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OBS Studio Snap App Gets a Major Upgrade – AI Plugins Inbound

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Par :Joey Sneddon
23 juillet 2025 à 00:50
OBS Studio application window and about dialog.

A big update to OBS Studio Snap package is available to test, with Canonical rebasing the software on top of Core24 and switching the source code it is built from.

The bump to the Snap core is needed as the latest OBS Studio 31.1 release drops support for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, as Canonical software engineer Vanda Hendrychová notes:

“Until now the snap has been running on core22; however, official builds of OBS Studio version 31.0 and subsequent releases are only available for Ubuntu 24.04 and later.We have upgraded the base snap to core24 in order to ensure close alignment with […] upstream.”

What is a core? It’s a base snap providing a runtime environment – the essential system libraries, tools, and dependencies snaps need to run (across all Linux distributions).

Additional, the OBS Studio Snap package is now built from the source code used by the official OBS Project PPA, and not built from code provided by the unofficial OBS Studio Portable project (which is not actively maintained).

This shift will make it easier to maintain the Snap, but it’s not without a caveat: OBS Studio Portable includes “popular third-party plugins out-of-the-box”. The updated version, being built from vanilla source code, does not.

Intel GPU acceleration is improved in the new build – and AI plugins are planned!

Users can continue to install plugins in the Snap manually, but Hendrychová notes that “OBS Studio plugins are shared libraries, they must be built with the same library versions as those present in the snap”, so suggests the use of an Ubuntu 24.04 LXD container for building.

Intel GPU hardware acceleration is improved in the testing version due to the inclusion of packages from the Intel Graphics PPA, also maintained by Canonical. AI plugins “optimized for Intel hardware” are going to added in an upcoming release.

Community users are being asked to test the rebased, retooled OBS Studio Snap by installing it from the candidate channel. Those with a stable version installed can switch by running snap refresh obs-studio --channel latest/candidate.

Should testing go fine, the update will roll out to all user on the stable channel in the coming weeks.

The OBS Studio Snap package is, like many apps on the Snap Store, not maintained by its upstream developers, but Ubuntu community members who work under the umbrella of ‘Snapcrafters‘. The OBS Studio offer an official DEB and Flatpak on Flathub.

If you plan on testing this update, and you need or want to report issues you find, you should do so by opening an issue on the Snapcrafters GitHub page for the OBS Studio Snap package.

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Reçu hier — 22 juillet 20254.1 🐧 Linux

A Number Of Problems Make Debian & Other Linux Distros A Pain On Snapdragon X Laptops

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Par :Michael Larabel
22 juillet 2025 à 16:08
While downstream Ubuntu is the most popular Linux option for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X powered "Windows on Arm" laptops, that's because of their concept images containing a number of "hacked packages" to lead to a decent user experience. But for upstream Debian Linux the prospects of running it on Snapdragon X Elite/Plus laptops is less than ideal with a number of problems persisting -- similar to other Linux distributions focused on running the mainline Linux kernel and other upstream software...

IPFire 2.29-core196

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22 juillet 2025 à 15:17
IPFire is a Linux distribution that focuses on easy setup, good handling and high level of security. It is operated via an intuitive web-based interface which offers many configuration options for beginning and experienced system administrators. IPFire is maintained by developers who are concerned about security and who update the product regularly to keep it secure. IPFire ships with a custom package manager called Pakfire and the system can be expanded with various add-ons.

Fwupd 2.0.13 Linux Firmware Updater Adds Support for HP USB-C 100W G6 Dock

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Par :Marius Nestor
22 juillet 2025 à 12:47

fwupd

Fwupd 2.0.13 Linux firmware updater is now available for download with support for the HP USB-C 100W G6 dock and other changes. Here's what's new!

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Argon ONE Up Laptop Runs on a Raspberry Pi CM5

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Par :Joey Sneddon
22 juillet 2025 à 01:14

Last year I reviewed the CrowView Note, a portable monitor with battery, keyboard and trackpad that makes it devilishly easy to use a Raspberry Pi as a laptop — albeit a laptop with a single-board computer sticking out the side!

As much as I love (and continue to use) the CrowView Note—the HDMI input lets you use anything with it, even a phone—it is far from elegant.

Argon Forty, makers of the most well-engineered and popular Raspberry Pi cases (the Argon ONE range), clearly took note and thought: “hold my fruit punch”.

Argon ONE Up Runs on a CM5

The Argon ONE Up is a is a laptop computer powered by a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5. Yup, the CM5, not the full-size Pi SBC.

You remove a panel on the bottom of the laptop, slot in your CM5 (and an M.2 SSD or expansion board, like the AI+ HAT), and bam: a Raspberry Pi-powered laptop. No SBC dangling out the side, and no super-thick chassis to house it internally.

Though this is not modular in the way the Framework line of laptops are (you can replace everything in those), the Compute Module can be swapped out (I’m not sure if alternative boards using the same connector exist, but if so: more choice) so there’s potential.

Here’s a video of the Argon ONE Up in production because, why not:

Warning: jazz music

The Argon ONE UP is going to launch via a Kickstarter campaign sometime soon. No price or battery life details are known, but the aluminium alloy chassis houses:

  • 14-inch IPS LCD display (1920×1200)
  • 1080p webcam
  • Backlit keyboard with multitouch trackpad
  • Built-in stereo speakers
  • microSD card reader
  • M.2 2280 slot (PCIe 2.0 – can run AI HAT)

Ports include:

  • 2× USB 3.1 Gen1 (Type-A)
  • 2× USB Type-C (PD + Data + OTG)
  • HDMI 2.0 (4K@60 Hz output)
  • 3.5mm audio jack

There’s also an additional add-on able to connect to the USB Type-C ports to provide an external 40-pin GPIO header, with power button — these folks know their market.

So when can you buy one buy and how much will it cost?

As yet unknown.

Argon’s been teasing an upcoming Kickstarter campaign for a few weeks—it unveiled the ONE Up at a conference earlier this year—and a preview page for the campaign is live1 (but you can’t back it). Keep an eye there if you’re interested in getting one.

Argon Raspberry Pi products have a good rep in the community, and I’ve no doubt many of you reading will already own some – so shout out your kit in the comments!

  1. Fun drinking game: neck fruit punch for every use of the word ‘level’ in the campaign blurb. ↩︎

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