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GhostBSD 20.02 Brings Custom ZFS Partition Editor, Updater Improvements
For those looking to experiment with a BSD-based desktop open-source platform, GhostBSD has been competing well as one of the few in this field. GhostBSD 20.02 is out and continues being based on TrueOS/FreeBSD stable packages while shipping the GTK-based MATE desktop environment as its out-of-the-box desktop solution...
Simple Patch Lets Amazon's EC2 Linux Network Driver Start ~90x Faster
With how ubiquitous the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is, one may have assumed that for years the software stack was already extensively optimized to insane levels, especially as it concerns the boot time for being able to quickly respond to changes in load... But it turns out there still is some low hanging fruit such as with Amazon's "ENA" network driver and a new patch allowing it to initialize 90 times quicker...
6 questions for the OSI board of directors candidates
In a twitter exchange about ethical licenses, my friend Stephen O'Grady said something that I thought was sharp:
the energy cost is only part of the issue. maybe it's significant over the long term, maybe not.
the collateral damage of the process to individuals and institutions with no other goal than protecting open source, however, is material IMO.
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What Are The Most Common Issues With Free Open Source Software? - Analytics India Magazine
What Are The Most Common Issues With Free Open Source Software? Analytics India Magazine
KDE Has Screen Rotation Now Working On Wayland
Addressing a two year old bug report over screen rotation not working when running KDE Plasma on Wayland, that support is finally on the way...
GNOME 3.36 Seeing Last Minute Mutter Wayland Improvements
On top of the last minute GNOME 3.36 work on scaled/transformed hardware cursors handling, there is some other interesting last-minute Wayland work on the Mutter side...
Wayland-Protocols 1.19 Released With Governance Guide, Updated XDG-Shell
Coming a month after Weston 8.0 and a few weeks after Wayland 1.18 is Wayland-Protocols 1.19 (and subsequently Wayland-Protocols 1.20 over a snafu) as the collection of Wayland protocol specifications...
Godot Game Engine Working Towards Native Wayland Support, EGL
On top of all the Godot happenings for its Vulkan rendering support, the code-base for Godot 4.0 is also being cleaned up and among the other improvements being worked on are Wayland and EGL support...
Install Synaptic Package Manager on you Chromebook - Chrome Unboxed
Install Synaptic Package Manager on you Chromebook Chrome Unboxed
DXVK 1.5.5 Released With Many Game Fixes
DXVK 1.5.5 is out this weekend as a big update to this Direct3D-over-Vulkan translation layer widely used by Linux gamers in running Windows games with decent speed...
Wine-Staging 5.3 Fixes Online Play For Some Recent Games
Following yesterday's Wine 5.3 release, Wine-Staging 5.3 was issued as the latest testing/experimental flavor of Wine. Wine-Staging 5.3 is still carrying 800+ extra patches compared to upstream Wine while it has updated its Event FD synchronization code and also added one important addition this cycle...
Linux Game Publishing Brought Back Online For Archival Purposes
In 2020 we certainly didn't expect the Linux Gaming Publishing website to appear back online, years after their single server failed and ultimately faded away as one of the promising Linux game porters built up following the collapse of Loki Software...