Unix recap for week 35/2024

From 26/8/2024 to 1/9/2024

Articles #

• Desktop Operating System Market Share Worldwide | Linux rises again to 4.55%, freebsd falls to 0% 2145 comments in 17 discussions

• One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense" 1962 comments in 3 discussions

• Linus Torvalds talks AI, Rust, & why Linux is the only thing that matters 747 comments in 5 discussions

• Asahi Lina: A subset of C kernel developers just seem determined to make the lives of the Rust maintainers as difficult as possible 578 comments in 4 discussions

• KDE is asking for donations in Plasma 566 comments in 3 discussions

• Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team 533 comments in 6 discussions

• How Rust solves the problem of incomplete Kernel Linux API docs 503 comments in 4 discussions

• KDE promoted game 444 comments in 12 discussions

• COSMIC Alpha Released! Here’s what people are saying. 414 comments in 4 discussions

• Ok, now I feel the need to defend Debian 12 (and talking a bit about my Linux journey). 393 comments in 14 discussions

• Retiring from the Rust for Linux Project – Wedson Almeida Filho 326 comments in 2 discussions

• A rewrite of "The problems and shortcomings of Cosmic", for entertainment purposes. 276 comments in 3 discussions

• Linux: We need Tiling Desktop Environments 252 comments in 2 discussions

• I turned the Asus ROG Ally X into a Steam Deck — it proves Windows 11 kills power and battery life 235 comments in 3 discussions

• Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian 221 comments in 3 discussions

Releases #

• GNU Screen v.5.0.0 is released 144 comments in 3 discussions

Projects #

• Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files 337 comments in 2 discussions

• EWW – Linux Widget System allowing you to design custom desktop UI 115 comments in 6 discussions

• RunBash: Seamlessly Run Bash Scripts and Linux Binaries on Windows 23 comments in 3 discussions

• AndreRH/hangover: Hangover runs simple Win32 applications on ARM64 Linux 18 comments in 1 discussion

• Komorebi and Wallpaper Engine 8 comments in 1 discussion

• cl-linux-queue. common lisp message queue use linux c function. 6 comments in 1 discussion

• Flying with joystick in No Man's Sky - the final solution 2 comments in 1 discussion

• Steam Deck Hardware Knowledge Repository I Created! - I think some of you might find it useful :)

• AppTimer – I've made an Open Source Linux Tool for Limiting App Usage with Flexible Timers and Pause/Stop Features

Videos #

• It's time for change, it's time for Linux [video] 360 comments in 1 discussion

• I Am Still Using Linux After 93 days and Loving it! 45 comments in 1 discussion

• Gaming on Linux EP#139: Deadlock | Nobara 40 vs CachyOS vs Windows 10 36 comments in 1 discussion

• Linux vs Windows in 6 games - 7945HX 4090M - Linux about 8% faster on Average 26 comments in 1 discussion

• FreeBSD in 100 Seconds 23 comments in 2 discussions

• A Personal History with Linux and BSD Unix 12 comments in 2 discussions

• World of Warcraft: The War Within | Linux vs Windows | DXVK vs VKD3D vs DirectX 11 vs DirectX 12 7 comments in 2 discussions