GNU/Linux Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 08, 2025

• Games

  • Forbes ☛ Why Is 'Monster Hunter Wilds' Topping The Steam Deck Charts?

    When it comes to enjoying a game on Steam Deck, my opinion doesn't matter. Neither does Valve's "Deck Verified" program.

• Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)

  • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

    • Controls for OpenType

      So, after my last blog post, I ended up taking another few months to get the fonts branch just right, but now we have font resource that can be tagged, filtered and searched upon.

      After that, I needed my next text editing project to be a bit more manageable. Given that I had already made some head start on it at the beginning of last year, I continued with UI for the OpenType features.

      [...]

      Qt currently has two UI toolkits: QML and QWidget. The former uses the terminology “Item” instead of “Widget” to refer to UI controls. I find this somewhat difficult to get used to, so when I don’t prepend a widget name with Q, assume that I mean a generic UI control. I think most people never even consider what the different UI bits are called, so usually it isn’t a problem.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Fedora Family / IBM

    • Qubes Canary 042

      We have published Qubes Canary 042. The text of this canary and its accompanying cryptographic signatures are reproduced below. For an explanation of this announcement and instructions for authenticating this canary, please see the end of this announcement.

  • Canonical/Ubuntu Family

    • LWN ☛ Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) progress

      Matthieu Clemenceau has published a status update on Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) development to the Ubuntu Discourse forum. This includes updates on Ubuntu's adoption of Dracut as an alternative to initramfs-tools, a move to a single ISO for arm64 devices rather than device-specific images, and reverting the planned O3 optimization flags for Plucky Puffin.

    • Hackster ☛ Canonical, Renesas Partner to Bring Ubuntu Core to RZ Processors for the IoT and Edge AI

      Ubuntu Linux creator Canonical has announced a partnership with Renesas that will see the companies work hand-in-hand on edge artificial intelligence (edge AI) and on-device machine learning (ML) applications — starting with a custom Ubuntu Linux image for Renesas' RZ processor family.

      "Canonical is excited to partner with Renesas to push the boundaries of what is possible at the edge," claims Cindy Goldberg, Canonical's vice-president for silicon alliances, of the deal between the two companies. "Together, we will provide organizations with the tools they need to reduce time to market for IoT [Internet of Things] and edge devices that are compliant and future-proof."

  • Open Hardware/Modding

    • CNX Software ☛ Seeed Studio launches Wi-Fi HaLow mini PCIe module for Raspberry Pi, add-on board for XIAO boards

      Seeed Studio has launched two 900 MHz WiFi HaLow modules for long-range, low-power communication based on Quectel FGH100M-H: the Wio-WM6180 Wi-Fi HaLow mini-PCIe module designed to be installed in hardware such as OpenWrt routers or even Raspberry Pi SBCs, and the Wi-Fi HaLow module for Seeed Studio XIAO designed to take XIAO boards with Espressif, Raspberry Pi, or Nordic Semi microcontrollers.