[15:54] schestowitz[TR2][15:54] schestowitz[TR2]In just three years, its become one of the most popular and widely respected Wayland compositors out there and that alone speaks volumes about the quality of the software. So, Happy Third Birthday to Hyprland, and heres to more exciting releases! Now, back to the topic.
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[15:55] schestowitz[TR2][15:55] schestowitz[TR2]The FreeBSD ports tree is branched every quarter, roughly with the idea that you can pick a stable(-ish) branch of ports to consume, or you can go with main and get the ports-du-jour. The branches also offer a way of sticking to older releases of some software.
[15:55] schestowitz[TR2]KDE Plasma 6 (and most of KDE Gear, and all the supporting KDE Frameworks) have arrived in main, and the KDE Plasma 5 ports have been removed. Thats a decision of the kde@ group of maintainers of the KDE ports in FreeBSD, one which boils down to not having the time available to maintain both versions, and wanting to be able to upstream fixes.
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[15:55] schestowitz[TR2][15:55] schestowitz[TR2]The FreeBSD Foundation exists to support the FreeBSD community and the FreeBSD project. Some of its projects are aimed at improving the experience of FreeBSD on specific hardware. There is an ongoing, and expanding, laptop experience project. To expand that project further, the foundation has provided Framework laptops to a bunch of developers working on the FreeBSD laptop and desk [15:55] schestowitz[TR2] top experience. Im one of those developers, and here are some initial notes on the process. The notes assume experience with FreeBSD.
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[15:57] schestowitz[TR2][15:57] schestowitz[TR2]Although some of these changes were addressed through hotfixes delivered to existing systems, EndeavourOS devs ultimately decided that a new ISO would better accommodate the most substantial improvements.
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[16:08] schestowitz[TR2][16:08] schestowitz[TR2]Have you ever wanted to build your own custom Linux distribution? You might have a specific need for a distribution that includes specific apps, files, and customizations so you can then turn around and install it on any number of machines on your business or home network.
[16:08] schestowitz[TR2]It might sound like a challenging task, but theres a GUI tool for Ubuntu (and Ubuntu-based distributions) that makes it much easier.
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[16:08] schestowitz[TR2][16:08] schestowitz[TR2]One of the standout improvements in this release is an updated UEFI Secure Boot shim package (v1.58), critical for systems impacted by Microsofts Windows 11 update that recently raised the minimum SBAT generation.
[16:08] schestowitz[TR2]With this fix in place, users no longer need to worry about the dreaded SBAT self-check failed errors when booting on Secure Boot-enabled systems. The fix also eliminates the revoked UEFI bootloader warning when creating bootable USB drives via Rufus, offering smoother and more reliable setup experiences.
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[16:10] schestowitz[TR2][16:10] schestowitz[TR2]Even though I built the blog for our tech team to share their insights and knowledge with the rest of the interwebs, I wasnt necessarily the one writing the actual blogs. Now that I think about it, I do not think Ive published a single article on the blog. Haha.
[16:10] schestowitz[TR2]Realistically, it was pretty much a build it and move on with life situation, where there were not many feature requests, it was mainly dependency updates and very minor CSS tweaks. So it did take me a while to realise that, I hadnt actually built the pagination for the blog.
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