today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 27, 2025

• GNU/Linux

  • Linuxiac ☛ Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 4 (Jan 20 – 26, 2025)

    Catch up on the latest GNU/Linux news: kernel 6.13, Solus 4.7, Debian 13 freeze scheduler, VirtualBox 7.1.6, Wine 10, Vivaldi 7.1, MySQL 9.2, and more.

  • Kernel Space

    • Tom's Hardware ☛ Linux kernel source expands beyond 40 million lines – it has doubled in size in a decade

      Even if you grab an off-the-shelf distribution, though, many drivers are compiled as modules and won't load without the hardware they are designed for being present. One particularly large example is the source files from AMD. According to Heise's pondering over the source files, AMD's Radeon driver, documentation, and so on weigh in at around 5 million lines.

      Considering the above, some will say the Linux kernel sources line count is an irrelevance. Yet others will have an urge to prune the code and any associated bulk. However, the tug-o-war between these factions favors the increased bloat side, with the width, breadth, and depth of hardware and software growing inexorably as time rolls on.

  • Games

    • Andrew Plotkin ☛ Zarf Updates: The Visible Zorker

      Really, go give it a shot. It's a toy. You can read the rest of this post later.

      ...Okay, a quick introduction. The left pane is regular old Parchment, the Z-code interpreter, playing Zork 1. You type commands; the game responds.

  • Desktop Environments/WMs

    • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

      • TechTea ☛ Manage Secrets in KDE Wallet

        If you use the KDE desktop environment you probably have been prompted once or twice to enter your password into KDE Wallet. This is KDE’s built in password manager. By default it stores your passwords for WiFi networks, KDE applications, and your Online Account integrations, but you can use it with pretty much anything.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • BSD

    • DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ Lazy Reading for 2025/01/26

      Done quite early, but it cleared my tabs. A Retrospective on the Source Code Control System.  SCCS, summarized by the guy who wrote it, 50 years later.

  • Fedora Family / IBM

    • Fedora Project ☛ Fedora Community Blog: Fedora Operations Architect Report

      One more week of January to go, folks! And that also means we are one week closer to some key milestones coming up in the Fedora GNU/Linux 42 release. Here’s a summary of some release-related topics, plus some upcoming events and a general roundup of what’s happening around the project lately.

    • Dan Horák: Proposed changes for Fedora 42 affecting ppc64le

      Fedora is using so called Changes processfor discussing, approving, coordinating and implementing important updates to the distro.It should be used for intrusive and user visible changes.

  • Debian Family

    • Sparky GNU/Linux ☛ AyuGram

      There is a new application available for Sparkers: AyuGram What is AyuGram Desktop? Desktop Telegram client with good customization and Ghost mode.

• Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

  • PC Mag ☛ The Best Free Software for 2024

    The right apps make everything easier. We've got more than 50 top-notch picks to help you be more productive, more creative, and more secure on your PC. And they're all free.

  • Application Releases

    • ergoIRC v2.15.0, a new stable release

      We’re pleased to announce Ergo [ergoIRC] v2.15.0, a new stable release. For the official binary release and changelog, see our Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub...

  • SaaS/Back End/Databases

    • Andy Dote ☛ Database Column Prefixes

      The interesting part of this is that it’s all useless; the database server we used supported table aliases (as seen above), so we could use those and drop the prefixes entirely: [...]

    • HowTo Forge ☛ How to Install Apache Couch DB on AlmaLinux 9

      Apache CouchDB is an open-source NoSQL and document-oriented database that supports multiple formats and protocols to store its data. It's written in Erlang and can be run as a high-performance single-node database.

      Apache CouchDB allows you to use JSON to store data, and it also provides web UI for managing the CouchDB system and HTTP API that enables you to query data easily.

  • Openness/Sharing/Collaboration

    • Open Data

      • The New Stack ☛ Exploring the Inevitable Future of Data-Dependent Applications

        Data is the lifeblood of modern applications. Check the weather, play an online game, or plan a travel route — these popular apps depend on data.

        In its simplest form, a weather app is just a data app designed to source, process, and store data for fast, high-throughput retrieval by various users in disparate locations.