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The popular open-source e-book management tool, Calibre, has just released version 8.15, bringing improvements in the Comments editor, bug fixes, and updates to its news-source catalog.

The e-book viewer adds a small enhancement: hovering over a highlight now displays the date it was created. The Comments editor receives two updates focused on text handling. Case-change operations now preserve as much existing formatting as possible, improving accuracy when editing styled text.

In addition, new keyboard shortcuts have been introduced for all case-change actions. Users can select text, open the right-click menu, and view the new shortcut list.

This is extremely encouraging to me. I am not affiliated with the project but here is what I've gathered. Run by Mike.

• Nix (with the functional declarative design)
• Cinnamon (DE mostly used by Linux Mint, Mike and I think Cinnamon doesn't get enough respect)
• Two versions, main and "lite".
• zero config auto update is a huge selling point imo
• flatpak is a nice touch

Main:

• "4 core and 4GB of ram" target
• Flatpak integrated and auto-updates
• Zoom flatpak
• Chrome flatpak and Firefox
• Libreoffice flatpak

environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    git
    firefox
    libnotify
    gawk
    gnugrep
    sudo
    dconf
    gnome-software
    gnome-calculator
    gnome-calendar
    gnome-screenshot
    flatpak
    xdg-desktop-portal
    xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
    xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
    system-config-printer

Lite:

• "2 core and 2 GB of RAM" target
• no flatpak
• firefox

  zramSwap.memoryPercent = 100;
MemoryHigh = "500M";
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    git
    firefox
    libnotify
    gawk
    sudo
    gnome-calculator
    gnome-calendar
    gnome-screenshot
    system-config-printer
  ];

Github

Installing

boot the special ISO and connect to wifi via the system settings via the start menu (rough edges here). install.

secure boot is not first-class supported in nix but it 'can' be done.

Does the market need this?

It feels like yes. See what do you install on other people's computers?. A zero-support OS that isn't tied into ChromeOS is a tall order. There are a lot of distros that are "semi" friendly but which are strong enough to give to a stranger and never hear from them again?

The pitch is compelling enough that I put it on my small laptop. I used it for about 20 minutes. That laptop is not a project laptop, and if I could just browse and do basic linux stuff and never think about maintaining it again I'd be happy. I can report back (and contribute to nixbook) if it serves my needs. If it passes my tests I may transition the family Win10 PC to nixbook. I'm getting spooked at how many more threats target Windows than Linux.

tweaking

I'm an ultra noob with nix but you should be able to edit this and have it work. Mike has a post about which config file to edit but I can't find it. https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nixos-rebuild

$ # Edit your configuration
$ sudo nano /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
$ # Rebuild your system
$ sudo nixos-rebuild switch

I added silversearcher tldr tilde and seemed to work.

Cool tweet

https://fosstodon.org/@codemonkeymike/115582530036847888

OC by @BigHeadMode@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz

A small Brazilian startup is looking to offer some competition to the popular Flipper Zero electronics multitool with the High Boy, a gadget that looks like a knockoff Apple iPod but offers a wealth of capabilities — and which, High Code says, will be released under an open source license.

"High Boy isn't just another gadget; it's a complete platform for creativity, electronics, and security," claims co-creator Vinícius Pinheiro of High Code's inaugural device. Developed in Brazil, it combines the power of multiple technologies in a compact, expandable, and educational device. What started as a personal garage project evolved into a mission. It's a pro-level, 100% open-source tool, created for anyone who believes knowledge should be accessible."

Initially upstreamed into the Linux 6.18 kernel is Tyr as a Rust-based GPU kernel driver for Arm Mali hardware. This is in effect a Rust alternative to the Panthor DRM kernel driver for newer Arm Mali GPUs with the Command Stream Firmware (CSF). With the latest development code for Tyr, it's moved onto running the GNOME desktop and basic games like SuperTuxKart.

US President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he signed a bill ordering the release of all files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The bill requires the justice department to release all information from its Epstein investigation "in a searchable and downloadable format" within 30 days.

Trump previously opposed releasing the files, but he changed course last week after facing pushback from Epstein's victims and members of his own Republican Party.

With his support, the legislation overwhelmingly cleared both chambers of Congress, the House of Representatives and Senate, on Tuesday.

The original writeup https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_chunnel/index.html

The mid-90s was arguably the period in PC history with the most whiplash-inducing changes. The arrival of 3D acceleration cards, the transition from plain-textbox DOS to fancy Windows 95, and the advent of the Internet all happened at once. This rapidly shifting landscape posed quite the challenge for game developers, as they had to consider writing their games for DOS, Windows 95, or both.

In an exceedingly detailed writeup, Fabien Sanglard explains how the OG Quake got its support for TCP/IP and was arguably the only game that used the same executable with native support for both operating systems.

HOUSTON (AP) — A grand jury in Texas has indicted the man accused of killing “King of the Hill” voice actor Jonathan Joss on a murder charge.

But it is unclear whether Joss’ killing will be considered a hate crime. Police in San Antonio did not immediately return an email seeking comment Wednesday on whether its investigation had determined that Joss’ sexual orientation played a role in his shooting, and the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment on the matter.

Police allege Sigfredo Ceja Alvarez, 57, confronted Joss and his husband on June 1 as they were checking their mail at their San Antonio home, which had been burned down in January.

Over three months after the previous major 9.0 release, Proxmox, a powerful, free, open-source virtualization platform with over 1.6 million installed hosts worldwide, unveiled the first update to the series, Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.1. The release builds on Debian 13.2 “Trixie” and ships with kernel 6.17.2, QEMU 10.1.2, LXC 6.0.5, ZFS 2.3.4, and Ceph Squid 19.2.3 under the hood.

One of the most notable additions is support for creating LXC containers from OCI images. Administrators can now pull standard OCI images from registries or upload them manually and use them directly as templates.

Depending on the image, Proxmox provisions either full system containers or lean application containers, the latter optimized for microservices with minimal overhead. Application containers also gain host-managed DHCP and configurable environment variables, improving deployment flexibility without requiring a full userspace network stack.

Sent out today was likely the last batch of HID subsystem fixes ahead of the Linux 6.18 kernel releasing as stable around the end of the month. With it are some new device-specific quirks for fixing hardware support for a mouse and keyboard.

The ELECOM M-XT3URBK as a wired trackball mouse with six programmable buttons should see all the buttons now working under Linux. This ~$40 USD mouse should be playing nicely with Linux 6.18.

As we get closer to the launch of the new Steam Machine and Steam Frame, Valve put out a new Steamworks SDK that brings in libraries for linuxarm64 and android.

This is of course work more specifically for the Steam Frame, since it's using an ARM64 processor and it will support running Android APKs to hopefully get developers from other VR kits to work with it. And, as confirmed previously by The Verge, Steam itself is getting Android games to go with it.

Beginning yesterday and continuing today are several patch series beginning to lay the foundation in the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver for enabling some next-generation graphics IP. Due to the AMD graphics driver block by block enablement strategy and IP-based discovery adopted by their driver over the past few years, it's not clear what this new hardware enablement is for whether it's RDNA5 / UDNA or some RDNA4 refresh. In any event, the Linux driver enablement has begun.

Yesterday saw the PSP 15.0.8 IP posted. Not much is revealed by this updated Platform Security Processor (PSP) block and an incremental revision over what's already supported by the AMDGPU driver. The Platform Security Processor block on AMD GPU hardware handles firmware validation and other low-level security-related tasks.