Tabla de contenidos para May 2023 en Linux Format

Linux Format|May 2023

It’s a flat future

Despite Ubuntu dropping out-ofthe-box support, Flatpak has been assembling itself nicely recently.According to Gnome Foundation board director Rob McQueen, the ecosystem now contains over 2,000 apps, some of which he cheerfully admits he’s never heard of. The platform was designed to allow easy download and installation of apps across all Linux platforms, and is now boxing clever with around 700,000 app downloads each day, amounting to around 88.3TB of data daily. While the desktop app is going strong, there’s now a revamped Flathub site (https:// beta.flathub.org), which the developers plan to develop into a full app store. Flathub’s plans also include accepting payments via Stripe. As profiteering isn’t fully compatible with the ethos of the Gnome Foundation, the founders also plan to establish an independent legal entity to manage Flathub,…

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Linux Format|May 2023

CopyQ

Version: 6.4.0 Web: https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ The clipboard is perhaps one of the best timesaving tools, though despite its convenience, it only remembers the last item you copied. CopyQ is a nifty little utility that corrects this wrong. When running, CopyQ stores every single item you add to the clipboard. You can then select and paste them from the app, or even assign a custom keyboard shortcut for even faster pastes. CopyQ has binary packages for DEB- and RPMbased distros, but you can use the distro-agnostic Flatpak to get the app to work on any distro with flatpak install flathub com.github.hluk.copyq . Once installed you can fire it from the applications menu or using flatpak run com.github.hluk.copyq . The main interface displays a list with the clipboard history. Copying text or images…

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Linux Format|May 2023

Kernel watch

L inus Torvalds announced Linux 6.3-rc1 ,noting that it “was quite nice” to see how the two-week “merge window” (period of time during which disruptive changes are allowed into the kernel) went smoothly following “several releases where the merge windows had something odd going on”. He was also pleased by how many patches had been posted early as opposed to at the last minute. “While Rust may be a ‘safe’ language, Linux is written in C, which decidedly is not.“ Meanwhile, Thorsten Leemhuis continues tracking regressions against the released Linux 6.2, which has already had a number of stable kernel updates from Greg KH. Linux 6.2 brought with it initial support for the Rust programming language. This was simultaneously surprising and not surprising in the least. Surprising in the sense…

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Linux Format|May 2023

Intel Core i5 13400F

SPECS Socket: V LGA1700 Process: Intel 7 10nm Cores (P+E): 6+4 Threads: 16 P cache: 480KB L1, 7.5MB L2, 20MB L3 (shared) P core: 2.5GHz (4.6GHz boost) E cache: 384KB L1, 4MB L2, 20MB L3 (shared) E core: 1.8GHz (3.3GHz) Unlocked: No GPU: N/A Mem max: 128GB, no ECC, two-channel Mem speed: DDR5 4,800MT/s, DDR4 3,200MT/s PCIe: v5 and v4 20-lanes processor base Power: 65W Maximum turbo power: 148W W e’ve been waiting patiently to test the Intel Core i5 13400F processor. You’ll understand why once you read the specs. A 10-core processor made up of six Performance cores (P-cores) and four Efficient cores (E-cores), the Core i5 13400F has a total of 16 threads. Its fastest cores run up to 4.6GHz out of the box, a clock speed that…

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