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• Flock 2024 Introducing Fedora Miracle, a proposed Fedora spin built on Mir - YouTube
• miracle-wm-org/miracle-wm — Miracle is a Wayland tiling window manager built on Mir
• miracle-wm
• miracle-wm wiki
• Roadmap - miracle-wm wiki
• nwg-piotr/nwg-shell — Installer & meta-package for the nwg-shell project: a GTK3-based shell for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors
• nwg-shell - a GTK3-based shell for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors
• fast fedora 41 mirror
• What’s new for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 41 - Siosm’s blog — With Fedora 41, we are now building two new unofficial images: Kinoite Mobile and COSMIC Atomic. They join our other unofficial images: XFCE Atomic and LXQt Atomic.
• bootupd change
• bootupd GitHub
• containers/bootc — Boot and upgrade via container images
• Introduction - bootc docs
• Modifying Kernel Arguments :: Fedora Docs
• Getting Started with Bootable Containers :: Fedora Docs
• Booting local builds - bootc docs
• fedora-ostree-desktops Registry
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• asahi-audio - Fedora Packages
• AsahiLinux/asahi-audio: Userspace audio for Asahi Linux — PipeWire and WirePlumber DSP profiles and configurations tod rive the speaker arrays in Apple Silicon laptops and desktops.
• AAA gaming on Asahi Linux — We’re thrilled to release our Asahi game playing toolkit, which integrates our Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86 emulation and Windows compatibility. Plus a bonus: conformant OpenCL 3.0.
• FEX
• Wine
• DXVK
• vkd3d-proton
• muvm
• Fedora Media Writer
• FedoraQt/MediaWriter — A tool to create a live USB drive with an edition of Fedora
• Preparing Boot Media - Fedora Docs
• GDM Settings
• GDM Settings Web Site — Customize your login screen
• Web Apps
• eyekay/webapps source — Install websites as desktop apps, so that they appear in their own windows separate from any browsers installed. This is similar to the "Install as App" feature found in popular web browsers.

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• Carl George on Twitter — "I’ve been playing around with matplotlib to chart this data over time. Due to the difference in scale it’s necessary to split into different ranges. The “Liberty” systems started showing up in August, with a high of 79 systems the week of 2021-09-06 to 2021-09-12."
• Microsoft transforms the Windows Subsystem for Linux into a Windows 11 app — “Our goals are to make WSL in the Microsoft Store the best way to install and use WSL, as you’ll be able to get the latest updates fastest through that route, and in the long term we’d like to move WSL users to use the store version.”
• A preview of WSL in the Microsoft Store is now available!
• Craig Loewen on Twitter — "A preview of WSL inside of the Microsoft Store is now available for Windows 11 machines!"
• Hayden Barnes on Twitter — "So many new goodies today! WSL in the Store, WSLg bundled with WSL, new WSL2 kernel version, a bunch of fixes for ARM64 👀, wsl.exe --mount, and a handful of nice refinements and fixes."
• Ubuntu 21.10 Release Date & New Features — Ubuntu 21.10 will be available to download from October 14, 2021.
• Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri - New Features and Release Date
• Ubuntu 21.10 is upon us, and it’s small changes for major improvements
• Ubuntu 19.10 To 21.10: AMD Zen 2 + Radeon Performance On Linux Over Two Years — Ubuntu 19.10 was the first release following the Zen 2 debut in the summer of 2019. The benchmarks today are looking at the Ubuntu 19.10 performance up against the Ubuntu 21.10 daily ISO in its near final form ahead of the official release on Thursday.
• MATE 1.26 released | MATE — The theme for this release has been adding new functionality to the MATE Desktop while maintaining the look and feel that we all know and love. While all the added features are surely quite exciting we also did not forget to do tons of bugfixing, modernising the code base and optimizing the performance.
• KDE Plasma desktop 5.22 Release Announcement — This time around, the big new feature is Adaptive Transparency: This means the panel and panel widgets will usually be pleasantly translucent, but will become entirely opaque if there are any maximized windows, to avoid any visual distractions when you need to focus.
• Bug #1944468 “Electron applications all crash upon launch”
• quickemu — Quickly create and run highly optimised desktop virtual machines for Linux, macOS and Windows; with just two commands. You decide what operating system you want to run and Quickemu will figure out the best way to do it for you.
• A GUI for Quickemu — Provides an interface for setting up new VMs with Quickget, starting and stopping existing VMs.
• PN50 review from Anandtech
• Phoronix Test Suite 10.6 Released With Various Improvements For Linux Benchmarking — Windows 11 support and various Windows improvements, a wide variety of Phoromatic fixes and improvements from cleaning-up/unifying the CSS to log improvements and making use of the new log viewer, and more.
• Why I have decided to step down from the AlmaLinux OS Foundation Board — "So, here we are. I am no longer on the board - and I am no longer deciding what is next for AlmaLinux OS Foundation. I will continue to be heavily involved in the day-to-day of AlmaLinux. CloudLinux and TuxCare will continue being just one of many corporate sponsors. benny Vasquez was voted to become a new chair of the board, and I am sure that the foundation and the board will flourish under her guidance."

