today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 09, 2025

• GNU/Linux

  • Kernel Space

    • The Register UK ☛ Kernel saunters – Apple rearranges XNU kernel with exclaves

      Apple has been working to harden the XNU kernel that powers its various operating systems, including iOS and macOS, with a feature called "exclaves."

      The term appears to have first surfaced in a libc file in Apple's open source software collection in 2023, and subsequently within iOS 17, released in September of that year, as later noted by Howard Oakley on his Eclectic Light Co blog.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Fedora Family / IBM

    • Kevin Fenzi: Early March infra bits 2025

      Here we are saturday morning again. This week was shorter than normal for me work wise, as I took thursday and friday off, but there was still a lot going on.

  • Canonical/Ubuntu Family

    • Logikal Solutions ☛ Ubuntu Disappearing Wifi

      If it hasn’t happened to you yet, you must have a wired network connection because posts about Ubuntu’s disappearing wifi are all over the Internet. This has gotten remarkably worse with 24.04 LTS.

• Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

  • Digital Camera World ☛ RawTherapee review: powerful Raw processing software for free | Digital Camera World

    I found RawTherapee took quite a lot of getting used to in terms of the workflow and sheer number of adjustments available. Some are great and provide much more control than Lightroom, although I can't help but think that the software is overcomplicated in some areas. The quality of results isn't quite at the level of Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom, but it's not too far off and RawTherapee is hugely impressive considering its free software.

  • Unicorn Media ☛ The Top Five — For the Week Ending March 7, 2025

    Did you miss this week's top articles? Here are the five most read article on FOSS Force for the week that just ended.

  • Events

    • Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer: Bahía Blanca floods - Mother nature says: no Nuremberg for you today

      These are not good news. In fact, much the contrary. Compared to the real issue, the fact that I'm not able to attend Embedded World at Nuremberg is, well, a detail. Or at least that's what I'm forcing myself to believe, as I REALLY wanted to be there. But mother nature said otherwise.

  • Licensing / Legal

    • The Korea Times ☛ Open-source models and fresh funding: China's AI startups scramble to respond to DeepSeek

      Open source gives public access to a software program's source code, allowing third-party developers to modify or share its design, fix broken links or scale up its capabilities. Open-source technologies have been a huge contributor to China's flourishing tech industry over the past few decades.