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Operating Systems and Porting / A bootloader in Rust

« Last post by tle on March 18, 2026, 09:28:38 am »

I just randomly bump into this interesting project https://siliconislandblog.wordpress.com/2026/03/18/booting-with-rust-chapter-3/

We all have been using grub for boot loader so to see yet another project trying to address shortcomings of grub is definitely intriguing.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 44 Beta is out!

« Last post by DKnoto on March 18, 2026, 01:55:30 am »

It works very well on this machine, the MoreFine M600. I’ve been using this machine alongside the Talos 2 for over a year, since December 2024. During that time, I’ve experienced two or three instances of amdgpu crashing. I recently bought the latest version of the MoreFine H1, the AMD AI PRO MAX, but FreeBSD doesn’t work on this hardware yet.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 44 Beta is out!

« Last post by tle on March 17, 2026, 05:18:43 pm »

Great choice! Enlightenment is indeed a great option. I vividly remember back then when Samsung was sponsoring this project for their Tizen OS. Btw is amdgpu working well with FreeBSD?

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] UT99, UTGOLD, UT2004 on native PPC64LE!

« Last post by tle on March 16, 2026, 05:34:09 pm »

Tim said Preview 12 will be available natively! Amazing news! I cannot wait to go back to this beautiful game

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Queensland Health, IBM's 12 year ban and the future of POWER

« Last post by MauryG5 on March 15, 2026, 09:01:20 am »

Daniel, I'm not sure what this article means exactly. If we're talking about Power, IBM has continued to support it for years and continues to invest a lot of money, which obviously means it's profitable. Power 11 was launched in the summer of last year, from what I understand, but it's still unclear whether it's completely open source or still has binary firmware. We know that ultimately it only depends on the Raptor firmware, whether or not they can design a new system... But as for its overall presence, I think there's no doubt about it.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [BUG] Linux 7.0-rc1

« Last post by MPC7500 on March 15, 2026, 07:48:13 am »

At least this time it's not an amdgpu bug: https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2026-March/293448.html

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 44 Beta is out!

« Last post by DKnoto on March 15, 2026, 04:15:29 am »

I’ve gone back to my roots and have been using Enlightenment E27.1 for a few months now. Unfortunately, F44B doesn’t include the X11 version of E27.1, and the Wayland version doesn’t work. On my x86_64 workstation, I’ve switched to FreeBSD:

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```                        `        dknoto@mfm600
  ` `.....---.......--.```   -/     -------------
  +o   .--`         /y:`      +.    Host: M600
   yo`:.            :o      `+-     Kernel: FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE
    y/               -/`   -o/      Uptime: 3 days, 12 hours, 31 mins
   .-                  ::/sy+:.     Shell: bash 5.3.9
   /                     `--  /     Display (DELL U4021QW): 3456x1458 @ 1.17x in 40", 60 Hz [External] *
  `:                          :`    Display (HP LP2475w): 1920x1200 @ 1.17x in 26", 60 Hz [External]
  `:                          :`    WM: Enlightenment (X11)
   /                          /     Theme: Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3]
   .-                        -.     Icons: breeze-dark [GTK2/3/4]
    --                      -.      Font: Noto Sans (11pt) [GTK2], IBM Plex Sans (13pt, Light) [GTK3], Noto Sans (11pt) [GTK4]
     `:`                  `:`       Cursor: breeze (24px)
       .--             `--.         Terminal: terminology 1.14.0
          .---.....----.            CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS (16) @ 4.00 GHz
                                    GPU: AMD Radeon 780M Graphics
                                    Memory: 50.41 GiB / 63.18 GiB (80%)
                                    Swap: 133.82 MiB / 2.00 GiB (7%)
                                    Disk (/): 127.72 GiB / 645.29 GiB (20%) - zfs
                                    Disk (/zroot): 96.00 KiB / 517.57 GiB (0%) - zfs
                                    Local IP (re0): 192.168.0.57/24
                                    Locale: pl_PL.UTF-8


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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 44 Beta is out!

« Last post by tle on March 15, 2026, 12:08:44 am »

The geniuses at GNOME have taken anti-ergonomics to the point of absurdity. They’ve turned the simple “double-click” + “middle-click” operation into a sequence of “double-click” + “right-click” + “select copy” + “click” + “right-click” + “select paste.”

I am not surprised. GNOME is always tinkering with make their desktop more tablet friendly even it does have negative impact on traditional desktop UX. Fortunately we have alternatives like KDE, XFCE, etc. I highly encourage you give them a go and report any issue.

I am greatly concerned that the amdgpu regression in kernel 7.0 will hit us all eventually.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 44 Beta is out!

« Last post by DKnoto on March 14, 2026, 09:52:14 am »

The geniuses at GNOME have taken anti-ergonomics to the point of absurdity. They’ve turned the simple “double-click” + “middle-click” operation into a sequence of “double-click” + “right-click” + “select copy” + “click” + “right-click” + “select paste.”

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [BUG] Linux 7.0-rc1

« Last post by tle on March 12, 2026, 07:03:29 pm »

I too can confirm the issue on rawhide Fedora 45