✅ Custom Account Colors ✅ Linux System Tray Support ✅ Rust-Enabled Builds
And that's only half of the good news! This month's Thunderbird Development Digest from @alecaddd has some great updates as we step closer to the next ESR.
Here is my new GNU/Linux distribution guide about Debian KDE 12, the right GNU/Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024! Also about three major problems with GNU/Linux distros that will drive away all professional artists, IMO, and how I got kicked out of the Fedora KDE ecosystem with F40, which imposed Plasma6 and Wayland. I hope it helps other artists here!
Linux blind users, listen to this and let me know what you guess this actually is, and most importantly, what you think! I'm just gauging interest as this is still in its early infancy, and I was wondering if it was worth continuing. As you can infer, I'm already far enough to have a working yet incomplete prototype!
Great news from @JanGrulich today. PipeWire camera patches are merged in Chromium and should be part of Chromium 127 (unless testing turns up something). This means both major browsers should have @pipewirep camera support soon. chromium-review.googlesource.c… #linux #fedora #chrome
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Subtoot. Alright, look. My disability isn't your disability. My blindness, is not your autism, or Deafness, or others. My blindness means that I need screen readers to access digital technology which has screens. So, when we, blind people, say that it's hard for us to use Linux, or that the command line can be difficult because of some commands using a table layout, like top, we um, I don't know, actually fucking mean it. When we boot up your Linux distro of choice, and find that Orca, the Linux screen reader, isn't even available on the install media, or that it cannot read the installer, that's Linux, and foss as as a general whole, being ableism. Clear and simple. If someone with low vision can use Linux well, that's great. I sure as hell wish I could just pop in any distro and get something that I can at least use like a sighted person, but no. If someone with Autism finds that desktop environments allow them to make things the way they need enough for them to get their work done more easily, that's great. Be glad you don't have to use a screen reader on top of that, okay? Next time you go distro hopping, I want you to try something for me. Shut down your computer, then put in the flash drive, press the power button or do whatever you need to to start the computer, then close your eyes. Then, set up your new distro. Then tell me how it went. I thought about just letting this kind of shit go, but damn it it's bad enough when we fucking get this kind of shit from non-disabled people, but when other people with disabilities pile on and basically accuse blind people of lying and that Linux is fine, no. I get that all disabled people have a disability. But just because you can see, that the world is *made* for you, doesn't mean everyone else has that privalidge. And right now, Windows is still usable by people who are blind, mainly because Windows is so open that we can have screen readers that can grab just about anything they want, and the Windows foss screen reader is amazingly scriptable. Wayland kills accessibility in the name of security. Orca doesn't support addons yet. So what's that about Linux being customizable? Linux distros only come with one, extremely barebones, sound theme. Orca still doesn't have sounds for important events, like when it enters browse or focus modes.
This isn't even getting into the fact that a lot of people with Autism on Mastodon seem to do really well with programming and techie stuff. Blind people? Most of us live on our iPhones. Oh, try browsing the modern web on that CLI that you say works so well for us. Try reading output of the top command using a screen reader. Do you like Ascii graphics? Screen readers sure don't! Like damn, do we need another label just for people with sensory disabilities? Because "disabled" is really getting crowded, and it's almost like blind people don't belong anymore.
@piper@sunny.garden linux (and free software in general) has much more accessibility features available, and the nature of it is that the software can be more easily adapted to suit special needs
windows and a lot of proprietary software often doesn…
This is great but can we please also have Fedora (& Ubuntu, etc.) acknowledge they started shipping operating systems without a functional screen reader when they switched to Wayland and that that’s still the case?
This is not to name and shame. Unless we acknowledge this as an error on par with shipping without monitor support and unless the culture is altered to make accessibility a showstopper, it’ll happen again.
For Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we want to recognize the work being done on accessibility by @matt as part of the @gnome Foundation. He is the lead for @accesskit and is currently working on Newton, a Wayland-oriented solution for assistive technologies that can modernize accessibility on the Linux desktop!
