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10 ways to celebrate Earth Day with open source admin Sat, 04/22/2023 - 03:00

Even though we strive to live every day like Earth Day here on Opensource.com, today is an especially good day to discover new ways to help the planet. Open source brings forth many possibilities for people from all areas and levels of technical expertise.

There are open source tools anyone can use to explore nature's magic, whether looking up at the night sky or down at the plants in your own backyard. Open source empowers web developers to build sustainability into their practice. Our readers love to rescue old computers with Linux, preventing them from piling up in landfills. Homeowners look to open source solutions for monitoring energy usage or installing EV stations. Opens source brings like-minded folks together to solve the world's biggest problems, like hunger and climate change. 

This Earth Day, take the time to reflect on how to incorporate open source into your sustainability habits. 

Here's a roundup of our favorite articles about open source sustainability.

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Science Sustainability 10 articles about open source sustainability Stargaze from the web browser with an open source planetarium Identify flowers and trees with open source 6 steps to reduce the carbon footprint of your website 5 open source tips to reduce waste in web design 8 steps to refurbish an old computer with Linux Open source solutions for EV charging Install open source solar power at home How I track my home's energy consumption with open source Saving home energy using open organization principles How open source is addressing food sovereignty This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License. Register or Login to post a comment.

Before You Sudo Rm -rf /, Take Some Precautions  Hackaday

Building off December's release of Manjaro 22.0, this Arch Linux based distribution is out now with its next iteration...

Manjaro 22.1 "Talos" Released With Various Updates  Phoronix

Linux Foundation launches TLA+ language foundation  ARNnet

Linux Foundation launches TLA+ language foundation  InfoWorld

Valve improving Mesa graphics drivers on Linux for a "secret" game  GamingOnLinux

Get a bunch of co-op shooters in this latest bundle  GamingOnLinux

6 Tips to Improve Your WSL 2 Docker Experience on Windows  MUO - MakeUseOf

Ubuntu Desktop 23.04 Arrives with Azure AD Authentication  Thurrott.com

Btrfs Receives A Very Important Last Minute Fix For Linux 6.3  Phoronix

Ahead of the Linux 6.3 kernel being potentially released as stable on Sunday, two last minute patches for the Btrfs file-system driver were submitted today to address a pressing problem since Linux 6.2...

How to Merge Multiple PDFs Into One Single File on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Linux Foundation Europe chief warns EU bill could fragment open ...  DevClass

Intel Updates Packaged Arc Graphics Driver For Ubuntu 22.04 LTS  Phoronix

While Linux 6.2 supports Arc Graphics out-of-the-box and Mesa 23.1 has good OpenGL/Vulkan support, for those running Linux distributions on older kernels and Mesa packages there is less than ideal support -- either no support at all or having to resort to force-enabling the DG2/Alchemist support and potentially running on older OpenGL/Vulkan drivers with various problems. To ease the experience for those running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Intel has been maintaining a packaged version of their DRM kernel driver as a DKMS module as well as updated Mesa packages...

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity - Week 16  SentinelOne

Linux Foundation launches new organization to maintain TLA+  TechCrunch

Linux Foundation launches new organization to maintain TLA+  TechCrunch

Linux Foundation Announces Launch of TLA+ Foundation  Yahoo Finance