And we come to the end of another month. And not surprisingly, more stuff happened…
Software news first:
- There was lots and lots and lots and lots of talk about Mir – Ubuntu’s new anti-Wayland.
- And if that was not enough, here are more comments from people on the issue
- Speaking of Wayland, here is a summary of its progress in Arch land…
- And how its support in GTK and GNOME is progressing
- Wayland/Weston also have a new fork – for some reason
- gcc-4.8 was released (get it from the Arch [testing] repo) and now builds in C++
- ZFS is ready for use
- GTK+-3.8 was released, closely followed by GNOME-3.8
- The math library performance in glibc is getting continuous improvements
- A new startup manager for KDE is in the works and it looks like it will speed up your login
- ownCloud 5 was released
- A summary of plans for libsystemd-bus and kdbus
- The security features of RPM – I thought installed file validation would be in there…
- Ever wondered how often assembly is used in the software carried by a distribution?
- Finally, if you use PostgreSQL, be prepared for the 4th of April…
Various distro news:
- openSUSE released an ARM64 port (although there is no hardware…)
- Ubuntu also looked at rolling releases, but decided not to
- Instead, they halved the support time of non-LTS releases
- It seems Arch Linux is the best multimedia distribution (WTF!?)
- How Fedora manages building for multiple architectures
And finally…
- Want to go to Mars – on a permanent trip? Probably do it with a company with more than a handful of employees…