Wayfire 0.10.0 released with per-device input configuration, experimental Vulkan support, Pixman support with color management, new animations, xwayland startup script support

https://wayfire.org/2025/08/27/Wayfire-0-10.html

#wayfire #wayland #wlroots #xwayland #opensource #freesoftware

The good thing about open source is that there's an endless amount of stuff to try, explore, and study. It's wonderful.

The bad thing about open source is that as soon as you stop trying, exploring, or studying something, another thing will come along right away. And another. And another...
And not always in a series.

#OpenSource #OpenMind

Running multiple services safely on a single FreeBSD system? That’s where jails come in. Lightweight, secure, and around long before Docker, jails make it easy to contain services and minimize exposure in case of security issues.

Read the full guide: https://buff.ly/jTAGzlc

#FreeBSD #Jails #OpenSource

#OpenSource is one person https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-one-person/

here, have a collection of resources for finding work in foss

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources

#getFediHired #fediJobs #fediHired #FOSS #openSource

The EU needs a corporate “open source contribution tax” to fund open source maintainers

Open source, the thing that drives the world, the thing Harvard says has an economic value of 8.8 trillion dollars (also a big number). Most of it is one person. And I can promise you not one of those single person projects have the proper amount of resource

https://www.osnews.com/story/143211/the-eu-needs-a-corporate-open-source-contribution-tax-to-fund-open-source-maintainers/

#OpenSource

Heading to EuroBSDCon 2025 in September ?

Don’t miss the FreeBSD Developer Summit, taking place September 24–25 in Zagreb, Croatia, colocated with EuroBSDCon. This event brings FreeBSD committers and community contributors together to plan, collaborate, and shape the future of the Project.

Travel info and hotel options can be found on the EuroBSDCon travel site

📌 Learn more and get started here: https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/202509

#FreeBSD #EuroBSDCon2025 #DeveloperSummit #OpenSource #Community

⚠️ News/Changes:

BoxyBSD will bring in a feature for more advanced users for our free boxes. Instead of only selecting a set of pre-defined BSD based images, you'll soon also be able to create your install simply from scratch with full remote access to your box. This lets you perform custom installations of #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD, #DragonflyBSD, #MidnightBSD but also of some other niche systems like #illumos

Unfortunately, this might still take some time and fully relies on the spare time of @gyptazy.

#freeVPS #VPS #BSD #Box #BoxyBSD #gyptazy #opensource #education #community #foss #runbsd #hosting #freehosting #learning #ipv6

📊 Poll of the Day — Multi-choice! Restarted 🔁
You asked for it — now you can pick all the OSes you use daily! 💻📱

We know Mastodon leans techy... let’s see how that shows up in your OS mix 👀

Which OS(es), grouped for coverage, do you use daily?💻
Reply with why you use it too 👇

Vote + Boost 🔁 = ❤️

#Linux #Arch #LinuxMint #Fedora #Debian #Ubuntu #Desktop #FOSS #Privacy #Security #OpenSource #Microsoft #Windows #TechNews #CyberSecurity #Tech #Technology #Apple #OS #iOS #MacOS #OperatingSystem

“The vulnerability might be in the proof-of-concept”

This is a common pattern I see for reporters to open source projects, where the proof-of-concept itself contains the vulnerability, not the project.

👉 https://sethmlarson.dev/the-vulnerability-is-in-the-proof-of-concept

#security #opensource #oss #vulnerability

NEW VIDEO - How to Upgrade pfSense Plus using Boot Enviroments!

#pfsense #freebsd #unix #opensource #garyhtech

https://youtu.be/eVbPD1Hc4Kg?si=AOE-NlRAaEFpAX-V via @YouTube

New on YouTube: Running FreeBSD on Hetzner

For a long time, Hetzner users struggled with complicated workarounds to install FreeBSD. Thanks to contributor Wolfram Schneider, FreeBSD boot ISOs are now available—making installation straightforward.

Watch the full walkthrough here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RGbstrTWUo

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #CommunitySupport #CloudComputing #Hetzner

Asahi Linux is a truly an inspirational effort, illustrating what passionate people are able to achieve without any need for a financial incentive.

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-n.html

#linux #opensource

#pve #pve8 #pve9 #airgapped #offline #airgap #debian #repository #apt #mirror #aptmirror #opensource #virtualization

https://gyptazy.com/blog/proxmox-in-air-gapped-environment-local-repository-mirror/

The lovely folks at the @chaoss podcast interviewed me recently. We discussed my books (and shared a code for 25% off through October!), why projects fail, how to speak to executives, and #spinning!

