today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 13, 2024,
updated Jul 14, 2024

• Linux On Mobile ☛ 2024-07-09 [Older] Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (27/2024): Two Days Late

• Meta Release Cross-Platform XR Framework, for Quest, iOS, Windows, Linux

  This week, following a series of moves towards building an open developer framework for its Quest headset portfolio, Meta announced “Ocean,” a new open-source, cross-platform framework for creating computer vision and mixed/augmented reality applications.

• Raspberry Pi ☛ What you've been making with the Raspberry Pi AI Kit

  It’s been just over a month since we launched the Raspberry Pi AI Kit — your gateway to experimenting with the world of neural networks, artificial intelligence, and machine learning on your Raspberry Pi 5 — and the Raspberry Pi community has responded with characteristic quirkiness. Here are some of the things we’ve seen over the last few weeks. If we’ve missed anything, point us to it in the comments section at the bottom of this page. We’ll love you forever.

• SaaS

  • Plausible ☛ How we built a $1M ARR open source SaaS

    We’ve never paid to advertise for Plausible. Our growth comes organically from word of mouth.

    It’s time to reflect on how we got to where we are. This post summarizes how we built a $1M ARR open source SaaS.

• SUSE/OpenSUSE

  • OpenSUSE ☛ Aeon Desktop Introduces Comprehensive Full Disk Encryption

    Full Disk Encryption is designed to protect data in cases of device loss, theft or unauthorized booting into an alternative operating system. Depending on the hardware configuration of a system, Aeon’s encryption will be set up in one of two modes: Default or Fallback.

• FSFE

  • FSFE ☛ 2024-07-09 [Older] Belgian court’s decision impacts the future of Router Freedom

• Openwashing

  • Electronic Design ☛ Open-Source EV Charging: Linux-Based Platform Simplifies Interoperability

    Much like Android helped usher in an era of interoperable, affordable, and highly functional cell phones, a Linux-based open-source platform promises to accelerate the development of EV charging stations and vehicle charging interfaces.

Update

More on SUSE:

• openSUSE Aeon Introduces ‘Comprehensive Full Disk Encryption’

  openSUSE Aeon has announced plans to introduce comprehensive full disk encryption (FDE) by default, improving the security of the Linux distro.

  Aeon is openSUSE’s “just works” Linux distro based on openSUSE Tumbleweed. Aeon is designed to simplify the process of running and administering Linux.

  Aeon uses transactional updates “to provide atomic updates utilising the power of btrfs snapshots. Your system is updated inside a new snapshot leaving your current system unaffected.” As a result of this approach, updates are downloaded and applied in the background without impacting the current system until reboot, at which point the updated system is active. If an update fails for any reason, the updated “snapshot” is discarded and the system continues running.

Also here:

• OpenSUSE Aeon Desktop Enhances Security With Full Disk Encryption