

For quite a few years, the standard answer for any audio problem on Linux was to uninstall PulseAudio, and just use ALSA. Raise your hand if you remember when PulseAudio was famous for breaking audio on Linux for everyone. PipeWire, The Newest Audio Kid On The Linux Block | Hackaday.It’s especially important to do this to open the door for more people to join in and follow the current development, which is happening at a fast pace. In this post I’ll try to explain PipeWire in the most simple way possible, to make it accessible to others that want to start following this cool new project but that don’t know where to start. Unfortunately, because at the time I didn’t find enough docs and couldn’t wrap my head around some concepts, I think I didn’t do justice to the project and might have even confused some parts. In a previous posts I went over the generic audio stack on Unix and had a section mentioning PipeWire. However, it’s always a good idea to have people from outside the project try to grasp and explain it to others in their own words, reiterating ideas, seeing them from their own perspective. Its documentation is still relatively sparse but is gradually growing. The PipeWire project is slowly getting popular as it matures. The conversation also ranges across the past and future of Linux on desktops and laptops, KDE’s Akademy, OpenUK and its awards and much more. Here’s a clue, it was inspired by surfing. Jonathan Riddell, who created and leads KDE Neon, gives Doc Searls and Simon Phipps the fascinating backstory of the project and what makes it distinctive. FLOSS Weekly 635: KDE Neon – Jonathan Riddell.Brave, the makers of the Brave Browser, aim to provide a truly privacy-focused search engine that serves independent results rather than pulling from Google or Bing. Will This Be The Google Killer?īrave’s new search engine recently had it’s public launch. It also comes equipped with the Intel Core i7-1165G7 CPU integrating an Iris Xe iGPU, which can be coupled with up to 64 GB of DDR4-3200 RAM and up to 4 TB of SSD storage through two M.2 slots. This is because Slimbook is including more advanced features like a 2880 x 1800 16:10 LTPS screen with 90 Hz refresh rate, 400 nit maximum brightness and 99% sRGB color gamut. The magnesium alloy chassis appears to be made by Tongfang and is identical with those from Schenker Vision 14 and Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro, but the default price is noticeably higher.
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Apart from catering both for the Windows and Linux crowds, Slimbook also focuses to stay true to its name and deliver lightweight but powerful notebooks, and this can easily be seen with the new Executive models that feature Intel Tiger Lake-U processors packed in a 14-inch chassis that weighs only 2.2 lbs (1 kg) and is 0.59-inch (15 mm) thick.Īs with most slim and light models, the Slimbook Executive is geared more towards premium users. Just like Germany has the Schenker / XMG OEM with the Tuxedo subsidiary, Spain offers similar solutions through its relatively new Slimbook OEM. Breaking into the global market directly with Windows-based models might be tough, so the new OEMs from Europe are also focusing on GNU / Linux systems. You know the demand for laptops is clearly on the rise when even Europe is seeing new OEMs popping up. Slimbook launches light and thin 14-inch Executive laptop with 3K 16:10 90 Hz display and Intel Tiger Lake-U processor.
