Introducing Duranium. Image-based updates are nothing to bawk at. Duranium is an immutable variant of postmarketOS, built around the idea that your device should just work, and keep working. You shouldn't need to know what a terminal is to keep your device running.

Reliability and ease of use take priority over flexibility. Some choices that make it robust also mean it has higher hardware requirements and won't run on every device that can boot postmarketOS. Not every device that can boot postmarketOS will be supported.

The package base for Duranium is shared with current versions of postmarketOS, and improvements flow into both. Think of it as a different deployment model on top, not a fork.

Duranium is still a work in progress. We are looking for testers, not people who need a reliable daily driver just yet. See the Help Wanted section at the end of this post if this interests you!

The initial proof-of-concept was funded by NLnet through the NGI initiative. Some ongoing development is funded through the postmarketOS Contributor Support Program.

The entire article may be found here.

#Linux #LinuxPhones #PostmarketOS #Duranium #Hacks

The OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management.

This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application.

For developers, OpenWrt is the framework to build an application without having to build a complete firmware around it; for users this means the ability for full customization, to use the device in ways never envisioned.

See the Table of Hardware for supported devices. For more information about OpenWrt project organization, see the About OpenWrt pages.

#Openwrt #Linux #EmbededDevices #Routers

Facebook Is The Most Hated Platform Of All.

Facebook, along with its parent company are owned by people who do not revere freedom, free speech and things that are synonymous with them. Facebook is an intelligence gathering organization.

The question that people should be asking, is why, after all the anti American violations perpetrated by the company, are people still flocking to that space. Why do people constantly seek to be in places where they're not welcome? Is it that important to gain the acceptance of people who hate them? It would take just a few unjust censorship violations, before freedom loving people, would quit outfits such as Facebook for good.

Anyway, it seems, that despite the words of CEO Zuckerberg, Facebook is still up to its old norms. There have been reports, that META limits the publications of posts about Linux on the Facebook platform. The administration of the social network began to block posts containing references to various topics related to the Linux operating system, as well as sites and groups on this topic.

The first to be blocked, was the Distrowatch portal a large information resource dedicated to the news and reviews of open source operating systems. According to the resource editorial office, the Facebook moderation system recognizes Linux as malicious software, and the groups associated with it are marked as a “threat of cybersecurity”.

Content blocking began on January 19, 2024. Users report not only the impossibility of publishing links to Distrowatch, but also about the blocking of personal accounts, after posting posts about Linux.

Representatives of Distrowatch tried to challenge the decision on blocking, but Facebook moderators confirmed that the topics related to Linux will remain in the cybersecurity filter. After filing an appeal, an employee of the Distrowatch employee was also blocked.

The situation looks especially paradoxical, given that a significant part of Facebook infrastructure works on Linux. Moreover, META regularly publishes vacancies for developers specializing in this operating system.

#Linux #META #Facebook #Censorship