Debian, Red Hat, and More
GNU/Linux
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Debian
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Bryan Lunduke ☛ Debian GNU/Linux Leaves X.com
Reasons for leaving X include "Elon Musk", "Diversity", "Fake News", & "Gender".
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Fedora Family / Red Hat
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Red Hat Official ☛ The strategic importance of platform engineering in modern software development
To help with this, platform engineering was introduced to help build robust infrastructure and automate repetitive tasks to reduce the manual overhead for development teams. These efforts were aimed at enhancing operational efficiency, ensuring that the whole team could focus more on delivering the solution and less on managing infrastructure.
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Red Hat Official ☛ Elevating Jawwy telco architecture: a path to excellence with Red Hat OpenShift
Jawwy by stc, a digital mobile service provider and part of stc Group, has embraced Red Hat OpenShift to transform and accelerate the deployment of cloud-native applications. Jawwy is a first-of-its-kind service in the MENA region and operating within the stc Group network, the kingdom’s leading digital enabler. Through its digital application, Jawwy allows customers to personalize, monitor, and manage their plans in real time, offering users the world-class connectivity that drives stc Group’s services and offerings.
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Open Hardware/Modding
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Linux Gizmos ☛ Adafruit CLUE: A Sensor-Packed nRF52840 Development Board in a micro:bit Form Factor
The Adafruit CLUE is a development board with a built-in display, multiple sensors, and Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity. It follows the form factor of the BBC micro:bit while incorporating additional processing power and expanded functionality. The board is designed for applications involving data visualization, sensor-based measurements, and wireless communication.
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Raspberry Pi ☛ Sustainable solutions with Raspberry Pi
We’ve also worked to reduce the environmental impact of our manufacturing and shipping. Over time we have reduced our use of plastic packaging and shrunk product carton and shipper sizes, as well as working on more efficient production methods such as the new intrusive reflow soldering process for Raspberry Pi 5. The latter both saves energy and reduces the physical manufacturing footprint at the factory, while increasing throughput. As well as benefitting the environment, all of these initiatives improve our products’ cost structure, increasing efficiency and allowing us to keep our prices lower.
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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
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Web Browsers/Web Servers
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Mozilla
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LWN ☛ Thunderbird moving to monthly updates in March
The Thunderbird project has announced that it is making its Release channel the default download beginning with the 135.0 release in March.
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Servo (Linux Foundation) ☛ The Servo Blog: Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations
Two years after the renewed activity on the project we can confirm that Servo is fully back.
If we ignore the bots, in 2024 we’ve had 129 unique contributors (+143% over 54 last year), landing 1,771 pull requests (+163% over 673), and that’s just in our main repo!
Including bots, the total number of PRs merged goes up to 2,674 (+144% over 1094). From all this work, 26% of the PRs were made by Igalia, 40% by other contributors and the rest by the bots (34%). This shows how the Servo community has been growing and becoming more diverse with new actors participating actively in the project.
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Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
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Document Foundation ☛ 400 million downloads, and counting…
The histogram says it all. First, rapid growth between 2011 and 2014 to 30 million downloads, despite the fierce hostility of the project created to kill LibreOffice. Then a few years of stagnation, at a time when it seemed that desktop office suites were destined to die, and fashion was driving users to the clown.
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Openness/Sharing/Collaboration
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Open Data
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Rlang ☛ Downloading datasets from Our World in Data in R
I recently learned from Allen Downey’s blog that Our World in Data is providing API access to their data. Our World in Data hosts datasets across several important topics, from population and demographic change, poverty and economic development, to human rights and democracy. From Nov 2024, Our World in Data “[offers] direct URLs to access data in CSV format and comprehensive metadata in JSON format” (this is what they call the Public Chart API).
See this link for full documentation on the chart data API. Allen Downey’s blog post shows how to use this API in Python; in this post I’ll show the corresponding code in R.
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The Atlantic ☛ The CDC Is Altering Data to Follow Trump’s DEI Order
Last night, scientists began to hear cryptic and foreboding warnings from colleagues: Go to the CDC website, and download your data now. They were all telling one another the same thing: Data on the website were about to disappear, or be altered, to comply with the Trump administration’s ongoing attempt to scrub federal agencies of any mention of gender, DEI, and accessibility. “I was up until 2 a.m.,” Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan who relies on the CDC’s data to track viral outbreaks, told me. She archived whatever she could.
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