Agree, it is a guessing game what their plans are going forward, alexa devices, android replacement or both, but it is there, being worked on.
According to a report from the International Data Corporation (IDC), 'the consequence of this increasing reliance on data will be a never-ending expansion in the size of the Global Datasphere.'
The report shows the estimated zettabytes (ZB), a measure of digital storage capacity, in 2019 was just 45ZB, but by 2025 that is set to increase to 175ZB.
One zettabyte is equivalent to a trillion gigabytes.
'If you were able to store the entire Global Datasphere on DVDs, then you would have a stack of single layer Blu-ray discs that could get you to the moon 23 times or circle Earth 222 times,' IDC shared in the report.
The dramatic increase is imminent, and Derry and his team hope to find a solution before time runs out.
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This is part of the broader GNOME effort for making X11 support optional and ultimately allowing for a modern Wayland-only environment if so desired and without carrying legacy X11 cruft.
Merged yesterday to Mutter was the build system code that had been under review for more than a half-year to allow building Mutter while disabling XWayland support. A new "xwayland" build option is added to toggle whether XWayland is built as part of Mutter.
This is part of the larger effort to eventually allow Mutter to be built as a Wayland-only compositor if desired and making all of the X11 dependent code optional.
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A little Nvidia linux news…
And for the AMD graphics fans…
AMD came out with a bang at CES with a whole bunch of new products, including some impressive looking X3D processors added to the Ryzen 7000 lineup.
Lots of Graphic package updates coming your way today…
Gimp also release an update today, but I can’t find any news on it yet. Version gimp 2.10.32-3…so watch for that.
Vote…VOTE today! What’s your favorite Mastodon app?
Lastly, love me some HandBrake…and it gets a new release.
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AV1, nice!
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Of course it's tailored for the GNOME Shell. It's a display server created to run under systemd, which was created by (then) Red Hat developer Lennart Poettering: Lennart Poettering - Wikipedia
He has blessed/cursed us with many other modern Linux operating system protocals. Poettering received death threats over systemd.
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For anyone that cares about HDR support in Linux, some possible good news: Red Hat Planning A Hackfest To Further Advance HDR Support On The Linux Desktop
And on the same note, Valve also seems to be putting in some work on HDR gaming on Linux:
https://nitter.net/Plagman2/status/1610200412854046720#m
New Linux gaming milestone: with the latest work from Josh Ashton, HDR can now be enabled for real games! Tested it tonight on my AMD desktop with Halo Infinite, Deep Rock Galactic, DEATH STRANDING DC. Very early and will still need some time to bake to be useful to most
Maybe we are going to start to see some substantive progress in the coming months/years with regard to HDR and Linux
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Next up on QVC Linux.... Input-Remapper. Need a handy GUI to remap mouse buttons, keyboard keys or those pesky gamepads? Now you can!!
Here is a handy article about it and a how-to, works great under Wayland and utilizes taps/double taps/triple taps, so many taps!
Get YOURS today!!! Only 900 left and Carol from Poughkeepsie, NY just ordered 5, go Carol!!!
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I have mixed feelings about Google developing RISC-V. On the one hand, drumming up some interest in RISC-V is good, and they certainly have the resources to make some real progress. On the other hand, there is a looming probability they will make some profound advancements in a very specific way that is difficult to divorce from whatever Google perversion they layer into it, like they have done with other open-source projects like Android or the Chromium browser.
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I don't think Google can mess up here. It's just an instruction set architecture - instructions that dictate a processor as required by software. If at all Google does something, it would be to create more efficient instructions, and why would anyone want to give bad instructions? RISC V is an open standard and won't be restricted to phones and PCs.
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Wait till the author finds out that linux is new newest of the main 3 desktop operating systems.
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Yes…get away from corporate/gov’t censorship.
Kdenlive release out now…
The first maintenance release of the 22.12 series is out with support for Akaso proxy files and a small improvement to audio pause/play. Some highlights include fixes to timeline preview rendering, copy/paste/move of keyframes in the rotoscoping effect, moving of clips on low zoom levels and avoid overlay issues with subtitles backgrounds with alpha.
AMD Benchmarks…
Steam is breaking records, which is always good news for Linux gaming…
Gnome has a new Windows focus animation…
Updated: Gnome 44 is slated for this March release…
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All users that use the GNOME 42 desktop environment series are encouraged to upgrade to the GNOME 42.8 release as soon as the packages arrive in the stable software repositories of their GNU/Linux distributions.
Two more maintenance updates are planned for GNOME 42 before it reaches end of life, namely GNOME 42.9 in mid-February and GNOME 42.10 in mid-March 2023.
Additions in this alpha at-a-glance:
Expanding subfolders in list view
More options in tab context menus
Paste image data into new PNG file
Use pre-generated thumbnails when available
New shortcut to open Nautilus preferences
Show full filename in grid, using tooltips
Reintroduce 64px icon size for grid view
Remove upper limit on thumbnailing file size range
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Nvidia Open Source Driver...and gaming...
Meet Wordbook – an offline dictionary application for the GNOME desktop.
Say a farewell to Microsoft's RNDIS in the kernel...
Lastly, Liferea, the open source feed reader gets a new stable release line of Liferea 1.14!
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When is our forum going to get this update?
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But I don't see any of the new features as shown in the above news link.
No new sidebar, notification centre, live chat...