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This week Jonathan Bennett chats with Dennis and Goran about EEZ, the series of projects that started with an Open Source programmable power supply, continued with the BB3 modular test …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 785: Designing GUIs and Building Instruments with EEZ
This week saw the release of the LXQt 2.0 desktop environment, reports 9to5Linux. And besides bringing Qt 6 support (and a new default application menu), it also brings support for the Wayland display protocol to more components:
The LXQt development… Continue reading LXQt 2.0 Released: Lightweight Desktop is Almost Wayland Compatible
For those new to fields like robotics or aerospace, it can seem at first glance that a problem like moving a robot arm or flying an RC airplane might be …read more Continue reading A General-Purpose PID Controller
Linux Mint 21.3 is now available to download, reports the blog OMG Obuntu.
It’s the first version to offer Wayland support in its Cinnamon desktop:
Following a successful bout of bug-busting in last month’s beta release, Mint devs have gone ahead an… Continue reading Linux Mint 21.3: Its First Official Release with Wayland Support
Last January the Register reported that the Budgie desktop environment was planning to switch from using GNOME to Enlightenment. But this week Budgie’s project lead David Mohammed and packaging guru Sam Lane “passed on news of a rift — and indeed… Continue reading Ubuntu Budgie Switches to an Xfce Approach to Wayland
Recently the Register pointed out that the new (Debian-based) Raspberry Pi OS 5.0 has “a completely new Wayland desktop environment replacing PIXEL, the older desktop based on LXDE and X.org, augmented with Mutter in its previous release.”
And when e… Continue reading Raspberry Pi OS, elementary OS Will Default to Wayland
“The work started on Wayland,” the Linux Mint project announced in their monthly newsletter.
An anonymous reader shared this report from 9to5Linux about an upcoming new option in the Ubuntu-based distro:
Linux Mint 21.3 [planned for Christmas of 202… Continue reading Linux Mint Gets ‘Experimental’ Wayland Support in December
Slashdot reader Dave Knott writes:
John Warnock, co-founder and ex-CEO of Adobe, has died at the age of 82. Under his tenure, Adobe created Postscript, Acrobat, Photoshop, and many other technologies and software products that have become industry sta… Continue reading Adobe Co-founder and Ex-CEO John Warnock Has Died
Building a weather station is a fairly common project that plenty of us have taken on, and for good reason. They can be built around virtually any microcontroller or full-scale …read more Continue reading Weather Station with Distributed Sensors
The Register shares its collection of “signs that Wayland is becoming the favored way to get a GUI on Linux.”
– The team developing Linux for Apple Silicon Macs said they didn’t have the manpower to work on X.org support.
– A year ago, the developer… Continue reading Is Wayland Becoming the Favored Way to Get a GUI on Linux?