• FLOSS Weekly 682: Free and Open P2P Team Chat with Quiet - Holmes Wilson, Quiet

  Holmes Wilson explains to Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman how central servers limit personal freedom, and how you can improve the quality of private P2P team chat and collaboration like Slack and Discord with Quiet, his open source team's work in progress.

• PipeWire Is Here & Ubuntu 22.10 Knows It!! - Invidious

  It's taken a while but Ubuntu is finally embracing pipewire for it's audio stack and dropping pulseaudio, it's nice to see more distros adopting this and hopefully it'll lead to big improvements outside of ubuntu.

• My Tier List For Tiling Window Managers - Invidious

  Here is my "tier list" for the various tiling window managers that I have used, which includes : ► awesome ► bspwm ► dwm ► exwm ► herbstluftwm ► i3wm ► leftwm ► qtile ► spectrwm ► stumpwm ► xmonad

• Free and Open Source software licenses explained - Invidious
• Ultramarine Linux 36 overview | A simplified yet powerful Linux experience for all. - Invidious

  In this video, I am going to show an overview of Ultramarine Linux 36 and some of the applications pre-installed.

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The networking subsystem updates have landed in the Linux 5.19 kernel with big updates to core networking code as well as a lot of individual driver work this cycle both for wired and wireless networking...

If you’re seeking out a note taking app for Linux you’ll want to check out Paper.

Paper is a modern GTK app that pitches itself as a ‘pretty note-taking app for GNOME’ — and it is! Being based around Markdown means the app supports text formatting, adding links, highlighting sections of text, inserting code blocks, and more, out of the box.

Now, I class myself as more of a casual note taker. I use apps like this to squirrel away ideas I have for future posts, terminal commands I ought to remember, and …Well, keep on top of my He-Man toy collection.

Basics note taking needs, if you will. I’m not at college doing a degree needing citations, references, calculations, hierarchal sorting, and other ‘advanced’ options. For serious note-taking a more established service, app, and/or platform is best.

But for everyday needs? Paper’s the ticket.

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• How to Install Krita on Ubuntu 22.04

  Krita is a free and open-source fully featured digital painting software that offers a clean interface, robust brush engine and resource manager. Whether you create animations, comics, story arts or other digital drawings Krita is a perfect choice as it offers several tools making your painting experience a worthy one.

  In this tutorial, we will guide you how to install Krita on Ubuntu 22.04.

• How to Install My Weather Indicator for Ubuntu 22.04 (LTS)

  My Weather Indicator is a perfect application especially designed for Ubuntu users to provide them with weather updates of any part of the world. It displays the weather information and forecast through a desktop widget and system tray indicator applet. It provides support for various other weather services like Yahoo, Wunderground, OpenWeatherMap and World Weather Online.

  This article will guide you how to install My Weather Indicator for the latest Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish.

• How to Install PyCharm on Ubuntu 22.04

  PyCharm is a top-notch programming IDE used by programmers to program Python codes. Besides having the ability to run different high-level codes, it also features code debugging and has proven successful in developing multiple web applications.

  In this guide, we will guide you how you can install PyCharm both editions on Ubuntu 22.04.

• How to Install osTicket on AlmaLinux

  In this tutorial, we are going to install osTicket on AlmaLinux and explain in step-by-step detail how to configure it

• How to Record Your Desktop with Audio in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

  Want to record your screen or app window with sounds? Here’s how to do this in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

  Ubuntu 22.04 comes with built-in screen recording UI. By pressing Ctrl+Shift+Alt+R key combination on keyboard, you can open it and select recording full-screen or a selection area. However, it does not record audio!

• Introduction to VirtIO

  In this document, we will be taking a look at the fundamentals of VirtIO from a technical standpoint as well as a deep dive into some of its key areas. This introduction to VirtIO is written assuming the reader has little to no working knowledge of VirtIO, but should also be a helpful refresher to those who are already familiar.

• How to install Clementine Music Player on Ubuntu 22.04

  Clementine is one of the top-notch and free music players for several operating systems including Windows, Linux and macOS. Besides playing music from your system, it allows you the freedom to listen to the music from the Internet making it a perfect choice for Ubuntu 22.04 desktop.

  In this article, we will show you how you can install Clementine Music Player on Ubuntu 22.04.

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• 'V Rising' comes to Linux and Steam Deck as it sells a million copies

  V Rising is now playable on Linux and Steam Deck consoles, while developer Stunlock Studios has announced the vampire survival game has sold 1million copies.

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  As explained by GamingOnLinux, to jump into the game on Linux or Steam Deck, players should navigate to Proton Experimental in their Steam library, go into the ‘Betas’ tab in Properties, and opt into the “bleeding-edge” beta.

  From there, go to V Rising‘s Properties, select Compatibility, and choose Proton Experimental. This will allow players to jump into V Rising on their platform of choice.

• Google Summer of Code, 2022 edition! | Krita

  This year’s Google Summer of Code is different from previous editions: there are both larger and smaller projects possible, and it’s no longer limited to students. We have two participants this year: Reinold Rojas and Xu Che.

• Crane Venture Partners supports open source developers with an itch to scratch

  Starting any business isn't easy. Starting an open-source business adds another level of complexity to the task. Even in a world that runs on open source, some banks and investors still have trouble wrapping their minds around the idea that open source and a viable business can go hand-in-hand. And then there's Crane Venture Partners (CVP), a venture capitalist (VC) that are all about open-source-based businesses.

• ProtonMail is Now Just ‘Proton’ Offering a Privacy Ecosystem

  ProtonMail announced a re-brand with a new website, new name, updated pricing plans, a refreshed UI, and more changes.

• Google Chrome 102: Critical Security Update For All Windows, Mac & Linux Users [Ed: Microsoft propagandist Davey Winder talking about a browser while CISA discloses that half of the latest actively-exploited holes are Microsoft's]
• SODA Foundation Prioritizes Backup and Restore for Containers, Introduces Object Data Management Across Cloud Providers

  The SODA Foundation, which hosts the SODA Open Data Framework (ODF) for data mobility from edge to core to cloud, today announced two new open source projects: Kahu and Como. Kahu streamlines data protection for Kubernetes and its application data, and Como is a virtual data lake project to enable seamless access to data stored in different clouds. The SODA Foundation also welcomes SoftBank Group as an end-user supporter and key collaboration partner on the Como project.

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