Leftovers: Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and GNU/Linux News
GNU/Linux
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Level Up Coding ☛ 21 Essential Linux Commands Every User Should Master
Knowing your way around the terminal is a game-changer if you're diving into Linux. Linux commands give you powerful control over your system, from navigating files to managing processes, and each command you learn can make you feel more in command of your machine. When I first started with Linux, I remember feeling both excited and a little intimidated by the command line, but as I got comfortable with a few essential commands, I realized how powerful and efficient Linux can be.
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PR Newswire ☛ BellSoft adds AArch64 support to Alpaquita Linux distribution and Alpaquita containers
Arm architecture is gaining traction due to many factors, including the rapid growth of cloud computing and the increasing adoption of ML and AI. Arm-based hardware allows the easy launch and running of containers; meanwhile, Arm servers offer a scalable and cost-effective solution for vast amounts of data and large-scale workloads operations. BellSoft, a leading OpenJDK contributor, adds 64-bit Arm support to its Alpaquita Linux distribution and Alpaquita containers to complete your Java experience in the cloud and on Arm.
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Business Wire ☛ Red Hat Joins the Linux Foundation’s Margo to Deliver Edge Interoperability for Industrial Automation Ecosystems
Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has joined The Linux Foundation's Margo Initiative as a steering committee member to enhance interoperability in industrial automation environments. Supported by some of the largest global automation ecosystem providers, Margo defines the mechanisms for interoperability between edge applications, devices, workloads and orchestration software and plans to deliver interoperability through an open standard, reference implementation and comprehensive compliance testing toolkit.
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ZDNet ☛ How to use a VPN on Linux - and why you should [Ed: Jack Wallen doing paid spam again, this time for Proton VPN]
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Desktop/Laptop
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Russell Coker ☛ Modern Sleep
The ability of a phone to never fully sleep is a change in quality of the usage experience, it means that you can access it and immediately have it respond and it means that all manner of services can be checked for new updates which may require a notification to the user. The XMPP protocol (AKA Jabber) was invented in 1999 which was before laptops were common and Instant Message systems were common long before then. But using Jabber or another IM system on a desktop was a very different experience to using it on a laptop and using it on a phone is different again. The “modern sleep” allows laptops to act like phones in regard to such messaging services. Currently I have Matrix IM clients running on my Android phone and Linux laptop, if I get a notification that takes much typing for a response then I get out my laptop to respond. If I had an ARM based laptop that never fully shut down I would have much less need for Matrix on a phone.
Making “modern sleep” popular will lead to more development of OS software to work with it. For Linux this will hopefully mean that regular Linux distributions (as opposed to Android which while running a Linux kernel is very different to Debian etc) get better support for such things and therefore become more usable on phones. Debian on a Librem 5 or PinePhonePro isn’t very usable due to battery life issues.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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PCLinuxOS
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PCLOS Official ☛ PCLinuxOS Recent Updates
thunderbird-128.4.2kernel-6.1.116librewolf-browser-132.0.1mpvqt-1.0.1tigervnc-1.14.1chromium-browser-130.0.6723.91
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SUSE/OpenSUSE
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SUSE Previews Observability Platform Integrated With Rancher Management Framework
SUSE at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024 conference today announced it is providing early access to an observability platform designed specifically for Kubernetes clusters that are being managed by its Rancher platform.
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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
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Nomadic Infrastructure Design for Hey Hi (AI) Workloads
Taco Bell is a miracle of food preparation. They manage to have a menu of dozens of items that all boil down to permutations of 8 basic items: meat, cheese, beans, vegetables, bread, and sauces. Those basic fundamentals are combined in new and interesting ways to give you the crunchwrap, the chalupa, the doritos locos tacos, and more. Just add hot water and they’re ready to eat.
Even though the results are exciting, the ingredients for them are not. They’re all really simple things. The best designed production systems I’ve ever used take the same basic idea: build exciting things out of boring components that are well understood across all facets of the industry (eg: S3, Postgres, HTTP, JSON, YAML, etc.). This adds up to your pitch deck aiming at disrupting the industry-disrupting industry.
A bunch of companies want to sell you inference time for your Hey Hi (AI) workloads or the results of them inferencing Hey Hi (AI) workloads for you, but nobody really tells you how to make this yourself. That’s the special Mexican Pizza sauce that you can’t replicate at home no matter how much you want to be able to.
Today, we’ll cover how you, a random nerd that likes reading architectural articles, should design a production-ready Hey Hi (AI) system so that you can maximize effectiveness per dollar, reduce dependency lock-in, and separate concerns down to their cores. Buckle up, it’s gonna be a ride.
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Make Tech Easier ☛ The Best Home Server OS For Your Self-hosted Apps
Home server OSes allow you to easily install third-party apps on your home server. Here are the best home server OS that you can install today.
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Web Browsers/Web Servers
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Mozilla
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Mozilla ☛ About:Community: Contributor spotlight – MyeongJun Go
The beauty of an open source software lies in the collaborative spirit of its contributors. In this post, we’re highlighting the story of MyeongJun Go (Jun), who has been a dedicated contributor to the Performance Tools team. His contributions have made a remarkable impact on performance testing and tooling, from local tools like Mach Try Perf and Raptor to web-based tools such as Treeherder. Thanks to Jun, developers are even more empowered to improve the performance of our products.
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Openness/Sharing/Collaboration
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Open Data
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NOAA ☛ Employment in Coastal Inundation Zones dataviewer is a new aid to coastal planners
That affirmative answer is what’s behind the November 12, 2024, release of the new dataviewer that uses maps to make the number of businesses, jobs, and employees potentially impacted by hurricane storm surge, 100-year floods, sea level rise, and tsunamis easier to visualize.
The dataviewer maps the one million jobs in FEMA special flood hazard areas — areas with a 1% annual chance of flooding — of 600 different U.S. coastal and river counties. It reports employment in the tsunami zone of 50 counties across California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington. The dataviewer also estimates the number of jobs in 200 counties that would be at risk from hurricane storm surge and calculates the number of jobs in over 200 coastal counties that would be affected by inundation under different levels of sea level rise.
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