Oreon, Mesa, and More
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GNU/Linux
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Desktop/Laptop
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Beta News ☛ Oreon 10, our favorite Windows replacement, has just been updated -- and it's about to get much, much better!
The biggest problem with saying goodbye to Windows 10 or 11 is knowing what to use instead. macOS is a great choice, but you’ll probably need to buy a Mac to run it, so that makes it an expensive option.
There’s no shortage of Linux distros you can use, including the big ones like Ubuntu and Mint, but they aren’t for everyone. One relatively new choice is the stunning Oreon 10 which we declared had "arrived to replace Microsoft Windows" when it launched last December. That OS has just received a big update, but it’s what’s coming next that has us most excited.
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Graphics Stack
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Free Desktop ☛ mesa 25.0.0-rc3
Hello everyone,
I'm happy to announce the next release candidate, 25.0.0-rc3.
As always, if you find any issues please report them here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/new
Any issue that should block the release of 25.0.0 final, thus adding more 25.0.0-rc* release candidates, must be added to this milestone: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/milestones/49
The next release candidate is expected in one week, on February 19th.
Cheers, Eric
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Desktop Environments/WMs
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K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt
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Krita ☛ New version of the Fast Sketch Cleanup Plugin
The following examples are derivatives of David Revoy’s sketch “Pepper Sketch”, with the only editing being the FSC plugin or Engrave G’MIC filter (used for comparison).
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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SUSE/OpenSUSE
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OpenSUSE ☛ Open-Source Licensing Gets Hey Hi (AI) Upgrade [Ed: Slop is not an upgrade]
Developers of the openSUSE community continue their commitment toward improving legal compliance and software transparency with the release of the Cavil Legal Text dataset on Hugging Face.
This dataset is designed to enhance automated legal text classification, which reduces manual review efforts and improves accuracy in identifying legal snippets within software projects.
“Open sourcing the dataset is cooler than just open sourcing the weights to a model fine-tuned by us because everyone can use it to make their own versions based on whatever open weight model they want,” said Sebastian Riedel, one of the developers behind the project.
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Canonical/Ubuntu Family
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Ubuntu ☛ AI in 2025: is it an agentic year? [Ed: Canonical pushing mindless buzzwords and slop, trying to pretend to somehow be ahead and instead coming across as a vapourware vendor that pollutes the environment]
Yet, 2024 wasn’t just a year of incredible GenAI results, it was also a year of challenges – security, ease of use and simplified operations remain core obstacles that organizations still need to address. So what do we foresee in the AI space this year? Where is the community going to channel their energy? Let’s take a quick look at 2024 and then dive into the expectations for AI in 2025.
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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
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SaaS/Back End/Databases
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Shayon Mukherjee ☛ Scaling with PostgreSQL without boiling the ocean
Scaling PostgreSQL successfully doesn’t always require a full team of DBAs and experts. The beauty of PostgreSQL is that solutions often lie within the database itself - by rethinking your data access patterns from first principles, you can solve many business problems at scale.
In this post, I’ll address some common “weird” issues I’ve encountered and explore solutions that work at scale.
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Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)
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Chris Enns ☛ Getting Ghosted by Ghost's Comments
That extra back and forth got me wondering—isn't there a way right inside the Ghost admin dashboard to see, reply, and moderate comments on my blog? WordPress has a fairly robust comment management system built into its dashboard, and I assumed Ghost would have something similar.
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Standards/Consortia
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Thomas Rigby ☛ Should your RSS expose full content or a snippet?
Some interesting points were raised around image-heavy posts and the associated data load which is definitely a concern from a sustainability angle. However, unless it's specifically called out in the snippet, users will still download the image data when they "read more".
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[Old] Ashur Cabrera ☛ Let an RSS feed be a reminder • Multiline Comment
A few blogs I recently started following have something in common, and whether it’s a trend or just a coincidence, it was enough to catch my eye and start me thinking about all of this again. What is this shared bit of blogging wisdom? You guessed it! They only serve an excerpt of the post.
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