Unix recap for week 29/2024

From 15/7/2024 to 21/7/2024

Articles #

• nano 8.1 released 1751 comments in 15 discussions

• "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again 629 comments in 6 discussions

• CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago 599 comments in 3 discussions

• NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules 590 comments in 11 discussions

• Discover opens on startup (Fedora 40 KDE Spin) 492 comments in 14 discussions

• Here’s what we’re working on in Firefox 454 comments in 4 discussions

• Switzerland mandates all software developed for the government be open sourced 448 comments in 6 discussions

• We are Wayland now! (mostly) 426 comments in 3 discussions

• The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux 380 comments in 4 discussions

• Greek opposition suggests the government should switch to Linux over Crowdstrike incident. 343 comments in 1 discussion

• Crowdstrike Says Global IT Outage Limited to Windows PCs, But Mac and Linux Hosts Not Affected 293 comments in 1 discussion

• Sonny Piers removed from GNOME Foundation board of directors 268 comments in 3 discussions

• Linux Is Obsolete (1992) 251 comments in 3 discussions

• Would Linux Have Helped To Avoid The CrowdStrike Catastrophe? [No] 246 comments in 1 discussion

• Linux Patch to Disable the Snapdragon X Elite "X1E80100" GPU by Default 238 comments in 2 discussions

Projects #

• The Practical Linux Hardening Guide 245 comments in 3 discussions

• kew - a simple TUI music player for Linux 133 comments in 6 discussions

• Use wifi and enable hotspot at the same time like in windows 10 69 comments in 4 discussions

• Automate Your Arch Linux Gaming Setup 68 comments in 1 discussion

• How do you guys manage your years of experience (dotfiles) 64 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Linux Mint Redesign Proposal 42 comments in 1 discussion

• KUtrace: Low-overhead Linux kernel tracing facility 34 comments in 1 discussion

• Linux Hardening Checklist 16 comments in 1 discussion

• Kooha: Elegantly record your screen (on Linux with Wayland) 16 comments in 2 discussions

• Made a tool to install any penetration testing tools on your favorite Debian system 14 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• Linux on X Elite Laptops [video] 53 comments in 2 discussions

• NixOS vs Arch Linux 10 comments in 1 discussion

• Escape From Tarkov (PVE) on Linux 8 comments in 1 discussion

• Throne and Liberty on Linux 7 comments in 1 discussion

• 1 Year Review. Thoughts? (Not OC) 5 comments in 1 discussion

• Touchpad issues on MicroOS/KDE 2 comments in 1 discussion

• Mounting Linux Disk Images in Windows 2 comments in 1 discussion