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GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
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Desktop/Laptop
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It's FOSS ☛ How an Italian Logistics Company Moved From backdoored Windows to Linux: A Real Migration Story
Mišo Oroz shares how he migrated a small transport and logistics company in,Bergamo, Italy to GNU/Linux and open source to reduce cost and ordinary technical problems.
In the past, I have shared stories of how real people using Linux in the real world. My favorite is the interview with Stu Keroff, who educates students to make the best use of Linux in school.
When Mišo reached out to me and shared how he helped a local small business move from Windows to Linux, I though of reviving that old series where real people share real stories of how they migrated to Linux and open source.
Mišo Oroz is the founder of Zerolock, an Italian IT company based in Spirano, Bergamo, specialised in migrating small and medium businesses from proprietary systems to Linux and open source.
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Audiocasts/Shows
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The BSD Now Podcast ☛ BSD Now 681: UNIX still powering the worlds infrastructure
Where Unix runs today, Webzfs updates, A remote filesystem for 2.11 BSD, Sylve, and more...
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Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization
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Collabora ☛ Decoding with Rockchip at Kernel Recipes 2026
Next week we'll be in Paris for Kernel Recipes! We’re pleased to sponsor this gathering of the kernel community and contribute a talk on upstream H.264 and HEVC decoding for Rockchip RK3588/RK3576.
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APNIC ☛ Presto: A match-action TCP stack for the terabit era
Software network stacks have not kept pace, and they are now the dominant bottleneck, failing to translate those hardware gains into application performance. Even with the best kernel-bypass stacks, communication-intensive applications burn as much as 74% of their CPU cycles in the transport, rather than in application logic. As link speeds climb to terabits, the ‘CPU tax’ compounds into tens of cores, hundreds of watts of power, stranded bandwidth, and inflated tail latency.
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Instructionals/Technical
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EIN Presswire ☛ Dennis Hilk Introduces 'The Lost Administrator', a Techno-Thriller Exploring Linux and Digital Evidence
German author, open-source developer, and Linux enthusiast Dennis Hilk is introducing The Lost Administrator, a slow-burn techno-thriller centered on the unexplained disappearance of senior Linux administrator Michael Weber. The novel combines a missing-person mystery with realistic systems administration, digital evidence, legacy technology, and computing culture, giving readers a technically grounded story shaped by the digital traces people leave behind.
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Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)
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K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt
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Carl Schwan ☛ Imprint 1.0 and Kirigami Addons 1.14.0
Happy to announce a new version of Kirigami Addons, as well as the first version of my new app: Imprint.
Kirigami Addons is a collection of many useful modules for your QML and Kirigami applications, and Imprint is a new PDF editor.
Let’s start with the more user facing of the two.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Reviews
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XDA ☛ Linux distros are embracing AI code, and their maintainers are paying the price [Ed: Slop discourages participation]
Recently, Linux distro maintainers have been defining what counts as an acceptable level of LLM-generated code in their repos. Sometimes a group makes a decision, and sometimes there's a big vote; regardless of the method, it usually ends in one of two ways. Either the community bans AI entirely, or they allow AI but only if the people managing the agent take full responsibility for any code it makes.
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