OpenBSD and X.Org
I was listening to The Linux Cast podcast, and one of the guys uses OpenBSD and incorrectly stated that OpenBSD had forked X.Org. They use Xenocara, which is based on X.Org 7.7, but they say it’s not a fork and…
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XLibre Xserver v25.0 (Beta) Marks Official Debut
A wonderful development as Linux fights to to extract itself from the duplicitous manipulations of Red Hat (IBM) and other megacorps in the space who have been trying to kill X.Org and force everyone to their Wayland. It appears Wayland…
Is ChatGPT Intentionally Driving You Into Psychosis?
First, I don’t play with AI, as it’s based on information the developers feed it, with a lot of the information either wrong or propaganda. And the hype train of AI is a natural setup for an idol, as many…
Plasma 6.4 on Arch Linux Requires Manual Package Installation
And I was wondering why after a reboot my fonts were all out of whack, and it was because I was switched over to Wayland. If KDE doesn’t support XLibre after a while, I’ll be switching to a new desktop…
The Latest X.Org Server Activity Are A Lot Of Code Reverts
This will be the last article I read from Phoronix, but truth be told I hardly ever find anything all that compelling on their site anyway, gladly removing it from my RSS server. But since the XLibre fork and the…
Steam Beta Finally Enables Proton on Linux Fully, Making Linux Gaming Simpler
And it looks like Steam is preparing for the big Windows 10 migration to Linux, as it would a lot of people will refuse to run Windows 11. And my last Windows box will be getting converted in a couple…
Cyber Rattling
There are a couple stories about Iran and terrorists initiating cyber events against the west. Why this is interesting is that the WEF was hyping a major cyber crisis coming in two years, about two years ago. I also have…
Phoronix Suggests Open Source Projects Should be Controlled by Big Tech
This all makes me wonder how much advertising Red Hat and IBM do with Phoronix? I have Pi-Hole DNS/Unbound servers with uMatrix and xBlock Origin in my browsers, so I don’t see much advertising or elements of certain websites, as…
Fedora Silences Support for Xorg Fork, But Other Distros Voice Support
This is a good report on the situation of a Fedora project member submitting a proposal to replace X11 with XLibre on Fedora. And it’s also funny that Xorg has released a couple bug fix versions to try to make…
XLibre vs. Wayland
As XLibre has become a fork by dissatisfied programmers who previously worked on X.Org, there has been some interesting discussion about the projects, and how X.Org was being extinguished from within in favor of Wayland being rushed through by Red…
Google’s Advanced Protection Arrives on Android: Should You Use It?
I’d like to see Google add a setting for not allowing background apps to run, something I must manually do. You have to go into the app information and kill it, as for a lot of apps there is no…
Microsoft is the Queen of Big Tech Pride Month – Promotes Child Abuse
I nice overview of tech megacorps and what they did for Pride month. But what Microsoft is doing is child abuse and Satanic. If you needed a good reason to not use Microsoft software, here you go.