There's a difference between simply using an operating system and truly understanding it.

Slackware encourages you to take that extra step.

Its simplicity isn't about hiding complexity behind layers of abstraction. It's about giving you the freedom to explore, understand, and control your system.

That's one of the reasons I've stayed with Slackware for over 20 years.

#Slackware #Linux #Unix

Yesterday, as I sat here, using a laptop running on Free software written and maintained by volunteers, to connect, by means of a secure tunnel formed by Free software written and maintained by volunteers, to multiple servers, all running Free software written and maintained by volunteers, to apply patches prepared urgently by volunteers to resolve security vulnerabilities, I felt *incredibly* grateful for every single one of those volunteers, who makes the fact that I could do *any* of this possible.

Thank you, genuinely.

#FOSS #FreeSoftware #Linux

The thing I'd really like to see is the time between the PHP fix being released and the binary packages being available to install across different operating systems and distributions.

EDIT: In the absence of anything more formal, post below when your favourite platform gets the update! Boost for visibility!

#Linux #BSD

@zenrenji @delegatevoid

They seem perfectly comfortable together.

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1x1grw5/comment/pf3qsln/?context=1

#BSD #FreeBSD #Linux #Tux

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Image: Beastie, Tux, and the FreeBSD logo icon.

welp, i just learned that my tmux sessions get killed as soon as ssh disconnects on nura, which kinda defeats the purpose of using tmux for me. anyone know why and how to prevent this?

systemd[1]: session-c69.scope: Killing process 420 (tmux: server) with signal SIGTERM.

#nura #linux #tmux #systemd

@lproven

Thanks for the informative article, I'd only read a little about this distro before.

"the openEuler platform is thriving and growing"

Any numbers on usage, growth?

#OpenEuler #Linux

reading about nvme and #linux for #openzfsmastery and seeing lots of references to people booting nvme-only hosts off usb drives.

does linux really have trouble booting off an nvme? Is this actually a thing??? #sysadmin

(ETA: looks like this might be a debian thing? https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/793960/how-can-i-boot-into-linux-on-an-nvme-drive-when-my-systems-uefi-firmware-doesn )

(ETA again: old Boot ROM issue, not Linux issue, makes sense)

#Tech #Mastodon I have a question, does #NetBSD have binary forward compatibility (or whatever that would be called)?

Like, if I build something using a shared libc and generally using dlopen() or other careful methods for external libraries, will that binary typicall continue to work on future releases of NetBSD as-is?

I've heard FreeBSD tends to have that, OpenBSD apparently less so...

Asking since I'm tempted to try #NetBSD due to the general #Linux #ensloppification situation stop the #slop etc. by putting my money where my mouth is, at least if this turns out to be feasible...

xtool : un remplaçant d'Xcode qui vous permet de builder, signer et installer vos apps iOS depuis Linux, Windows (via WSL) ou macOS, avec SwiftPM.

L'outil s'utilise en ligne de commande, par exemple depuis VSCode. Il donne aussi accès aux Apple Developer Services ⬇️
https://github.com/xtool-org/xtool

#Linux #macOS #iOS #Programming #WebDev

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L'écran montre VS Code avec un projet Swift en cours de développement, affichant le fichier ContentView.swift avec du code SwiftUI. En bas, le terminal terminal affiche la progression de la compilation et du déploiement d'une application iOS sur un appareil via xtool, alternative cross-platform à Xcode.

@drew i wonder, has anybody ever asked #NetBSD to reconsider the "core can approve slop" clause, or to publish some info on whether core has approved #slop so far?

sounds quite cool though! I'm still hoping somebody might fork an older #Linux #kernel - might be hard to keep that going but it would send a sign.

#LLM #NoSlop #ensloppification #AI #NoAI #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource

https://apexneuralnews.com/news/openbsd-8-0-release-will-have-inteldrm-radeondrm-amdgpu-drivers-from-linux-6-18
#linux #bsd #openbsd #drivers #distributions #operatingsystems #opensource

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#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

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#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

Is it okay that I look at the vast number of people coming over from #Linux to #BSD and my gut reaction is.... "Fine, but you need to leave some expectations and demands at the fucking door."

Because most of us have no want, nor need to see systemd brought over. Don't even get me started on Wayland, and graphical installers.

You are welcome, but you are in our house now. In this house, we still read the fucking manual.

*I do not speak for any BSD community member. I am simply speaking from the viewpoint of a looooongtime BSD user.

I have donated money, and I have supported many projects that need BSD to survive. And I have commited far too much to this world for it to become the Linux fallout shelter.

We do some things differently here. We aren't going to become more Linux like willingly. Y'all need to become more BSD like, or GTFO.

Re #AI or #NoAI #DesktopEnvironment for #Linux, #BSD, #NetBSD, #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, forgot about #Orbitiny

It's a 1-person, QT-based, X11-only GPL project

Portable so you can try it without borking your current DE. I tested it a couple of years ago & again today, interesting but not enough to take me away from Xfce then

But I see no statement re AI on its site. & not on Fediverse, just Reddit.

https://orbitiny.com/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Orbitiny/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/orbitiny-desktop/

https://gitea.com/sasko.usinov/orbitiny-desktop

@amiablechief I had hoped to do that on my Raspberry Pi but I don't know how to create a network tap (on Raspberry Pi OS) for the vm to use. #Linux

It’s my first day as Communications Specialist for @gnome Foundation! Let’s goooooo!

#work #linux #opensource

github-workflow : une TUI en Rust qui affiche le statut de vos dépôts GitHub et de vos branches directement depuis le terminal Linux.

Elle repose sur Ratatui et se veut légère, avec une consommation de ressources minimale.

