today's leftovers
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It's FOSS ☛ FOSS Weekly #24.01: GNU/Linux in 2024, GDM Customization, Distros You Missed Last Year
The first edition of FOSS Weekly in the year 2024 is here. See, what's new in the new year.
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Fedora Family / IBM
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Red Hat ☛ Introduction to the Node.js reference architecture: Wrapping up
Welcome back to the Node.js reference architecture series. This post will serve as a wrap-up for the Node.js series and offer a look at what is coming next from our reference architecture team.
Catch up on the rest of the series: [...]
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Licensing / Legal
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Software Freedom Conservancy ☛ Judge dismisses Vizio's call for summary judgment
A very welcome victory in our case against Vizio was presented last week. Judge Sandy Leal denied Vizio's Motion for Summary Judgment, allowing the case to proceed in state court.
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Mozilla
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Firefox Developer Experience: Geckodriver 0.34.0 Released
We are proud to announce the next major release of geckodriver 0.34.0. It ships with a new extension feature that has been often requested by the WebDriver community.
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Niko Matsakis: What I'd like to see for Async Rust in 2024 🎄
Well, it’s that time of year, when thoughts turn to…well, Rust of course. I guess that’s every time of year. This year was a pretty big year for Rust, though I think a lot of what happened was more in the vein of “setting things up for success in 2024”. So let’s talk about 2024! I’m going to publish a series of blog posts about different aspects of Rust I’m excited about, and what I think we should be doing.
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Games
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Boiling Steam ☛ New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients - 2024-01-03 Edition
Between 2023-12-27 and 2024-01-03 there were 12 New Steam games released with Native GNU/Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 157 games released for backdoored Windows on Steam, so the GNU/Linux versions represent about 7.6 % of total released titles. As expected there’s very little action between Christmas and New Year in terms of releases, but there were still a few decent titles, and they also happen to be Free games: [...]
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Audiocasts/Shows
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Hackaday ☛ FLOSS Weekly Episode 764: You Have To Be Pretty Cynical
This week Jonathan Bennett and Katherine Druckman talk with benny Vasquez, chair of AlmaLinux, all about the weird road we’ve been on with Enterprise Linux distributions, and how that’s landed us here, where we have AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, and multiple other Red Hat downstream distros. What’s the difference between those projects, and why does it matter?
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