GNU/Linux Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 01, 2025

• Desktop Environments/WMs

  • GNOME Desktop/GTK

    • This Week in GNOME ☛ This Week in GNOME: #189 Global Shortcuts

      Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from February 21 to February 28.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • SUSE/OpenSUSE

    • Dominique Leuenberger ☛ Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2025/09

      Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

      This has been a very productive week with 7 published snapshots (0220…0226). Naturally, some snapshots were a bit smaller than others.. It does not matter if you update to all intermediate snapshots or skip a few. Tumbleweed is built to be resilient against this and should not care much. We frequently hear that people fire up a VM that was last used one year ago, running zypper dup, and being positively surprised that this all works. But you should be allowed to expect that.

  • Arch Family

    • Tux Digital ☛ “Is Arch GNU/Linux stable?”, explaining GNU/Linux with Rolling Release vs Stable Release

      Is Arch GNU/Linux stable? Well… yes and no. It all depends on what you mean by “stable.” In this video, we break down the different meanings of stability in GNU/Linux distros—how Arch Linux, as a rolling release, is both stable and not stable at the same time.

  • Debian Family

    • Petter Reinholdtsen: Brushing up on old packages in Xiph and Debian

      Since my motivation boost in the beginning of the month caused me to wrap up a new release of liboggz, I have used the same boost to wrap up new editions of libfishsound, liboggplay libkate too. These have been tagged in upstream git, but not yet published on the Xiph download location. I am waiting for someone with access to have time to move the tarballs there, I hope it will happen in a few days. The same is the case for a minor update of liboggz too.