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KDE 6 Schedule

October 19th, 2023

The calendar for the next KDE Frameworks, KDE Plasma and KDE Gear has been agreed in the release team.

First Alpha in 3 weeks on 8th November, private tarball on 21th Februar and public availability on 28th Februar.

The complete schedule is as follows:

8 November 2023: Alpha

KDE Gear 24.01.75 / KDE Plasma 5.80.0 / KDE Frameworks 5.245.0

29 November 2023: Beta 1

KDE Gear 24.01.80 / KDE Plasma 5.90.0 / KDE Frameworks 5.246.0

20 December 2023: Beta 2

KDE Gear 24.01.85 / KDE Plasma 5.91.0 / KDE Frameworks 5.247.0

10 January 2024: Release Candidate 1

KDE Gear 24.01.90 / KDE Plasma 5.92.0 / KDE Frameworks 5.248.0

For KDE Gear that want to ship with Qt6 for this release they need to be switched to Qt6 (and obviously stable) *BEFORE* this date.

31 January 2024: Release Candidate 2

KDE Gear 24.01.95 / KDE Plasma 5.93.0 / KDE Frameworks 5.249.0

21 February 2024: Private Tarball Release

KDE Gear 24.02.0 / KDE Plasma 6.0 / KDE Frameworks 6.0

28 February 2024: Public Release

KDE Gear 24.02.0 / KDE Plasma 6.0 / KDE Frameworks 6.0

https://community.kde.org/Schedules/February_2024_MegaRelease
KDE Frameworks 5.111

October 19th, 2023

https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/5/5.111.0/
Booting into tty mode

October 19th, 2023

> sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target
Place your right index finger on the fingerprint reader
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/default.target → /usr/lib/systemd/syste
m/multi-user.target.

In order to reverse this cahnge and boot into GUI mode of your Desktop Environment

sudo systemctl set-default graphical.target
FreeBSD 14 will support up to 1024 cores

October 18th, 2023

“FreeBSD 14 on ARM64 and AMD64 now supports up to 1024 CPU cores, up from the current limit of 256 cores. With AMD EPYC Bergamo now allowing 128-cores / 256-threads per socket, that current FreeBSD limit is exceeded so now at least FreeBSD 14.0 will allow for playing with these high core count servers.”

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/relnotes/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.0-RC
Portsnap utility becomes obsolete

October 18th, 2023
The portsnap(8) utility has been removed in the upcoming 14 stable and users are encouraged to fetch the ports tree by using:
1. pkg install git
2. git clone https://git.FreeBSD.org/ports.git /usr/ports
The following commit df53ae0fdd98 back in April inserted portsnap into the ObsoleteFiles.inc.

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/ObsoleteFiles.inc
OpenZFS Developer Summit

October 18th, 2023

Took place in San Francisco on Oct 16-17 (Mon-Tue), 2023.

A video with the presentations is uploaded in YouTube.

The detailed schedule can be found here:

https://openzfs.org/wiki/OpenZFS_Developer_Summit_2023
KDE Gear 23.08.2

October 18th, 2023

https://kde.org/announcements/gear/23.08.2/

https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/23.08.2/
Project Silica-a new way of storing data

October 17th, 2023

Microsoft has developed a storage technology primarily designed for cloud purposes.

Project Silica uses laser pulses to encode data in glass, creating a durable, long-lasting storage medium. Data are encoded in so called voxels which are 3 dimensional data points.

Microsoft claims that that the 7 TB storage per glass sheet maintains data integrity for up to 10,000 years.

This promising idea is being researched and organized into a write lab, a read lab, a decode lab as well a library lab

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-repositions-7tb-project-silica-glass-media-as-a-cloud-storage-solution

Sealed in glass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ESCnzq74w
Ubuntu ISOs re-released after goat rope incident 😂

October 17th, 2023

23.10 adds ZFS on root during the installation process and Gnome 45 as the default desktop environment.

I may write about Manjaro’s disorganization in another post…

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-23.10-ISOs-Re-Released
Linux 6.6-rc6

October 16th, 2023

Stable in about 2 weeks

There’s a fix for a kernel crash when unplugging Logitech USB receivers and various other changes regarding hung systems at shutdowns or reboots. This seems to affect various Lenovo, Sony, and Dell systems using Intel Alder Lake and Raptor Lake that were having problems at shutdown/reboot.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/
OpenBSD 7.4 released

October 16th, 2023

The 55th release of this open-source project.

https://www.openbsd.org/74.html
base32 command

October 16th, 2023

ArchWiki registration requires the output of the following command as a verification process:

pacman -V|base32|head -1
BIQC4LJNFYQCAIBAEAQCAIBAEAQCAIBAEAQCAICQMFRW2YLOEB3DMLRQFYZCALJANRUWEYLMOBWS

But what does this even mean? Let’s break it down.

(pacman -V)’s output is piped to base32, the result of which is processed by head.

pacman -V gives info about the current version of pacman

> pacman -V

.–.                  Pacman v6.0.2 – libalpm v13.0.2
/ _.-‘ .-. .-. .-.   Copyright (C) 2006-2021 Pacman Development Team
\ ‘-. ‘-‘ ‘-‘ ‘-‘   Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Judd Vinet
‘–‘
                      This program may be freely redistributed under
                      the terms of the GNU General Public License.

base32 transforms data read from a file into base32 encoded form and uses printable ASCII characters to represent binary data.

In my case pacman -V|base32 output is:

BIQC4LJNFYQCAIBAEAQCAIBAEAQCAIBAEAQCAICQMFRW2YLOEB3DMLRQFYZCALJANRUWEYLMOBW
S
A5RRGMXDALRSBIXSAXZOFUTSALRNFYQCALRNFYQCALRNFYQCAICDN5YHS4TJM5UHIIBIIMUSAMR
Q
GA3C2MRQGIYSAUDBMNWWC3RAIRSXMZLMN5YG2ZLOOQQFIZLBNUFFYIBAE4WS4IBHFUTSAIBHFUT
S
AIBHFUTSAIBAINXXA6LSNFTWQ5BAFBBSSIBSGAYDELJSGAYDMICKOVSGIICWNFXGK5AKEATS2LJ
H
BIQCAIBAEAQCAIBAEAQCAIBAEAQCAIBAEAQCAICUNBUXGIDQOJXWO4TBNUQG2YLZEBRGKIDGOJS
W
K3DZEBZGKZDJON2HE2LCOV2GKZBAOVXGIZLSBIQCAIBAEAQCAIBAEAQCAIBAEAQCAIBAEAQCAID
U
NBSSA5DFOJWXGIDPMYQHI2DFEBDU4VJAI5SW4ZLSMFWCAUDVMJWGSYZAJRUWGZLOONSS4CQK

https://man.archlinux.org/man/base32.1.en

https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/base32-invocation.html#base32-invocation
First greek translation of docs.freebsd.org #283

October 16th, 2023

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/283
Greek Handbook – Upgrade information about Git transition #282

October 16th, 2023

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/282
October 16th, 2023