To any Arch users: If you're seeing a "installing libxml2 (2.14.2-2) breaks dependency 'libxml2.so=2-64' required by" in Pacman, you're not the only one
[SOLVED] libxml2 upgrade breaks dependencies / AUR Issues, Discussion & PKGBUILD Requests / Arch Linux Forums
 This version appears to be a legacy package that has since been completely dropped that you installed as a dependency long ago and just now it's breaking
GitLab
Latest update removed libxml2.so.2, which causes issues with binaries built in other distros (#4) Β· Issues Β· Arch Linux / Packaging / Packages / libxml2 Β· GitLab
My Firefox build now fails with: /home/emilio/.mozbuild/clang/bin/clang: error while loading shared libraries: libxml2.so.2: cannot open...
 As long as you're not manually building core system packages and this is a dependency you're safe to remove it
I'm not a Fosstodon user, never have been but I do know a lot of people over there and man the Fediverse is just exhausting. The small vocal minority of people continue to do everything in there power to make this platform far more toxic than anything they claim to dislike. Just so we're clear, this doesn't end here, the next thing is going to be stricter and then more so until these people turn there fangs against you. Context read @Kev Quirk post and the linked post inside
Kev Quirk
My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama | Kev Quirk
Lots of people have been asking myself and Mike for a statement on the recent drama surrounding Fosstodon. This is **MY** statement.
It's a breath of fresh air to see a big creator talk about Linux and it not be full of bullshit, I have basically 0 criticisms for the Pewdiepie video, the only minor of minor nitpicks is that gaming isn't perfect due to a number of anti cheat titles. Everything else is great.
Wait it's actually real, O'Reilly has a Vibe Coding book coming out https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/vibe-coding-the/9798341634749/ image
I can absolutely respect making jokes about how much you've missed the beta window by
System76 Blog
COSMIC Alpha 7: Never Been Beta
Wrapping up COSMIC’s main features before the first beta release.
Today Nate Graham is back on the podcast to chat about the newish consultancy firm Tech Paladin who took over the Valve KDE development contract Video: Audio:
Spotify for Creators
We Need More Paid Developers On KDE | Nate Graham by Tech Over Tea
Nate Graham is back on the show once again, this time it's not to talk about KDE directly but instead his new consultancy firm that spawned off of ...
I've been thinking lately about PopOS, the last proper release was 22.04, the distro has been waiting on COSMIC to be finished but the distro space has changed a lot since the last release, now we have Bazitte, PikaOS, Nobara all competing in a very similar market.
Despite the dresses, the anime figures and the programmer socks, I am in fact not a femboy
I see the same kind of criticism aimed at Asahi Linux and Chrultrabook, "Why bother supporting Linux on this hardware, just stop buying bad laptops" Not supporting Linux on Apple Silicon or Chromebooks, won't at all slow down the sales of these devices, but what it does do is give these devices the ability to have a second life once they've gone EOL saving at least some of them from going straight into e-waste
It actually happened, I have no idea how we've come so far image