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FOSS NEWS

PeerTube asks for donations to improve their new mobile app:
news.itsfoss.com/peertube-mobi

Organic Maps got forked due to transparency concerns, inclusion of proprietary components, CoMaps is born as a fully community-driven project:
news.itsfoss.com/organic-maps-

Delta Chat now works in Firefox, no longer depends on Electron/Chromium:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/5/

Firefox 139 released with custom new tab wallpapers and background colors, improved upload speed, full-page translations on extension pages (for moz-extension:// URL scheme only), transparent PNG images stay transparent when pasted into Firefox:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/mozill

Firefox 140 beta available with Unload Tab feature to reduce memory and CPU usage, support for keeping more or fewer pinned vertical tabs in view, “Select All” option for bookmarks on Android:
9to5linux.com/firefox-140-ente

Thunderbird 139 released with "Mark as Read" and "Delete" actions for email notifications, enterprise policy implementation to allow granular in-app notification control, support for manually sorting folders in the folder pane, customizable row count for Cards View in the Appearance settings, various bug fixes:
9to5linux.com/thunderbird-139-

OBS Studio 31.1 beta available with Multitrack Video support on Linux and macOS, preview zoom controls, support for additional canvases for Multitrack Video output, AV1 B-frame support for AMF, support for color format/space/range GPU conversion, etc.:
9to5linux.com/obs-studio-31-1-

VirtualBox 7.2 beta is available with Windows 11 Arm support, GUI improvements, source code available on GitHub:
phoronix.com/news/Oracle-Virtu

It's FOSS News · PeerTube Needs Your Help to Upgrade its Mobile AppPeerTube is raising funds to accelerate the development of its mobile app.
#WeeklyNews#News#FOSS

Installing #obsstudio from #Flathub will consume ~500MB more space compared to the native package (a bit older version but that won't make any significant difference) 🙃
While concept of each app be using it's own copy of dependencies might be justified in some situations, for general usage accumulation of many duplicated packages is just a waste of precious disk capacity.
That's why I avoid #flatpak and #snap software at all cost.

#linux#apt#software

#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.

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Runs from USB drive or CD/DVD.
Runs on computers 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

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Mastodon: @dyne

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OBS project threatens Fedora with legal action because the 3rd-party OBS Studio package in the Fedora Flatpak repo is broken, poorly maintained, users report issues to OBS instead of Fedora project because they think it's the official package, the Fedora project refused to do anything about it:
news.itsfoss.com/obs-studio-fe
(This whole software distribution thing is pretty broken on Linux in general, it isn't just an issue the OBS Flatpak on Fedora. There should be some indication for the users if a package isn't maintained by the original devs, e.g. including "unofficial" in the package name. Flathub's approach to verify package maintainers is also pretty good approach. Of course this would be hard to implement in the whole Linux platform because of its fragmented nature but would be nice towards the devs of programs if they wouldn't need to deal with packaging issues they can do nothing about.)

openSUSE Tumbleweed ditches AppArmor for SELinux:
news.itsfoss.com/opensuse-ditc

Ubuntu 24.04.2 delayed to next week:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/ubuntu

EndeavourOS Mercury available with Linux kernel 6.13, Xfce 4.20, KDE Plasma 6.2.5, DE sessions now use dark theme by default, Xfce theme is now closer to the default, GNOME session can automatcally set light/dark wallpapers, memory test for EFI systems on the live ISO, bug fixes:
9to5linux.com/arch-linux-based

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It's FOSS News · Open Sue! OBS Studio Threatens Fedora With Legal ActionAnother day, another Linux-related drama. This time, it's OBS Studio and Fedora going at it.

#OBSStudio 31.0 Released With New Features For Screen Recording & Screencasting
#OBS Studio 31.0 adds support for NVIDIA Blur Filter and Background Blur functionality for those running with NVIDIA proprietary driver stack. OBS Studio 31.0 also adds preview scrollbars and zoom/scale indicator, Amazon IVS service integration, and enables first-party YouTube Chat features. OBS Studio 31.0 release also adds Intel #QuickSync Video (QSV) #AV1 screen capturing coding support.
phoronix.com/news/OBS-Studio-3

www.phoronix.comOBS Studio 31.0 Released With New Features For Screen Recording & Screencasting