FOSS, SUSE, BSD, Games, and More

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 21, 2024

• Tom MacWright ☛ Placemark is now open source

  If you want to learn about the open source codebase, I wrote quite a few blog posts about the architecture that are now archived in the docs repo. The README has been expanded, to some extent, with setup details.

  I’d really love if folks tried out and made use of it. You can really do anything - use it as the foundation for your own application, pull parts into standalone modules, you name it.

• Jack Baty ☛ Logseq is so close

  So for now I'm reluctantly tabling the Logseq idea and sticking with my life in Emacs full-time.

• [Old] NTPsec ☛ How NTPsec came to be

  The prehistory of the NTPsec project goes back to 2013, when one of the team members offered to help migrate the NTP Classic history out of BitKeeper to git or hg - anything that might increase community access and participation. Said member (ESR) was then, and still is, the open-source community’s go-to guy for large, messy repository conversions. Harlan Stenn, the lead of NTP Classic, was determined to hold on to BitKeeper and refused the offer.

• SUSE/OpenSUSE

  • Dominique Leuenberger ☛ openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2024/03

    Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

    As we can see in the number of larger and smaller things going through the staging process, the holiday season is over. To get all the changes out to the users, we have published six snapshots (0112, 0114…0118) this week.

  • pam: pam_namespace misses O_DIRECTORY flag in protect_dir() (CVE-2024-22365)

    This is report about a local denial of service vulnerability in the pam_namespace.so PAM module. This module is part of the core PAM modules that are found in the linux-pam project.

• BSD

  • Dan Langille ☛ Configuration for running poudriere in a jail on FreeBSD 14

    I run poudriere in a jail on FreeBSD – it really is becoming the thing-to-do with all the cool kids. Everyone’s doing it. It is nifty.

• Games

  • Boiling Steam ☛ New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients with All Quiet in the Trenches - 2024-01-17 Edition

    We are late for a few days this time! Between 2024-01-10 and 2024-01-17 there were 45 New Steam games released with Native GNU/Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 356 games released for backdoored Windows on Steam, so the GNU/Linux versions represent about 12.6 % of total released titles. There’s a lot more this time around that’s worth checking that for the past 2-3 weeks. I find All Quiet in the Trenches to be very promising so far.