Linux really needs to remove the “privileged ports” security theater bullshit.
We’re no longer living in the mainframe era. The security properties of the Internet are different to mainframes. This is actually an anti-feature that either complicates life or actually compromises security (when folks run servers as root and forget to drop privileges , etc.).
If anyone has any sway within the kernel team, etc., please do your thing.
Summary Currently, we’re using setcap to grant the CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE privilege to allow Node.js (during development and testing) and the Site.js binary...
After three beta releases we've finally tagged phosh 0.20.0.
Check out the full release notes at gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/p… . This also links to the release notes of the beta releases which have more details.
And the good news is we already have new merge requests pending for phosh 0.20.1 and 0.30.0.
A Wayland shell for GNOME on mobile devices. For a matching compositor see https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phoc. For an on screen keyboard see squeekboard.
"While we already consider Thunderbird as the best Linux email client, many users found the UI dated and overwhelming. Fortunately, Thunderbird 102 makes the application a lot more approachable."
Welcome to AwesomeWM! AW is one of the best window managers with support for the higher-level programming language Lua. We will show why this WM is so import...
Gnome - Simple, beautiful, elegant desktop environment. The most widely used DE in current distributions, intended for immediate use, aimed at newbies - with...
It's pretty ☀️ here at #debconf22 so let's have automatic switching to HighContrast theme in #phosh (based on the ambient light sensor) so one doesn't have to toggle it manually when moving to the talks inside.
I noticed, that #Arch #Linux has a #Nvidia #OpenSource driver package in repository (nvidia-open). But then I discovered that it's not yet ready to use. Will they finish it before my #gpu losts support? 🤞 Did somebody try it? us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86…
📱 On my way to #Debconf22 and it was the first time I could show the QR code of a train ticket on #phosh's lockscreen to the conductor (had to resort to unlock ➡️ nautilus ➡️ evince so far).
For that I stitched together a lockscren plugin that leverages #evince's libevince. Hope the other tickets will works just as well tomorrow.
Today in User Space 🍂We start a new season! 🍪De-AMP and De-Cookie with #firefox & #brave 💾Find out where OOMD put our apps 🎧Listen to the @postmarketOS Podcast 🔊Keep it simple with @ebassi’s Amberol 🔎And prep the #ubuntu history
One area we realized we hadn't given so much focus recently was around technologies that allowed people with various disabilities to make use of our software.
A Wayland shell for GNOME on mobile devices. For a matching compositor see https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phoc. For an on screen keyboard see squeekboard.
The person who was setting up a conference session to discuss #Linux maintainer overwork and ways to address it couldn’t attend due to… burnout: lwn.net/ml/linux-xfs/202204260…
I can very much relate to the account of what their daily life looks like.
Gnome - Jednoduché, krásné, elegantní dektopové prostředí. Nejrozšířenější DE v současných distribucích, určené k okamžitému použití, cílené na nováčky - s m...
A sensible choice! I love k9-mail despite its flaws on Android, and I love #Thunderbird on the Desktop. But, what am I going to use on my #mobile #linux desktop... mmh
"CorsixTH aims to re-implement the game engine of Theme Hospital, and be able to load the original game data files. This means that you will need a purchased...
New blog post! After fighting with the divide between implicit and explicit synchronization with #Vulkan on #Linux for over seven years, we may finally have some closure! Jason Ekstrand explains: col.la/bsgvl #OpenSource
After fighting with the divide between implicit and explicit synchronization with Vulkan on Linux for over seven years, we may finally have some closure.
The open source Panfrost driver for Mali GPUs now supports the new Valhall architecture with fully-conformant OpenGL ES 3.1 on Mali-G57, a Valhall GPU.
🎉 #Panfrost, the #OpenSource driver for Mali GPUs, now supports new Valhall architecture with fully-conformant #OpenGL ES 3.1 on Mali-G57! The final #Mesa patches are landing today & required #Linux kernel patches are queued for merge upstream. col.la/mg57c
The open source Panfrost driver for Mali GPUs now supports the new Valhall architecture with fully-conformant OpenGL ES 3.1 on Mali-G57, a Valhall GPU.
Enhanced productivity for all users and improved interoperability, make migrating to Collabora Office and gaining data control more easy then ever before
When you need to send a file from your Linux desktop try Warp. It's a modern GTK4 app using the 'Wormhole' protocol for encrypted file sending between PCs.
