today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 02, 2023

• 492: Feeling for NetBSD

  Writing your own operating system, Continuous Integration and Quality Assurance Update, feeling for the NetBSD community, Testing wanted: execute-only on amd64, GCC uses Modula-2 and Rust, do they work on OpenBSD, Unix is dead; long live Unix, and more

• John Goerzen: Using Yggdrasil As an Automatic Mesh Fabric to Connect All Your Docker Containers, VMs, and Servers

  Sometimes you might want to run Docker containers on more than one host. Maybe you want to run some at one hosting facility, some at another, and so forth.

  Maybe you’d like run VMs at various places, and let them talk to Docker containers and bare metal servers wherever they are.

  And maybe you’d like to be able to easily migrate any of these from one provider to another.

  There are all sorts of very complicated ways to set all this stuff up. But there’s also a simple one: Yggdrasil.

• mesa 23.0.0-rc4

  Hi list,
  
  
  I'd like to announce the availability of mesa 23.0-rc4. since the last
  RC we've seen the addition of several blocking issues, and as such we're
  having another RC. Hopefully be next week we can have all of these
  issues resolved.
  
  
  Cheers,
  Dylan
  

• My work in KDE for January 2023

  This is a non-comprehensive list of all of the major work I've done for KDE this month of January. I think I got a lot done this month! I also was accepted as a KDE Developer near the start of the month, so I'm pretty happy about that.

• 4 ways to transform customer service in enterprise IT

• 4 articles CIOs should read about open source in 2023

• Call for participation: Git packaging POC

  Hi everyone!



  Levente and I have been busy preparing a test environment for the new git package workflow, which is going to replace the svn repository.

  To test the new git package setup install `devtools-git-poc` from the [community] repository and use the new `pkgctl` utility. Please check each time if there is a new upgrade before playing around.

  The goal of the testing is to figure out UX issues, bugs and larger issues that would need to be dealt with before a git migration can happen. It's therefor very important that people sit down and play around …