Seems like a really neat project! As more of a ui/ux person than a technical one I use the terminal plenty, but find it more intimidating than I think most linux folks do

I love seeing anything that makes it more user friendly and interactive!

I think users are increasingly mouse-centric so the ability to is the mouse I think is a plus, as long as it’s all still just as accessible to a keyboard-centric workflow.

But I think making the shell more interactive and adding more affordances is broadly a good thing and is really the important part, regardless of whether the user can navigate more with the mouse. The shell doesn’t need to be a magic black box you speak the arcane language into and hope you got it right

Anything that helps better communicate to the user what you can do and how to do it would make the terminal way more accessible, which would be a boon for linux where you still sometimes come across things that don’t have a good graphical path to completion, or even just one that’s easy enough to find and follow.

Fish makes a lot of improvements (and it’s a lot more Unix compliant than it used to be, to my understanding, but that’s still its biggest downside) but I think more affordances and interactivity for the shell is awesome, even for users who appreciate the efficiency of a keyboard-centric workflow :)

Thanks for the context!

Some context from the article I found helpful as a layman :)

When seeing this mailing list post, my immediate assumption was it being some new HDR testing code that slipped under my radar from DRM-Next coverage, given all the ongoing High Dynamic Range / color management work happening recently for the Linux desktop. But when digging into the merge, it’s actually even more mundane. The “hdr” in this sense is around the C header files. The new “hdrtest” code is for the Intel Xe kernel driver and is around trying to help ensure the DRM header files are self-contained and pass kernel-doc tests. Basic maintenance checks on the included DRM header files to ensure they are all in good shape.

Apparently this is about neither DRM, nor HDR in the sense an average user might think of those terms 😅

That’s very fair! I was concerned by that video too, though I would point out that if I remember right, the games in that video don’t work on non-steamdeck devices including if you install steamos on a laptop or desktop

There kind of is though. I’m not here to argue it’s enough to unseat windows but it is markedly different

From a technical standpoint it’s just another linux distro with some nice tweaks for gaming but from a human perspective it has brand recognition, familiarity, a known company behind it. Those things do really matter for adoption. No idea if that’d be anywhere near enough, I’m not inclined to make predictions, but it does have explicit advantages over consumers hearing they can get a laptop with Ubuntu or fedora on it

That website’s cookie requirements are gross, here’s the whole article

The Open Technology Fund (OTF) has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court in Washington D.C. against the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and the Office of Management and Budget. In its lawsuit, the OTF is seeking a preliminary injunction to have the USAGM release the withheld funding. US President Donald Trump had previously issued a decree largely restricting the USAGM under the current legal situation. The OTF uses its funds to support the certification authority Let’s Encrypt and the anonymization network Tor, among others.

OTF lacks 650,000 US dollars for operating costs

In its application, the OTF argues that the termination of the grant by the USAGM is unlawful, as the provision of the funding has already been decided by Congress. As part of this decision, a total amount of 43.5 million US dollars has been earmarked for 2025, which accounts for 98 percent of the OTF’s funding. The USAGM oversees the financial and programmatic activities of the OTF and makes payments to the non-profit organization. The OTF had requested and not received a payment of around 650,000 US dollars for operating costs in March.

Kari Lake, executive CEO of USAGM and special advisor to the Trump administration, described the US agency in a statement as a “huge rot and burden on the American taxpayer” that also poses a national security risk. OTF Chairman Zack Cooper, on the other hand, argued that his organization is the most efficient and effective tool against censorship and influence peddling. An end to OTF projects “would weaken America’s national security and keep millions of people around the world trapped behind authoritarian information firewalls”, Cooper said.

Overall, the US government invests a lot of money in open source software. Last year, Let’s Encrypt received around 800,000 US dollars in funding from the OTF, the Tor network received almost 500,000 US dollars and the open-source Android app store F-Droid received 396,000 US dollars. In total, the organization currently supports around 50 projects, including the development of the free VPN client OpenVPN. According to its information, the OTF has published around 2,500 patches for open-source software and the organization promotes VPNs for around 45 million people in countries with censorship. OTF President Cunningham sees the lawsuit as the only way to ensure the continued existence of these projects.

OoOoh, thabks! 😊

Its in alpha, of course its a mess 😅

My experiences with pop haven’t been amazing (just always ran into small quirks and issues that shouldnt be a thing, but I haven’t messed with it all that much), but I’m pretty happy for there to be another big polished desktop environment with resources behind it, I think it makes the linux ecosystem better :)

That’s pretty neat, I wish they had some pictures

With the help of some replies I got it figured out

The bootloader doesn’t need to support anything other than your boot partition which can be in your normal drive space, or it can be in a dedicated UEFI partition which isn’t gonna be ext4, so this project aims just to support booting from the UEFI partition

Check the other replies I got if you want more context :)

This reply and one other were super helpful, thank you for helping me understand!

Ahh, so the boot partition on linux doesn’t necessarily need to be ext4, so it doesn’t matter if it’s not supported

Between you and another reply I understand now, thank you!

This might potentially be a worthwhile submission for the internet is beautiful comm :)

Just checked and the comm on .ee seems to be the only one really active

I mean I also hate generative ai, but the answer is because you can reformat it into a new potentially more useful interface for a given usecase 😅

An article and an interactive timeline are different things, and having access to both is neat.

I’ll probably stick to articles, at least in part because that works much better on mobile, but it’s still nice to get a visualized timeline you can move through, one key event at a time

Limine instead is focusing on the FAT32 file-system support and ISO9660 for boot medium storage.

That seems odd…? I’d love if anyone more knowledgable could chime in, why build a new bootloader and focus on FAT32…?

I generally associate the FAT filesystems with windows (no idea how accurate that is, probably not very), and I think most of linux is ext4 and moving towards btrfs and other newer filesystems

Windows doesn’t need a bootloader, and I can’t think of a time I heard of linux using FAT32, is that different in the enterprise or BSD world? What is a bootloader focused on FAT32 and ISO9660 for?

If anyone from lemmings.world could report this I’d appreciate it, I’m not exactly sure who reports go to, so I’m not sure if my report will end up in front of the mod of the instance this account is on

Beeper is run by an asshat? I’d live more info, I was kinda interested in moving some things to beeper at some point

Not the person you replied to, but that’s a really interesting explanation, thank you

SEAPATH is the newest open-source virtualization hypervisor on the scene. While it focuses on being a security-hardened, real-time hypervisor its principal focus – and why it’s being worked on by the Linux Foundation Energy crew – is wanting it to be used for Digital Substation Automation Systems for electrical substations.

SEAPATH is designed to support Debian and Yocto Linux operating systems and hosting Virtualized Protection, Automation and Control workloads for power grids. Quite a niche focus and our first time covering this SEAPATH project.

Huh, neat!