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Zorin OS 16.3 Is Released (with upgrade tool)
blog.zorin.com Zorin OS 16.3 Is Released

We’re thrilled to report that Zorin OS 16 has been downloaded over 5.3 million times, all in under two years after its initial release. Thank …

Zorin OS 16.3 Is Released

> Zorin OS 16.3 is our first version that comes pre-installed with the new Zorin OS Upgrader. This is the feature our community has requested most throughout the years.

> Zorin OS 16.3 is powered by the same version of the Linux kernel as in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (GA). It comes with updated drivers, bringing even better compatibility with more hardware. That includes support for newer components like NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4070, 4060 Ti, and 4060 graphics cards out of the box.

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The Eupnea Project - Booting a full linux system on your Chromebook using Depthboot
eupnea-linux.github.io The Eupnea Project

Boot a full Linux system and gain complete control over your device WITHOUT modifying the firmware.

> Depthboot is a builder script that creates a bootable USB drive/SD-card that can be booted on any x86_64 Chromebook. It supports common Linux distributions(Pop!_OS, Ubuntu, Arch and Fedora) and a variety of the most popular desktop environments. Due to licensing restraints, Depthboot cannot be distributed as an iso. Instead, it has to be build locally.

Anyone have experiences with this?

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Git repository storage/forge recommendations?
  • My friend has deployed Phorge for himself and appears to be happy with it.

  • What microphone are you using for Linux?
  • Not sure about studio quality, but for video conferencing and doing some Twitch streams, I've being using a Blue Yeti Nano USB microphone for a few years (since COVID) with no issues on Linux.

  • .bin/check_installed.sh:fc:3: no such event: 1 when trying to run a set of commands from script that work fine when ran in the terminal directly
  • An alternative to making a shell script is to make an alias or a function instead. That way, it runs in your current shell session and you can access the history command.

    Additionally, you could always dump the output of the history command outside the shell script and then run the shell script on that file after you have dumped it.

  • .bin/check_installed.sh:fc:3: no such event: 1 when trying to run a set of commands from script that work fine when ran in the terminal directly
  • I think the issue is that history is a shell built-in and not an actual program (ie. external command) and it typically only works in an interactive shell session.

    A workaround could be to access the $HISTFILE directly:

    {cat $HISTFILE | grep ...
    

    Of course, you can use also just do:

    {grep -e ... $HISTFILE | ...}
    

    if you are opposed to the cat at the beginning.

  • Photon v0.3.0
  • With all the recent fixes and features, Photon is now my default lemmy client :]

    Thanks to @Xylight for starting this project and being so responsive on GitHub (I'm @pbui).

  • IRC technology news from the first half of 2023
  • Hmm, sorry fixed now. I'm using a new lemmy client... which apparently is still a bit buggy :|

  • The Fall of Stack Overflow
  • It's unfortunate, but the reality is that many of the proprietary services are... free, convenient, and where the people are.

    Most projects do not have a lot of funding, so it makes sense to use low cost platforms with the least amount of friction. I think most developers are aware of the risks and trade-offs, but make a pragmatic decision to use these proprietary services b/c the benefits for them outweigh the costs.

  • Internet Relay Chat @lemmy.sdf.org pnutzh4x0r @lemmy.world
    IRC technology news from the first half of 2023

    Summary of various updates to IRC clients, bouncers, and daemons for the first half of 2023.

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    Curious about COSMIC - News and screenshot #2
  • Nothing specific in mind, just wanted to get a general sense of how the work is progressing. Thanks for sharing your experience!

  • Curious about COSMIC - News and screenshot #2
  • COSMIC is looking great! Do you have any comments about the state of the widgets and how those are working?

  • azorius 0.1

    Alternative to lemmy by tedu of OpenBSD fame. It uses ActivityPub and is actually compatible with lemmy. Here is an example instance:

    https://az1.azorius.net/

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    blog.system76.com COSMIC Skies of a Colorado July

    Updates on wallpapers, windows, scaling, and text handling from System76’s new desktop environment, COSMIC DE.

    COSMIC Skies of a Colorado July

    COSMIC updates regarding window resizing, wallpaper settings, notifications, fractional scaling, and localization

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    blog.system76.com COSMIC Skies of a Colorado July

    Updates on wallpapers, windows, scaling, and text handling from System76’s new desktop environment, COSMIC DE.

    COSMIC Skies of a Colorado July

    COSMIC updates regarding window resizing, wallpaper settings, notifications, fractional scaling, and localization

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    Screen recorder: video
  • Pop is not using Wayland yet ... the current GNOME based DE still uses Xorg. COSMIC, however, will use Wayland.

  • Tab FavIcon missing in Firefox
  • Ok, good to know that it isn't just me.

  • Dell XPS 13 /boot/efi Insufficient Space
  • Yes, I've run into this issue recently. The /boot/efi folder is actually its own partition, so removing packages from / will not give your more space for the efi partition. On my recentish Pop install, the /boot/efi partition is about 512MB which is just about enough space for two kernels but... not much else (they may have increased this to 1GB for new installs).

    The workaround I did was to simply delete one of the kernels in /boot/efi/EFI/Pop_OS-... (the ... is some string of letters). In this folder you should have the following:

    $ ls -l /boot/efi/EFI/Pop_OS-f2c685b9-a9c2-48f0-907b-ebe199e94a55
    total 289256
    -rwx------ 1 root root       167 Jul 12 15:24 cmdline
    -rwx------ 1 root root 134046998 Jul 12 15:24 initrd.img
    -rwx------ 1 root root 134449391 Jul 12 15:24 initrd.img-previous
    -rwx------ 1 root root  13844192 Jul 12 15:24 vmlinuz.efi
    -rwx------ 1 root root  13846496 Jul 12 15:24 vmlinuz-previous.efi
    

    As you can see, Pop stores the current kernel (vmlinuz) and ramdisk (initrd) along with the corresponding previous versions in case you need/want to revert back to the previous kernel. To free up some space, you can simply delete either the initrd.img-previous or vmlinuz-previous.efi file if you are not using the previous kernel. That should allow you to then download the firmware and update it.

    After the firmware update, if you want to restore the previous (backup) kernel, you can copy it from /boot back to the efi folder above. Otherwise, the next kernel update will replace it for you anyways.

    I hope this helps, good luck.

  • System76 Begins Publishing "Virgo" Laptop PCB Design Specs, Confirms Intel Raptor Lake
  • According to @soller@lemmy.world, they are still evaluating different CPUs... it's just that Intel provides information publically and so they can release it under the GPLv3 right now:

    https://fosstodon.org/@soller/110701645325067411

  • Tab FavIcon missing in Firefox

    I am using Firefox (115) and I am missing the favicon in the tab for lemmy.world. The favicon appears in the bookmarks window, but not in tab for the website.

    I've tried to clear the cache and reloading the page, but the favicon still does not appear in Firefox. It does appear, however, when using Chrome. Likewise, other instances such as lemmy.one and programming.dev also work in Firefox (as shown in the screenshot), so this appears to be specific to lemmy.world's favicon.

    This isn't a big deal, but I was wondering if anyone else using Firefox experiencing this issue?

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    More details on System76's upcoming "Virgo" laptop, which would be their first in-house design.

    GitHub repository is here: https://github.com/system76/virgo/.

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    Wayland on Budgie
    blog.buddiesofbudgie.org Wayland.

    Let's talk about our plans for Wayland support for Budgie Desktop and the work we are doing to make it a reality.

    Wayland.

    The Budgie project plans on soft forking mutter in the short term to implement Wayland support in Budgie 10, but will look into developing their own wlroots based compositor called Magpie as a long term solution.

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    Wayland on Budgie

    The Budgie project plans on soft forking mutter in the short term to implement Wayland support in Budgie 10, but will look into developing their own wlroots based compositor called Magpie as a long term solution.

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    Ubuntu Plans to Ditch its 'Minimal' Install Option
    www.omgubuntu.co.uk Ubuntu Plans to Ditch its 'Minimal' Install Option - OMG! Ubuntu

    The introduction of a "minimal install" mode in the Ubuntu installer has been one of the distro's best-received features in years. When selected during

    Ubuntu Plans to Ditch its 'Minimal' Install Option - OMG! Ubuntu
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    Ubuntu Plans to Ditch its 'Minimal' Install Option
    www.omgubuntu.co.uk Ubuntu Plans to Ditch its 'Minimal' Install Option - OMG! Ubuntu

    The introduction of a "minimal install" mode in the Ubuntu installer has been one of the distro's best-received features in years. When selected during

    Ubuntu Plans to Ditch its 'Minimal' Install Option - OMG! Ubuntu
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