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My first blog post: Creating a cross-platform framework for truly native apps

https://david.aparoksha.dev/blog/nativecrossplatform/

#swift #swiftlang #libadwaita #gtk #winui #swiftui #crossplatform

#adwaita for #swift is no longer developed on GitHub.

Find it on the Gitea instance for Aparoksha.

This is because GitHub is the very opposite of FOSS.

#libadwaita #swiftlang #gitea #github

More information on Aparoksha here.

You ever seen something so painfully out of touch and oblivious it hurts?

🚚 We have successfully migrated to gitlab.postmarketos.org!

Why and how we did it:

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/10/14/gitlab-migration/

#gitlab

It's finally time. After years of deliberation, #Minetest is finally ready to adopt a new identity and prove it has moved beyond its original purpose. We can finally move past the "mining" and the "testing" and focus on making this platform the best it can be.

#opensource #freesoftware #gamedev

https://blog.minetest.net/2024/10/13/Introducing-Our-New-Name/

Apple did the research; LLMs cannot do formal reasoning. Results change by as much as 10% if something as basic as the names change.

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-dont-do-formal-reasoning-and

It might have gone a bit under the radar given there has been a lot of #gnomefoundation related news these last weeks, but in the transition to gitlab's wiki, there's now a section with Board's policies: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Board/-/wikis/Policies#board-member-policies. We hope that helps with transparency and build more trust on directors' goals and duties. As a bonus, they should help new candidates next year understand what being a member is. Thanks @allanday for the great work on it!

#GNOME

Introducing Boson, the native Electon wrapper for Steam games because running Chromium inside Proton is a bad idea.

And yes, game devs actually write their games in Electron for some reason. Crazy we know.

https://blog.fyralabs.com/introducing-boson/

#tech #gaming #electron #steam #chromium #foss #fyralabs #boson

Fun fact: the microVM that @AsahiLinux uses for 4K page compatibility, managed by muvm and powered by libkrun, boots in ~400 milliseconds. That’s the entire boot time to the application, including all the support programs and sommelier (this one taking roughly half of that budget).
https://github.com/AsahiLinux/muvm

Today we're announcing a huge leap in gaming for Apple Silicon - you can now play AAA games on Fedora Asahi Remix!

The Fedora Asahi SIG is grateful to work closely with the @AsahiLinux project on making this possible.

This work leads the way for us to enable gaming on all Fedora Arm systems down the line!

Learn more: https://fedoramagazine.org/gaming-on-fedora-asahi-remix/

#Fedora #Asahi #AsahiLinux #FedoraAsahi #Linux #Gaming #AppleSilicon #Arm

🎮 Announcing Steam gaming on Fedora Asahi Remix! 🎮

Get the scoop here: alx.sh/gaming.

... or just fully update your system, then dnf install steam and give it a go!

Don't forget to check out our documentation too.

I got linux booting in vanilla minecraft using a datapack https://github.com/Snektron/linux-in-minecraft

#U-Boot 📢 -- U-Boot v2024.10 has been released: https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2024-October/566393.html and the next branch will be merged to master soon. Thanks for the hard work everyone!

🚚 The migration to our self-hosted gitlab instance at https://gitlab.postmarketos.org is mostly done. See the status update here: https://status.postmarketos.org/issues/2024-10-06-migration-to-gitlab.postmarketos.org/

Accounts are being approved. Let us know if you run into issues in the postmarketos-devel channel!

In case you didn't know, Mobian is getting closer and closer to official support for the Pixel 3a! As a Mobian dev and mobile Linux user, I think this is really cool.

I have bought a Pixel 3a online twice, and both times I was sent a 3 instead. I'm getting discouraged, but I still have a hope: you!

If anyone have a Pixel 3a laying around that you'd be willing to sell to me, please reach out!

postmarketOS in 2024-09

Highlights:
* systemd progress
* PCB for automated testing
* apk plugins updated for GNOME Software (GNOME 47) & upstreamed to Plasma Discover!
* work on adding Alpine/musl CI for the entire KDE software stack
* pmb v3 in use by pmaports CI + BPO
* usr-merge improvements
* non-latin language fonts
* process for applying kernel config changes for many of our kernels at once - and keeping them applied via CI checks

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/09/29/pmOS-update-2024-09/

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The application deadline for the GNOME Foundation’s Executive Director role has been extended to October 15! We encourage every qualified applicant to apply, even if you don’t meet every requirement.

Position details and how to apply: https://foundation.gnome.org/careers/

#OpenSource #Leadership #GNOME #TechCareers #FOSS