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HaikuOS ☛ GSoC 2026 Final Report | Modernizing Haiku's Bluetooth Stack: HID Profile Implementation
Hello! Finally, GSoC is done for me. This is the final report for my project. The project was focused on improving the Bluetooth stack and making it useful. Hopefully, the Bluetooth stack is now in a much better state than before GSoC 2026. It still needs much work to be fully developed. However, currently Bluetooth mice and keyboards are functioning. In addition, the core of the stack is ready for implementing other profiles.
This report will include the following: [...]
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It's FOSS ☛ 5 GNU/Linux Distros Bringing Hey Hi (AI) to Your Desktop [Ed: Stupid gimmicks falsely marketed as stuff they're not]
One project has raised $15.5 million for its foundation, while Ubuntu 26.10 is starting with nothing more than voice dictation.
Seeing all the hype surrounding AI in the Linux ecosystem, you might've asked yourself, What makes a Linux distro "AI-focused"? If you go looking for an answer, you will get all kinds of results depending on which project you look at.
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BSD
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Klara ☛ Why Is Everyone Stuck on FreeBSD 13?
FreeBSD 13 reached end of life on April 30, 2026, but many production systems still depend on it. Here’s why upgrading is harder than it looks, what staying on 13 means, and how teams can manage the transition.
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SUSE/OpenSUSE
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OpenSUSE ☛ One Page, Every Package
Until recently the honest answer was very often “go look it up yourself, package by package” unless someone actually had the answer.
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Fedora Family / IBM
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Red Hat ☛ Use a local and open source code assistant [Ed: Red Hat endorses slop plagiarism for code; Red Hat is not a credible player anymore]
There's a lot of excitement about Hey Hi (AI) coding assistants, but many of the available options either aren't open source, or don't respect your data privacy by sending what you're working on to the clown for processing. If you're looking for an alternative to closed AI, then you need an open coding assistant and an open source IDE.
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Debian Family
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Thorsten Alteholz ☛ My Debian Activities in August 2026
This was my hundred-forty-sixth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.
Unfortunately the number of distributed working hours had been rather low this month, so the list contains much less entries than normal. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on: [...]
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