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User Zone / Re: Unable to boot with NVIDIA GT710 installed
« Last post by bernie on April 20, 2026, 01:05:19 am »
Hi carlosgonz,


Sorry, I didn't see this message in time. That's exciting news, but I'd like to verify it works myself before recommending to Trisquel that they switch back. I'll update here once I've done so.

Regards,


Bernie
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Open Source and Libre Systems / ActBlue: disappearance of IT director, Decklin Foster & Debian
« Last post by pocock on April 17, 2026, 08:31:38 am »

ActBlue is the fundraising platform for the US Democrats and some affiliated groups.

There is quite some controversy about their ability to protect the system from foreign interference.  It is well covered in the press and some official reports from committees so I'm not going to elaborate on whether those accusations are valid or not.

Nonetheless, their former IT director is a Debian Developer.  They also worked in Harvard helping with research into depression.  They disappeared.

I pulled out various messages and links to relevant material and published them all in a single page for those who want to do fact checking.

Some of their old blog posts may be worth a deep-dive.  The names of people they were connected to.
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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Linux 7.0
« Last post by tle on April 12, 2026, 07:49:16 pm »
I've just manually built the kernel for Fedora 44 (as of now Fedora has not yet, likely they are going to stick to 6.19 for the F44 release). So far no issue, everything just work for me. Having said that I do not run DB, web server or NAS on the blackbird system so I could not verify if there are regressions to those applications
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Operating Systems and Porting / [NEWS] Linux 7.0
« Last post by tle on April 12, 2026, 06:20:30 pm »
More information: https://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges

Key highlights from the Linux 7.0 changelog include:

File Systems:

* XFS: Introduction of autonomous self-healing capabilities.
* EXT4: Enhanced performance for concurrent direct I/O writes.
* Performance & Memory:
* Faster swap mechanisms.
* Improved memory reclamation for file caches.
* Standardized generic I/O handling.

Architecture & Security:

* Intel TSX optimizations.
* Quantum-resistant kernel module signing.

Language Support:

* The Rust language experiment is considered complete and is now a core, non-experimental part of the kernel.

Hardware Support:

*General improvements and support for new hardware devices


POWERPC
kdump: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
powernv: Enable cpuidle state detection for POWER11
book3s64: Hash / SLB fixes & improvements (cover)
smp: Expose die_id and die_cpumask


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Applications and Porting / Re: Little Snitch for Linux!
« Last post by TimKelly on April 12, 2026, 05:15:22 pm »
I use it for OS X, and it is a fine product, but in reality it has limited usefulness due to the consolidation on cloud computing and the control of the Internet by Google.  It is not possible to limit connections to miscreant sites without blocking legitimate ones, if they share the same ip address(es) or blocks, as is common with cloud computing.  It is not possible to block Google without breaking some or all functionality of perhaps 90% of web sites, since so many sites rely on Google APIs for the creating of their sites.
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Applications and Porting / Re: Little Snitch for Linux!
« Last post by tle on April 11, 2026, 11:07:15 pm »
Isn't it the popular firewall for OSX? I fondly remember then it was quite good
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User Zone / Re: Unable to boot with NVIDIA GT710 installed
« Last post by carlosgonz on April 11, 2026, 08:13:56 pm »
Bernie
 GnuLinux FSFLA 7.0 may release next Monday or Tuesday, this version enable Nouveau 64k for PPC and other improvements, so can you go ASAP to same 64k-thread on  Gnu Trisquel Forum to enable 64k for GnuLinux 7.0 release?

Thank you,
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Applications and Porting / Re: Little Snitch for Linux!
« Last post by MPC7500 on April 11, 2026, 01:20:20 pm »
Interesting :)
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Applications and Porting / Little Snitch for Linux!
« Last post by rjzak on April 10, 2026, 10:00:56 pm »
The creators of Little Snitch, a common application-layer firewall for Mac OS, have created a Linux version which is partially open source: https://github.com/obdev/littlesnitch-linux, https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-linux/download.html.

I have an email thread with one of the devs for PowerPC support, which seems positive!
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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Queensland Health, IBM's 12 year ban and the future of POWER
« Last post by MPC7500 on April 02, 2026, 01:58:36 pm »
The future of POWER: https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-04-02-ibm-announces-strategic-collaboration-with-arm-to-shape-the-future-of-enterprise-computing
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