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The post discusses the challenges of encouraging developers to maintain their apps on Flathub, emphasizing that Flathub is not a commercial entity and that developers are mostly volunteers. It argues against pressuring developers ...
The blog post discusses the release of Fedora 43, focusing on updates for the Fedora Atomic Desktops variants, including Silverblue, Kinoite, Sway Atomic, Budgie Atomic, and COSMIC Atomic. Key changes include the adoption of zstd ...
The blog post provides a detailed guide on installing Fedora CoreOS on an OVHcloud virtual private server (VPS) using rescue mode. It outlines the steps to boot into rescue mode, access the KVM console, install necessary component...
The author shares their experience of switching from Spotify to Qobuz due to dissatisfaction with Spotify's support for far-right podcasts, AI-generated music, and low artist payments. They detail the migration process of their fa...
Fedora 42 has been released, and this post discusses the new features for the Fedora Atomic Desktops variants, including the new COSMIC Atomic variant, changes for all variants, migration to a static GRUB config, custom keyboard l...
Fedora 41 has been released, and this post discusses the new features for Fedora Atomic Desktops variants, including bootupd enabled by default for UEFI systems, the transition to Bootable Containers, updates in Silverblue, Kinoit...
The text discusses the boot failure issue for Fedora Atomic Desktops and Fedora IoT systems with Secure Boot enabled after recent updates. It provides a workaround to resolve the issue and explains why it occurred. The post also o...
Fedora 40 has been released and this post discusses the new features for the Fedora Atomic Desktops variants, including Fedora Silverblue, Fedora Kinoite, Fedora Sway Atomic, and Fedora Budgie Atomic. It provides updates on bootlo...
The author shares their experience of gaming only on Linux for a year, highlighting the transition from NVIDIA to AMD Radeon GPU, the ease of setup and support, and the use of various tools and platforms for gaming.
The post discusses the UNIX legacy of setuid binaries and the security reasons behind it. It advises against changing the default login shell for interactive users and provides alternatives for using a modern terminal emulator.
The post discusses how to sign container images using cosign and GitHub Actions. It provides detailed steps on setting up a GitHub workflow, signing container images with cosign, and configuring signature validation on the host. I...
The post details how to replace sudo with SSH over a local UNIX socket, explaining the security benefits and the setup process. It also discusses setting up U2F authentication with a Yubikey and restricting access to a subset of u...
Fedora 39 has been released and this post is a summary of the 'What’s new in Fedora Silverblue, Kinoite, Sericea and Onyx?' talk. It includes information about the new Fedora Onyx variant, the creation of a new Special Interest Gr...
The text provides an update on the Kinoite Nightly images with Plasma 6, which have been merged to Rawhide. It includes instructions on how to switch back to Rawhide and how to try out the new images. It also includes a pre-releas...
The text discusses the testing of the latest KDE software, from apps to the Plasma desktop. It covers the importance of testing pre-release software, the process of testing KDE apps on Flathub and KDE Invent, advanced Flatpak usag...