When I was first starting out in software engineering, it felt like there was a never-ending barrage of tooling to learn. After more than a decade in CLI environments, I still find myself constantly learning new features and fun facts - but it's fairly rare that I learn something new that I end up using day-to-day.

Read the full thing at https://www.bitsand.cloud/posts/terminal-tips/

You may have been alerted by the announcement that the xz software has been modified to introduce a backdoor (CVE-2024-3094).

This software is a file compression utility. It is widely used in Mageia, since RPM packages are compressed using this utility.

Read the full thing at https://blog.mageia.org/en/2024/03/30/about-backdoor-security-alert-for-xz/

It's 11:43pm on a Monday night. My 6-week-old son is asleep in my office so my wife can get some uninterrupted rest for the first half of the night. He's finally asleep now, and I probably should be also after a full day of work. But I'm not done for the day. Even though I'm a software engineer by trade, I'm also a computer programmer by hobby and passion. So I do what I've been doing for well over a decade now: I boot up my computer to write some code.

Read the full thing at https://trstringer.com/oss-compensation-broken/

Mageia 9 has been released and a lot of people are already using it.

Read the full thing here: https://blog.mageia.org/en/2023/09/04/mageia-9-has-been-released/

We are proud to announce the first release candidate of Mageia 9. Since the release of beta 2 in May 2023 the Mageia team has worked to solve a number of stubborn issues and provide security fixes and new updates.

Read the full thing at https://blog.mageia.org/en/2023/07/23/the-release-of-rc1-brings-mageia-9-stable-even-more-closer-to-reality/

From https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installing_Google_Chrome_in_Mageia :

As of Tuesday 13th June 2023, the upstream download site at Google does not seem to have the needed latest media_info/[hdlist.cz|MD5SUM|synthesis.hdlist.cz] files for the most recent release 114.0.5735.106 for 2023-06-06.
It seems that Google did not run a "genhdlist2 ." to regenerate the hdlist files needed by URPMI.

This means that you will not get the latest google-chrome-stable when you run: /bin/sudo urpmi --auto-update.

Version 114.0.5735.106 rpm can installed directly with:

/bin/sudo urpmi http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64/google-chrome-stable-114.0.5735.106-1.x86_64.rpm

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/