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Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for June 16


Picture of the day
Common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis), Arrábida National Park, Portugal. The common cuttlefish is one of the largest and best-known cuttlefish species. They are a migratory species that spend the summer and spring inshore for spawning and then move to depths of 100 to 200m during autumn and winter. They only have a lifespan of 1–2 years and have many predators including sharks, dolphins, seals, fish, and cephalopods which includes other cuttlefish. During the day, most cuttlefish can be found buried below the substrate and fairly inactive. At night however, they are actively searching for prey and can ambush them from under the substrate. Cuttlefish are carnivorous and eat a variety of organisms including crustaceans (crabs and shrimp), small fish, molluscs (clams and snails), and sometimes other cuttlefish.

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Linux 6.16-rc2 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes

Following the release of Linux 6.16-rc1 last Sunday that capped off the Linux 6.16 merge window, Linux 6.16-rc2 is now available with an initial week's worth of bug/regression fixes. Linux 6.16 development continues in aiming toward a stable release around the end of July...
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Void Linux Releases XBPS Package Manager v0.60 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


OrangePi Equips Gateway Board with RISC-V Processor, Four RJ45 Ports, and OpenWRT Support lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


PeaZip 10.5 Brings Major Performance Boost to the File and Archive Manager lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Gemini 435Le Features Active Stereo, Dual-Laser Modules, and 6-Axis IMU for 3D Vision lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…



Linux 6.17 Looks Like It Could Go Ahead And Make SMP Support Unconditional

Back in May a big patch series was published for reworking the Linux kernel to make the SMP support unconditional. Right now those that happen to be running Linux in a uniprocessor (1 CPU core) configuration can build with "CONFIG_SMP" disabled but the proposed patches would make symmetric multi-processing support always present. Those patches took a step forward…
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The Latest X.Org Server Activity Are A Lot Of Code Reverts

The X.Org Server has been seeing a lot of commits this week... to revert bad code...
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in reply to Phoronix

seems like this would indicate that those commits weren't adequately reviewed before they were merged.

Of course one can't catch everything when reviewing code, and the maintainers were probably busy with other stuff. But that's a lot of bad commits thatvslipped through...

in reply to Phoronix

lol, I like how the author says he intentionally didn't report on a project because of "no confidence" in its sustainability in the same breath as reporting on X11, the unsustainable mess that's largely abandoned for good reasons. I'd say a fork of X11 is a lot more interesting to read about than a bunch of commit reverts to an increasingly irrelevant project.


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As RHEL clones hit version 10, Rocky and Alma chart diverging paths lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…



KDE Plasma 6.5 To Introduce Wayland Picture-In-Picture Support lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…



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Linux Kernel API Specification Framework Proposed To Help Stabilize User-Space Interfaces lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


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KDE Frameworks 6.15 Improves Accessibility in Plasma’s System Settings App lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


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Linux Kernel API Specification Framework Proposed To Help Stabilize User-Space Interfaces

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How to Install Docker on AlmaLinux 10 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


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