Introducing GNOME 51

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trousers

Bobby is a friendly app for browsing SQLite databases.

That made me chuckle. Nice.

hackguy

There's an easter egg on the app page too.

lilac

we removed support for legacy NVIDIA driver interfaces

wow, that sucks. the gtx 10xx series cards are still able to run many modern games with good settings, but have been left to die by nvidia. my understanding is that the “legacy” drivers mentioned here are the only way to get acceleration from those cards in linux. from a quick skim of the current steam hardware survey listings they’ve dropped support for like 4% of in-use gpus. the gtx 1060 alone is still 1.6% of the market.

intelfx

Doesn’t “legacy” here refer to EGLStreams (vs GBM), rather than the pre-Turing non-GSP kernel driver (vs the Turing+ GSP “open source” one, as you seem to imply)? As far as I’m aware the former change happened quite some time before the latter. Or am I wrong?
- belak
  
  I believe that's correct - they added GBM to the GTX 10xx drivers before they fully dropped support for new drivers relatively recently. I actually had to double check that because I assumed they were fully dropping the older cards, but that thankfully doesn't seem to be the case.
  - lilac
    
    oh! pleasant surprise then. I wish they’d been a bit more clear about that in this post. 😅
- valpackett
  
  support for the outdated WEP wireless security standard has been removed entirely
  
  Oh wow, never thought I'd see the day. How about WPA1 next? The last device I've had that couldn't do WPA2 was uhh… the Sony PSP? Which these days apparently there's a mod to add that in. But an access point that couldn't deliver WPA2? The first one I had as a kid definitely could..
- LolPython
  
  I’m thrilled to see the visual signature support, I remember arguing for this feature on their bug tracker a few years back. At the time some of the folks on the tracker didn’t understand why just having cryptographic signatures alone wasn’t sufficient - glad so see this made it over the line!
- ianloic
  
  Its so nice to have such lovely incremental polish rather.
- tuxes
  
  Nice! I wish each feature had a link to more info.
  
  Here's some sleuthing.
  
  Remote Your Smartcard
  
  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop/-/merge_requests/406
  
  Login screen authentication
  
  https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/10/html/administering_rhel_by_using_the_gnome_desktop_environment/authentication-mechanism-selection-in-gdm
  
  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/blob/0b47e8bdae9cbbbce6c2d8a5b43baeb6f3596bf0/js/gdm/authServices.js#L18
  - iv
    
    Do you know if fingerprint readers work? (Of course I don’t know how secure they are compared to Macs which I’m more familiar with.)