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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 Released with Sudo System Role and Podman 5.0

Highlights of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 include several new system roles, including a new role for sudo to automate the configuration of sudo at scale, Red Hat Satellite 6.16 with support for installing the Satellite Server and capsules on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 systems, and new file management capabilities in Web Console for performing routine file management tasks without using the command line.

Fedora 42 to Port the Anaconda Installer to Wayland, Default to Anaconda WebUI

The Anaconda WebUI installer was initially planned for the Fedora Linux 39 release, but it was delayed as it needed more work. Now, the Fedora Project aims to ship it with next year’s Fedora Linux 42 release as the default installer for the flagship Fedora Workstation edition featuring the GNOME desktop environment.

Valve Releases Steam Client Update to Further Improve Native Linux Gaming

The last Steam Client update brought a bunch of changes to improve Linux gaming for native titles by implementing support for executing native Linux game titles in the Steam for Linux runtime 1.0 (scout) by default rather than of the legacy runtime environment. The new Steam Client update fixes an issue where native Linux titles could occasionally run in the wrong runtime.

PeaZip 10.1 File Archiver Improves Resilience to Password Guessing Attacks

PeaZip 10.1 is here only two weeks after PeaZip 10 and updates the backend to Pea 1.21, which introduces scrypt KDF as the default option instead of PBKDF2 to improve resilience to password-guessing attacks. This change alone increases the memory cost up to 1GB per instance. KDF was supported since Pea 1.5.

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How To Change File Associations on Kubuntu

This article will help you configure file association on Kubuntu. File association, also known as "Open With", is the configuration that determines what application opens what file type, such as PDF should be opened with PDF reader, MP3 should be opened by MP3 player and so on. Every system has its own file associations. When you have many applications and choices, you might need to change such association so your favorite file type can be opened by default with your favorite application. We will show you it is easy to do on Kubuntu 22.04 "Jammy Jellyfish". Now let's start it out!

Kubuntu 22.04 with Legacy Oxygen Theme

This tutorial will help you using silver, metallic theme "Oxygen" that was popular in the era of KDE 4 on the modern Kubuntu 22.04 "Jammy Jellyfish". In short, we will use Elarun as wallpaper and Oxygen as the rest of the whole themes including application style, colors, icons, Plasma style, and splash screen. All in all, we want to offer the best visual experience we had in the past to new generation of Kubuntu users as well as the long time users themselves especially those who appreciate nostalgia. Finally, we hope you will enjoy this!

Tor Project blog

New Release: Tor Browser 14.0.2

This version fixes a tor crash bug on macOS when attempting to visit onion sites with PoW protections enabled (tor-browser#43245)

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Cost-Effective DART-MX91 SoM with 1.4GHz NXP i.MX 91 Processor Available from $35

Variscite has introduced the DART-MX91 System on Module, a compact and cost-effective solution within the DART Pin2Pin family, targeting edge devices for IoT, smart cities, industrial applications, and more.

Celeron Powered Fanless Mini PC with Dual 4K Display Support and M.2 2280 Slot

The EMP-100 is a compact, fanless mini PC built for versatile applications, including digital signage, industrial control, and retail environments. Designed with an aluminum chassis and VESA mounting support, it provides silent performance, dual 4K display support, and storage expansion via an M.2 2280 slot.

Free Software: Fediverse, New Study, Ebook, and LibreOffice

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 04, 2023

Dawn of the Fediverse

Yet as today’s brand names grew, they made a fateful decision: They rejected interoperability, choosing to remain sealed off from each other. Facebook and Twitter built walled gardens to keep us locked into their services, unable to slide into other applications and platforms. The format ensured the [Internet] of today was dominated by behemoths. A few networks to rule them all.

This was always a business decision, not a technological one. Had they wanted to, it was possible for emergent networks to “interoperate” and allow users on Facebook to make “friends” with users in other social media networks. But doing so would have limited the benefits of the “network effects” that proved so profitable to the Big Social Media corporations. If they could build features that manipulated people into spending more time on their network, and thus create more ad impressions, they did.
Linux Foundation Research Shows Economic Value of Open Source Software Rising in Terms of Benefits vs. Costs
What I've learned making an .epub Ebook with Quarto

Quarto is a tool made by Posit and is an open-source scientific and technical publishing tool. If you know what LaTeX is, then it should be easy for you to grok Quarto. The idea of Quarto is that you write documents using Markdown, and then compile these source files into either PDFs, Word documents, but also books, web-sites, ebooks (in the Epub format) and so on… It’s quite powerful, and you can also use programming language code chunks for literate programming. Quarto support R, Python, Julia and ObsevableJS chunks.
7 New books added to Big Book of R

Welcome to this new edition of Big Book of R additions! Thanks to Lluis Revilla and Gary for submitting books!

I also wanted to give a special shout-out to Niels Ohlsen (a long-time RStats twitter mutual!) who helped me review book submissions and add these to the collection.
Start of multi-page floating tables in [LibreOffice] Writer

Writer now has the early steps to handle tables that are both floating and span over multiple pages.

This work is primarily for Collabora Online, but is useful on the desktop as well.

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