NixBSD: an unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel
NixBSD is an attempt to make a reproducible and declarable BSD, based on NixOS. Although theoretically much of this work could be copied to build other BSDs, all work thus far has been focused on building a FreeBSD distribution. ↫ NixBSD GitHub page ...
SDL 3.2.0 released
SDL, the Simple DirectMedia Layer, has released version 3.2.0 of its development library. In case you don’t know what SDL is: Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mo...
Running Inference In Web Extensions
Image generated by DALL*E We’re shipping a new API in Firefox Nightly that will let you use our Firefox AI runtime to run offline machine learning tasks in your web extension. Firefox AI Runtime We’ve recently shipped a new component inside of Fire...
Initial Freeze Dates Announced For Debian 13.0 "Trixie"
With Debian 13 due out in the coming months, the Debian 13 artwork/theme was recently announced as well as the Debian Installer Trixie Alpha 1 release. The latest is the freeze dates for Debian 13.0 being announced today...
Migration-Guide: From Windows to Fedora Linux
This article provides a step-by-step guide to transitioning from Windows to Fedora Linux. Motivation Switching operating systems is a big step for many people – often accompanied by uncertainties. This is exactly the situation my parents are facing r...
Linux Foundation Newsletter: January 2025
Welcome to the very first LF newsletter of 2025 bustling with essential updates. We’ve got events, research news, a new open source initiative, and more! We’re so glad you’re here. Check out the highlights, save the dates, and be sure to registe...
Stargate Project launched for AI infrastructure
In a venture unveiled by Pres. Donald Trump on January 21, companies including SoftBank, Oracle, OpenAI, and MGX are funding a new AI company, called the Stargate Project, to invest $500 billion to build AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United Stat...
Stargate Project launched for OpenAI AI infrastructure
In a venture unveiled by Pres. Donald Trump on January 21, companies including SoftBank, Oracle, OpenAI, and MGX are funding a new AI company, called the Stargate Project, to invest $500 billion to build AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United Stat...
Free Software Foundation Marking 40 Years Old With A New Logo
In October it will mark 40 years since the Free Software Foundation (FSF) was founded by Richard Stallman. In marking forty years of supporting the free software movement, they have been running a logo contest to memorialize the milestone. Today that n...
Bringing multiple windows to Flutter desktop apps
Over the past 5 years, Canonical has been contributing to Flutter, including building out Linux support for Flutter applications, publishing libraries to help integrate into the Linux desktop and building modern applications for Ubuntu, including our s...
3 Python web frameworks for beautiful front ends
Python has long had a presence as a language for server-side frameworks, with support for most every project size or use case. But it’s historically been confined to the back end—there’s no real culture of writing Python for creating front-end, ...
