today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 02, 2024

• The Register UK ☛ An awful lot of FOSS should thank the Academy

  What also struck us over the next three quarters of an hour is that Linux and open source in general seem to be huge components of the movie special effects industry – to an extent that we had not previously realized. Given the many excruciatingly dull talks about containers and container management tools we've had to sit through in recent years, we also very much enjoyed the succession of "sizzle reels" that Morin presented. They're undeniably impressive and worth watching for a glimpse of the glamorous side of Linux in industry.

• PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family

  • PCLOS Official ☛ PCLinuxOS Recent Updates

    thunderbird-128.4.0kernel-6.1.115x11-server-xwayland-24.1.4signal-desktop-7.31.0audacity-3.7.0mesa-24.2.6catalyst-browser-3.9.1firefox-132.0zoom-6.2.6.2503

• Fedora Family / IBM

  • Fedora Project ☛ Fedora Community Blog: Infra and RelEng Update – Week 44

    This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. We provide you both infographic and text version of the weekly report. If you just want to quickly look at what we did, just look at the infographic. If you are interested in more in depth details look below the infographic.

• Desktop Environments/WMs

  • Ruben Schade ☛ Matching toolkits and desktop environments

    You know that bell curve meme where the amateaur starts with something simple, the genius does something complicated, and the wise sage returns to something simple? It’s an oversimplication for most situations to which its applied, but it tracks perfectly with my desktop environment and window manager experience.

    As I’m sure many of us did, we started on whatever desktop our *nix of choice shipped. That meant Gnome on the first Red Bait GNU/Linux I ran, then KDE with Mandrake, and Xfce with my beloved Cobind Desktop. I probably would have started on CDE had my first *nix been something commercial, or maybe OPENSTEP if I’d even heard of NeXT as a kid. But I digress.

  • GNOME Desktop/GTK

    • Bilal Elmoussaoui: A million portals

      Approximately four years ago, I published the first release of ASHPD, one of my first Rust libraries, with the simple goal of making it easy to use XDG portals from Rust.

      Since then, the library has grown to support all available portals and even includes a demo application showcasing some of these features.

  • Server

    • DevOps Dynamics: Kubernetes and Virtual Machines in a Unified Ecosystem

      As businesses accelerate their adoption of cloud-native applications, the shift from virtual machines (VMs) to Kubernetes is becoming both a challenge and a necessity.

    • How Istio Ambient is Revolutionizing Cloud Connectivity

      Network topology complexity is increasing in response to the growing adoption of multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure. Organizations struggle to connect, secure and observe traffic across these environments as they are forced to use many discrete and poorly integrated networking technologies to achieve their connectivity goals. Kubernetes has done much to

  • SaaS/Back End/Databases

    • PostgreSQL ☛ FOSDEM PGDay 2025 - dates announced and call for papers open

      FOSDEM PGDay 2025 is a one-day conference that will be held ahead of the main FOSDEM event in Brussels, Belgium, on Friday, January 31st, 2025. This will be a PostgreSQL-focused event with a single track of talks. This conference day will be for-charge with a registration of EUR 70, and will be held at the Brussels Marriott Hotel. Registration is required to attend and since we have a limited number of seats available for this event, we urge everybody to register as soon as possible once open.

  • Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra

    • Document Foundation ☛ Starting today: The Month of LibreOffice, November 2024! 🎉

      Here’s your chance to learn new skills for a potential future career change, or expand your knowledge and have fun on the way: get involved in the Month of LibreOffice, November 2024! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will collaborate to improve the software – and you can help them.

  • FSF

    • FSF ☛ FSF Blogs: October GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali: Seven new GNU releases!

      Seven new GNU releases in the last month (as of October 31, 2024) [...]

    • FSF ☛ FSF Blogs: Free Software Supporter -- Issue 199, November 2024

      Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software

      Foundation's (FSF) monthly news digest and action update -- being read

      by you and 231,355 other activists.

  • Open Access/Content

    • Creative Commons ☛ Creative Commons Launches TAROCH Coalition for Open Access to Cultural Heritage

      We believe that culture, including cultural heritage, is the foundation of humanity and that open access can contribute to helping people around the world to: [...]