today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 08, 2023

• Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in June 2023

  FTP master

  This month I accepted 221 and rejected 33 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 221.

  Yeah, Bookworm was released this month. Thanks a lot to everybody who was involved in doing this.

  This was my hundred-eighth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. 

• Mike Blumenkrantz: Imagine

  Uh-oh

  Big Triangle hard at work: [...]

• One week till FOSSY in Portland, Oregon

  A news item from Software Freedom Conservancy.

  Are you registered?

  One week from today (July 13-16), we will be gathered at the Oregon Convention Center for the first ever Free and Open Source Software Yearly (FOSSY) conference, which will be an engaging, educational, inspiring four days of presentations and conversations. Whether you are a long time contributing member of a free software project, a recent graduate of a coding bootcamp or university, or just have an interest in the possibilies that free and open source software bring, FOSSY will have something for you.

• AMD Begins Zen 5 Prep, Sends First Linux Patches

  AMD's 'Family 26' CPUs for servers will continue to feature a 12-channel memory subsystem.

• Running Linux On The ROG Ally Doesn't Help Battery Life

  The ROG Ally was tested under Linux to see if it was any better or worse compared to the Steam Deck, which also runs Linux. Sadly, the ROG Ally exhibited the same behavior as on Windows, with good performance but poor power efficiency.

• Latest shocking Open Source News: GNU Linux user run’s out of harddisk space: even virtualized Windows is a PROBLEM

  one fine day, THE USER needed to run a windows program… because it’s only available for windows.