Notices by Linux (linux@mastodon.social)

Coreboot sees Zen / Ryzen (AMD CPU) support!

The support is part of Google engineers bringing up Picasso APU enablement in order to handle an upcoming Chromebook (running a Linux distribution ChromeOS) launch.

Coreboot is an extended firmware platform aimed to replace the proprietary firmware such as UEFI and BIOS.

Delivers a lightning fast and secure boot experience.

== > https://www.coreboot.org/
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#Coreboot #Ryzen #AMD #Linux #Chromebook #ChromeOS #Picasso #firmware

Linux 5.0 is here.

* Btrfs file-system support for swap files

* Logitech high resolution scrolling support for mice

* The Raspberry Pi touch-screen driver was finally mainlined

* Early support work around for next-gen AMD Ryzen/EPYC processors

* AMD FreeSync/VRR support

* Initial support for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2000 "Turing" GPU's

+so much more!

As usual, the boss Finn Linus Torvalds left a message also ==> http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1903.0/01288.html
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#Linux5 #Linux #kernel #LinusTorvalds #Torvalds

TuxClocker - a new graphical overclocking utility for Linux.

Released just a couple of days ago and currently supported cards are nvidia 600-series cards and newer. Support for AMD GPUs is planned.

* GPU monitoring
* Overclocking
* Overvolting
* Change power limit
* Fan mode selection
* Custom fan curve
* Profiles

Planned features

* Multi-GPU support
* AMD support
* Rewrite nvidia controlling using libxnvctrl

==> https://github.com/Lurkki14/tuxclocker
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#overclocking #TuxClocker #libxnvctrl #Linux #qt5

Wine 4.0 released!

This release represents a year of development effort and over 6,000 individual changes. It contains a large number of improvements that are listed in the release notes below. The main highlights are:

* Vulkan support.
* Direct3D 12 support.
* Game controllers support.
* High-DPI support on Android.

The source is available now. Binaries are being built, and will appear soon at their download locations.

==> https://www.winehq.org/news/2019012201
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#Wine #Linux #gaming #Vulkan

A new Linux smartphone is coming!

With an affordable price, too. Pine64 is behind this device running KDE Plasma.

KDE Neon creator Jonathan Riddell revealed this at Open Source Summit and it will be called PinePhone.

You can expect this open source Linux smartphone to cost $100+ for 2GB RAM and 16GB storage.

==> https://fossbytes.com/pinephone-pine64-affordable-linux-smartphone-kde-plasma/
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#Linux #smartphone #KDE #Pine64 #PinePhone

PeerTube 1.0 released.

PeerTube is a free, decentralized, federated video platform that uses peer-to-peer technology, developed by Framasoft.

To provide an alternative to centralized, now censorship infested platforms such as YouTube.

Mobile?

Sailfish OS: Sail2Play https://gitlab.com/fabrixxm/harbour-sail2play +Jolla Store

Android: P2Play https://gitlab.com/agosto182/p2play/

==> https://framablog.org/2018/10/15/peertube-1-0-the-free-libre-and-federated-video-platform/
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#PeerTube #decentralized #federated #fediverse #deleteYouTube #Framasoft #Android #SailfishOS #Linux #Sail2Play #P2Play

Ask Noah Show | Episode 87: "This Is How You Should Store Your Data".

This week on the interactive premium Linux podcast: live calls drove the show and that’s the show they set out to do!

Talk about storage, LVM, hard disk configuration, SteamOS, troubleshoot an OBS box.

--> https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/127301/this-is-how-you-should-store-your-data-ask-noah-show-7/
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#AskNoah #JupiterBrodcasting #Linux #LVM #SteamOS #OBS #podcast #livecalls @jupitersignal

Collabora.

An open-source (and libre software) consulting firm whose expertise spans from the Linux kernel to LibreOffice and X.Org had another successful year.

Collabora remains at around two dozen employees (23) and they ended 2017 with 2,778,094 £ (~$3.6 million USD) compared to 2,211,750 £ in 2016.

This all indicates the growing will of firms too, to move away from proprietary software

--> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Collabora-2017-Report
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#Collabora #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Libre #Linux #LibreOffice

Ask Noah | Episode 81: "Firefox Made This More Secure".

