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BSD and GNU/Linux Leftovers Published on Tux Machines (http://www.tuxmachines.org) Home > content > BSD and GNU/Linux Leftovers BSD and GNU/Linux Leftovers By Roy Schestowitz Created 17/11/2020 - 5:06pm Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 17th of November 2020 05:06:42 PM Filed under GNU [1] Linux [2] BSD [3] Toward an automated tracking of OpenBSD ports contributions [4] A first step for the CI service would be to create a database of diffs sent to ports. This would allow people to track what has been sent and not yet committed and what the state of the contribution is (build/don?t built, apply/don?t apply). I would proceed following this logic: [...] Why I use OpenBSD [5] In this article I will share my opinion about things I like in OpenBSD, this may including a short rant about recent open source practices not helping non-linux support. Full Circle Weekly News #190 [6] AWS Creates Its Own Docker Images https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-preps-its-own-library-of-public-docker-container-images/ Dell Adds Privacy Drivers to the Kernel https://www.debugpoint.com/2020/11/dell-privacy-driver-linux/ Elementary OS Is Making Progress with Dark Mode in Odin https://blog.elementary.io/dark-style-progress/ Raspberry Pi 400?s New Form Factor https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-400-the-70-desktop-pc/ KDE Announces Updates and Updates https://kde.org/announcements/releases/2020-11-apps-update/ Nitrux 1.3.4 Out https://nxos.org/changelog/changelog-nitrux-1-3-4/ Emmabuntus Debian Edition 1.03 Outinstallation features https://emmabuntus.org/on-november-2020-emmade3-1-03-focuses-on-the-reuse-for-all/ Sparky Linux 5.13 Out https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-5-13/ LXQT 0.16 Out https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/releases/tag/0.16.0 Collabora Office 6.4 Out https://www .collaboraoffice.com/press-releases/collabora-online-6-4-0-released/ Second Gen Librem Mini from Purism Out https://9to5linux.com/purism-launches-2nd-gen-librem-mini-linux-pc-with-a-10th-gen-intel- core-cpu GNU Linux BSD Source URL: http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/144465 Links: [1] http://www.tuxmachines.org/taxonomy/term/144 [2] http://www.tuxmachines.org/taxonomy/term/63 [3] http://www.tuxmachines.org/taxonomy/term/115 [4] https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2020-11-15-openbsd-ports-ci.html [5] https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2020-11-16-why-i-use-openbsd.html [6] https://fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast/full-circle-weekly-news-190/.
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