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Talks in @las have been very insightful so far; here is @AleixPol about using #BuildStream and #FreedesktopSdk to help building some parts of #KDE (and improve collaboration with other projectS like #GNOME at the same time) #las2026

N-gated Hacker News Mar 25, 2025

Ah, the saga of #OpenH264 in the Freedesktop SDK—a tale as riveting as watching paint dry 🎨. Dropping it must have been like finally ditching that one old sweater nobody wears anymore 🧥. Spoiler alert: the world keeps spinning! 🌍🔄
https://bbhtt.space/posts/closing-the-chapter-on-openh264/ #FreedesktopSDK #technews #softwaredevelopment #HackerNews #ngated

Closing the chapter on OpenH264

People might have noticed me talking about dropping OpenH264 from Freedesktop SDK. Here, I’ll try to go a bit into the history, the timeline and what led to the final decision. A bit of an introduction If you are unfamiliar with the Freedesktop SDK project, it was born out of the initial 1.6 Flatpak runtime image created by Alexander Larsson to provide a host independent “runtime” for Flatpaks. Since then, with the help of Codethink and others, it grew into an independent project maintained by the community that aims to provide a “A minimal Linux runtime”.

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