Malware has been discovered in, and removed from, the Arch User Repository:

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My Kitronik robot now has an option to "play". When this directive is given, the robot will avoid nearby objects/people, follow things moving away from it, and wander around the rest of the time.

GitHub

GitHub - slicer69/RobotServer: Functions for running a command server on a Pico W

Functions for running a command server on a Pico W - slicer69/RobotServer

npub1232s...cqam 6 months ago

A reminder that Ubuntu 24.10 and its community editions have reached the ends of their supported life spans:

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npub1232s...cqam 6 months ago

A series of articles comparing Wayland vs X11 performance across multiple GPUs and multiple distributions:

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npub1232s...cqam 6 months ago

Oracle Linux 10.0 is now available for people to download and try:

Distribution Release: Oracle Linux 10.0 (DistroWatch.com News)

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npub1232s...cqam 6 months ago

Canonical plans to remove GPU exploit mitigation in order to boost Intel's performance by 20%:

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npub1232s...cqam 7 months ago

We now have over 1,000 open source operating systems in our database. Which means we've been adding an average of about one Linux distribution per week for 20 years.

npub1232s...cqam 7 months ago

Hammer Slackware services are moving to new servers:

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npub1232s...cqam 7 months ago

Bad news for Pixel owners and the open source projects trying to support them:

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npub1232s...cqam 7 months ago

About of a third of the projects in our database do not run systemd. It's unfortunate to see GNOME turn its back on so many members of the open source community:

Introducing stronger dependencies on systemd – Adrian's blog

PSA for systemd-free distros about work they'll need to do to continue running GNOME