today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 11, 2024

• Djalel Oukid ☛ ONLYOFFICE v8.0 Unveils Bidirectional Text, RTL Support, and a Host of New Features [Ed: It is proprietary actually; seems like a misleading promotional article.]

  It is gratifying to witness the continual evolution of free, open-source office suite software, offering robust alternatives to Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Office.

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • Tux Digital ☛ TWIL 252: Kubuntu Says No to KDE Plasma 6, a new Damn Small distro, FCC vs Hey Hi (AI) calls & more GNU/Linux news

    On this episode of TWIL (252), we have a new version of the core graphics stack project Mesa. A very small yet phoenix-like distro is rising from the ashes of deprecation. Kubuntu has released their plans for Kubuntu 24.04 and the roadmap for implementing KDE Plasma 6.

• Kernel Space

  • Slashdot ☛ 2024-02-03 [Older] Linus Torvalds Has 'Robust Exchanges' Over Filesystem Suggestion on Linux Kernel Mailing List

  • LWN ☛ 2024-02-08 [Older] Brennan: What's Inside a Linux Kernel Core Dump

  • Slashdot ☛ 2024-02-07 [Older] Critical Vulnerability Affecting Most Linux Distros Allows For Bootkits

• BSD

  • TuMFatig ☛ Using Redthunder K84 with OpenBSD

    I got YouTubed with “look at my setup” content. So I started looking at what mechanical keyboards offer. Amazon proposed that RedThunder K84 Combo Keyboard and Mouse for 60€ so I decided to give it a try on OpenBSD.

• Debian Family

  • Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Upcoming Improvements to Salsa CI, /usr-move, and more! (by Utkarsh Gupta)

    Santiago started picking up the work made by Outreachy Intern, Enock Kashada (a big thanks to him!), to solve some long-standing issues in Salsa CI. Currently, the first job in a Salsa CI pipeline is the extract-source job, used to produce a debianize source tree of the project. This job was introduced to make it possible to build the projects on different architectures, on the subsequent build jobs. However, that extract-source approach is sub-optimal: not only it increases the execution time of the pipeline by some minutes, but also projects whose source tree is too large are not able to use the pipeline. The debianize source tree is passed as an artifact to the build jobs, and for those large projects, the size of their source tree exceeds the Salsa’s limits. This is specific issue is documented as issue #195, and the proposed solution is to get rid of the extract-source job, relying on sbuild in the very build job (see issue #296).

    Switching to sbuild would also help to improve the build source job, solving issues such as #187 and #298.