I blogged about my whirlwind transition from doing next to nothing in Open Source to project maintainer in a few short weeks.
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Open Source? to Maintainer at Light Speed
In which I talk about going from doing nothing in Open Source to becoming a package maintainer.brassnet.biz
Debian Maintainers Request Delisting of Hyprland from Trixie
Hyprland and related packages won't be part of Debian 13 "Trixie" after coordinated bug reports prompted their scheduled removal before the final release.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Linux 6.16-rc1 Released: New AMD & Intel Drivers, More Performance & Blackwell Support
Linux 6.16-rc1 was just released by Linus Torvalds. This first release candidate of Linux 6.16 marks the close of the two-week merge window where many new features and other changes were introduced...
phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.16-r…
My Top 5 Free and Open Source WordPress Plugins (100% FOSS)
Many WordPress plugins offer limited GPL versions, locking key features behind paywalls. I share 5 truly free and open source WordPress plugins I use.Djalel Oukid (Linux-Tech&More)
It's official! Me, @Beowulf, @famfo and @Thelie will carry out a Forgejo Contribution Workshop during GPN23 in Karlsruhe.
📆 Friday, June 20th 2025
📍 ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
🎫 Gulaschprogrammiernacht '23 (gulas.ch)
🕐 12:15 - 13:15 CEST
Happy to answer any questions. :)
cfp.gulas.ch/gpn23/talk/A7MU9Z…
Forgejo Contribution Workshop 23. Gulaschprogrammiernacht
A beginner's workshop for contributing to and working on Forgejo, a lightweight, self-hosted software forge.cfp.gulas.ch
Box64 v0.3.6 Brings Better AVX Handling, Volatile Metadata For Windows Executables
Just a few days after the FEX 2506 release for that open-source emulator enabling x86_64 binaries to run on ARM64 (AArch64) hosts, Box64 is out with its newest feature update for this open-source project with similar goals.lxer.com
AMD Announces New Ryzen AI Z2 SoCs For Gaming Handhelds
AMD in cooperation with ASUS and Microsoft used the Xbox Games Showcase for announcing their new Ryzen AI Z2 series processors for gaming handhelds. The new Ryzen AI Z2 series is launching with the new ASUS ROG Xbox Ally / ROG Xbox Ally X handhelds running Microsoft Windows...
phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-AI…
KDE Encourages Windows 10 Users to Switch to Linux
"KDE for Windows 10 Exiles" is a new KDE initiative inviting Windows 10 users to switch to Linux and the Plasma desktop.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
My Generative AI Threat Model
>อีก 10 ปี วันที่อุตสาหกรรม AI เลิกละเมิดลิขสิทธิ์แล้ว เขาจะฟอกขาวประวัติศาสตร์ของวงการเขามั้ยนะ เหมือนกับที่ Crunchyroll เคยเป็นเว็บเถื่อนมาก่อนที่ตอนนี้ก็เป็นเว็บลิขสิทธิ์เว็บหนึ่ง…
(แปะ blog ใน mastodon มี anubis แล้วจะล่มอีกมั้ย..)
Some of the Many Reasons We Sued Microsofters for Harassment
perpetrators of harassmentRoy Schestowitz
แต่ผมหามือสองเอาแล้วกัน พอบรรเทา
Linux Mint 20.x Reaches End of Life
Linux Mint 20.x has reached end-of-life and is now officially unsupported. Fingwit, a smarter fingerprint login, arrives in Mint 22.2.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Linux Mint has announced a new app to support fingerprint authentication. It includes 'smarter' PAM integration to preempt authentication issues, and fall back to password login if needed.
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/linux-…
Linux Mint 22.2 Adds Native Fingerprint Login Support
Linux Mint 22.2 adds fingerprint login and authentication support through a new desktop app called Fingwit, which boasts 'smarter' PAM integration.Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)
Linux GPIB Drivers Maturing Into Good Shape 50+ Years After The Bus Was Introduced
Notable with the staging area updates for the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel is word that the GPIB driver code may be ready to leave the staging area in the next kernel cycle (Linux v6.17) in then being promoted to the main driver area in signifying the maturity of the code and being cleaned up to meet kernel coding standards. The GPIB drivers are for the Genera…
phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.16-S…
youtu.be/xW21c0p5Ktg
GNOME 49 Alpha 0 Releases Begin As GNOME 49 Preps For X11 Disabled-By-Default
The GNOME 49 Alpha release isn't expected until the end of June but for facilitating additional testing and a number of prominent changes this cycle, a number of GNOME packages have begun releasing "GNOME 49 Alpha 0" tags as part of plans to issue multiple alpha releases this cycle. Notable for GNOME 49 are plans moving forward for disabling X11 session support …
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GNOME 49 Alpha 0 Releases Begin As GNOME 49 Preps For X11 Disabled-By-Default
The GNOME 49 Alpha release isn't expected until the end of June but for facilitating additional testing and a number of prominent changes this cycle, a number of GNOME packages have begun releasing 'GNOME 49 Alpha 0' tags as part of plans to issue mu…www.phoronix.com
LoongArch Enables Multi-Core Scheduler Support In Linux 6.16
All of the LoongArch CPU architecture changes have been merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel with the merge window set to wrap up later today...
phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.16-L…
Linux Mint Continues Working On Its libAdwaita Fork, Fingerprint Authentication
The Linux Mint project published its newest monthly status report to outline various interesting development activities around this Linux desktop distribution project building off Ubuntu and Debian bases...
phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-M…
Linux 6.16 Introduces New Helper For Restricting Symbols To Select Kernel Modules
All of the kernel build system "Kbuild" updates were merged today for the nearly-over Linux 6.16 merge window that is expected to conclude tomorrow with the Linux 6.16-rc1 release. Notable with the Kbuild pull is the introduction of the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES helper...
phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.16-K…
Linux 6.16 Introduces New Helper For Restricting Symbols To Select Kernel Modules
All of the kernel build system 'Kbuild' updates were merged today for the nearly-over Linux 6.16 merge window that is expected to conclude tomorrow with the Linux 6.16-rc1 releasewww.phoronix.com
All open source projects can use more contributions, so here are some places where you can start for @rockylinux !
This page has a list of active Special Interest Groups, like the Cloud or Security SIGs. There's also a list of areas where you can lead the change in making a SIG for it, like for embedded systems or storage applications!
wiki.rockylinux.org/special_in…
#RockyLinux #FlockToFedora #FedoraFlockSponsor #Linux #OpenSource
how far off do we think this is from being the default shell startup on every platform
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Peter (@peter@thepit.social)
Attached: 1 image gonna be a lot more of this going around. hell of a way to learn bash.The Pit
NumPy 2.3 Introduces OpenMP Parallelization Support
NumPy 2.3 is out today as the latest release of this widely-used library for scientific computing. Notable with NumPy 2.3 is finally adding some parallelization support via OpenMP...
phoronix.com/news/NumPy-2.3-Re…
XLibre Xserver: Banned by Red Hat Developer Plans Revival of X11
Banned and erased from freedesktop.org, Enrico Weigelt unveils Xlibre—a fork of Xorg aimed at revitalizing X11 outside corporate influence.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Vulkan 1.4.317 Introduces VP9 Video Decode, ARM Tensors & 8-bit Floating Point
Vulkan 1.4.317 was made public on Friday with a number of exciting new extensions, including VP9 video decoding for Vulkan Video, 8-bit floating-point data type support, and other additions.lxer.com
Linux 6.16 Preps For RISC-V's SBI Firmware Features Extension
The RISC-V architecture feature updates were merged on Friday for the Linux 6.16 merge window that is set to end on Sunday with the Linux 6.16-rc1 release...
phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.16-R…
NVIDIA 575 Linux Graphics Driver Released with Support for NVIDIA Smooth Motion - 9to5Linux
NVIDIA 575 Linux graphics driver is now available for download with NVIDIA Smooth Motion, Xwayland improvements, and many bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Mesa 25.1.3 Released As Emergency Update For Radeon RX 9000 Series Linux Users
It was just earlier this week that Mesa 25.1.2 arrived as the newest bi-weekly bug-fix release for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. Coming out today is an emergency bug-fix release to fix a regression affecting AMD Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA4 graphics card owners...
phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.1.3-…
ของเล่นใหม่ คือ flake + direnv ไม่ใช่ zig แต่ทดสอบด้วย zig เพราะไม่เคยใช้ ถถถ
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Effortless dev environments with Nix and direnv
Like many of you, I work on a lot of different projects. Even when a project is less serious—hey, I should check out this new JS framework!—I strive to reduce the friction involved with setting up the project's dev environment to the absolute bare mi…determinate.systems
Vulkan 1.4.317 Introduces VP9 Video Decode, ARM Tensors & 8-bit Floating Point
Vulkan 1.4.317 was made public on Friday with a number of exciting new extensions, including VP9 video decoding for Vulkan Video, 8-bit floating-point data type support, and other additions...
phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.3…
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