KDE Frameworks 5.81 Released with KHamburgerMenu, Various Improvements
The biggest new feature in the KDE Frameworks 5.81 release is the implementation of a new, custom hamburger menu called KHamburgerMenu, which will be shown on QWidgets-based apps whenever the main menubar is hidden.
The KDE Project plans to adopt the KHamburgerMenu for all KDE apps as it offers several advantages, including an alternative app menu in case you hide the default menubar by accident, more freedom when you want to take full advantage of the maximum vertical space, more compact design with only relevant menu items, as well as support for relocating, renaming, removing, or even changing its icon.
| today's leftovers
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If your current Vulkan-based Radeon Linux gaming performance isn't cutting it and a new GPU is out of your budget or you have been unable to find a desired GPU upgrade in stock, the Mesa RADV driver has added an option likely of interest to you... Well, at least moving forward with this feature being limited to RDNA2 GPUs for now.
RADV as Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver has added an option to allow Variable Rate Shading (VRS) via an environment variable override. This RADV addition is inspired by the likes of NVIDIA DLSS for trading rendering quality for better performance but in its current form is a "baby step" before being comparable to DLSS quality and functionality.
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In RADV we just added an option to speed up rendering by rendering less pixels.
These kinds of techniques have become more common over the past decade with techniques such as checkerboarding, TAA based upscaling and recently DLSS. Fundamentally all they do is trading off rendering quality for rendering cost and many of them include some amount of postprocessing to try to change the curve of that tradeoff. Most notably DLSS has been widly successful at that to the point many people claim it is barely a quality regression.
Of course increasing GPU performance by up to 50% or so with barely any quality regression seems like must have and I think it would be pretty cool if we could have the same improvements on Linux. I think it has the potential to be a game changer, making games playable on APUs or playing with really high resolution or framerates on desktops.
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VRS is by far the easiest thing to make work in almost all games. Most alternatives like checkerboarding, TAA and DLSS need modified render target size, significant shader fixups, or even a proprietary integration with games. Making changes that deeply is getting more complicated the more advanced the game is.
If we want to reduce render resolution (which would be a key thing in e.g. checkerboarding or DLSS) it is very hard to confidently tie all resolution dependent things together. For example a big cost for some modern games is raytracing, but the information flow to the main render targets can be very hard to track automatically and hence such a thing would require a lot of investigation or a bunch of per game customizations.
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Valve has put out a major upgrade for their popular free to play MOBA with Dota 2 getting Dawnbreaker. This brand new hero is focused on melee, with a low-skill entry level so it should be suitable for a lot of players. You can see a dedicated hero page for Dawnbreaker here.
"Dawnbreaker shines in the heart of battle, happily crushing enemies with her celestial hammer and healing nearby allies. She revels in hurling her hammer through multiple foes and then converging with it in a blazing wake, always waiting to tap her true cosmic power to fly to the aid of her teammates — eager to rout her enemies on the battlefield no matter where they are."
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No wine-ing about the puns please. Jokes aside, the tasty compatibility tech that is Wine has a new development release available today with Wine 6.6.
For newer readers and Linux users here's a refresher - Wine is a compatibility layer built for operating systems like Linux, macOS and BSD. The idea is to allow other platforms to run games and applications only built and supported for Windows. It's also part of what makes up Steam Play Proton. Once a year or so, a new stable release is made.
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Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)! The Final freeze is underway. The F34 Final Go/No-Go meeting is Thursday.
I have weekly office hours on Wednesdays in the morning and afternoon (US/Eastern time) in #fedora-meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else. See the upcoming meetings for more information.
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Containers rose to the mainstream primarily due to workload portability and immutability advantages. Kubernetes became the primary orchestration tool and was initially supporting stateless applications, commonly referred to as the cattle vs. pets approach. However, data-centric applications need stateful-ness while still leveraging the cattle vs. pet approach. Microservices, Containers, and Kubernetes are now moving mainstream as increasingly more stateful applications are adopting them.
SUSE for your agile data platform, featuring Microsoft SQL Server[Ed: SUSE is just a worthless proprietary software reseller for SAP and Microsoft (their salesperson from SAP signing anti-RMS petition makes perfect sense and proves us correct about SUSE's motivations)]
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FLoC is a terrible idea that should not be implemented. Google’s experimentation with FLoC is also deeply flawed . We hope that this site raises awareness about where the future of Chrome seems to be heading, and why it shouldn't.
FLoC takes most of your browsing history in Chrome, and analyzes it to assign you to a category or “cohort.” This identification is then sent to any website you visit that requests it, in essence telling them what kind of person Google thinks you are. For the time being, this ID changes every week, hence leaking new information about you as your browsing habits change. You can read a more detailed explanation here .
Because this ID changes, you will want to visit https://amifloced.org often to see those changes.
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Boutique browsers try to scratch out a living by finding a niche underserved by the usual suspects. Brave is one of those browsers.
Brave has gotten more attention than most alternate browsers, partly because a co-founder was one of those who kick-started Mozilla's Firefox, partly because of its very unusual — some say parasitical — business model.
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Devices/Embedded Hardware
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Aaeon’s 3.5-inch Linux-ready “GENE-CML5” SBC supplies an up to octa-core 10th Gen Core CPU plus up to 64GB DDR4, 2x SATA, 2x GbE, 2x USB 3.2 Gen2, DP, VGA, M.2 M-key, and PCIe x4.
Aaeon has posted a preliminary product page for what appears to be the first 3.5-inch SBC built around Intel’s 10th Gen Comet Lake-S. In fact, this is one of the first Comet Lake SBCs of any kind, following a few early entries like Portwell’s WADE-8212 Mini-ITX board.
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We previously wrote it was possible to create a Raspberry Pi RP2040 board with HDMI using DVI and programmable IOs to output video up to 640×480 at 60 Hz with the microcontroller’s Cortex-M0+ cores clocked at 252 MHz.
At the time, we also noted Olimex was working on such a board with RP2040-PICO-PC designed to create a small Raspberry Pi RP2040 computer with HDMI/DVI video output. The Bulgarian company has now manufactured the first prototype, but due to supply issues with the Raspberry Pi Pico board, they also designed their own RP2040-PICO module since they’ve got a reel of Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontrollers.
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We started this project June-July 2020. Due to the Covid19 the development took 10 months although only 6 month of active work was done, due to lock downs, ill developers and so on troubles.
Now the board is completely routed and has these features: [...]
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Miller, who leads the Rust Platform team for AWS, has been a software engineer for almost 30 years. At AWS, Miller has been a leader in open-source strategic initiatives and software engineering and delivery. Miller's Rust Platform team includes Rust language and compiler maintainers and contributors and developers on the Tokio runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Under Miller's leadership, the AWS Rust team is crafting optimizations and tools for the features that engineers will use to build and operate services which take full advantage of Rust's performance and safety.
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Cross-compiling can be a challenge with some packages, and some of the big ones, such as SeaMonkey, LibreOffice and Inkscape, I have compiled in a running EasyOS (with the "devx" SFS loaded).
I have previously compiled LibreOffice in OE, see the Pyro series. But it was a lot of work.
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Ten months later, after 14.330 added and 8.634 deleted lines, Shortwave 2.0 is available! It sports new features, and comes with the well known improvements, and bugfixes as always.
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Shortwave has always been designed to handle any screen size from the beginning. In version 2.0 we have been able to improve this even further. There is now a compact mini player for desktop screens. This still offers access to the most important functions in a tiny window.
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I first discovered Unix systems in the early 1990s, when I was an undergraduate at university. I liked it so much that I replaced the MS-DOS system on my home computer with the Linux operating system.
One thing that Linux didn't have in the early to mid-1990s was a word processor. A standard office application on other desktop operating systems, a word processor lets you edit text easily. I often used a word processor on DOS to write my papers for class. I wouldn't find a Linux-native word processor until the late 1990s. Until then, word processing was one of the rare reasons I maintained dual-boot on my first computer, so I could occasionally boot back into DOS to write papers.
Then I discovered that Linux provided kind of a word processor. GNU troff, better known as groff, is a modern implementation of a classic text processing system called troff, short for "typesetter roff," which is an improved version of the nroff system. And nroff was meant to be a new implementation of the original roff (which stood for "run off," as in to "run off" a document).
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Richard Stallman returns to FSF 18 months after controversial
Richard Stallman returns to FSF 18 months after controversial rape comments
Richard M. Stallman returns to the Free Software Foundation...
Richard M. Stallman returns to the Free Software Foundation Board of Directors
Richard Stallman returns to the Free Software Foundation
Richard Stallman returns to the Free Software Foundation after resigning in 2019
RMS is back at the FSF.
RMS is back at the FSF.
Richard Stallman returns to the Free Software Foundation
Richard Stallman returns to the Free Software Foundation
OSI Reaction
OSI Response to RMS’s reappointment to the Board of the Free Software Foundation
Richard Stallman Announcing His Return To The FSF’s Board Of Dir
Richard Stallman Announcing His Return To The FSF’s Board Of Directors
Richard Stallman Is Finally Back In The FSF
Richard Stallman Is Finally Back In The FSF
Microsoft boosters again
Free software advocates seek removal of Richard Stallman and entire FSF board [Ed: Microsoft booster having a second go trying to remove RMS and destroy the FSF. Showing who’s (at least partly) in charge of this.]
Ian Jackson: Signing the open letter about RMS
Ian Jackson: Signing the open letter about RMS [Ed: Same people who tried to CANCEL Torvalds also try to remove RMS now.]
In Planet Debian
Sean Whitton: rmsopenletter
Another hostile reaction to RMS returning (it's now official)
My Thoughts On Richard Stallman’s Return To the FSF Board
In Defense of Richard Stallman
In Defense of Richard Stallman
Why Richard Stallman should step away from the FSF
Why Richard Stallman should step away from the FSF
Making our Community Safe: the FSF and rms
Making our Community Safe: the FSF and rms
Richard Stallman returns to the Free Software Foundation
Richard Stallman returns to the Free Software Foundation amid calls for FSF resignations
FOSS developers launch petition to push out Stallman
FOSS developers launch petition to push out Stallman, FSF board
Statement on Richard Stallman rejoining the FSF board
Statement on Richard Stallman rejoining the FSF board
Mark J. Wielaard and Gunnar Wolf
Mark J. Wielaard: FSF Associate Membership
Gunnar Wolf: Regarding the Stallman comeback
Enrico Zini: Stallman
Enrico Zini: Stallman
Controversial programmer Richard Stallman returns to FSF board
Controversial programmer Richard Stallman returns to FSF board
Debian ponders vote as an organisation
Debian ponders vote as an organisation on backing Stallman's ouster
Here's a lie
The free software community calls for the removal of entire FSF board [Ed: This title is a lie. It's just a vocal minority making noise at Microsoft's GitHub.]
GNU Chinese Translators Team firmly behind RMS
Letter to support RMS
KDE
On the reappointment of Richard Stallman as a director of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Microsoft boosters at ZDNet
Return of Stallman to FSF sparks outrage among open-source and free software leaders [Ed: More from Microsoft boosters at ZDNet]
Software Freedom Conservancy
On the Recent Announcement by FSF's Board of Directors - Conservancy Blog - Software Freedom Conservancy
Mob Mentality Threatens The Free Software Movement
Mob Mentality Threatens The Free Software Movement
"Proof they don't care about free software."
RMS is back at the FSF: Proof they don't care about free software.
Some mainstream media
Mozilla and Tor join calls to oust Richard Stallman from Free Software Foundation
Another lie
Jeffrey Epstein defender back on board at local software group [Ed: Another lie about RMS. He blasted Epstein, unlike Bill Gates, who defended him]
EFF now
Statement on the Re-election of Richard Stallman to the FSF Board
Microsoft boosters
Calls grow to exile Stallman from Free Software movement [Ed: We see many Microsoft-connected sites pushing the anti-RMS petition. They don't mention the real MIT scandal is Bill Gates supporting Epstein. RMS called him "serial rapist".]
Comeback of Richard Stallman provokes protest over his views on
Comeback of Richard Stallman provokes protest over his views on Epstein
Scientist Who Defended Epstein and Pedophilia Reinstated
Scientist Who Defended Epstein and Pedophilia Reinstated to Free Software Foundation Board
Andy Wingo: here we go again
Andy Wingo: here we go again [Ed: The people who pushed to oust RMS, based on a lie, still at it 2 years later]
GNOME again
Michael Catanzaro: Free Software Charities
SUSE joins open source bodies calling for Stallman to go
SUSE joins open source bodies calling for Stallman to go
Red Hat statement about Richard Stallman’s return
Red Hat statement about Richard Stallman’s return to the Free Software Foundation board
The Free Software Foundation: it's time for a new beginning
The Free Software Foundation: it's time for a new beginning [Ed: This is false. The description of what RMS said is borrowed from libellous reports, to the anger is basically based on a misunderstanding or media inciting him]
From Italo Vignoli (OSI)
Statement about Richard M. Stallman and the Free Software Foundation [Ed: What it does not say is that Italo Vignoli, who wrote this, has long been in the OSI. The OSI has long been an enemy of the FSF, so there's some bad blood there; also Novell and GNOME connection]
Fight against idiocy; support RMS
Fight against idiocy; support RMS
The Register
Free Software Foundation urged to free itself of Richard Stallman by hundreds of developers and techies
"An Open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman"
"An Open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman" Reaches 2000 Signatories
Two more from Sam
Red Hat joins ranks of companies seeking Stallman sacking
Pro-Stallman group issues open letter, wants him to stay on FSF board
"Rather than running around with petitions and vendettas..."