This week on the premium Linux podcast:

Firefox made waves by encrypting DNS entries making DNS more secure for everyone. They talk about IP cameras, gaming on Linux, and Steve Ovens from RedHat joins 'em.

--> https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/126711/firefox-made-this-more-secure-ask-noah-81/
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#Linux #podcast #Firefox #AskNoah #JupiterBroadcasting

(a legendary) LINUX game porter Ryan "Icculus" Gordon is looking for new games to bring!

He recently posted a new update on Patreon and this bit caught GamingOnLinux eye:

"I need more games to port. I have a bunch of maybes floating out there, but pretty soon I'm going to need definite yeses to work on. If you know someone in need, send them my way please."

His site: icculus.org/~icculus/

--> https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/linux-game-porter-ryan-icculus-gordon-is-looking-for-new-games-to-bring-to-linux.11944
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#Icculus #RyanGordon #GOL #gaming #porting #AAA #Linux #GamingOnLinux

Adélie Linux.

In ALPHA, already intriguing.

Based on "GNUless" Alpine Linux, but aiming for common desktop use.

Userland instead of GNU Core: BusyBox.

For C standard library, it uses musl, instead of GNU glibc.

Devs state: "We do believe that Linux should be usable by anyone, regardless of income level or past computer experience. We don't believe that Linux has to be hard to use."

Urged to keep an eye on this one!

--> http://www.adelielinux.org/

#AdelieLinux #alpha #musl #BusyBox #Linux

GIMP 2.10!

Officially put out today, and it's the largest ever release.

GIMP 2.10 is the result of six years of work that originally focused on porting the program to a new image processing engine, GEGL.

The new version ships with far more new features, including new and improved tools, better file formats support, usability improvements, revamped color management support, a plethora of improvements for digital painters.

--> https://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.10.html
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#GIMP #Linux #GNU #GEGL #ImageEditor

Government of France: Matrix / Riot confirmed as the basis for upcoming official secure messenger.

"France has confirmed it is in the process of deploying a huge private federation of Matrix homeservers spanning the whole government, and developing a fork of Riot.im for use as their official secure communications client!

The goal is to replace usage of WhatsApp or Telegram for official purposes."

Germany went Nextcloud and now this!

---> https://matrix.org/blog/2018/04/26/matrix-and-riot-confirmed-as-the-basis-for-frances-secure-instant-messenger-app/
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#France #Matrix #messenger

Purism and UBports officially collaborate to offer Ubuntu Touch on Librem 5

---> https://puri.sm/posts/ubports-ubuntu-touch-on-librem5-collaboration/

Richard Stallman.

Reclaim your freedom with free libre software - Richard Stallman of Free Software Foundation urges not to use Facehook, whatsdat, Twatter etc. since they are monstrous surveillance engines designed to work against people and our interest.

This is contemporary and legendary altogether. Linux related.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9YDz-Iwgyw

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#Stallman #Software #Freedom #libre #FSF #RMS #purism #summit #Linux #GNU

Call for help: fund GIMP (an open source and free Photoshop alternative) development & Libre animation.

The funding really did help the Blender Foundation for example, and it brought us a solid 3D software with tons of resources on the internet.

This could be GIMP's blender moment, let's get them funded!

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https://girinstud.io/news/2017/10/call-for-help-fund-gimp-development-libre-animation/

#OpenSource #GIMP #Photoshop #replacement #alternative #Libre #funding #FreeSoftware #FSF

People switching away from malicious operating systems, towards user friendly / freedom respecting ones such as Linux OS's, often ask "the rites of passage in Linux?".

One delightful view for this passage:

"Killing the urge to distro-hop and meaningfully use a system to do the work you really need. The basic rite of passage is when you realize that they are just tools to achieve your goals. When you try to improve these tools, the level increases by one."

#Linux #passage #freedom #happiness

A Bolivian tech company Jala introduces a new Sailfish OS powered ACCIONE Linux mobile device!

Jala announced a three day event with press conference / keynotes including Jolla and Qualcomm to present their new Sailfish OS powered smartphone -->

http://telegra.ph/Jala-event-to-present-new-Sailfish-OS-powered-ACCIONE-device-09-08

#mobile #smartphone #ACCIONE #Linux #SailfishOS #Jolla #Jala #Qualcomm #Bolivia #Finland