[$] A look at Firefox forks
Mozilla's actions have been rubbing many Firefox fans the wrong way as of late, and inspiring them to look for alternatives. There are many choices for users who are looking for a [...]
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[$] Vendoring Go packages by default in Fedora
The Go language is designed to make it easy for developers to import other Go packages and compile everything into a static binary for simple distribution. Unfortunately, this comp [...]
[$] The road to mainstream Matrix
Matrix provides an open network for secure, decentralized communication. It has enjoyed some success over the last few years as an IRC replacement and real-time chat for a number o [...]
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[$] California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions
A recently enacted law in California imposes an age-verification requirement on operating-system providers beginning next year. The language of the Digital Age Assurance Act does n [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1062112/ #LWN #Linux #security #Debian
[$] A truce in the Manjaro governance struggle
Members of the Manjaro Linux distribution's community have published a "Manjaro 2.0 Manifesto" that contains a list of complaints and a demand to restructure the project to provide [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1063717/ #LWN #Linux #ArchLinux #Git #Firefox #systemd
[$] Vibe-coded ext4 for OpenBSD
A number of projects have been struggling with the question of which submissions created by large language models (LLMs), if any, should be accepted into their code base. This dis [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1064541/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Python