Free, Libre, and Open Source Software News and Events
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Ruben Schade ☛ My A-Z toolbox: bwm-ng
The Bandwidth Monitor Next-Generation—cue Star Trek theme music—is a live network bandwidth monitor that runs on everything I care about, so FreeBSD, NetBSD, illumous, and various Penguins.
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JWB ☛ A new feed tool
Since Nextcloud was never intended to be used as a feed reader, I decided to try something new: Miniflux. The installation was easy enough and I will use the web interface for reading when I’m on my computer.
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Rlang ☛ R GUI Reviews Updated
With so many detailed reviews of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for R available, which should you choose? It’s not too difficult to rank them based on the number of features they offer, so I’ll start there. Then, I’ll follow with a brief overview of each.
I’m basing the counts on the number of dialog boxes in each category of the following categories: [...]
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Peter Czanik: Huge improvements for syslog-ng in MacPorts
Last week I wrote about a campaign that we started to resolve issues on Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub . Some of the fixes are coming from our enthusiastic community. Thanks to this, there is a new syslog-ng-devel port in MacPorts, where you can enable almost all syslog-ng features even for older MacOS versions and PowerPC hardware. Some of the freshly enabled modules include support for Kafka, GeoIP or OpenTelemetry.
From this blog entry, you can learn how to install a legacy or an up-to-date syslog-ng version from MacPorts.
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Peter 'CzP' Czanik ☛ Huge improvements for syslog-ng in MacPorts
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Events
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Daniel Stenberg ☛ Talk: Keeping the world from Burning
On Monday this week, I did a talk at the Nordic Software Security Summit conference in Stockholm Sweden. I titled it CVEMITRECVSSNVDCNAOSS WTF with the subtitle “Keeping the world from Burning”. The talk was well received and I think it added something to the conversation.
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FSF ☛ FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, September 27, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC)
Join the FSF and friends on Friday, September 27 from 12:00 to 15:00 EDT (16:00 to 19:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory.
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Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
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Document Foundation ☛ The Document Foundation announces the LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024
Berlin, 25 September 2024 – The LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024 will take place in Luxembourg from the 10 to the 12 October 2024. It will be hosted by the Digital Learning Hub and the local campus of 42 Luxembourg at the Terres Rouges buildings in Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette.
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