Plus, have we all been missing the best new Linux distribution? We give this fresh distro a spin and report.

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• Linux 5.13 Released With Apple M1 Bringup, Landlock, FreeSync HDMI + Much More — There are also new Linux 5.13 security features like the Landlock LSM, Clang CFI support, and optionally randomizing the kernel stack offset at each system call.
• The 5.13 kernel has been released
• PipeWire 0.3.31 Released — JACK has seen massive stability improvements. Locking and correctness wrt to callbacks and has been reworked. Also thread priorities have improved.
• PipeWire Project on Twitter — Important change in PipeWire 0.3.31 is that we now have a database of weird Bluetooth hardware. This allows us to apply device specific tweaks to work around issues. This database is from Android and should let us support more devices seamlessly.
• Real-time audio streaming with ROC
• Deepin Linux 20.2.2 Introduces a Brand-New App Store, Secure Boot Support — With this release, fans of Deepin Linux can enjoy a brand-new App Store that supports installation of Android apps, offers a better app management with support for batch installation of applications, and has a fresh new design with simplified interaction.
• deepin 20.2.2 – Deepin Technology Community
• Deepin Screenshots Album
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• Denver Meetup Meetup
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup(s)
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• JB Mumble
• dahliaOS — dahliaOS is a modern, secure, lightweight and responsive operating system, combining the best of GNU/Linux and Fuchsia OS.
• dahliaOS Screenshots Album
• Google is releasing Fuchsia OS, starting w/ 1st-gen Nest Hub
• Here’s an easier way to try Fuchsia OS on your computer
• Reddit: A Question About Zircon And Its Capabilities
• A new version of Mixxx is out — Mixxx 2.3.0 comes with a new default skin: "LateNight" underwent a massive redesign and replaces "Deere" as default skin.
• elementary EDW videos on YouTube

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• Cast Your Nominations for the 2020 Tuxies — Nominate your favorite projects (the term used loosely here) and devices for the 2020 Tuxies.
• CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream — The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead of a current RHEL release.
• FAQ - CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream
• CentOS Stream: Building an innovative future for enterprise Linux — Since its introduction, we’ve seen great enthusiasm from partners and contributors around CentOS Stream and the continuous stream of innovation that the project provides. Given this, we’ve informed the CentOS Project Governing Board that we are shifting our investment fully from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream.
• When Red Hat bought CentOS in 2014 they said…
• CentOS Git server
• OG CentOS Founder Wants to build another CentOS — I am considering creating another rebuild of RHEL and may even be able to hire some people for this effort. If you are interested in helping, please join the HPCng slack (link on the website hpcng.org).
• LUP 320: RHELhide
• Pi-KVM — A very simple and fully functional Raspberry Pi-based KVM over IP that you can make with your own hands without any soldering!
• Check out Self-Hosted — Discover new software and hardware to get the best out of your network, control smart devices, and secure your data on cloud services.
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• Hector Martin is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs | Patreon — The goal is to bring Linux support on Apple Silicon macs to the point where it is not merely a tech demo, but is actually an OS you would want to use on a daily driver device.
• Hector Martin
• Pick: radeontop — View your GPU utilization, both for the total activity percent and individual blocks.
• Pick: bpytop — Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor