GNU/Linux and Sharing

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 21, 2025

• Games

  • The Best PS2 Games For Emulation and Steam Deck in 2025

    PlayStation 2 is a game console which has been manufactured by Sony. It is one of the most popular consoles with more than 55 Million Units sold in Europe alone.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Valve's secretive 'Fremont' gaming device surfaces in benchmarks with 2X more processing power than Steam Deck OLED — device powered by six-core Zen 4 CPU and RX 7600 GPU

    Valve's Fremont device, featuring an AMD processor based on the Hawk Point 2 silicon, has appeared in the Geekbench database.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Cassidy James Blaede: Here’s to What’s Next [Ed: While Zemlin et al (people who reject Linux) rake in GAFAM money to exploit people who develop Free software the developers themselves lack income]

    For the past three and a half years, I’ve done the most rewarding work of my life with Endless Access (formerly Endless OS Foundation). I’ve helped ship Endless OS on computers to tens of thousands of people in need around the globe—people who might not otherwise have access to a real computer and especially reliable access to all of the offline knowledge and tools that come out of the box. I’ve visited students and teachers in the rural US who are struggling due to a lack of funding, and watched as their eyes lit up when they got ahold of Endless Key, an app packed full of safe and fun offline materials to support their self-guided learning. And I’ve helped learners and educators both unlock so much creativity and skill-building with our game-making learning programs and related open source projects.

    Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end: due to strategic decisions at the organization, my particular role won’t exist in the coming months. That said, I have some time to look for my next challenge and adventure—and I am excited to do so purposefully.

  • New Releases

    • Barry Kauler ☛ Easy Excalibur version 7.0.3 released

      Please read the 7.0 announcement for more details: [...]

• Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

  • Education

    • Raspberry Pi ☛ Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine | The Computers that Made the World

      Groucho Marx was very nearly right when he said there are two certainties in life. There are indeed two, but they aren’t death and taxes: they’re that humans have an innate need to count and that we all make mistakes.

    • APNIC ☛ Event Wrap: APAN 60

      The five-day event comprised working groups, workshops, panel discussions, and conference sessions on topics including IPv6, AI, network automation and much more. View the agenda for more information.

    • Phrack ☛ Volume 0x10, Issue 0x48

      For 40 years, Phrack has published papers that have reflected and shaped hacker culture. The knowledge shared in Phrack has laid the foundation for many fields of study, providing insight, a shared language, resources and tools, as well as context and history. Phrack is written by hackers, for hackers, and offers a glimpse into the world just beyond what most people see.

  • Funding

    • Matt Palmer ☛ Matthew Palmer: Progress on my open source funding experiment

      When I recently announced that I was starting an open source crowd-funding experiment, I wasn’t sure what would happen. Perhaps there’d be radio silence, or a huge out-pouring of interest from people who wanted to see more open source code in the world. What’s happened so far has been… interesting.

  • Openness/Sharing/Collaboration

    • Open Access/Content

      • Society for Scholarly Publishing ☛ Guest Post — Beyond Open Access, Part 1: Make Academic Content Truly Accessible for All

        Academic publishing stands at a critical juncture where accessibility has become more than just a compliance requirement. It’s an ethical imperative — and an opportunity for innovation.

        While open access has revolutionized how research reaches readers, true accessibility encompasses a broader spectrum of considerations that institutions, publishers, and service providers must address to create genuinely inclusive scholarly communication.