Tux Machines

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 12, 2025

Web Browsers/Web Servers

Mozilla

Mozilla ☛ What we learned about choice and control online this year

Earlier this year, we invited you to join us in celebrating online choice, and to take a stand for independence and control in your digital life. It’s a call to action at the heart of our campaign Open What You Want, which celebrates autonomy, defiance, and showing up online exactly as you are, starting with the simple act of choosing your browser. It’s one of the most important digital decisions you can make, shaping how you experience the web, protect your data, and express yourself online.

SaaS/Back End/Databases

PostgreSQL ☛ pgAdmin 4 v9.11 Released

The pgAdmin Development Team is pleased to announce the release of pgAdmin 4 version 9.11. This release of pgAdmin 4 includes 16 bug fixes and new features. For more details, please see the release notes.

Standards/Consortia

Stefan Hajnoczi ☛ Stefan Hajnoczi: What's new in VIRTIO 1.4

With the VIRTIO 1.4 specification for I/O devices expected to be published soon, here are the most prominent changes. For more fine-grained changes like the latest offloading capabilities in virtio-net devices, please refer to the draft specification.

Daniel Estévez ☛ First analysis of the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment data

The Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) is a NASA and Italian Space Agency payload that flew in the Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander. An overview of this experiment can be found in this presentation. The payload contains a Qascom GPS/Galileo L1 + L5 receiver capable of both real time positioning and raw IQ recording, and a 16 dBi high-gain antenna that was pointed towards Earth. For decades the GNSS community has been talking about using GNSS in the lunar environment, and LuGRE has been the first payload to actually demonstrate this concept.