Modernizing Accessibility for Desktop Linux - Matt Campbell, GNOME FoundationThe desktop Linux ecosystem has changed dramatically since accessibility was fir...
In some aspects, such as in gaming, the Linux desktop has made
enormous strides in the past few years. In others, such as
accessibility, things have stagnated.
For Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we want to recognize the work being done on accessibility by @matt as part of the @gnome Foundation. He is the lead for @accesskit and is currently working on Newton, a Wayland-oriented solution for assistive technologies that can modernize accessibility on the Linux desktop!
Modernizing Accessibility for Desktop Linux - Matt Campbell, GNOME FoundationThe desktop Linux ecosystem has changed dramatically since accessibility was fir...
Some code related to "PFCP offloading" or "PFCP tunneling" has just appeared in mainline linux. Oddly enougn PFCP is not a tunneling protocol, and the code itself claims its not implementing PFCP. Trying to find out more about it: lists.openwall.net/netdev/2024… #linux #3gpp #telecom - if anyone knows more, I am very curious.
Endless OS 6 is available now as a free upgrade for existing users and a free download for new installations! Let’s take a look at what’s new and improved in the latest release of our completely free, user-friendly operating system packed with educat…
And of course, thank you to the free & open source projects & communities of Linux, Debian, and GNOME for many of the improvements we’re shipping in Endless OS 6. We strongly believe in open source, and would not be able to have the impact we do without standing on the shoulders of the projects we build upon. 🧡
Arch Linux Ports Date proposed: 2024-03-11 RFC MR: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/32 Summary Introduce "Arch Linux Ports" as testbed for unofficial architectures until they are integrated in the main Arch Linux repositor…
Our goal is to make GNOME OS a daily driver for QA and finalize the migration, but this work will be fundamental to the future of all secure image based / immutable Linux distributions.
TPM2-measured boot with bus protection is pretty nice actually for Linux installations where secure boot is not enabled, like the default Arch Linux installation for instance.
For the sake of "defence in depth", I'd enable both if it is out-of-the-box feature but would not probably bother with secure boot if it requires extra work.
So, the takeaway from this is that it would make a lot of sense to make measured boot happen in arch-install installation as opt-in feature. No Microsoft key required.
Still so far the most informative overview for the shenanigans is microos.opensuse.org/blog/2023… but I'd also look for more recent references.
Policy hash calculation per kernel package update for LUKS2 is what needs to happen over time whenever a new kernel package is installed with hooks/scripts.
So the thing that was hyped to DRM the world into a locked down hellhole rendered out the Microsoft key hard binding instead 🤷
Modernizing #accessibility for @gnome and desktop #Linux was the subject of a recent talk by Matt Campbell, long-time a11y advocate and developer of screen reading technologies across multiple OSes.
Watch the talk about GNOME leading an effort to design & prototype a new accessibility architecture: youtube.com/watch?v=w9psDfEFf9…
Modernizing Accessibility for Desktop Linux - Matt Campbell, GNOME FoundationThe desktop Linux ecosystem has changed dramatically since accessibility was fir...
Do you have an application that requires a system daemon and are wondering how to make a flatpak out of it? Well Christian Hergert is working on a solution for you and is making good progress, be sure to check out his blog post about it #linux @FlatpakApps #Fedora blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2024/…
The PipeWire camera will enumerate the pipewire Video/Source nodes with their formats.
When capturing is started, a stream to the node will be created and frames will be captured.
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The constant push and pull of users and developers to always have the latest, and sysadmins and distributions who prefer ironing out everything instead of seeing flavor-of-the-month bugs pop up left and right... It's a tale as old as time.
Daniel Stenberg has
posted a report about the recent curl up conference about
curl development. It was held over two days in
Stockholm. The report has short summaries of the talks with links to the
recordings.
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