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GIMP 2.10.30 Bugfix Release Now Available

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Dec 21, 2021 7:04 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
GIMP 2.10.30 ships with many fixes and incremental improvements, but not so much on the new feature side. Here's what's new!

Strap This Linux-Powered NUC to Your Face for Virtual Productivity

The SimulaVR Simula One probably isn't going to wind up on our gaming-focused list of the best VR headsets, but it's certainly unique. Its goal is to function as a VR workstation, by replacing your physical monitors with a virtual environment to get work done. The Simula One runs a Linux operating system on a small Intel NUC attached to the headset itself.

3 Best Arch-based Linux Distributions for Everyday Desktop Usage

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Dec 21, 2021 3:32 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
So you really want to use Arch Linux, but you are a little bit scared about its complexity? Well, then give Arch a try from a little bit different angle. Here is a list of the 3 best Arch-based distributions to check out.

There's a new Linux kernel, but you probably shouldn't use it right now

If you're feeling like having a slow week ahead of Christmas then you're not alone: Linux creator Linus Torvalds has used his weekly post to assure us that Linux 5.16 is coming, but probably after the festive season.

Developer creates ‘Quite OK Image Format’ – but it performs better than just OK

Open source, offers fast, lossless compression, and has a very charming name. A developer named Dominic Szablewski has given the world a new file format with a splendid name: the Quite OK Image Format (QOI). The file format might be better than that. Szablewski explained that he decided the world needed a new image format because the likes of PNG, JPEG, MPEG, MOV and MP4 “burst with complexity at the seams.”

Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XI — Violence Against Women

  • Techrights; By Roy Schestowitz (Posted by schestowitz on Dec 21, 2021 10:38 AM CST)
  • Groups: Microsoft
Microsoft’s Chief Architect of GitHub Copilot, Balabhadra (Alex) Graveley, faces the wrath of the Travis County Criminal Courts later today

12 Biggest Linux Stories of the Year 2021

The year 2021 is coming to an end. Linux has been making headlines this year as well, and not always in a good way. Let me share some of the biggest stories from the world of Linux that impacts the users of Linux in general and desktop Linux in particular.

elementary OS 6.1 "Jólnir" Officially Released, This Is What's New

elementary unveiled today elementary OS 6.1 as the first big update to the gorgeous Ubuntu-based distribution since the release of the elementary OS 6 series.

Meet wxrd, a standalone Wayland compositor for xrdesktop

  • Collabora Blog; By Christoph Haag (Posted by mfilion on Dec 21, 2021 4:03 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
The Linux desktop in VR goes headless! Introducing wxrd, a standalone Wayland compositor for xrdesktop based on wlroots, with minimal dependencies.

How to Check and Repair XFS Filesystem in Linux

2DayGeeK: In this guide, you will learn how to repair a corrupted XFS filesystem or partition in Linux Red Hat systems.

Open source design collaboration with Penpot

  • Opensource.com; By Seth Kenlon (Posted by bob on Dec 20, 2021 11:40 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Developer
When a team of designers works together on a project, one of the most important goals is consistency. Whether you need a consistent look because of a corporate identity or just for visual cohesion, the look and layout of pages and screens must be reasonably similar within any given project. It's hard enough to do this as a solo artist, and it gets more complex with added contributors. It becomes a monumental task when several mock-ups from a design team must be approved by a client, signed off by an accessibility expert, and then translated by a team of programmers.

GNOME 42 - Top New Features and Release Details

We give you all the important GNOME 42 feature highlights and release information in this article. Read on.

4 cool new projects to try in COPR for December 2021

  • Fedora Magazine; By Jakub Kadl?ík (Posted by bob on Dec 20, 2021 7:17 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Fedora
Here's a list of the projects: Glow, Purple-googlechat, Git-insight, Nightly builds.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 19th, 2021

  • 9to5Linux; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Dec 20, 2021 5:06 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
The sixty-four installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on December 19th, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Messages

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Dec 20, 2021 3:16 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
Messages is an instant messaging software application. It offers features like conversation pinning, the ability to mention individuals, message searching, and tools to send messages such as Memoji. Messages is proprietary freeware that’s not available for Linux. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

The Quickest Way to Install Node.js on Ubuntu

JavaScript is the most popular programming language among software developers, for three years in a row, according to the yearly survey conducted by Stack Overflow. This guide will take a look at how to install Node.js, one of the core technologies that has popularised the JavaScript language. Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment, that allows you to create server-side or backend JavaScript applications.

Getting Nostalgic With Common Desktop Environment on a Modern Linux Distro

Recently, I installed the old Common Desktop Environment (CDE) on a SparkyLinux machine. It was the old window environment for UNIX back in the 1990s. I kept using it until it was finally discontinued in the early 2000s. I remember using CDE on AIX, HP-UX, DG/UX, and I even got it to run on Slackware and RedHat distros running on a ‘386.

Test this new Linux kernel – but don’t forget Christmas or that you have a family, says Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds has confirmed that version 5.16 of the Linux kernel will take a little longer to develop than usual, thanks to Christmas. “Things are calming down, and rc6 is fairly small,” he wrote in his weekly State of the Kernel post. “That's normal for this time in the release schedule, but it's also normal for this time of year.” The emperor penguin opined that “the next two weeks will be very quiet, and smaller still.”

Open source file sharing with this Linux tool

  • Opensource.com; By Don Watkins (Posted by bob on Dec 20, 2021 6:46 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
In the early days of my Linux experience, I was the technology director of a small PreK-12 school district in the state of New York. Our technology budget was always stretched to the limit. We were a Windows 2000 Active Directory Domain, but we had limited central server disk space and no teacher home directories. In addition, we experienced a dozen or so hard disk failures for staff computers.

How to Find Out How Long It Took a Linux System to Start Up

  • buildvirtual.net (Posted by bvirt on Dec 20, 2021 4:34 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
This article shows you how you can find out how long it took your Linux system to start up, and when the last boot time of your system was.

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