Dolphin (KDE's file manager) improvements; gestures for touchscreens and inertial scrolling land in Okular (document viewer); and a slew of new features for Kdenlive (video editor), are some of the things in today's apps release
https://kde.org/announcements/releases/2020-04-apps-update/

https://redd.it/g6mbhp
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Why I Prefer systemd Timers Over Cron
https://trstringer.com/systemd-timer-vs-cronjob/

https://redd.it/g6nhjr
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Changes coming to Clear Linux’ direction
https://community.clearlinux.org/t/changes-coming-to-clear-linux-direction/4337

https://redd.it/g6n9j0
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Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS officially released.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2020-April/000256.html

https://redd.it/g6s0n3
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Alpine Linux 3.11.6 released
https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.11.6-released.html

https://redd.it/g6mz04
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From Bifrost to Panfrost - deep dive into the first render
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2020/04/23/from-bifrost-to-panfrost-deep-dive-into-the-first-render/

https://redd.it/g6pyzj
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Always learning something new. Used Terminator for several years but just learned it could do this

I've used [**Terminator**](https://terminator-gtk3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html) for a couple years. I knew Terminator could do multiple panes/windows and use that feature often.

Recently I searched for a multi-window terminal that also supported concurrent multi-window CLI entry. I searched because I didn't think that Terminator supported that.

One of the first hits was an article about top applications and it surprised me that Terminator was listed.

You have to look under the [**Grouping Menu on Terminator to turn ON/OFF Group broadcast of keystrokes.**](https://terminator-gtk3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/grouping.html)

*example use-case* \- say you have a bunch of servers/VMs/containers and need to config/edit/execute something on all of them in a one-off use (instead of writing a ansible etc noscript for multi-use).

Just goes to show RTFM :-)

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Feeling lost regarding my 4K Monitor

I'm currently trying to switch to Linux on my desktop machine. I own a 4K Monitor that I want to keep using. I tried installing KDE, which looks great and supports fractional scaling but that doesn't offer the snappiness that I'm looking for. It just feels slow. Other DEs don't seem to properly support fractional scaling, which means that either text is too small (100%) or too big (200%).
It seems like Gnome + Wayland should work but I'm not sure how stable the combination is. Ideally, I just want my computer to work reliably.
Ah, I also tried Pantheon but couldn't get it to start (on Arch).

Maybe someone has an idea?

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LibrePlanet 2020 videos now available online
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/libreplanet-2020-videos-now-available-online

https://redd.it/g6y0td
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20.04 comes with Fingerprint locks !!!
https://redd.it/g6ygan
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Custom widgets in GTK 4 – Introduction
https://blog.gtk.org/2020/04/23/custom-widgets-in-gtk-4-introduction/

https://redd.it/g6zd70
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Compose your own Arch distro..

Just found ArcoLinux: [https://arcolinux.info](https://arcolinux.info/). It looks like an Arch based OS composer with some neat features as shown in the video: [https://youtu.be/ej8T3D1lKHo](https://youtu.be/ej8T3D1lKHo). What do you think?

https://redd.it/g70vbg
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Are you happy with Snap?

Snap packages is a prominent feature recently released in Ubuntu 20.04 and since its an LTS release, it must be here to stay. How do you feel about this new packaging system compared to the good old apt-get?

With robust and time-tested tools like synaptic and aptitude, I think apt was doing a great job already, so what was the need for Snap? If the goal was to create one standard packaging system across all distros, then that will only work if all other distros also unanimously adapt Snap but until that happens, upstream developers will have to ship both apt/dnf as well as snap versions of their apps. So, developers' work has increased or decreased?

https://redd.it/g718qt
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Tech preview: NVIDIA precompiled RHEL8 packaging improvements, no GCC required

Join the [tech preview](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/preview/repos/rhel8/x86_64/README.html)

Precompiled driver kmod packages provide the ability for users to stay on tested driver and kernel combinations, improve stability and reduce installation time, and include user control of driver branch selection via modularity streams. The new approach neither requires gcc and kernel headers installed nor EPEL enabled.

The source files for these driver kmod packages are compiled in advance and then linked at installation time, hence these are called "precompiled drivers".

These driver packaging improvements are open source https://github.com/NVIDIA/yum-packaging-precompiled-kmod in the form of RPM .spec templates and provide a path to support custom kernels with NVIDIA drivers.

https://redd.it/g6vcx3
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Kdenlive 20.04.0 is out!

The highlights include major speed improvements due to the Preview Scaling feature, New rating, tagging sorting and filtering of clips in the Project Bin for a great logging experience, Pitch shifting, Multicam editing improvements and OpenTimelineIO support. Besides all the shiny new features, this version comes with fixes for 40 critical stability issues as well as a major revamp of the user experience.

[https://kdenlive.org/en/2020/04/kdenlive-20-04-is-out/](https://kdenlive.org/en/2020/04/kdenlive-20-04-is-out/)

https://redd.it/g73bqz
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Debian popcon stats of flatpak & snap

Flatpak: [https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=flatpak](https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=flatpak)

Snap: [https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=snapd](https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=snapd)

https://redd.it/g73yvz
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Librem Mini shipping update
https://puri.sm/posts/librem-mini-shipping-update/

https://redd.it/g73w54
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Ubuntu MATE 20.04 LTS brings a metric tons of features and fixes
https://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-mate-focal-fossa-release-notes/

https://redd.it/g74ax9
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Kubuntu 20.04 released, Ubuntu LTS + Plasma 5.18 LTS!
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu

https://redd.it/g73lin
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Github CLI Beta
https://cli.github.com/

https://redd.it/g6ys3a
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Any of linux v1 left in linux v5

The reason I ask I am trying to figure out if there chance , that handfull of companies that have lineage of unix actually have enough source code to not just be unix like. Honestly it would not shock me if non of the unix code is running on mordern hardware last 5 years or so

https://redd.it/g76waf
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