Tras recorrer gvSIG Desktop en los siete primeros vídeos del curso y desplegar el geoportal en gvSIG Online en el vídeo 8, llega el turno de gvSIG Mapps, la pieza móvil de la Suite. Es la aplicación pensada para llevar el geoportal al terreno: el técnico municipal sale a campo con tableta o móvil,…
read more ➔By Chia-Ping TsaiALC Taipei Lead [Figure 1] Long-time Apache Kafka contributors Jiunn-Yang and Chih-Yuan introducing ALC Taipei’s contributions to open-source veterans Brian Behlendorf and Justin McLean Introduction With the globally renowned Computex Taipei now behind us, it’s the perfect time to…
read more ➔Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Fighting scraper bots; io_uring queues; Filesystem testing; BPF shielding; Sending packets from BPF; Kitty; QBE. Briefs: Shim security; seunshare vulnerability; Debian bookworm; Rust 1.97.0; Linux.org; Quotes; ... …
read more ➔The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.97.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust 1.97.1 is as easy as: rustup update stable If you don't have…
read more ➔We take advantage of loading systemd system credentials based on smbios type 11 strings and QEMU’s vsock feature. Here is the list of recognized system credentials. The important bit passing down the following argument to qemu $ qemu-system-x86_64 # ... -device vhost-vsock-pci,guest-cid=$cid \ …
read more ➔It should come as no surprise that a gathering of filesystem developers would discuss filesystem testing; it has been a mainstay of the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit over the years and the 2026 summit was no exception. Ted Ts'o led the discussion this time; he had a…
read more ➔The SUSE Security Team Blog has a post with an analysis of seunshare, which is used by SELinux to confine untrusted programs. During a review of version 3.10 of the program, the team identified two local Denial-of-Service (DoS) vectors. Since seunshare is supposed to run on SELinux-enabled…
read more ➔This blog post describes an idea I’ve been kicking around called battery packs. Battery packs are a curated set of crates arranged around a common theme. For example, there’s a CLI battery pack that has everything you need to build a great CLI, an opinionated pack for creating a backend web service,…
read more ➔Lutra Consulting recently attended the Spotkanie Użytkowników Polska 2026 in Łódź, Poland, supporting the event as a gold sponsor. The conference, which saw attendance grow to 500 participants, featured insightful presentations and a successful workshop by team member Radek. Highlights included…
read more ➔Greetings! Time for a new Crosswords release. This is a massive one with over 1,000 changes from 18 different contributors, and is the biggest release I’ve done to date! This features major improvement to the appearance of the Player, and to the usefulness of the grid filling code in the…
read more ➔Five years or so ago, I had a look at trying to speed up dpkg's package installation; I concluded that it was probably possible to speed up, but that there was no appetite for this kind of large-scale changes. (You'd probably need to rewrite the transaction system to get rid of a lot of fsyncs,…
read more ➔I’ve just filed a Debian bug report about libproc-processtable-perl giving bad errors when SE Linux denies access to files under /proc [1]. Ran into unknown state (hex char: 0) at /tmp/test.pl line 8. The errors are of the above form which Google didn’t find before now so obviously isn’t a common…
read more ➔The Akademy 2026 Program is now live! This year’s Akademy will take place in Graz, hosted at the Graz University of Technology, both in person and online. Akademy starts with a welcome event on Friday, 18 September, followed by two full days of talks on Saturday, 19 and Sunday, 20 September, then…
read more ➔Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @thisweekinrust.bsky.social on Bluesky or @ThisWeekinRust…
read more ➔The twentieth release of the qlcal package arrivied at CRAN today, and has been built for r2u. This version synchronises with QuantLib 1.43 released today as well. qlcal delivers the calendaring parts of QuantLib. It is provided (for the R package) as a set of included files, so the package is…
read more ➔Debian Contributions: 2026-06 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts and consulting services. Python 3.14 as…
read more ➔The infinitely extensible command runner, control plane and project automator à la Make (Guile Scheme - Lisp) Find the project at https://codeberg.org/jjba23/maak Most build tools invent their own limited domain-specific language. Maak embraces the powerful λ Lisp. This also means…
read more ➔Yay! Finally it’s that time of year — DebCamp is underway, and soon it will be time for DebConf! 🎉🥳< As it is by now tradition, it’s my task to coordinate the DebConf26 keysigning party. And, as usual, I have set up the list of DebConf26 keysigning maps for everybody involved. So, if you are…
read more ➔GSoC 2026 • digiKam • Post 2: Inference, Bugs, and the Build In my first post, I introduced the goal: type a plain-English search into digiKam and have a local LLM translate it into structured search criteria. That post built the whole pipeline - prompt builder, JSON parser, intent resolver,…
read more ➔Our Community Office Hours series is all about connecting with the people behind Thunderbird and our products, and sharing the work that’s happening behind the scenes. These conversations are a chance to learn more about the direction of our projects and to hear directly from the people making it…
read more ➔Github Link The following changes have been pushed to bugzilla.mozilla.org: Bug 2053330 - “Close and move to invalid bugs” button jumps way to the left (possibly under your mouse, asking for a mis-click) when you close a bug with another resolution. Bug 2052048 - Make the “Close as invalid” button…
read more ➔I am implementing a new type of crossword puzzle in GNOME Crosswords this summer. The current options are static crosswords of ‘known’ location. My project does the opposite, where it takes the words and places them wherever we can get the maximum amount of connections between the words. The…
read more ➔Lutra Consulting recently attended the Spotkanie Użytkowników Polska 2026 in Łódź, Poland, supporting the event as a gold sponsor. The conference, which saw attendance grow to 500 participants, featured insightful presentations and a successful workshop by team member Radek. Highlights included…
read more ➔Two years ago Mozilla asked two leading experts on deceptive design, Dr. Harry Brignull and Cennydd Bowles, to look at how Microsoft was treating people who tried to use a different browser on Windows. Their report, Over The Edge, documented a pattern of design choices in Windows, Edge, and Bing…
read more ➔Open source AI has crossed a threshold. For years the debate has centered around whether open models could ever compete with closed ones. This is no longer a debate we should be having. Today Mozilla is publishing its inaugural State of Open Source AI report, built on new analysis and a global…
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