For Codeberg, they don’t allow commercial projects. You of course have Forgejo (which is what Codeberg utilises), and many open-source developers have been moving to it. I’ve also heard some projects switching over to GitLab as well, which is corporate-owned, but I believe has a self-hosted option that gives people a little more control. But for many people, GitHub works fine as it is and don’t want the hassle of transferring their projects, commit history, issues, etc. over.

Very cool! France is working towards achieving digital independent from US megacorps, and maybe this means more funding towards the development of open-source software!

Not in terms of selling the card, but in terms of production. The market for Intel discrete gaming GPUs is very small, so the cost to produce the cards isn’t as profitable for Intel, especially under the current market. Of course, I do want Intel to make new consumer oriented cards, but the investment needed to produce gaming GPUs could be too high for Intel (note that I’m not an Intel business executive, this is just my guess!)

Yooo that’s sick! Very cool

Intel Arc Battlemage is still being sold. It has been leaked, not confirmed by Intel I think (don’t quote me on that), that the “Celestial” line of discrete gaming GPUs will be continued, presumably due to cost of memory being very high right now making it difficult to create a card oriented at consumers. There has been no news on whether the “Druid” line of gaming GPUs will be discontinued as well. It looks like workstation cards (like those in the Phoronix article) are unaffected, probably because producing those at a larger scale is more cost-effective in the current market.

It’s not a conspiracy, Apple (and many other companies) has been known to create software updates meant to slow down older devices to encourage users to upgrade.

Yes, that was my point, sorry if it wasn’t clear. You mentioned GPL, which is copyleft (which tries to resolve this issue by ensuring that projects using GPL code also need to be open source)

If the Macbook Neo was capable of running Asahi Linux, that would be really neat! Especially since Apple will 100% bog it down with MacOS updates to force schools to upgrade their devices earlier than necessary.

I would imagine that the hardware on iPhones (touchscreen input, multiple cameras, FaceID) would make it much more challenging and probably not within the scope of the project (!). iPhones are also more locked down then Macs are, I believe there is no way to install an alternate operating system on modern iPhones. Project Sandcastle, a project to implement Android on iPhones, only got around to the 7 (and even then, it had poor support).

from another comment I made on licenses:

They are needed to tell users and developers what they can do with the project and whether they can change the source code, redistribute it, etc. Having no license by default means others can’t look at your code or modify it in any way, as the terms on how to do so are not defined!

There are several licenses that are used for open-source projects. Generally, they are grouped as either permissive licenses (like MIT) or copyleft/protective licenses (like GPLv3). In a nutshell, permissive licenses gives the developer (or, in the case of commercial use of open-source code, the company) more freedom as the code can be used in any kind of project, including proprietary ones. In contrast, copyleft licenses aim to give users more freedom by ensuring that the code can only be used in projects that also use an open-source license.

There are other elements to licenses too, like how code used should be attributed, whether you are allowed to fork the project, additional copyleft restrictions for SaaS applications (see AGPLv3), loosening of copyleft restrictions (see LGPLv3), etc.

I believe BSD uses the permissive BSD license, not the copyleft GPL license. Both are open-source but do it slightly differently.

Extrapolated data aside, Linux is already the dominant OS (really, family of operating systems, since Debian, RHEL, etc. are separate operating systems) for servers. Additionally, the majority of smartphones run Android, which uses the Linux kernel. And yes, everyone knows, it’s as much of a Linux distribution as iOS is based on BSD, but still.

eunuchs (a word used to describe testicle-less men working for various different rulers around the world)

Disney will surely milk the Toy Story franchise with many movies and shows, and with the pace of Debian’s release cycle, it will be ages until the roster of characters is used up. If Toy Story characters do run out somehow, or if the Debian developers ever get bored of it I guess, they could branch out to other franchises, like Star Wars or something.

GitLab exists and is used by many big corpos already, and Codeberg has its own version of Actions (woodpecker I think it’s called.)

The term “vegetable” is a culinary term, and squash is prepared like a vegetable. For another example, tomatoes are fruits but are prepared like vegetables. Squash and tomatoes can be both fruits AND vegetables. This is my position on the “is X a fruit or vegetable?” issue.

I mean, the idea of a “vegetable” isn’t a well defined group of plant parts like fruits are. Vegetables are a mix of seeds, roots, leaves, stems, etc. all of which are quite different. It’s just “parts of a plant that can be cooked as part of a meal”:

“a usually herbaceous plant (such as the cabbage, bean, or potato) grown for an edible part that is usually eaten as part of a meal also : such an edible part” according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vegetable (similar definitions exist for other dictionaries, some highlight that vegetables are usually used to make non-sweet dishes)

The TLDR is that vegetables are loosely defined as “plant parts that are used to prepare meals, usually non-sweet dishes” and is a culinary term rather than a botanical one like fruits can be. So an item (like tomatoes or squash) can be both a vegetable and a fruit, the former culinary and the latter botanically. They aren’t mutually exclusive.

It’s a fork of SDDM, so for now, it will pretty much work the same. However, I’m assuming that soon the KDE team will work to add additional features and whatnot in the future! Pretty neat I think.

They do offer it with the Ryzen 300 series CPUs (but those have worse efficiency, iGPU performance, etc compared to Intel’s new Panther Lake Let’s hope that AMD’s Zen 6 CPUs catch up!)

Their blog as well as the video described the new laptop as the “Macbook Pro for Linux users”, with a similarly solid build, battery life, and performance. But of course with repairability and upgradeability as a focus.

Clicking on some of the options on both web stores, a similarly configured Framework Laptop 13 Pro (Intel X7) is quite a bit more expensive than a Macbook Pro (base M5). If you go up to 32GB of RAM and 2TB SSD, the Framework becomes cheaper because of Apple tax for (non-upgradeable!) memory upgrades. But doesn’t include import fees (which will be much higher for FW)

Some people have already suggested that such FW13 non-Pro and Pro hybrids could be called pandas or penguins