LibreNews Weekly Digest #2

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Anyhow, this week saw me investigating a couple of somewhat important stories; namely, the R4L/Martin Hector drama, and the OBS/Fedora drama:

Why the Asahi Linux lead developer resigned

Let’s take a step back. I decided to begin this story in 2019, during the Linux Security Summit. Developers Alex Gaynor and Geoffrey Thomas decided to hold a talk called Writing Linux Kernel Modules in Safe Rust. In it, they made the case for adopting Rust in the Linux kernel.

LibreNewsNiccolò Venerandi

Why OBS and Bottles got in a fight with Fedora

Let’s start with Bottles, and then ease to OBS. Bottles is an application that allows you to run Windows software. It relies on Wine, thus the name, and it makes it easy to create environments with specific Windows prefixes, settings, and dependencies. It lets you select various components to run

LibreNewsNiccolò Venerandi

I'm quite proud of both articles, which took many hours to research and write. On Friday we saw a few developments of both stories, and my original idea (COSMIC reaction video) had to be delayed, so I decided to do an unscripted update video.

Generally speaking, this is not how I want to deal with story updates over time. I however need to go step-by-step, and other things are taking priority right now.

Finally, I got around to writing and publishing about my experience with MALIBAL. I wanted to give this a light-hearted mood, but it also seems clear to me that the owner might be experiencing some mental health issues and, after writing, I wish I had been more careful with the topic.

This Linux laptop maker called me a Zombie

Two years ago I was contacted by a company called MALIBAL. They were interested in a sponsorship, where I would simply put their link in the video description and get money for it. I did a quick background check, and they seemed like a proper Linux hardware manufacturing company. I

LibreNewsNiccolò Venerandi

Finally, Luca also wrote an article this week, and it's about Flathub donations and maintainer burnout. You can find it here:

Would you pay for Free Software?

For most of us who used smartphones for any length of time before switching to Linux, learning how to download a lot of graphical applications on a Linux distro was quite a smooth process: just open the app icon that looks like an App Store, and what you see is

LibreNewsLuca Bramè

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