Check it out!

https://podcast.chaoss.community/117

#OpenSource

💡GhostBSD Ships "Gershwin" Desktop Environment For A macOS Like Experience - Phoronix

｢ Most interesting with this new GhostBSD desktop operating system update is introducing the Gerhswin communityp review for this community desktop focused on a macOS-like user experience with GNUstep. Gershwin provides a Mac OS X inspired interface while having "seamless" integration with GhostBSD tools and more ｣

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GhostBSD-Gershwin-Desktop

#freebsd #ghostbsd #opensource #gnustep

Woohoo a new version of GhostBSD distro is out along with another choice of DE Gershwin!

https://www.ghostbsd.org/news/GhostBSD_25.02-R14.3p2_Is_Now_Available

#BSD #ghostBSD #freeBSD #OpenSource #POSIX #distro #programming #Gershwin #DE

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CachyOS August 2025 released, with a new packages website, LTS kernel as a fallback option, Niri WM window manager, new features in Proton-CachyOS, bootable btrfs snapshots in GRUB when choosing btrfs, and more

https://cachyos.org/blog/2508-august-release/

#cachyos #archlinux #linux #linuxlts #linuxdesktop #opensource #freesoftware

Re: a #Mastodon poll, @cwebber wrote:
> “Can't change a poll in progress, that would be election tampering!”

Given that #OpenSource Initiative endorses election tampering, surely it's ok in #FOSS for all purposes — #OSAID related or not.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1014603/
https://codeberg.org/OSI-Concerns/election-results-2025

BTW, I'm amazed #OSI tampered w/ an election when the person w/ the longest political memory in FOSS was a candidate. I am — if nothing else — the most persistent person in #FreeSoftware. ☺

Cc: @richardfontana

This governance work by @pyladies is truly top notch. The evolution of their governance as the project grows and matures is exactly the way a #FOSS community should operate.

https://pyladies.com/blog/A-New-Era-of-Transparency/transparency/

#OpenSource #Python

With #ProxLB (free and #opensource / #GPLv3) you can get something which comes close to it - also featuring things like affinity/anti-affinity rules, node pinning, grouping and maintenance mode for multiple nodes. And if you’re even more interested, there’ll be a talk about my project at the #DutchProxmoxDay next month :)

#drs #loadbalancing #gpl #gpl3 #pve #proxmox9 #virtualization #alternatives #vmware #esx #KVM

https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB

What features or improvements would you like to see in the next major release of FreeBSD?

Your feedback helps us keep FreeBSD strong and relevant for developers, sysadmins, and users everywhere.

💬 Share your thoughts below — what would make FreeBSD even better for you?
#FreeBSD #OpenSource #Community

FFmpeg 8.0 has been released https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8.0

#opensource #linux #unix

@lrvick asked:
> “Anyone know of any awesome cis-women deep in #FOSS culture …?”

@karen — even received an honorary doctorate for her work in FOSS: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/feb/02/karen-honorary-doctorate/

@allison — led so many FOSS projects & so many FOSS org BoDs.

Marina Zhurakhinskaya — GNOME developer & founder of #Outreachy:
https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2022-06-14/remembering-and-honoring-marina-zhurakhinskaya-founder-of-outreachy/

@ehashman — Debian developer, PSF Fellow, was on #OpenSource Initiative board (in its heyday before #OSI's recent governance disasters).

I'm at char limit but ∃ so many!

Does anyone know of a Gnome extension that makes number appear under the apps in the dash? The SUPER+NUMBER activation really suits me, but I have enough apps on there that I end up having to count them half the time, so a little number underneath each one would be great. I've done a web search myself, of course, and not come up with anything yet.

#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Linux #Debian #Gnome #GnomeExtension #Debian13 #Debian13Trixie #DebianTrixie

You know how all countries everywhere pay taxes in order to pay for the infrastructure that supports their every-day civilisations?

How we pay taxes to pay for roads, which bring us goods to our areas even if we don't drive? Etc?

Yeah, I think it's about time some of those taxes went to the #OpenSource software that does *exactly the same thing* by being *foundational* to modern society we *all* use and rely on.

Seriously.

Taxes should support major Open Source projects.

Once again I demonstrate that I do not know how to use social media, not even Mastodon. Let me try that again properly with the relevant metadata: I have done my first post-ZeroVer release of #DBXS, an #OpenSource #Python raw #SQL #database access library. If that collection of hashtags seems interesting to you, perhaps check it out!

New video! - I finally try a Solaris derived OS!

#ILLUMIOS #unix #opensource #garyhtech

https://youtu.be/3WCYq6Y_Pkw?si=1loPcwU3VuNcRXlY