today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 10, 2023

• Intel Is Already Building Linux Audio Drivers For Lunar Lake

  Intel is reportedly building audio drivers for Linux for its upcoming Lunar Lake CPUs that will arrive next year.

• This Week in Linux 226: Linux 6.4, Red Hat Changes, SUSE, Steam Summer Sale & more Linux news!

  Welcome to This Week in Linux, the news show from the TuxDigital Network that keeps you up to date with what’s going on in the Linux and Open Source world. I’m Michael Tunnell and this week is slammed with news.

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: #40: Another r2u Example – Making Colab Easier

  Welcome to the 40th post in the $R^4 series. This one will just be a very brief illustration of r2u use in what might be an unexpected place: Google Colab. Colab has a strong bent towards Jupyter and Python but has been supporting R compute kernels for some time (by changing what they call the ‘runtime’). And with a little exploration one can identify these are (currently, as of July 2023) running Ubuntu 20.04 aka ‘focal’.

• What is Node.js? Exploring Server-Side JavaScript Development

  Node.js is a powerful runtime environment that allows developers to build server-side applications using JavaScript. It is built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine, providing a lightweight and efficient platform for creating scalable and high-performance web applications.

• The Talospace Project: Firefox 115 on POWER

  Firefox 115 is out, which is also the new Extended Support Release base. A nice feature on Linux is a middle click on the new tab button will open a new tab with whatever URL is on the clipboard (on the other hand, middle click on an existing tab closes it, so the interface is a wee bit muddled here); a more questionable feature is a Mozilla-controlled extension blocklist by domain.