Liya is an Arch Linux-based, rolling release distribution. The project uses the Calamares system installer to set up the distribution which offers users the Cinnamon desktop environment, Pamac graphical package manager, and OnlyOffice. The system is intended to be easy to use, easy to explore, and distraction-free.

With the Linux 6.16 stable kernel potentially being released this coming Sunday, the Linux 6.17 merge window is quickly approaching. Btrfs maintainer and SUSE engineer David Sterba sent out the Btrfs pull request already of new feature code for this copy-on-write file-system in Linux 6.17...

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Thunderbird 141 open-source email client is now available for download with a new 'Archive' action for email notifications and other changes. Here's what's new!

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Firefox 142 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with various new features and improvements. Here's what to expect!

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IPFire 2.29 Core Update 196 Linux firewall distro is now available for download with improvements to WireGuard support and console graphics stack.

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Fwupd 2.0.13 Linux firmware updater is now available for download with support for the HP USB-C 100W G6 dock and other changes. Here's what's new!

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A big update to OBS Studio Snap package is available to test, with Canonical rebasing the software on top of Core24 and switching the source code it is built from.

The bump to the Snap core is needed as the latest OBS Studio 31.1 release drops support for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, as Canonical software engineer Vanda Hendrychová notes:

“Until now the snap has been running on core22; however, official builds of OBS Studio version 31.0 and subsequent releases are only available for Ubuntu 24.04 and later.We have upgraded the base snap to core24 in order to ensure close alignment with […] upstream.”

Additional, the OBS Studio Snap package is now built from the source code used by the official OBS Project PPA, and not built from code provided by the unofficial OBS Studio Portable project (which is not actively maintained).

This shift will make it easier to maintain the Snap, but it’s not without a caveat: OBS Studio Portable includes “popular third-party plugins out-of-the-box”. The updated version, being built from vanilla source code, does not.

Users can continue to install plugins in the Snap manually, but Hendrychová notes that “OBS Studio plugins are shared libraries, they must be built with the same library versions as those present in the snap”.

To workaround this, she suggests using an Ubuntu 24.04 LXD container for building custom plugins.

Better Intel GPU Support

Intel GPU acceleration is improved in the new build – and AI plugins are planned!

Intel GPU hardware acceleration is improved in this new version due to the inclusion of packages from the Intel Graphics PPA, which is also maintained by Canonical.

Additionally, AI plugins “optimized for Intel hardware” are reportedly going added in a later release. I expect these to be Intel OpenVINO plugins that Audacity offers.

Anyone with hardware able to make use of them should keep an eye out, as they includes features like noise suppression, audio ‘super resolution’, and music generation.

How to test the improvements

Community users are being asked to test the rebased, retooled OBS Studio Snap by installing it from the candidate channel. Those with a stable version installed can switch by running snap refresh obs-studio --channel latest/candidate.

Should testing go fine, the update will roll out to all user on the stable channel in the coming weeks.

The OBS Studio Snap package is, like many apps on the Snap Store, not maintained by its upstream developers, but Ubuntu community members who work under the umbrella of ‘Snapcrafters‘. The OBS Studio offer an official DEB and Flatpak on Flathub.

If you plan on testing this update, and you need or want to report issues you find, you should do so by opening an issue on the Snapcrafters GitHub page for the OBS Studio Snap package.

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The crew working on enhancing the FreeBSD laptop support is hoping to have an install option within the installer of FreeBSD 15 that will easily provide a KDE Plasma based desktop environment...

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The first proper Hellraiser game has just been revealed with Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival.

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PEAK is another in the list of quality co-op chaos games to add to your collection.

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A late change to the AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end that may help efforts particularly for the ROCm compute support on RDNA3 hardware is finally merging support for using true 16-bit instructions and registers on all RDNA3 GPUs...