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GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
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Linux Made Simple ☛ 2025-08-17 [Older] Linux Weekly Roundup #338
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Kernel Space
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ZDNet ☛ AI is creeping into the Linux kernel - and official policy is needed ASAP [Ed: Slop is not "AI". Quit perpetuating the lies.]
As far as Daniel Stenberg, chief maintainer of the popular open-source cURL data transfer program, is concerned, AI-written bug reports are active attacks on the project. The Linux kernel community stands between these two extremes.
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Graphics Stack
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Tom's Hardware ☛ AMD accidentally marks FSR 4 open-source — source code reveals potential support for older Radeon GPUs
The files reveal that AMD was working on a second version of FSR 4, capable of operating through the int8 numerical format. Videocardz' screenshot shows duplicate FSR 4 files, with a set focused on FP8 and the other int8 support. The only reason you'd want to make another version of your upscaler that runs on a different numerical format is to support more GPUs.
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Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)
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Sebastian Wick: Testing with Portals
At the Linux App Summit (LAS) in Albania three months ago, I gave a talk about testing in the xdg-desktop-portal project. There is a recording of the presentation, and the slides are available as well.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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BSD
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MWL ☛ 98: Suffering Builds Character
The new edition of Networking for System Administrators just went to copyedit, so I can forget about it for a few weeks. The people who most deserve credit for this book are the folks who struggled through me learning networking as I stood between them and their goals.
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SUSE/OpenSUSE
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OpenSUSE ☛ openSUSE Welcome Receiving Makeover
Rather than re-inventing the wheel, members of openSUSE’s release team have decided to tweak and refine existing solutions like gnome-tour for GNOME and plasma-welcome for KDE’s Plasma by making a new controller and opensuse-welcome-launcher to coordinate them and provide desktop-specific content.
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Arch Family
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ArchLinux ☛ Recent service outages
We want to provide an update on the recent service outages affecting our infrastructure. The Arch GNU/Linux Project is currently experiencing an ongoing denial of service attack that primarily impacts our main webpage, the Arch User Repository (AUR), and the Forums.
We are aware of the problems that this creates for our end users and will continue to actively work with our hosting provider to mitigate the attack. We are also evaluating DDoS protection providers while carefully considering factors including cost, security, and ethical standards.
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Linuxiac:
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Ahoy, This Is openSUSE
Welcome greeters are something every Linux fan has run into—those little windows that pop up right after you install a distro or upgrade to a new version of a desktop environment like GNOME or KDE.
Their main job is pretty simple: give you a quick tour of what’s new and offer some handy links to post-install tools. How useful they really are, though, depends on who you ask. Personally, I find them a bit of an annoying “feature,” but plenty of folks probably appreciate having them around. Anyway.
One of the more recognizable ones—the friendly “Ahoy, this is openSUSE” window that greets users of this cute green chameleon—is now getting ready for a big change.