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The Most Popular Linux & Open-Source News Of 2024

During the course of 2024 there were 3,021 original news articles written on Phoronix around Linux and open-source topics... Fresh content each and every day, 99% of which was written by your's truly. It was quite an eventful year with a lot of excitement in kernel space, hardware vendors continuing to ramp up timely new hardware support, the never-ending drive for maximum performance op…
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FOSDEM 2025


38c3 with many Fediverse related meet-ups has just finished but we are already looking forward to meet at FOSDEM at the first weekend of February. Tobias from the Friendica devel team will give a lightning talk about Friendica at FOSDEM 25 in the Social Web Dev Room.

Friendica – under the radar since 2010 is scheduled for Saturday (1.2.2025) from 16:00 to 16:10.


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Linux "hid-universal-pidff" Driver Proposed For Fixing More Quirky Devices

The hid-pidff driver exists within the Linux kernel for enabling force feedback "FF" support on various USB HID PID (Physical Interface Device) compliant devices. With a new set of patches posted yesterday, that hid-pidff driver is extended to "hid-universal-pidff" for supporting more functionality on quirky devices...
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Zlib-ng 2.2.3 Rings In The New Year With ~17.8% Faster Inflate For AVX2

Zlib-ng 2.2.3 is out as the "next gen" Zlib replacement led by Hans Kristian Rosbach that retains a Zlib-compatible API while also offering a modernized API, modern C11 syntax, support for more CPU intrinsics, and other leading-edge features compared to upstream Zlib...
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RISC-V Made Nice Software Progress In 2024 Whike Hardware Still Tough To Come By

RISC-V on the software front made very nice progress over the past year with a lot of Linux kernel and toolchain improvements, new targets being enabled, and new instructions being supported along with other additions for improving the overall RISC-V software ecosystem. When it comes to hardware though most of the readily available RISC-V systems are pain…
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“RISC-V finally makes hardware available for both business and developers…and finds that developers have left as the project has become ‘too mainstream’. One dev was quoted ‘…I’m going back to porting HaikuOS onto PowerPC…that stack of old PowerBooks isn’t going to solve itself…’”
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“albeit the company hasn't been helpful in any review samples” do we get cheese with that whine? If you want the board, buy it, like everyone else.



Selbstgehosteter Familien-Stammbaum mit Webtrees

Warum ein selbstgehosteter Stammbaum?

Familiengeschichte ist spannend, oder? Wer gehörte zur Familie, wie weit reichen deine Wurzeln zurück, und welche spannenden Geschichten verbergen sich in deinem Stammbaum? Mit einem selbstgehosteten Stammbaum kannst du diese Fragen ni...

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#Docker #Software #docker #Familie #OpenSource #selfhost #Stammbaum #Webtrees

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The artwork interspersed in this book has such magnificent colors. This is traditional #Tibetan artwork in the style of #Thangka and #mural painting where #Tibetan artists don’t claim ownership by stamping their name. Much appreciation to the free access provided to this collection of folk tales from #Tibet.
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A House Beyond Time and Space

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Publisher: ChaosiumA minimalistic one-page scenario for Call of Cthulhu 7th edition featuring a non-euclidean haunted house with a randomized "dungeon" An old, peculiar house built by a wayward architect is stuck in a perpetual loop where the family…




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