today's leftovers
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Medevel ☛ Breaking Free: Why Freelancers and Startups Should Avoid Vendor Lock-In and Embrace Open-Source Solutions - 200+ Libre Apps
Freelancers, startups, as many professionals find themselves tethered to commercial apps and services. This reliance often leads to a phenomenon known as vendor lock-in, where users become dependent on a particular vendor's tools, making it challenging to switch to alternatives without incurring significant costs or disruptions.
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Canonical/Ubuntu Family
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Ubuntu News ☛ Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 860
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 860 for the week of September 29 – October 5, 2024. The full version of this issue is available here.
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Debian Family
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Debian ☛ Bits from Debian: Bits from the DPL
Dear Debian community,
this are my bits from DPL for September.
New lintian maintainer
I'm pleased to welcome Louis-Philippe Véronneau as a new Lintian maintainer. He humorously acknowledged his new role, stating, "Apparently I'm a Lintian maintainer now". I remain confident that we can, and should, continue modernizing our policy checker, and I see this as one important step toward that goal.
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Mozilla
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Bryan Lunduke ☛ Firefox & Thunderbird Collect User Data by Default (in Violation of European Law)
The potential fines alone could put Mozilla out of business.
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WINE or Emulation
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FEX ☛ FEX 2410 Tagged
A bit of a slower month for this release as our developers prepare for the X.Org Developer’s Conference 2024 and the GStreamer Conference 2024!
We’re going to keep this release short and sweet as GStreamer conference has already started and XDC is kicking off in two days.
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