“We export public money and import long-term dependency.” - This was one of my key messages in my policy keynote at the OpenForum Europe EU Open Source Policy Summit 2026 last Friday in Brussels. Besides addressing why dependencies threaten our governmental action and what state sovereignty means today, I focused particularly on the economic aspect of Open Source. #OpenSource is a #key #driver of #economic #growth. An opportunity that we in Europe should seize.

“We export public money and import long-term dependency.” - This was one of my key messages in my policy keynote at the OpenForum Europe EU Open Source Policy Summit 2026 last Friday in Brussels. Besides addressing why dependencies threaten our governmental action and what state sovereignty means today, I focused particularly on the economic aspect of Open Source. #OpenSource is a #key #driver of #economic #growth. An opportunity that we in Europe should seize.

#FreeBSD #ports for New Feature Branch of #nvidia #GPU #driver 590.48.01 is now under review as -devel variant.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=292027

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D54414

Note that this version drops support for a bunch of old GPUs before Turing generation of architecture. Anyone who are using -devel variant of ports/pkgs and having dropped GPUs need to switch to master ports now at 580.119.02.

New legacy branch -580 would be created at the time Production Branch of 590 (or later) series appears and lands to ports tree, but not this time.

When a driver challenges the kernel's assumptions

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/udl.html

#HackerNews #driver #challenges #kernel #assumptions #openbsd #software #development #technology

Rolled a nat1 on buying a uvc camera. Turns out it's a proprietary chinese thingy-ma-bob and the only foss work is on a device with the same name and different manufacturer and product ID.

What an annoying pain in the behind.

Anyone a linux kernel dev who loves inkscape enough to barter me a driver for fixes? I don't really want to get into kernel development at this time.

#linux #webcam #driver #software #foss #hardware

Rolled a nat1 on buying a uvc camera. Turns out it's a proprietary chinese thingy-ma-bob and the only foss work is on a device with the same name and different manufacturer and product ID.

What an annoying pain in the behind.

Anyone a linux kernel dev who loves inkscape enough to barter me a driver for fixes? I don't really want to get into kernel development at this time.

#linux #webcam #driver #software #foss #hardware

Creating an all-weather driver

https://waymo.com/blog/2025/10/creating-an-all-weather-driver

#HackerNews #Creating #an #all-weather #driver #Waymo #technology #autonomous #vehicles #innovation #weatherproof #driving

Update for #nvidia #GPU #driver #ports on #FreeBSD to 580.95.05 landed as commit 7b1c88f42c7f4129bc96f405549f9e6b07bd6e3d.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=7b1c88f42c7f4129bc96f405549f9e6b07bd6e3d

We were pending it as kmod pkg repo still didn't have nvidia things and bapt was looking into it, but as of this information
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5703
the commit was done without waiting for the reply from bapt.

#FreeBSD is not entitled there, but as #FreeBSD native #drivers are known to shares most source codes with corresponding Linux versions, FreeBSD can be affected, too. So users of non-legacy versions of driver ports are strongly encouraged to upgrade.

With this reason, the commit is already merged into 2025Q4, as security fix is one of the branket approval by portmgr and secteam.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?h=2025Q4&id=067be176997589baacd63c5e5db1981d3949cdb1

Note that oldest branch listed is 535.

Update for #nvidia #GPU #driver #ports on #FreeBSD to 580.95.05 landed as commit 7b1c88f42c7f4129bc96f405549f9e6b07bd6e3d.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=7b1c88f42c7f4129bc96f405549f9e6b07bd6e3d

We were pending it as kmod pkg repo still didn't have nvidia things and bapt was looking into it, but as of this information
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5703
the commit was done without waiting for the reply from bapt.

#FreeBSD is not entitled there, but as #FreeBSD native #drivers are known to shares most source codes with corresponding Linux versions, FreeBSD can be affected, too. So users of non-legacy versions of driver ports are strongly encouraged to upgrade.

With this reason, the commit is already merged into 2025Q4, as security fix is one of the branket approval by portmgr and secteam.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?h=2025Q4&id=067be176997589baacd63c5e5db1981d3949cdb1

Note that oldest branch listed is 535.

Found new Production Branch of #nvidia #driver package 580.76.05.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/252614/
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/252613/

Filed PR Bug288905 on #FreeBSD Bugzilla and opened corresponding review D51941.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=288905
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D51941

Note that latest Beta Branch of driver 580.65.06, which is already behind Production Branch of drivers, is no longer buildable with the patch above.
This is because some libraries in 580.65.06 was (maybe accidentally) behind existing-at-the-moment PB and NFB of drivers and needed special workaround to allow testing it, and the workarounds are now cleaned up for future maintainabilities.

Found new Production Branch of #nvidia #driver package 580.76.05.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/252614/
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/252613/

Filed PR Bug288905 on #FreeBSD Bugzilla and opened corresponding review D51941.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=288905
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D51941

Note that latest Beta Branch of driver 580.65.06, which is already behind Production Branch of drivers, is no longer buildable with the patch above.
This is because some libraries in 580.65.06 was (maybe accidentally) behind existing-at-the-moment PB and NFB of drivers and needed special workaround to allow testing it, and the workarounds are now cleaned up for future maintainabilities.

Review D50697 for -devel versions of #nvidia #GPU #driver sets (latest NFB 575.64) on #FreeBSD now landed on main branch of #ports tree as commit c7cde11f842b33bb36b85b91400bec795430c421.

From now on, whichever the newer version of NFB (New Feature Branch) and Production branch is tracked on -devel branch. Beta Branch is not planned to be tracked, and just being a trigger to preparing for upcoming NFB or Production Branch.

Note that as I'm not an insider of nvidia, I cannot start investigating until nvidia releases new driver sets.

Updates for x11/nvidia-driver and friends to 570.153.02 on #FreeBSD landed on main (aka latest) branch of #ports tree.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=15ed54d9570321827b86cf4be93a755b19b55d86

And following 2 commits updates x11/nvidia-settings and x11/nvidia-xconfig
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=6418cbf4a7797bf7e118af31205a7215645bec88

https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=3a23a3ead881929fb33d2af6a851e62227d7296d
althogh no significant updates are listed after previous updates to them.
This is done to narrow down time window when any problem happenes in the future. Maybe the same would be done for future Production Branches.

#nvidia #driver