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Games
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Seth Michael Larson ☛ Delta emulator adds support for SEGA Genesis games
The Delta emulator which I've used for mobile retro-gaming in the past has added beta support for SEGA Genesis and Master System games! Riley and Shane made the announcement through the Delta emulator Patreon and also on Mastodon.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Debian Family
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Chiark ☛ Colin Watson: Preparing a transition in Debusine
We announced a public beta of Debusine repositories recently (Freexian blog, debian-devel-announce). One thing I’m very keen on is being able to use these to prepare “transitions”: changes to multiple packages that need to be prepared together in order to land in testing. As I said in my DebConf25 talk: [...]
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Canonical/Ubuntu Family
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Ubuntu ☛ Design and Documentation clinics at FOSDEM Fringe 2026
Thousands of open source contributors and enthusiasts attend, often with several folks from Canonical among them. The next one is coming quickly, with FOSDEM 2026 being held across the weekend of January 31st – February 1st.
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Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications
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Kevin Boone ☛ Kevin Boone: Some thoughts on de-Googling Google Pixel phones
In this article I outline my experiences running LineageOS, /e/OS, and GrapheneOS on a refurbished Google Pixel 7 (but I have no reason to expect radically different behaviour from any of the Pixel range). I’ve compared these custom ROMs in another article, and I don’t want to repeat those observations here; this article is more about the handset.
TL;DR – all the custom firmwares worked almost flawlessly without much need for tinkering – bearing in mind my modest requirements.
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