Upgraded my Laptop (ThinkPad T480) from 14.3-STABLE to 15.0-BETA3. Did only take ~2.5 hours (makeworld, makekernel ..)

Everything reasonably stable, iwlwifi with 802.11ac performing like a beast (300-500 Mbps on 80Mhz channel)

Only issue: GPU firmware isn't loading. Neither from -quarterly, from -stable or from the current ports tree :(

GPU itself works fine with the DRM driver, just missing some power-management capabilities.

KLD i915_kbl_dmc_ver1_04_bin.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch
i915_kbl_dmc_ver1_04_bin: could not load binary firmware /boot/firmware/i915_kbl_dmc_ver1_04_bin either
drmn0: could not load firmware image 'i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin'
drmn0: [drm] Failed to load DMC firmware i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin. Disabling runtime power management.

#freebsd #freebsd15 #beta #opensource #foss #thinkpad

RFC 1034 defining the concepts and facilities of DNS domain names was published in November 1987 https://cromwell-intl.com/networking/protocols.html?s=mb #IPnetworking #OpenSource #Linux

This is a little PSA to Linux users and Linux gamers, with news reports out there about AMD shifting focus away from certain GPUs.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/linux-users-have-no-reason-to-worry-about-recent-amd-gpu-driver-changes/

#OpenSource #AMD #Drivers #Misc

Finally had time to post about some of the Dutch gov's open source projects and efforts to become more digitally sovereign.

Tldr: we're heading in the right direction, but we need to work on a gov-wide strategy instead of relying on individual projects.

#digitalsovereignty #opensource #foss #ospo

https://ginaplat.com/posts/20251031-digital-sovereignty-and-gov/

Many things happening in #LibreOffice right now! Markdown support is coming, we've had events in Italy, Cuba and the Czech Republic, and the software is being updated: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/10/31/libreoffice-project-and-community-recap-october-2025/ #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware

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Group photo from Latin American LibreOffice event

The idea of leaving #whatsapp for a more open, secure, and #privacy respecting alternative is really appealing.

However, many people still only use WhatsApp, including for work chats. And as long as this remains the case, switching isn't easy

If this issue were solved, I’m sure a lot more people would move away.

#opensource #signal #matrix #chat #interoperability

The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague is choosing OpenDesk, a German open source alternative to Microsoft's Office suite. 🔥

In Feb 2025 Microsoft blocked the ICC head prosecutor's email access, directly after US President Trump sanctioned the court for issueing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant. #digitalsovereignty #opensource #opendesk

https://www.euractiv.com/news/international-criminal-court-to-ditch-microsoft-office-for-european-open-source-alternative/

The European Commission on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for a group of four countries to establish a common organisation for building #opensource alternatives to much-used software.

France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands will work to develop open, European alternatives in “key areas” such as AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and – curiously – social networks.

https://www.euractiv.com/news/eu-country-grouping-cleared-to-build-sovereign-digital-infrastructure/

#FreeSoftware #EU

🚨 Je crois que nous ne mesurons pas encore l'impact de cet événement : en décembre, Le DC-EDIC ouvre un nouveau chapitre pour l’avenir numérique de l’Europe.

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/fr/news/commission-launch-digital-commons-edic-support-sovereign-european-digital-infrastructure-and

C'est une révolution.

#LogicielsLibres #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

... And thus we have reached the season of witches, d[a]emons 😈 and zombie [procceses] 🧟!

Checkout KDE's fundraiser as it enters its spookiest 👻 phase yet, and help us ward of tech hobgoblins and proprietary waifs that threaten your rights and freedoms.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/

#fundraising #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #donations

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Konqi cosplaying as Bernard Bernoulli and Konqi ghost art CC BY-SA leggy2fast

This release adds features that were requested during the #DutchProxmoxDay2025 which was hosted by our friends Tuxis (tuxis.nl). I'm hearing your feedback and all your feedback from the community and user base is important to me, so let me introduce the following new features:

* Add an optional memory balancing threshold
* Add affinity/anti-affinity support by pools
* Add pressure (PSI) based balancing for memory, cpu, disk
* Pressure (PSI) based balancing for nodes
* Pressure (PSI) based balancing for guests

You can simply upgrade via APT or by obtaining the latest Docker/Container image. PSI based balancing (still in beta) requires Proxmox VE 9 or greater.