Positive alternatives to Codes of Conduct
False
Free Software Community Condemns Richard Stallman’s Reinstatement to FSF Board of Directors [Ed: No, they are not the "Free Software Community"; people who attack RMS are typically those working for openwashing]
The Stallman wars
The Stallman wars
By Michael Meeks
Michael Meeks: 2021-03-22 Monday [Ed: The underlying facts have not actually changed, so it makes absolutely no sense that Meeks suddenly changes his position]
The Free Software Foundation and Richard Stallman
The Free Software Foundation and Richard Stallman
Molly de Blanc, arrest and prosecution for cyberbullying
Molly de Blanc, arrest and prosecution for cyberbullying
GNOME Board Members Must Resign In Disgrace
GNOME Board Members Must Resign In Disgrace
Slashdot brings this back to headlines
Red Hat Pulls Free Software Foundation Funding Over Richard Stallman's Return
Charles Plessy: GR toxique
Charles Plessy: GR toxique
Cancelling Richard Stallman?
Cancelling Richard Stallman?
Neil Williams: Free and Open
Neil Williams: Free and Open
Red Hat Withdraws Free Software Foundation Funding
Red Hat Withdraws Free Software Foundation Funding
Organizations Oppose Stallman & FSF but Individual Supports Keep
Organizations Oppose Stallman & FSF but Individual Supports Keep on Pouring in
Why RMS is a Great Mascot
Why RMS is a Great Mascot (and spokesperson) for Free Software
April's statement
Richard Stallman Is Back On the Board Of the Free Software Foundation
RMS, Debian, and the world
Norbert Preining: RMS, Debian, and the world
Veteran GCC developer calls for Stallman to leave steering panel
Veteran GCC developer calls for Stallman to leave steering panel
Neil McGovern
Linux Action News 182 [Ed: Shame on Jupiter Broadcasting for amplifying the "Reprehensible" Neil McGovern with his defamatory attacks on RMS. Then again, it's owned by Microsoft-connected people...]
The problem with Richard Stallman is not about free speech
Jamie McClelland: The problem with Richard Stallman is not about free speech
Red Hat pulls funding from Free Software Foundation
Red Hat pulls funding from Free Software Foundation
Red Hat withdraws from the Free Software Foundation after RMS
Red Hat withdraws from the Free Software Foundation after Stallman’s return
More ZDNet propaganda
Free Software Foundation leaders and supporters desert sinking ship [Ed: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols lying and defaming as usual.]
Ian Kelling
SD Times news digest: PHP moves to GitHub, OSI’s statement on Stallman, and Ian Kelling joins FSF board of directors
Richard Stallman's return to the FSF is going to cost it
Richard Stallman's return to the FSF is going to cost it
Molly de Blanc, arrest and prosecution for cyberbullying
Molly de Blanc, arrest and prosecution for cyberbullying
False report
Director, deputy director, CTO of Free Software Foundation all resign over Stallman installation impasse [Ed: This is a false report and not what actually happened at all]
Defend Richard Stallman!
Defend Richard Stallman!
Satire
RMS Hate Letter Signers Overtake RMS Support Letter Signers By A Wide Margin Thanks To "Discovered" Mail-in Ballots
A couple late posts about the FSF
Gunnar Wolf: And what does the FSF have, anyway?
Christopher Allan Webber: The hurt of this moment, hopes for the future
Another late "hit piece" on RMS
Developers say that the firestorm over controversial developer Richard Stallman is a moment of reckoning for the open source industry [Ed: Another late "hit piece" on RMS, as if "open source industry" is RMS and FSF (it's an attack on them) ]
White House employee against RMS
Paul Tagliamonte & Debian: USDS.gov, White House and mob ringleader
Stallman…
Stallman…
Fedora being IBM
Fedora Magazine: Fedora Council statement on Richard Stallman rejoining FSF Board
ZDNet at it again...
The Free Software Foundation's leadership crisis worsens
Automattic likely just misled on what RMS said
FSF Doubles Down on Stallman Reinstatement, WordPress Does Not Support His Return to the Board
Varghese still at it...
More resignations at FSF over Stallman returning to board [Ed: Sam Varghese is still attacking the FSF and by extension software freedom; The Bully De Blanc-led mob still doesn't care about the actual facts. FSF is becoming more aligned with its goals at the moment. The monopolies don't like that.]
"Liberty or Death"
Liberty or Death
Daniel Pocock: Jacob Appelbaum character assassination..
Daniel Pocock: Jacob Appelbaum character assassination was pushed from the White House
Gunnar Wolf & Debian: fascism, anti-semitism and crucifixion
Gunnar Wolf & Debian: fascism, anti-semitism and crucifixion
Renata Avila: Trying to Understand the Lynching of Stallman
Renata Avila: Trying to Understand the Lynching of Stallman
Varghese still pushing it
Results of Debian vote on Stallman to be known by 17 April
How to vote in Debian using the command line only
How to vote in Debian using the command line only
Slashdot still fanning the flames against FSF
Results of Debian Vote On Stallman To Be Known By April 17
More monopoly spin
Luis Villa: Governing Values-Centered Tech Non-Profits; or, The Route Not Taken by FSF
debian-private leaker was right
debian-private leaker was right