Migration of the FreeDesktop GitLab instance moved to Hetzner + Fastly from Equinix!

#FreeDesktop #GitLab #Hetzner #Fastly #Equinix #Mesa #Linux #Computers #Laptops #TechNews #TechUpdates

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/04/20/freedesktop-gitlab-migrated-to-hetzner-from-equinix/

FreeDesktop GitLab migrated to Hetzner from Equinix

Starting this year, Equinix have decided to end their operations with the FreeDesktop infrastructure after support of almost five years has passed. They have set the tentative deadline of April 30th for migration to other services, and the FreeDesktop team have chosen Hetzner as the server provider. This GitLab instance was also affected, because it hosted a lot of great open source projects, such as X.Org Server, Mesa GL library, and much more.

This migration is now complete, with most (if not all) of the work being done according to the plan outlined in this issue reported against the main FreeDesktop project (Issue 2076). It caused the GitLab server to be much faster than before, which is important for anyone contributing to the FreeDesktop project, especially the developers who contribute a lot of great work to different projects.

The SSH connection has also changed thanks to this migration, along with Fastly CDN, and the new hostname to connect to the FreeDesktop Git instance using SSH has now become ssh.gitlab.freedesktop.org from gitlab.freedesktop.org. You can configure your SSH client to make an alias for the old hostname to point to the new one using the following configuration file created on ~/.ssh/config:

The team has prepared a maintenance tracker site, which showed a lot of green lights as you can see here. Alongside this, the untagged runners for the CI workflow have become privileged without support for KVM, and anyone who requires this support must tag them with the kvm tag.

If you’re suffering from slow speeds while working on a FreeDesktop project, this migration is now complete, and you should be able to interact with it faster.

#Equinix #FreeDesktop #GitLab #news #Tech #Technology #update

I've finally filed a bug report about the "0% backlight on resume" heisenbug with laptops and docking stations (or port replicators, or external displays), which has been annoying me for decades on #Linux with any #ThinkPad model I've used (also reportedly affects #Framework laptops too): https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/upower/-/issues/304

I'm not even sure I filed it in the right place. Which #FreeDesktop component might be causing this is completely arcane knowledge.

After GNOME 48's dynamic double/triple buffering, what I'm really looking forward to see, eventually, is #Mutter being able to recover from GPU state resets: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/3305

On Linux, the open source AMDGPU graphics drivers in #Mesa are infamous for making everything lock up in your face like that.

I'm just crossing my fingers and hoping this will happen by the time distros collectively ditch X11 in favor of #Wayland.

#FreeDesktop #Linux #AMDgpu #GNOMEShell

Ephraims Wochenrückblick: KW 12, 2025

In dieser Woche war eine Menge los! Von GIMP über Blender und GNOME bis zu FreeDesktop.org war alles dabei.

#Wochenrückblick #GIMP #Blender #Freedesktop #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/ephraims-wochenrueckblick-kw-12-2025

After mostly lurking in #gitlab administration channels of #kde, #debian and #freedesktop I really want to bring them all into a room filled with snacks 1) to thank them for their work and 2) to hope that they would start chatting a bit with each other.

And let's also invite the gitlab administrators from #gnome and maybe others.

Hey @XOrgFoundation and fedi in general, I wanted to know your opinion. How possible do you think, would it be to take the code from #languagetool and build an OS level spell checker out of it? Just so that my mom doesn't have to learn about #selfhosting if she wants a current gen spell checker.

#dyslexia #freedesktop

What Linux applications has implemented the FreeDesktop/XDG background portal feature?

Any torrent clients? Any apps at all actually fully supports it yet?

#Linux #FreeDesktop #XDG #XDGportal #BackgroundPortal