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The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the Internet I just put it here. Today the amount information that we get using various information streams is at massive […]
Valuable News – 2025/04/07 -
This is for everyone upgrading to Plasma 6.3.4, which was released yesterday. I suspect that some of you will notice something slightly wrong with notifications; the top padding is off, causing text to look not vertically centered most of the time. This is my fault. The recent bug-fixes I made to notification spacings and paddings […]
If your notifications look kind of stupid in Plasma 6.3.4, it’s my fault -
“If the discard mount option is enabled, the file’s clusters are discarded when the clusters are freed. Discarding clusters one by one will significantly reduce performance. Poor performance may cause soft lockup when lots of clusters are freed.
This commit improves performance by discarding contiguous clusters in batches.”
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It’s been several years since I announced Plasma’s 15-minute bug initiative, and you can see the weekly numbers in every week’s “This Week in Plasma” post. Today I thought I’d share a high-level recap of where we’re at as of the first quarter of 2025. In short: really good. We dipped below 20 bugs for […]
2025 15-Minute Bug Initiative update -
Fedora Linux 42 Beta has officially landed, and it’s packed with a ton of awesome changes. This release gives KDE Plasma Desktop full edition status, introduces the COSMIC spin, and rolls out Fedora Asahi Remix 42 Beta for Apple Silicon Macs. There’s also a big refresh to the Anaconda installer, improvements to DNF5, and a […]
Fedora Linux 42 Beta is here with KDE edition, COSMIC spin, Asahi Remix, and major updates
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