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Emmanuele Bassi<p>Thanks to Igalia for sponsoring my attendance; if you want to talk about what we do, feel free to catch me at the conference</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/las2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>las2025</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linuxappsummit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linuxappsummit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/igalia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>igalia</span></a></p>
Lorenzo Stoakes<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@mairacanal" class="u-url mention">@<span>mairacanal</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@vbabka" class="u-url mention">@<span>vbabka</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://activitypub.natalenko.name/@oleksandr" class="u-url mention">@<span>oleksandr</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@ptesarik" class="u-url mention">@<span>ptesarik</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@brauner" class="u-url mention">@<span>brauner</span></a></span></p>
Vlastimil Babka 🇨🇿🇪🇺🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://activitypub.natalenko.name/@oleksandr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>oleksandr</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@ptesarik" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ptesarik</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@ljs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ljs</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@brauner" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>brauner</span></a></span> wait is there anyone that can *print* over *wifi* from a *linux desktop*/laptop? That's a lot of chaining of unreliability...</p>
Lorenzo Stoakes<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://activitypub.natalenko.name/@oleksandr" class="u-url mention">@<span>oleksandr</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@vbabka" class="u-url mention">@<span>vbabka</span></a></span> yeah as long as we agree the cause is always the babka bugs then cool</p>
Blender 🔶<p>Vulkan is ready! 🌋<br>...for testing. </p><p>Help getting Vulkan ready by testing it and sharing your feedback with the developers. Learn more: <a href="https://devtalk.blender.org/t/vulkan-feedback-and-testing/39900" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">devtalk.blender.org/t/vulkan-f</span><span class="invisible">eedback-and-testing/39900</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/b3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>b3d</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vulkan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vulkan</span></a></p>
vitaut 🤍❤️🤍 🇺🇦<p>great advice from git</p>
Stephanie 🔮 Web Witch<p>Looking forward to Day 2 of BlinkOn with my fellow Igalians and Chromium contributors!</p>
mairacanal<p>It’s been a while since I last had to wrestle with fancy embedded boards packed with proprietary, out-of-tree kernel drivers. Now I’m back at it for my capstone project — and it’s just as frustrating as I remembered. The display is flickering, and there’s nothing I can do about it. All the freedom and flexibility I usually get from Linux feels out of reach.</p><p>This whole experience really made me appreciate how much I love working on OSS projects in my day-to-day job.</p>
Ricardo Garcia<p>My <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://floss.social/@igalia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>igalia</span></a></span> colleague André Almeida has published a very interesting summary of our contributions to Linux kernel 6.14. Graphics stack, scheduler and more! You can read it here: <a href="https://andrealmeid.com/post/2025-03-28-kernel-6-14/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">andrealmeid.com/post/2025-03-2</span><span class="invisible">8-kernel-6-14/</span></a></p>
Embedded Recipes<p>The initial set of speakers and talks for ER is now published. A few highlights:<br />- <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.kernel.org/users/gregkh" class="u-url mention">@<span>gregkh</span></a></span> on the EU Cyber Resiliency Act (CRA)<br />- barriers to security on embedded systems<br />- Steam OS impact on Linux ecosystem<br />- Functional Safety on Linux<br />- writing real-time applications<br />- fully open source CNC and 3D printing</p><p>and many more: <a href="https://embedded-recipes.org/2025/speakers/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">embedded-recipes.org/2025/spea</span><span class="invisible">kers/</span></a></p>
Igalia<p>New post by Igalia's Georges Stavracas on an a new feature he recently added to Sysprof that provide more insights when profiling. It's been very useful in working on <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://front-end.social/@webkit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>webkit</span></a></span> / <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://floss.social/@WPEWebKit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>WPEWebKit</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://floss.social/@WebKitGTK" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>WebKitGTK</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://feaneron.com/2025/03/26/a-sysprof-enhancement/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">feaneron.com/2025/03/26/a-sysp</span><span class="invisible">rof-enhancement/</span></a></p>
Kernel Recipes<p>Welcome back <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://floss.social/@igalia" class="u-url mention">@<span>igalia</span></a></span> in our supporters team! Thanks again for your full support in the conference.</p><p>You can still join them here:<br /><a href="https://kernel-recipes.org/en/2025/sponsor/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kernel-recipes.org/en/2025/spo</span><span class="invisible">nsor/</span></a></p>
Vlastimil Babka 🇨🇿🇪🇺🇺🇦<p>The historic moment of first time ever <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@ljs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ljs</span></a></span> signing his book for a fan!</p>
Igalia<p>Last day at <a href="https://floss.social/tags/EmbeddedWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmbeddedWorld</span></a> 2025, and it is the Students Day! Come see us at Booth 4-636 for more information about job opportunities and our paid Coding Experience program targetting students. The technologies Igalia is working on will drive the future! <a href="https://floss.social/tags/ew25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ew25</span></a></p>
Igalia<p>We had a great time at <a href="https://floss.social/tags/EmbeddedWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmbeddedWorld</span></a> 2025! Our colleague <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samuelig" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>samuelig</span></a></span> talked about our OSS GPU drivers, we had lots of interesting conversations and we made new friends. Looking forward to repeating the experience next year! <a href="https://floss.social/tags/ew25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ew25</span></a></p>
Igalia<p>Come see us at Booth 4-636 in <a href="https://floss.social/tags/EmbeddedWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmbeddedWorld</span></a> 2025! We have several demos to play with and our experts are available for questions.</p>
Simon Ser<p>This is Sway in HDR mode, but unlike last time, there are no hacks nor tricks. It supports both SDR and HDR content on both SDR and HDR outputs. Phew!</p><p>Want to try it out? Instructions here: <a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/merge_requests/5002" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots</span><span class="invisible">/wlroots/-/merge_requests/5002</span></a></p>
Kat Marchán 🐈<p>If you dislike the state of Firefox, please recognize that part of the way it got there was by becoming dependent on the gravy train from Google.</p><p>It will still be years before it’s usable, but one thing you could consider is to help fund <a href="https://servo.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">servo.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> — it’s a fully independent rendering engine with some really great next-generation tech that is going to make the web a more secure, and a very large % of its contributor base comes from a worker cooperative’s members who happen to be some of the finest minds in browser technology.</p><p>The project is flourishing, and you can help it continue to chug along and even accelerate. There’s no telling if it’ll definitely become a full alternative to the current triad of chrome/safari/firefox, but we won’t find out if we don’t try. The future is what we make it.</p><p>From: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://h-i.social/@are0h" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>are0h</span></a></span><br><a href="https://h-i.social/@are0h/114084845340789932" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">h-i.social/@are0h/114084845340</span><span class="invisible">789932</span></a></p>
⬡-49016 (moved to catgirl.cloud!)<p>what a week huh</p>
Vlastimil Babka 🇨🇿🇪🇺🇺🇦<p>Well well, look what the cat dragged in<br><a href="https://nostarch.com/linux-memory-manager" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nostarch.com/linux-memory-mana</span><span class="invisible">ger</span></a></p>