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GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
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Games
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Boiling Steam ☛ The Best TV Show of 2024 - Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
Man, I can’t believe I am publishing this in September 2025. As you can guess, this article originated early in 2025, and just like many other drafts, work-in-progress pieces, they end up lingering before they finally make it to the front page. In a sense, it does not matter that much. 2024 is still in the past, and the conclusion has not changed. It’s just delivered to you later than expected. But for some of you who don’t know Frieren, this will be another way to discover it. So… I wanted to come back on what I consider to be the best TV show of 2024. There were other contenders - Squid Game Season 2 was out (and ended up turning the show into a much longer story without any conclusion), Arcane closed its story arc with its second season. While both of them were somewhat satisfactory, they lacked the punch and the impact of their first appearance. As much as I loved Arcane in its first season, the second one felt like a confused mess that did not know where it was going. But the spotlight came from somewhere else. What stood out was clearly Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End (葬送のフリーレン), released at the end of 2023 and finishing in the first half of 2024. It became extremely popular in a very short time.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Distro Watch ☛ Distribution Release: IPFire 2.29 Core 197
The IPFire project has released a new update for its operating system for firewalls and routers. The project's new version, IPFire 2.29 Core Update 197, introduces an upgrade to OpenVPN and makes running under light loads more energy efficient. [...]
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Darren Goossens ☛ Haiku on an iMac — limited (but working) sound
The computer is an Apple (A1312) Intel Core i3 (550) 3.20GHz 2-Core CPU 27-Inch iMac (Mid-2010)] 3GB RAM (should be more), AMD Radeon HD 5670, (2560 x 1440). Quite big. Nice screen. Ethernet is Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5764M.
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BSD
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KMX.io ☛ Released runj v0.1 and runj v0.2, run a UNIX command in sub-processes with line-buffered I/O.
runj is a UNIX command to run a command in an arbitrary number N of sub-processes with line-buffered input and output.
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Fedora Family / IBM
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Red Hat Official ☛ Top 10 must-reads: Open source innovation at Red Hat [Ed: Well, "next generation of enterprise Linux and AI" is nonsense. Red Hat promotes nonsense.]
As you can see, our focus remains on providing powerful, flexible, and powerful open source solutions that empower enterprises to innovate and succeed. From modernizing VDI and adopting zero trust security to building the next generation of enterprise Linux and AI, these stories reflect our dedication to helping you stay ahead. We’re committed to building on this momentum, reinforcing innovation, accessibility, and long-term reliability across the open source community.
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Red Hat Official ☛ Accelerate AI inference with vLLM [Ed: IBM Red Hat promoting "AI" instead of real technological value; LLMs don't work properly and never will]
This challenge is not new. In a recent episode of the Technically Speaking podcast, Chris Wright spoke with Nick Hill, a principal software engineer at Red Hat who worked on the commercialization of the original IBM Watson "Jeopardy!" system years ago. Hill noted that these early efforts focused on optimizing Watson down from a room full of servers to a single machine, establishing that systems-level engineering is key to making powerful AI practical.
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Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications
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Bruce Schneier ☛ Surveying the Global Spyware Market
Too much good detail to summarize, but here are two items: [...]
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