Unix recap for week 45/2024

From 4/11/2024 to 10/11/2024

Articles #

• Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division 934 comments in 7 discussions

• Petition to make Linux the standard operating system in the EU public administrations 553 comments in 2 discussions

• According to riot the main issue with anticheat compatibility is: "You can freely manipulate the kernel, and there’s no user mode calls to attest that it’s even genuine". There will ever be a solution? 500 comments in 1 discussion

• Calibre 7.21 released (e-book manager/reader) 471 comments in 11 discussions

• Linus Torvalds lands a 2.6% performance improvement with minor Linux kernel patc 460 comments in 5 discussions

• Debian 12 KDE Plasma: The right GNU/Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024. Reasons and complete installation guide. 407 comments in 7 discussions

• Why systemd is a problem for embedded Linux 364 comments in 2 discussions

• A BSD person tries Alpine Linux 276 comments in 2 discussions

• Is Linux Really Taking Over? How the Open-Source OS Captured 4.5% of the Desktop Market in 2024 241 comments in 2 discussions

• Linus Torvalds kicked the Russians out of Linux, now they're creating a sovereign Linux community in Russia — Ministry of Digital Development steps in 207 comments in 2 discussions

• Wayland Support for the Nvidia Linux 565 Release Series 180 comments in 2 discussions

• Fedora KDE gets approval to be upgraded to sit alongside Fedora Workstation (Spin -> Edition) 178 comments in 1 discussion

• Linux Built-In Tools Are So Powerful, You Can Build a Database With Them. Here's How 174 comments in 2 discussions

• AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Linux Performance: Zen 5 With 3D V-Cache 159 comments in 5 discussions

• Linux Asceticism 148 comments in 2 discussions

Releases #

• Fruit Credits: a personal accounting app based on hledger 4 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• Looking for honest feedback on my File Manager 43 comments in 1 discussion

• Splinux: Split Screen Solution for Linux 36 comments in 2 discussions

• Very Essential Application for Fedora: Appimage Launcher 28 comments in 2 discussions

• A Tarball Installer (install tar.gz like it was a package) 18 comments in 3 discussions

• zram-service: a simple zram setup script - alternative to zram tools and zramswap 12 comments in 1 discussion

• Archive of wiki.bash-hackers.org 10 comments in 2 discussions

• Using jails for the creation of a compartmentalized flavour of FreeBSD. 10 comments in 1 discussion

• Hardened-Chromium: A hardened Chromium for desktop Linux inspired by Vanadium 8 comments in 1 discussion

• Control Linux with a Logitech USB controller 6 comments in 1 discussion

• Linux-ia64: Linux fork with IA-64 support re-added. See HTTP://t2sde.org/ for a 5 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• I have switched to Fedora KDE and it seems that I made a giant mistake despite my unawavering optimism 75 comments in 1 discussion

• EndeavourOS vs Mint vs Windows 11 | Linux gaming vs Windows using a 4080... 73 comments in 1 discussion

• Counter-Strike 2 | Windows [Directx 11 vs Vulkan] vs Linux [Native] 30 comments in 1 discussion

• [Hyprland] Void Linux rice 18 comments in 1 discussion

• Boot animation 8 comments in 1 discussion

• The Matrix Awakens | Vulkan | Gentoo Linux | Wayland 2024 7 comments in 1 discussion

• Think About Switching to Linux [video] 6 comments in 2 discussions