Linux

A great week for Linux gaming as GOG plans support, and Bazzite has "a brighter future" with new collab  PC Guide

Valve Developer Improves Aging AMD APUs On Linux With VRR, DP/HDMI Audio, HDR & Atomic  Phoronix

Linux Kernel Quietly Formalizes What Happens If Linus Torvalds Steps Away  Linuxiac

Open Gaming Collective Forms to Enhance Linux Gaming  TechPowerUp

Open Gaming Collective Forms to Enhance Linux Gaming  TechPowerUp

Handmade by human hands using machines  Digg

Nobara Linux: Gaming distribution with focus, not marketing  igor´sLAB

Bazzite reveals the Open Gaming Collective to make gaming on Linux even better  XDA

The Linux kernel community has formalized a continuity plan for the day Linus Torvalds eventually steps aside, defining how the process would work to replace him as the top-level maintainer. ZDNet's Steven Vaughan-Nichols reports: The new "plan for a plan," drafted by longtime kernel contributor Dan Williams, was discussed at the latest Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit in Tokyo, where he introduced it as "an uplifting subject tied to our eventual march toward death." Torvalds added, in our conversation, that "part of the reason it came up this time around was that my previous contract with Linux Foundation ended Q3 last year, and people on the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board had been aware of that. Of course, they were also aware that we'd renewed the contract, but it meant that it had been discussed." The plan stops short of naming a single heir. Instead, it creates an explicit process for selecting one or more maintainers to take over the top-level Linux repository in a worst-case or orderly-transition scenario, including convening a conclave to weigh options and maximize long-term project health. One maintainer in Tokyo jokingly suggested that the group, like the conclave that selects a new pope, be locked in a room and that a puff of white smoke be sent out when a decision was reached. The document frames this as a way to protect against the classic "bus factor" problem. That is, what happens to a project if its leader is hit by a bus? Torvalds' central role today means the project currently assumes a bus-factor of one, where a single person's exit could, in theory, destabilize merges and final releases. In practice, as Torvalds and other top maintainers have discussed, the job of top penguin would almost certainly currently go to Greg Kroah-Hartman, the stable-branch Linux kernel maintainer. Responding to the suggestion that the backup replacement would be Greg KH, Torvalds said: "But the thing is, Greg hasn't always been Greg. Before Greg, there was Andrew Morton and Alan Cox. After Greg, there will be Shannon and Steve. The real issue is you have to have a person or a group of people that the development community can trust, and part of trust is fundamentally about having been around for long enough that people know how you work, but long enough does not mean to be 30 years."

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Microsoft's Quiet Exodus: Why Enterprise Developers Are Abandoning Windows for Linux Workstations  WebProNews

New AppImage Offers an Easier Way to Run Affinity on Ubuntu  OMG! Ubuntu

Open Gaming Collective (OGC) formed to push Linux gaming even further  GamingOnLinux

Handmade by human hands using machines  Digg

AI Assistant with Oracle Cloud Native Environment 2.3  Oracle Blogs

Handmade by human hands using machines  Digg

Mecha Comet – Modular Linux Handheld with Snap-On Modules  OMG! Ubuntu

After 34 years, the Linux kernel community finally has a contingency plan to replace Linus Torvalds  Adafruit

After 34 years, the Linux kernel community finally has a contingency plan to replace Linus Torvalds  Adafruit

After 34 years, the Linux kernel community finally has a contingency plan to replace Linus Torvalds  Adafruit

I switched to this tiling window manager and can't go back to normal desktops  MakeUseOf