#ThankGNU! to Boone Gorges, Brewster Kahle, Christian Probst, and Claire Lackner and Steven Bickerton for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware See a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness: https://u.fsf.org/44p
Government Monitoring Those With "Negative" Views of Health Insurance Companies
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/government-monitoring-those-with
ICYMI: Exciting news for AlmaLinux users!
The ELevate NG upgrade path from AlmaLinux OS 9 to 10.0 beta is now live for testing. Help shape the final release by testing and sharing feedback! 🛠️
Details here: https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-01-14-elevate-updates/
#Toronto school district says 40 years of student data stolen in #PowerSchool breach
Disabling VT-d improves Intel Arc GPU Linux performance on Meteor Lake and newer SoCs
In this post, I’ll check whether disabling VT-d virtualization support may improve the performance of the Intel Arc GPU in recent Meteor Lake or Lunar Lake SoC using a Khadas Mind Maker Kit with an Intel Core Ultra 7 258V CPU with Intel Arc 140V graphics running Ubuntu 24.10. A few d…
https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/01/20/disabling-vt-d-improves-intel-arc-gpu-linux-performance-on-meteor-lake-and-newer-socs/
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (3/2025): Find mobile-friendly apps on #Flathub
https://linmob.net/weekly-update-03-2025/
#LInuxMobile #FuriLabsFLX1 #Phosh #postmarketOS #PinePhone #Librem5 #PureOSCrimson #FOSDEM #SailfishOS #JollaC2 #UbuntuTouch
Assigning your copyright to the FSF helps defend the GPL and keep software free. Thanks to Heiko Eissfeldt, Michele Locati, and Oleg Tolmatcev for assigning their copyright to the FSF! /#GCC /#findutils More: https://u.fsf.org/3ht #CopyrightAssignments
This week's donation went to a software developer that goes by "Mew Pur Pur". They contribute to the FOSS Godot engine, an SVG editor called "GodSVG" among others.
They have a profile at Github:
If you want to help them financially they accept donations through Github Sponsors.
#LinuxMobile at #FOSDEM2025:
To hopefully help with #FOSDEM planning, here's another event page on linmob.net:
https://linmob.net/fosdem2025/
pmbootstrap 3.2.0 has been tagged!
* Supports building pmOS + systemd packages and images (now that it has been merged into pmOS edge!)
* pmb "flasher boot" now works for fastboot-bootpart
* Fixes for Android recovery zip, the aportgen feature and various smaller fixes
* A LOT of code quality improvements that will make future maintenance easier
Thanks a lot to everybody who has contributed to this release! 💚
https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/-/tags/3.2.0
Come see us at #FOSDEM February 1st and 2nd!
We'll have a booth on Saturday and will be at Distros DevRoom on Sunday: https://fosdem.org/2025/ @fosdem
I have been gaming since 1992 and building PCs since 2003. I enjoy Linux, supporting FOSS projects and am a tinfoil hat connoisseur.
Many FOSS projects rely on donations. If you have money to spare but don't know which to donate to take a look at the above links on Ko-fi, Github, and Open Collective. Anything on there that I have sponsered or contributed to is something I have found to be worthy.