Thanks to my employer
@credativ@mastodon.social (https://credativ.de) who provides me the required time to work at this.

GitHub: https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB
GitHub Release: https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB/releases/tag/v1.1.9
Author: @gyptazy@gyptazy.com

#PVE #Proxmox #Community #OpenSource #FOSS #gyptazy #DutchProxmoxDay #coding #projects #virtualization #vms #hypervisor #homelab #vmware #alternatives #pve #balancing

Il existe des milliers de façons d'arriver au même résultat, et certaines sont sans doute meilleures que les miennes.

C'est pourquoi je vous le dis : vous êtes libres de prendre, d'adapter ou d'ignorer complètement ce que je publie. Vous êtes les maîtres à bord ! 😉

Prenez ce qui vous sert, et jetez le reste !

#Transparence #Tech #SysAdmin #OpenSource #BlablaLinux #Code #DevOps

Ever considered self-hosting a #Fediverse instance (#Mastodon, #Peertube etc.)

#OpenSource #selfhost

Tor Browser 15.0 lands with some major changes.

https://news.itsfoss.com/tor-browser-15-0-release/

#opensource #privacy

International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European #OpenSource alternative.

#EUpol

https://www.euractiv.com/news/international-criminal-court-to-ditch-microsoft-office-for-european-open-source-alternative/

The International Criminal Court is ending its dependency on Big Tech cloud solution by adopting the open-source solution OpenDesk. @univention is part of this process. It is a critical step to insulate international organizations from the political pressure the Trump administration is trying to exert through Big Tech Companies. It is also an important reminder that everyone needs digital sovereignty.
#opensource #digitalsovereignty
https://www.heise.de/en/news/International-Criminal-Court-Kicks-Out-Microsoft-10964189.html

Ubuntu 25.10 führt optimierte Pakete für moderne x86-64-CPUs ein

Canonical führt mit Ubuntu 25.10 neue Architektur-Varianten ein. Die optimierten Pakete nutzen moderne CPU-Features wie AVX2, ohne alte Hardware auszuschließen.

https://www.heise.de/news/Ubuntu-25-10-fuehrt-optimierte-Pakete-fuer-moderne-x86-64-CPUs-ein-10964427.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#AMD #Canonical #Intel #IT #Linux #OpenSource #Ubuntu #news

On Sunday I'm going to @openalt with my @company to support my colleague's @lukasstuchlik talk , I hope to meet some pople from the #linuxmobile / #ubuntutouch community out there 🚂

#openalt #opensource #linuxmobile

Top open source graphics apps, in no particular order. Replace your Windows apps with these!

1. Gimp (raster manip)
2. Inkscape (vectors)
3. Krita (painting)
4. Blender (3D)
5. Scribus (DTP)
6. Darktable (photo editing)
7. Natron (compositor)
8. Kdenlive (video editing)
9. FreeCAD 3D
10. Friction (AE-like anim)
11. Synfig (vector anim)
12. QCad/CAM 2D
13. Pencil2D (anim)
14. Pixelorama (pixel art)
15. Handbrake (video transcoder)
16. Cura (3D printing)

#foss #opensource #adobe #linux #graphics

Think NetBSD is just some spooky, complicated thing for old-school hackers? Nah.
But all that legendary portability and rock-solid reliability? That doesn't happen by magic.
Every stable update, cool new feature, and wild new platform it supports (yes, even your toaster) comes from the hard work of the NetBSD community. And honestly, they're powered by support from people just like you.
When you donate to the NetBSD Foundation, you're directly helping to:
Keep NetBSD's code clean, secure, and ready for whatever's next.
Supercharge the build systems and infrastructure that our devs live on.
Cook up more docs, guides, and resources for new users and seasoned pros.
Make sure "Of course it runs NetBSD" stays a free-for-everyone reality.
Your contribution is what keeps NetBSD stable, modern, and running on (almost) everything. Pitch in to support the work that keeps #NetBSD awesome!

#OpenSource #Halloween #donate #runbsd #linux #retro #ewaste

Umm

#linuxadmin #freebsd #opensource #operatingsystem

And thanks to byte, @stefano@bsd.cafe, andypiper, pmjv, daltux, r-ricci and any others I may have missed for their contributions to this release as well!

I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.84 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/29810

1 out of 3 of GitHub's Continuous Integration checks passed, which is a good sign the other two will pass as well.

It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
#NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit