We are proud to announce the first beta of Mageia 9. A lot of fixes and new updates have followed since the first alpha back in November 2022.

Read the full thing at https://blog.mageia.org/en/2023/02/28/mageia-9-beta1-is-already-here/

I joined Textualize back in January 2022, and since then have been hard at work with the team on both Rich and Textual. Over the course of the year I've been able to work on a lot of really cool things

Read the full thing at https://textual.textualize.io/blog/2022/12/20/a-year-of-building-for-the-terminal/

Short, straightforward video on installing Steam on Mageia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YmpqQQF8Fk

NVIDIA is now publishing Linux GPU kernel modules as open source with dual GPL/MIT license, starting with the R515 driver release. You can find the source code for these kernel modules in the NVIDIA Open GPU Kernel Modules repo on GitHub.

Read the full thing at https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/

If you are someone who loves music and has more than one streaming service or you like to change to check which catalog each one has, as a Linux user you may have noticed that Apple Music was quite complicated to listen to from a desktop apps.

Read the full thing at https://linuxstoney.com/cider-the-apple-music-app-also-for-linux/

Given the great work others did already on the Qt 6 porting of KDE Frameworks, let's take a look at Kate & KWrite on Qt 6.

With only minor patches, both applications now run on the current master state of KDE Frameworks and Qt 6.2.

Close to all functionality is available, I think the only stripped out part is the hot new stuff upload for snippets and I didn't test the Konsole part.

The PipeWire project has made major strides over the past few years, bringing shiny new features, and paving the way for new possibilities in the Linux multimedia scene. With 2021 seeing significant progress made on all fronts, let's take a moment to look back at what was accomplished, and what lies ahead for 2022.

Read the full thing at https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2022/03/08/pipewire-a-year-in-review-look-ahead/

Spectacle now lets you annotate an existing screenshot via a button in the notification or the command-line --edit-existing <file> argument

Read the full thing at https://pointieststick.com/2021/12/03/this-week-in-kde-new-spectacle-features-and-tons-of-bugfixes/

In this article, I'm going to go over the basic building blocks of jq in enough depth that you will be able to understand how jq works.

Of course, you still might occasionally need to head to goodle to find a function name or check your syntax, but at least you'll have a firm grounding in the basics.

Read the full thing at https://earthly.dev/blog/jq-select/

Little Red Dog Games is an indie game developer that primarily uses Godot to create games such as Deep Sixed, Precipice, and their latest game, Rogue State Revolution. To learn more about their experience developing games in Linux, we sat down for an interview with CEO Ryan Hewer and Lead Programmer, Denis Comtesse.

Read the full thing at https://blog.system76.com/post/654884924769370112/developing-games-on-linux-an-interview-with