today's leftovers
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openSUSE Board Election 2022 campaign has begun
openSUSE members can also ask questions to the candidates on the project mailing list. Vojtěch Zeisek asked the candidates about their plans and what they want to achieve with the project.
Douglas had an interesting answer. He stated that he would like to see that the openSUSE Project adopts the blockchain technology. He cited the election as an example where a smart contract could facilitate the task of running elections and maintaining an updated members list based on whether members' tokens have been used in (x) number of years.
He also mentioned NFT as something that could be explored to create a sort of badge system like the Fedora project has and member contributions could be rewarded with NFTs.
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Weekly status of Packit Team: November 2022 | Packit
Week 44 (November 1st – November 7th) # Fixed an issue due to which the repository was never searched for a specfile if specfile_path was not specified, and specfile_path was always set to
.spec. (packit#1758) Packit is now able to generate automatic Bodhi update notes including a changelog diff since the latest stable build of a package. (packit#1747) Description of Bodhi updates now contains a changelog diff. (packit-service#1713) -
.NET 7 now available for RHEL and OpenShift [Ed: Red Hat helps Microsoft's lock-in tactics]
This is a quick overview of what developers need to know about this new major release. The .NET 7 release is now available, targeting Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.7, RHEL 9.1, and Red Hat OpenShift.
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Tuxedo OS, is it just another Ubuntu-based distro?
TUXEDOComputers has announced the first version of its new Ubuntu-based operating system that comes pre-installed on their Linux devices under the name Tuxedo OS 1. Of course, the new distro is an addition to the Linux community, but what makes Tuxedo OS different from Vanilla Ubuntu or other popular distros? Is it the perfect expected distro?