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Camera (GNOME Camera) is the default Ubuntu application for taking photos as well as recording videos. In other words, it is the application used to access webcam device in laptop or PC. It is useful i.e. in live streaming and video conferencing (for school teachers, office workers, your family) beside taking simple pictures. We will learn more about it here with a little bit howtos and beneficial references. We remind you that this episode is the continuation in this series after Calendar and before the next one Characters. Now, please enjoy reading!

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How Standard Setters Run the Internet

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While it doesn’t add support for new network protocols, the Wireshark 4.4.8 release is here to update support for the ASTERIX, DLT, DNP 3.0, DOF, DTLS, ETSI CAT, Gryphon, IPsec, ISObus VT, KRB5, MBIM, RTCP, SLL, STCSIG, TETRA, UDS, and URL Encoded Form Data protocols.

GStreamer 1.26.4 Adds TAI Timestamp Muxing Support to mp4mux, Other Changes

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Rescuezilla 2.6.1 Swiss Army Knife of System Recovery Adds Ubuntu 25.04 Support

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VirtualBox 7.1.12 Improves Support for Linux Kernel 6.16 on Linux Hosts and Guests

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Blender 4.5 LTS Open-Source 3D Graphics App Makes the Vulkan Backend Stable

Coming four months after Blender 4.4, the Blender 4.5 LTS release finally makes the Vulkan backend stable, improving its performance and also adding support for OpenXR, Subdivision, USD/Hydra, and other features. On Linux, the Vulkan backend requires NVIDIA 550 or later for NVIDIA GPUs and Mesa 25.3 or later for AMD GPUs.

KDE Plasma 6.4.3 Improves the Automatic Screen Scale Calculator on Wayland

Coming two weeks after KDE Plasma 6.4.2, the KDE Plasma 6.4.3 release improves the automatic screen scale calculator on Wayland to no longer offer a default scale factor that’s only a little bit higher than 100%. Instead, it will now round the calculated default scale factor down to 100% if it would otherwise be only a little bit higher.

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Long live Xorg, I mean Xlibre!

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jun 14, 2025,
updated Jun 14, 2025

battle

Quoting: Long live Xorg, I mean Xlibre! —

Typically, I am opposed to the constant forking and reforking in the FOSS and Linux world. Someone doesn't like something tiny, boom, fork. This is usually how it works, and why we have 300+ distros, most of them derivatives of a basic set of four or five, with only 5% variation among them. But in this case, it is necessary. Wayland is simply the wrong solution. If somehow, magically, it fixes all its problems tomorrow, then great, fantastic, thumbs up, I'm all for it. Only it won't, and it can't. And thus, as a threat to legitimate end user needs and important desktop functionality, it shouldn't be promoted or adopted. Not until it at least reaches functional parity with X11 (which it can't). But even then, it ought to surpass it, otherwise, what's the point of the last fifteen years?

Xlibre might be the answer. Now, it might also not be the answer. For now, there's great hope. The proof is in the pudding. Xlibre will need to show it can deliver, that it's stable, robust and mature, and that it can meet the requirements, current and future ones. At the moment, Xlibre seems like it's the best potential solution. Well, I guess I said everything I had to say. Bon voyage, and party on!

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