Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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Libre Arts ☛ LibreArts Weekly recap — 29 October 2024
Week highlights: Dune 3D release, newly discovered projects for musicians and astrophotographers, an update on Scribus development.
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Astrophotographers who choose GNU/Linux don’t have a terrible lot of options. Mostly people use PixInsight (non-libre) and Siril (free/libre). So it’s even more exciting to find not one, but two new projects, both by the same developer, Denis Artyomov. Both programs have GUI (GTK3) and are written in Rust (you need this information in your life if you want to build them).
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SaaS/Back End/Databases
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Venture Beat ☛ Timescale expands open source vector database capabilities for PostgreSQL
Timescale debuts open source pgai Vectorizer for Hey Hi (AI) embeddings as it looks to push vector database beyond RAG.
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Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
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Document Foundation ☛ Video recap: LibreOffice Conference 2024
Here’s a quick recap of the recent LibreOffice Conference 2024! 😊 (This video is also available on PeerTube.) We now have the raw video from the rooms too, so will start editing and uploading talks… Please confirm that you want to play a YouTube video.
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