This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Debian 13 will include initial RISC-V support, with limited board support for now:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-13-RISC-V-Ready

GNOME introduces Foundry, a development tool which extract's Builder's functionality into a library and CLI tool:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Builder-Foundry-2025

KDE Plasma 6.5 will be able to send notications about low printer ink level, will include Pointer Warp support for Wayland:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.5-Low-Printer-Ink

OBS Studio Snap app rebased on Core24 instead of Core22, built for official OBS Project PPA instead of unofficial, unmaintained OBS Studio Portable, better Intel GPU support:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/obs-studio-snap-update-core24-plugins

KaOS 2025.07 available with Qt5-based KDE Frameworks removed from default install, Plasma 6.4, updated packages, Phonon uses MPV as default backend instead of VLC:
https://betanews.com/2025/07/24/kaos-linux-gets-a-modern-makeover-and-a-big-under-the-hood-upgrade/

Fedora considers reducing the scope that BIOS systems can hold up a release:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Non-UEFI-BIOS-Scope

New migration tool Operese available, for migrating files and settings from Windows 10 to a Kubuntu installation:
https://betanews.com/2025/07/22/saying-no-to-windows-11-just-got-easier-operese-automatically-transfers-your-windows-10-files-and-settings-to-linux/
(It's a pretty cool concept overall, but I think giving KDE Plasma for Linux newcomers isn't really the best idea, because the tons of customization options, and occasional bugs here and there might scare away some Windows users. I would rather give them Zorin OS with their customized version of GNOME, or Linux Mint / LMDE with Cinnamon. (No, I'm not a KDE hater, I think it's a great option for those who want to fully customize their desktop experience, or the PewDiePie type of guys who already adopted the mindset of tweaking around, playing around with the options, not wanting to go back to Windows when encountering a bug, but it's not for every newcomer.))

Wayback 0.1 released as a first preview release:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayback-0.1-Released

(FOSS news in comments)

OBS Studio 31.1.0 released with Multitrack Video for Linux, explicit sync support for PipeWire https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/obs-studio-31-1-0-released-with-multitrack-video-for-linux-explicit-sync-support-for-pipewire/

OBS Studio 31.1 porta Multitrack Video anche su Linux

https://gomoot.com/obs-studio-31-1-porta-multitrack-video-anche-su-linux/

#FreeBSD #OBS #OBS-Studio #obsstudio #VirtualCamera

Long story short... I was able to get the obs studio virtual camera working with FreeBSD.

The long story is that after trying OBS-Studio on FreeBSD, I immediately notice the virtual camera was not available. I did some research, and the issue was solved in the past but for whatever reason patch that enabled the virtual camera was removed from the port tree. I file a bug in FreeBSD bugzilla, and also email the maintainer of the port with the bug information.

To my surprise the maintainer responded my email and patch OBS-Studio. Now virtual camera is available for everyone using FreeBSD.

This is how you make it work.

1.Using your terminal navigate to obs-studio port directory.
2. run "make config" and uncheck the browser option and hit enter.
3. run "make install clean"
4. run "webcamd -c v4l2loopback"
5.start obs-studio (The virtual cam button should be present now)
6. Start virtual camera.

Dynebolic is a Linux distribution developed for multimedia production.

Run via USB flash drive or DVD.
Run via computer with extremely low resources.
No background communications established without user consent.
Recommended by Free Software Foundation.

APPLICATIONS
#Ardour7
#Audacity
#darktable
#GIMP
#Inkscape
#Kdenlive
#OBSStudio
#soundKonverter
#Scribus
#Tomb encryption
#VLC

Website: https://dyne.org/dynebolic
Mastodon: @dyne

How Flatpak is Taking Over the Linux App Scene (No Cap)

https://video.fosshq.org/videos/watch/9c8a0fbc-54cd-4871-bfc6-8797112227fa

The OBS versus Fedora drama seems to have calmed down - no more legal threats https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/the-obs-versus-fedora-drama-seems-to-have-calmed-down-no-more-legal-threats/

Trouble brewing in the open source space for creators.

