use Windows....
Accent Colors: A Proposal for GNOME (cassidyjames.com)
Valve Contracts Another Prominent Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Developer (www.phoronix.com)
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/812992...
Following the usual playbook, IBM's Red Hat begins locking down access to it's "open source" (www.jeffgeerling.com)
Red Hat announced yesterday that the sources for RHEL will no longer be accessible from git.centos.org. This effectively locks their source changes behind a subscription to RHEL, that costs money.
My biological brother is the co-founder of Peppermint (peppermintos.com)
I am very proud of my brother in this endeavor.
Linux Mint Adds Support for Touchpad Gestures - OMG! Ubuntu (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Linux 6.5 Released With AMD P-State EPP Default, USB4 v2, MIDI 2.0 & More Hardware Bits (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.5 has many great features from the AMD P-State EPP driver default rather than ACPI CPUFreq for Zen 2 and newer supported AMD Ryzen systems, initial USB4 v2 enablement, initial MIDI 2.0 kernel driver work, more Intel hybrid CPU tuning, and a whole lot more.
