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From Unix.foo In June of 2023 Red Hat made a controversial decision to change how they distribute the source code behind Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). There have been a lot of keyboards tapped angrily across social media that left many uncertain about the ramifications of the decision. There were many questions about the future…

Shay Banon writing on the Elastic blog: [LOVE.] The tl;dr is that we will be adding AGPL as another license option next to ELv2 and SSPL in the coming weeks. We never stopped believing and behaving like an open source community after we changed the license. But being able to use the term Open Source, by…

From Kenneth Nym’s blog: using llm to write code is like asking an artist to paint for you. if you only want the end result, by all means! if you are like me who enjoy the process of painting, then why would you bother automating the fun part away? one may say, “but i am…

From Alex Yancey’s blog: Light story on how the ability to program can be a superpower.

Senthilkumar Palani writing for OSTechNix: What’s probably making it easy for Linux here is the fact that the real operating system for most “apps” that people actually use, is the browser. The underlying operating system (Linux/macOS/Windows) is just the device driver for whatever hardware that’s running the browser. That is—at least for most people. Nevertheless, the…

Kay Savetz on The Internet Archive’s blog: The Internet Archive is now home to 53 episodes of The Famous Computer Cafe, a 1980s radio show about the new world of home computers. The program included computer industry news, product reviews, and interviews, and aired from 1983 through 1986 on radio stations in southern and central California.…

From Steve Simkin’s blog: Every now and then I would update a plugin in Neovim and everything would break, and I would have to spend time fixing it instead of getting work done. This resulted in slimming down my config more and more, but there was still so much that went into making all the…

From Raspberry Pi: It’s powered by RP2350, a new chip! Apart from two Arm cores, there are also 2 RISC-V cores lurking in there! Although we’ve been a member of RISC-V International for many years, we’ve never found an opportunity to ship a RISC-V Raspberry Pi product. But that’s changing today, thanks to a bonus…

From Brendan Gregg’s blog: In the future, computers will not crash due to bad software updates, even those updates that involve kernel code. In the future, these updates will push eBPF code. Friday July 19th provided an unprecedented example of the inherent dangers of kernel programming, and has been called the largest outage in the history of information technology.…

From Ruffy’s blog: Now that we’ve covered the basics, let’s have a look at how Linux manages audio. The Linux audio system utilizes a modular and layered architecture to handle audio processing, which provides both abstraction and flexibility. Layering in Linux audio allows for a structured approach to audio management. By separating concerns into different…