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• libcaca – Caca Labs — A graphics library that outputs text instead of pixels, so that it can work on older video cards or text terminals.
• New GNOME Executive Director Named: Steven Deobald — Steven Deobald has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation, succeeding interim director Richard Littauer and Holly Million, who stepped down last year after a brief tenure.
• Creation of the NixOS hardware team — TL;DR: The Steering Committee is launching the new Hardware Team to own the nixos-hardware repo, drive hardware enablement, and expand partnerships.
• Adopting sudo-rs By Default in Ubuntu 25.10 - Project Discussion - Ubuntu Community Hub — The sudo-rs project is designed to be a drop in replacement for the original tool. For the vast majority of users, the upgrade should be completely transparent to their workflow. That said, sudo-rs is a not a “blind” reimplementation.
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• Bcachefs Patches Aim For Faster Snapshot Deletion But With Another On-Disk Format Update — Bcachefs has introduced patches aimed at significantly improving snapshot deletion performance. However, implementing these improvements necessitates an update to an incompatible on-disk format, which must be explicitly enabled by users.
• Dawarich — Your Journey, Your Control — Visualize your location history, track your movements, and analyze your travel patterns with complete privacy and control.
• fabean/ytviewer — YouTube TUI that pulls subscriptions from YouTube API
• Pick: meshSidecar — meshSidecar provides a flexible way to integrate mesh networking capabilities with NixOS services. It allows services to participate in mesh networks without requiring direct modification of the service itself.
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