I bought a MiSTercade board a while ago. Only problem is that I don't have a JAMMA cabinet to use it with. I have my eye on a Storm from AwesomeArcades based out of Idaho... but I haven't come up with the cash for it yet. That doesn't have a CRD so things like the NES Zapper wouldn't work... but there are some alternative light guns that would work if I wanted that. Anyhoo, here's Retro Ralph's take on the MiSTer. Enjoy!
The price of this board is reported to be $99, and a 128GB RAM module is going to be only $15.
Some time ago, most of the LXD team at Canonical were laid off, and LXD was removed from containers.org. Incus was forked from LXD and, so far as I'm concerned, is the future of containers on Linux. It also manages KVM VMs too. Granted, I'm not much of a fan of application containers. Here's a video announcing the release of Incus 6.0 LTS. Enjoy!
RetroBytes put together quite the complete / lengthy history of X11. I've been using KDE Plasma on Wayland for a while but X11 is going to remain for some time to come. Enjoy!
The YouTube ExplainingComputers guy just came out with a Linux End-User Manifesto. He basically makes an argument for how Linux users can better advocate for wider adoption. Enjoy!
Video Game Esoterica put together a 2023 year in review video. I don't think I would have selected any different than he did. Enjoy!
The Open Source Summit was held this week in Japan. The Linux Foundation has been pretty quick to post the videos on YouTube but currently in very long, everything-that-happened-in-this-room-that-day format. I fished this clip out and converted it to av1/opus in a webm media container. If you can't play that, use something that is compatible with those codecs/container format.
Linus Torvalds at the recent Open Source Summit Japan, 2023.
What Linux distro do you use? Ever find yourself needing or wanting to use a different distro or application from a different distro? distrobox is a front-end for podman (or docker) that makes it quick and easy to install any of many different mainstream Linux distros. What makes distrobox interesting is that it automatically integrates with your host desktop with regards to your user home directory and graphical applications. Easily run graphical applications from most any distro. Enjoy!
Here's a 30 minute documentary that explains the eBPF function of the Linux kernel. Enjoy!
Value has been doing a ton of work getting games (both Linux native but mainly Windows-baseed ones) to run well on Linux and the Linux kernel and Linux community has really benefited from that development work. Here's a presentation that exposes all of that work. Enjoy!