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📢 Call for Papers is open for the Early Adopter Tech #Summit! Join us in Orlando in March and submit your talk now. #openSUSE events.opensuse.org/

Would you ever run for political office? #Poll #Polls #FediFriday

phosh 0.43.1 is out 🚀📱🎅 :

This is a small bug fix release addressing two important issues in #phosh and #squeekboard that shouldn't wait 'til 0.44.0.

Check out the release notes at phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.43.1.

🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.

#phosh #librem5 #pinephone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile

Me looking at the download size for Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition after buying it:

@thenewoil

If people are only concerned about privacy because of Trump they are morons. Privacy has been getting worse for decades regardless of who is in power.

Assigning your copyright to the FSF helps defend the GPL and keep software free. Thanks to Alekseev Nikita, Edgar Vincent, and Toshihiro Umehara for assigning their copyright to the FSF! More: u.fsf.org/3ht #CopyrightAssignments

Do you listen to #RadioFreeFedi? #Poll #Polls

How are the location settings on your phone configured? #Poll #Polls

There are three seats available in this year's @opensuse Board elections. Step up and provide a #service to the #project and its members. news.opensuse.org/2024/11/13/b

Linux distro Nitrux has been updated to version 3.8.0. This version updates the kernel, Firefox, Mesa, and more. Nitrux is a Linux distro that is based off Debian and uses it's own desktop called NX Desktop which is based off KDE Plasma. It has no package manager and uses App Images instead although you can also use Flatpaks and setup other programs if need be. Nitrux uses OpenRC for it's init system, and the Liquorix Kernel. It uses the It's a unique distro that is worth a look.

The main website for the project is here:

nxos.org/

The source code is avaialble on Github:

github.com/Nitrux

The release notes for this update are available here:

nxos.org/changelog/release-ann

The project has a presence on Mastodon:

mastodon.cloud/@ Nitrux_NX

If you wish to help the project financially they accept donations through Open Collective and Ko-fi:

opencollective.com/nitrux

#ThankGNU! to Adarsh Melethil, David Bruce, Deborah Jackson, James Wilson, Mikael Taipale, Peter Sluka, and Valerio Poggi for helping the FSF continue its goal of educating the public about #freesoftware See a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness: u.fsf.org/3vy

Linux Distro "NixOS" has released version 24.11. This update adds 8141 new packages, updates 20975 packages, and more. The .iso you download can come in KDE or Gnome but when you use the installer it offers a selection between gnome, plasma, plasma5, xfce, pantheon, cinnamon, enlightmentment, lxqt, budgie, deepin, and none. They also have downlaods for not just X86_64 but also Arm64. The distro uses the ext 4 file system and SystemD. NixOS is an independant distro not based off another. It uses the Nix package manager. NixOS boasts reproducible packages that don't have undeclared dependencies.

The project's official site is here:

nixos.org/

The source code is available on Github:

github.com/NixOS

The release notes for this update are here:

nixos.org/blog/announcements/2

They have a presence on Mastodon and Matrix:

chaos.social/@ nixos_org

matrix.to/#/#community:nixos.o

If you wish to help the project financially they accept donations through Open Collective:

opencollective.com/nixos#suppo

FOSS game manager "Lutris" was updated to version 0.5.18. This update downloads the latest version of GE-Proton for Wine if any version of Wine is installed, added support for the "foot" terminal, added an AppArmor profile for Ubuntu 23.10 and later, and more. Lutris allows gamers to sign into various digital stores such as Steam, GOG, Heroic, and more in order to have a centralized spot and not have to mess with various clients. It also allows the player to set which version of Proton and Wine is used for their games as well as set various options for their games such s using Gamemode and Mangohud. All in all if you are gaming on Linux this is a very useful tool to pretty much anyone. The code is licensed using GPLv3.0. It can be downloaded from various distro repos, as a Flatpak and compiled from source.

The project's official site is here:

lutris.net/

The source code can be found on Github:

github.com/lutris/lutris

The full release notes can be found here:

github.com/lutris/lutris/relea

The project has a presence on Mastodon:

fosstodon.org/@ lutris

If you wish to help the project financially they accept donations through Liberapay, Paypal, and Patreon:

lutris.net/donate

@veroandi

My way to get people I know to use it was to do the legwork and help them setup an account, install the client, and login.

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