today's leftovers
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Graphics Stack
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GamingOnLinux ☛ NVIDIA 565.57.01 Beta has Wayland and HDR improvements, plus DXVK and VKD3D optimizations
NVIDIA today released two new Linux drivers. The big one is the NVIDIA 565.57.01 Beta, along with a one-liner update in the stable 550.127.05 release.
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Unix Men ☛ How to Uninstall NVIDIA Drivers
NVIDIA Linux Driver Vulnerability Exploits Root Privileges!
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Canonical/Ubuntu Family
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ZDNet ☛ Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole takes flight - with a blend of innovation and nostalgia
2004 was a heck of a year for Linux. SCO was still suing IBM and was sure it owned the copyrights to Unix's code and would control Linux's fate. In the meantime, Red Hat switched from consumer Linux, Red Hat Linux, to business Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Red Hat Linux users hated this move. Meanwhile, a South African technology millionaire named Mark Shuttleworth decided to release a new end-user-friendly Linux distribution he called Ubuntu.
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Open Access/Content
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Society for Scholarly Publishing ☛ Guest Post: This Open Access Week Theme Has a Distinguished History - The Scholarly Kitchen
Open Access (OA) is the blatantly excellent idea that publicly funded research should be free to read and use by anyone. It has clear benefits for academics, for innovation, and for the public. But the OA movement has been misled by commercial interests, and misused for malevolent purposes such as predatory publishing.
This predicament has created an unhelpful divide. Some of those who notice the problems with OA wonder if its advocates are all hopelessly naïve. Conversely, some of those who observe the clear benefits of OA dismiss the problem-pointers as merely cynical or in the pocket of commercial interests. But these are thin caricatures, and we can do better.
That’s why I like this year’s Open Access Week theme, “community over commercialization”. It aims to “prioritize approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of the public and the academic community.”
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Applications
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TecMint ☛ Etherpad: A Real-Time Online Collaborative Document Editor
Etherpad allows authors to edit simultaneously, seeing each other’s edits in real-time, with the capability to display each author’s text in their own colors.
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Mozilla
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Tor ☛ New Release: Tor Browser 14.0 | The Tor Project
Tor Browser 14.0 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and our distribution directory. This is our first stable release based on Firefox ESR 128, incorporating a year's worth of changes shipped upstream in Firefox. As part of this process we've also completed our annual ESR transition audit, where we reviewed and addressed over 200 Bugzilla issues for changes in Firefox that may negatively affect the privacy and security of Tor Browser users. Our final reports from this audit are now available in the tor-browser-spec repository on our Gitlab instance.
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