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Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E203 - Big GNOME work on cross desktop stuff
🕑 Added 2024-10-21 08:36:05 +0000 UTCHey everyone!
In today's espide, we have:
00:05 Intel's beta NPU driver is provided as a snap
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/10/intels-npu-driver-for-linux-is-now-available-on-the-snap-store
03:32 Big GNOME work on portals and hybrid laptops
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/10/twig-170/
https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2024/04/23/notifications-46-and-beyond/
07:39 Gaming: Valve pushes VR driver to SDL, Wine9.20
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.20
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL-OpenVR-Video-Driver
Have a great day!
Comments
Mickael Almeida
Hi Nick. I don't know if it is still the case, but back when I used Manjaro with the proprietary Nvidia driver, I believe they were distributed as flatpaks. I can't check for this anymore, but it could be interesting looking into.
The Linux Experiment
Not sure! I know their sandbox will work only on AppArmor distros, but as per the drivers, I don't know!
I do aggree, but it is still one "universal" packaging format, meaning while it's true i also doubt how universally compatible it is, I'm certain it makes huge steps towards porting those things easily onto other distros.
UsernamesAreHard
Packaging third party drivers in a containerized manner like snaps is interesting but I wonder if such packaging will truly work on all distros or is this going to work only on Ubuntu since they have their own patched kernel with their own set of apparmor rules. I'm not convinced that snaps are an universal packaging format.
