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Distributions and Platforms
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SUSE/OpenSUSE
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OpenSUSE ☛ Planet News Roundup
The below featured highlights listed on the community’s blog feed aggregator are from November 22 to 28.
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Open Hardware/Modding
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Linux Gizmos ☛ Dual-Radio T-Lora Dual Supports LoRa at 150–960 MHz and 2.4 GHz
The module uses the ESP32-S3R8 as its main processor. It features a dual-core LX7 architecture and includes integrated wireless connectivity for Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth 5 LE.
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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
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Make Tech Easier ☛ 2025-11-20 [Older] How to Move Your Photos From Google Photos to Immich
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Web Browsers/Web Servers
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Mozilla
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APNIC ☛ Fast UDP I/O for Firefox in Rust
This write-up of Firefox’s implementation of fast User Datagram Protocol (UDP) input-output (IO) written in the Rust programming language discusses what this looks like in practice, and what kind of impact it has on the system call costs of running the User UDP protocol.
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Funding
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University of Toronto ☛ We can't fund our way out of the free and open source maintenance problem
One big problem with 'funding' as a solution to the FOSS maintenance problems is that for many FOSS maintainers, there isn't enough work available to support them. Many FOSS people write and support only a small number of things that don't necessarily need much active development and bug fixing (people have done studies on this), and so can't feasibly provide full time employment (especially at something equivalent to a competitive salary). Certainly,there's plenty of large projects that are underfunded and could support one or more people working on them full time, but there's also a long tail of smaller, less obvious dependencies that are also important for various sorts of maintenance.
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So-called 'FSFE'
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