A critical look at NetBSD’s installer
NetBSD is an OS that I installed only a couple of times over the years, so I’m not very familiar with its installer, sysinst. This fact was actually what led to this article (or the whole series rather): Talking to a NetBSD developer at EuroBSDcon 20...
Redox gets X11 support, GTK3, and Mesa3D EGL
We’ve cleared another month by the skin of our teeth, so it’s time for another month of progress in Redox, the Rest-based operating system. They’ve got a big one for us this month, as Redox can now run X11 applications in its Orbital display serv...
Snowflake: Latest news and insights
Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) has rapidly become a staple for data professionals and has arguably changed how cloud developers, data managers and data scientists interact with data. Its architecture is designed to decouple storage and compute, allowing organi...
Canonical Dropping Bazaar Support from Launchpad
Canonical is sunsetting Bazaar version control on Launchpad in 2025. Learn about the timeline, migration options, and what it means for Ubuntu development. You're reading Canonical Dropping Bazaar Support from Launchpad, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. D...
Canonical is Dropping Bazaar Support from Launchpad
Canonical is sunsetting Bazaar version control on Launchpad in 2025. Learn about the timeline, migration options, and what it means for Ubuntu development. You're reading Canonical is Dropping Bazaar Support from Launchpad, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu...
Canonical is Removing Bazaar Support from Launchpad
To old-timers like me Launchpad, the Canonical-run development hub, is synonymous with Bazaar (bzr), the open-source distribution version control system (VCS) Canonical helped develop. Like GitHub, Launchpad lets anyone sign up and create a repo, then ...
ASF Plus One Newsletter: May 2025
The schedule for Community Over Code North America has been released and early bird registration rates are in effect until June 28. This month the ASF welcomes two new Top-Level Projects who have graduated from the Apache Incubator. Community The sched...
How to test your Java applications with JUnit 5
JUnit 5 is the de facto standard for developing unit tests in Java. A robust test suite not only gives you confidence in the behavior of your applications as you develop them, but also gives you confidence that you won’t inadvertently break things w...
Automating devops with Azure SRE Agent
Modern AI tools have been around for some time now, offering a wide variety of different services. Much of what’s been delivered so far has only touched the surface of what’s possible; voice recognition and transcription tools are probably the mos...
Contribute at the Fedora Linux Test Week for Kernel 6.15
The kernel team is working on final integration for Linux kernel 6.15. This version was just recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora Linux. As a result, the Fedora Linux kernel and QA teams have organized a test week from Sunday, June 08, 202...
