Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 11, 2025

• Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

  • It's FOSS ☛ 5 Open-source Local Hey Hi (AI) Tools for Image Generation I Found Interesting

    I discovered these interesting open-source Hey Hi (AI) tools for image generation that run locally. Explore their features, capabilities, and how they empower creativity without relying on cloud services.

  • LWN ☛ Arti 1.4.0 released

    Version 1.4.0 of Arti, the Tor Project's next-generation Tor client written in Rust, has been released. Notable improvements in this release include a new RPC interface, and preparatory work toward service-side onion service denial-of-service resistance. The release is dedicated to the memory of Jérémy Bobbio, better known by many as "Lunar". For full details on the release, see the changelog.

  • WINE or Emulation

    • HowTo Geek ☛ Wine vs. Bottles vs. Proton: Which Is Best for Windows Apps on Linux?

      Having trouble figuring out what to use to get your Windows apps and games running in Linux? Let's compare three oft-discussed applications: Wine, Bottles, and Valve's Proton.

      What Is Wine?

      Wine is a compatibility layer that translates Windows system calls to Linux-friendly ones, allowing Windows programs to run efficiently without the overhead of a complete emulator. It's been around since 1993 and is constantly evolving. Wine is open-source, allowing contributions from the Linux community and companies like Valve (more on that later), so support for many Windows programs has gotten better with time.

  • Web Browsers/Web Servers

    • Chen HuiJing ☛ Learning web extensions

      The next best thing we could do was to build a web extension that would implement all the behaviours specified in the standard so we could get feedback on what we were proposing, allowing us to make adjustments to how we envisioned how the APIs would work and hopefully enhance the overall experience of web monetization.

  • SaaS/Back End/Databases

    • PostgreSQL ☛ Citus 13.0 Released!

      PostgreSQL 17 supported on Citus

      Citus 13.0 adds support for Postgres 17. There are many new features that are enabled by PG17 that are particularly interesting for Citus users: [...]

  • Licensing / Legal

    • [Old] FOSDEM ☛ FOSDEM 2017 - Is the GPL a copyright license or a contract under U.S. law?

      In this talk I will summarize the case law on the contract or license question in the U.S. Certain obligations under the GPL may be merely contractual, meaning there are less damages and enforcement mechanisms available to a plaintiff, while other obligations may have more teeth. I will use this analysis to help the community think about how it might craft software licenses in the future.

  • Standards/Consortia

    • APNIC ☛ BGP zombies at NANOG 93

      What happens when the BGP engine doesn’t have perfect memory? What happens if a BGP neighbor sends a withdrawal about a prefix and the local router manages to drop this information rather than process it? The basic answer is nothing of much consequence happens. The local BGP speaker still believes that the route exists, and if it receives a packet addressed to a destination within this address prefix, then it would forward the packet toward the router that it still believes lies on the path to this destination. Given that this adjacent router has already withdrawn this route, then the fate of any such packet is that it would be discarded, so the outcome is much the same. There are more esoteric situations where a more specific route is stuck in this manner and a covering aggregate route points in a different direction, and in this case, traffic that is directed to this zombie route would be forwarded incorrectly.