today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 09, 2023,
updated Feb 09, 2023

• mintCast 405 – Method Not Allowed

  First up in the news, Mint 21.2 has the codename Victoria, OpenSuse updates, helloSystem says hello for the 0.8th time, new Firefox allows imports, Xfce goes Waylanding, Cosmic DE speeds up, OBS Studio fixes Linux Wayland bug, and Elementary has a new release;
  In security and privacy, we report on after log4j, Boldmove, and Malvirt;
  Then in our Wanderings, Joe calls Texas for Icing, and Moss is having New Phone Fever; Bill is in Colorado doing a rescue and will be back next episode.
  In our Innards section we discuss what you can do with old Android devices;
  

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• What Linux Desktop Did You Use in 2022? Take Our Poll!

  The polls are open for the first round of our Readers Choice 2022 Desktop Environment Poll to determine which desktop environment our readers used most in 2022. The voting on this round will determine what desktop environments and/or window managers make to to the final round of voting.

  Two times in the past we’ve run polls focused on desktop environments, but this will be the first time we’ve pulled out all stops to make a DE poll central to our editorial calendar (February is DE month). In both of those previous polls, KDE won.

• Dave Airlie (blogspot): vulkan video: status update (anv + radv)

  Okay just a short status update.

• ASRock new mini PC powered by AMD Ryzen 7000U-Series APUs

  After recently launching the NUCS 1300 BOX Series last month, ASRock has just presented their new 4X4 BOX 7000/D5 Series. These new Mini-PCs come equipped with dual 2.5 GbE ports, Wi-Fi 6 E/BL5.2 connectivity and DDR5 support.

• Building a unikernel that runs WebAssembly - part 1

  Hackweek 22 took place last week. During this week all the SUSE employees are free to hack on whatever they want. This one of the perks of working at SUSE 😎.

  This time my personal project has been about building a unikernel that runs WebAssembly.