Fedora threatened with legal action from OBS Studio due to their Flatpak packaging

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/fedora-threatened-with-legal-action-from-obs-studio-due-to-their-flatpak-packaging/

Fedora threatened with legal action from OBS Studio due to their Flatpak packaging https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/fedora-threatened-with-legal-action-from-obs-studio-due-to-their-flatpak-packaging/

It looks like @OBSProject has written a formal legal request against @fedora to remove their branding, as well as any link pointing to the OBS Project: https://gitlab.com/fedora/sigs/flatpak/fedora-flatpaks/-/issues/39#note_2344970813

#SábadoDeTerminal
Debo reconocer que, para estar en una zona donde suele haber cortes de energía eléctrica, mi servidor casero, "Darth Vader", se ha mantenido en pie y sin reiniciarse por bastante tiempo.
La captura la hice accediendo remotamente vía SSH, con #CoolRetroTerm. Tengo una escena preconfigurada en #OBSstudio para el efecto de estar trabajando desde una Armstrad PC W512.

En train de capturer un truc un rien WTF!

For #Ubuntu #linux users out there, which installation of obs is a better choice?

- APT
- Snap
- Flatpak

OBS Studio 31.0.1 - note that Nvidia Kepler GPU support is dropped!: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/31.0.1
#linux #linuxgaming #update #foss #release #hardware #obs #nvidia #streaming #videocapture #obsstudio

@LinuxTorvaldIsGod I know that #GTK is very popular among developers on the #Linux platform, but isn't it possible to find alternatives for all of these applications [1]?

The #KDE / #QT ecosystem also has excellent applications (#Krita, #LibreOffice QT, #KDEnlive, #Shotcut, #QGIS, #DigiKam, #OBSStudio, #Friction, #PDF4QT, ...). There are many #Electron-based applications (#Chromium, #RStudio, #Slack, ...) and those applications using other toolkits (#Blender, ...)

[1] https://github.com/valpackett/awesome-gtk

What are your must-have desktop environment apps?

Aside from web browser and commo (Signal and Discord), my immediate installs were

- #Obsidian for my portable brain
- #CoolRetroTerm for my retro terminal needs
- media stuff (#ReaperDAW, #Audacity, #MuseScore, #OBSstudio, #inkscape)

What's a good #RSS aggregator?

And what other cool things might I be missing out on, as a Win10 refugee coming to #KDE5?

OBS Studio 31 released with first-party YouTube Chat features, new NVIDIA filters and Linux improvements https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/obs-studio-31-released-with-first-party-youtube-chat-features-new-nvidia-filters-and-linux-improvements/

OBS Studio Update Adds New Features, Drops 22.04 Support

For high-quality screen recording and streaming few apps comes close to the power and versatility as the cross-platform and open-source OBS Studio – and a new version is out. OBS Studio 31.0 intros a slate of new features and capabilities. Among them, the long-awaited addition of preview scrollbars, making it easier to move around previews without needing to hold the spacebar and click, and a zoom/scale indicator so users can tell when the viewpoint is zoomed/moved. Elsewhere, OBS Studio 31.0 adds a new background blur filter – but it only works on systems equipped with a compatible NVIDIA RTX GPU
#News #AppUpdates #Gaming #ObsStudio #Ubuntu22_04Lts

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/obs-studio-31-background-blur-feature

Does anyone of you #OBS gurus have any experience with using a #MIDI controller?

It looks like obs-midi-mg might be the tool (that is still updated).

I'd love to be able to toggle layers, possible launch scenes and ideally use faders to control certain parameters (like layer alpha channel).

Is this possible? And could I ask one of you some workflow questions @lislegaard @meljoann @limebar ?

I'm still an OBS n00b and am getting a little confused when to use scenes/layers etc.

OBS Studio announces structured versioning with Semantic Versioning, aiming for better clarity in future updates.
https://linuxiac.com/obs-studio-switches-to-usage-of-a-new-versioning-system/