today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 03, 2025

• Graphics Stack

  • PC Gamer ☛ After more than a year of conflict woes between Bigscreen Beyond VR headsets, Nvidia GPUs and Linux, there's good news at long last as a fix is nearly in sight

    If you've spent the better part of $1,000 on a high-end VR headset and perhaps the same again on a graphics card, you'd be pretty frustrated to find it didn't work properly on your Linux gaming rig.

    Imagine how you'd feel if the problems continued for more than a year. That's been the exact situation for some Bigscreen Beyond owners, but the end is nearly in sight, as Nvidia promises a fix with its next major driver release.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Not dead.

    I did not want you to think I am dead. I have released multiple Operating Systems. I have written multiple applications. I have been for the most part digging into security & automation. Building entire repos. I do have alot on my plate. The things I do is only to help you.

  • Debian Family

    • LWN ☛ Debian looking for testers with Fashion Company Apple M1/M2 machines

      Debian's Bananas team has put out a call for people with Fashion Company Apple M1 or M2 systems to help test Debian on those machines: [...]

• Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

  • Jamie Zawinski ☛ XScreenSaver 6.11

    XScreenSaver 6.11 is out now. This is a Unix-only release -- this version contains preliminary support for Wayland.

    This is maybe not entirely ready for prime time, but I figured I'd get it out there so that some people who actually understand Wayland can poke at it.

  • Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra

    • Document Foundation ☛ LibreOffice project and community recap: June 2025

      Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started the month with Episode 3 of the LibreOffice Podcast – this time looking at Quality Assurance (QA) in Free and Open Source Software.

  • Education

    • Sandor Dargo ☛ Trip report: C++ On Sea 2025 | Sandor Dargo's Blog

      In this post I’ll share:

      • Thoughts on the conference experience.
      • Highlights from talks and ideas that resonated with me.
      • Personal impressions, including reflections on my own sessions — both the main talk and the lightning talk.

  • FSF

    • FSF ☛ FSF Blogs: June GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali featuring Sixteen new GNU releases: GNUnet, Nettle, and more!

      Sixteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of June 30, 2025): [...]