Open source sous licence MIT ⬇️
https://github.com/jorgeandrecastro/github-workflow

#Rust #Linux #OpenSource #Programming #WebDev

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Capture d'écran d'une interface en ligne de commande affichant un tableau de bord GitHub avec une liste hiérarchisée de dépôts, branches et commits. L'écran montre le projet "GITHUB-WORKFLOW" avec plusieurs branches et leurs descriptions de modifications associées.

Linux 7.3 released

Significant changes in this release include some significant binfmt_misc extensions, some group-scheduling work aimed at improving performance on large systems, the new failfs filesystem that fails all operations, the fchroot() system call, global per-CPU data for BPF programs, the completion of the sched_ext subscheduler feature, working-set tracking for virtual machines, alternative data-stream sup

https://www.osnews.com/story/146191/linux-7-3-released/

#Linux

Linux KVM guest-host escape rated critical, may represent a new way to attack penguin-powered networking

https://www.theregister.com/virtualization/2026/10/19/linux-kvm-guest-host-escape-rated-critical-may-represent-a-new-way-to-attack-penguin-powered-networking/5303744

#linux

Omarchy, la distribution Linux dont tout le monde parle, a un problème : son créateur.
DHH appelle sur son blog au départ de "millions" de personnes déjà en Europe.
1Password et 37signals financent pourtant le projet à 100 000 dollars par an chacun ⬇️
https://korben.info/omarchy-dhh-boycott.html

#Linux #Tech

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So, #NetBSD seems to be gaining traction given the LLM-embrace in the #Linux core team, but have anyone made the jump to #HaikuOS ? If so, what was the experience like?

HaikuOS was one of the few "greenlit" OS on the "no slop" list. This, in combination with being a simple OS for "regular desktop users", kinda make them deserve some extra support.

Reading the status on the latest release candidate, it seem support now is at a level where very few things are missing.

From what I gather, the only reason I would have to boot Linux, would be #BitWig (DAW software).

Sure, Haiku != *Nix, but that is kinda the point, they try to make a simple OS based on one of the best takes of making a simple OS. BeOS was such a neat thing, and to work this long on keeping it alive is amazing.

I wonder about the similarities and differences in maintaining Chromium for #FreeBSD versus #Gentoo #Linux : https://linuxiac.com/gentoo-plans-to-drop-chromium-google-chrome-remains-available/

Maintaining a browser port must be a tiresome endeavor.

If you write QtWidgets applications and want to make sure Union works with it, I wrote a quick set of guidelines here: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/union/-/work_items/234

#KDE #Linux #Qt #QtWidgets

I had to quickly fix a small problem with a video on my laptop while travelling, so I installed and tried https://cutwire.org/drift/

I found it refreshingly simple and clean (but with some UI bugs) and somehow "friendlier" than the other free video editors #Linux.

It will not replace #DaVinci Resolve for my main workflow, but for a quick edit, it was definitely OK.

@BoydStephenSmithJr My company provides #NetBSD VPS as our first choice (and other #BSD and #Linux if needed). Plenty of IPv4 addresses available

on va rediriger en long, en large et dans des fichiers ce soir dans mon cours #Linux Shell 2026, épisode 3/4 ! Rendez-vous maintenant sur https://www.twitch.tv/ahp_nils

RE: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/117455748417638482

During episode 132 of Linux After Dark from @latenightlinux, the hosts talked about how they could recapture the passion they once had for computers and technology. This episode got me thinking quite a lot. I've been a Linux user for more than 30 years and, admittedly, my excitement for tech was dying. Actually, it had been dying for a few years. Shitty comments from Torvalds, many projects embracing AI, and maybe even the fact that I had been using Linux for so many years, contributed to my, well, less that excited feelings about all of it. I know that I needed a change.

I may have found something that has rekindled my love and excitement. And that something is BSD. After a few months of struggling to get a BSD installed on my hardware (laptop and desktop), with the help of many here in the Fediverse over the past month or so, I finally got NetBSD installed on my laptop and desktop. It was exciting! I'm actually feeling the way I did when I first started using Linux all those years ago. I have to work a bit to get some hardware working, I have to do a lot of reading and research, and I've even joined some IRC channels and forums. Forums. Remember those?

I'm leaving Linux behind and moving on after more than 30 years. This isn't a decision that I take lightly. Quite the contrary. It's one of the hardest decisions that I've ever had to make. I spent those 30+ years preaching about how great Linux was and even moved a lot of people away from Windows to Linux and Open Source software over the years. And for a lack of a better description, I feel betrayed by the Linux kernel project and all of the open source projects who have decided to embrace AI, even with all of terrible ethical issues.

Well, anyway, I didn't write this to bash on Linux. I wrote this because I'm starting to feel excited about tech again. I may even start writing about my move from Linux BSD and how it's all going. The good things. The struggles. And everything in between.

Okay, I've put enough people to sleep with this post. I have a long road ahead of me before I feel as comfortable with BSD as I do with Linux, but I think that is where all the excitement is.

#bsd #netbsd #freebsd #openbsd #linux #noAI

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Some #NetBSD questions that keep coming up.

We don't use modules for HW drivers in the default install. All baked into the kernel. If you're curious about desktop hardware, for x86 there are lists https://wiki.netbsd.org/laptops/ https://wiki.netbsd.org/gpus/ (and the pci/usb manual pages)

x86 virtual machines. https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-virt.html#chap-virt-guest

For disk encryption there's different options, such as creating a small root with the installer, then adding encrypted partitions later (see man cgdconfig). Also: cgdroot.

@ParadeGrotesque

It has a ring of Debian kFreeBSD to it.

But there's more to it than APK instead of #pkgsrc. It's based around @ska's #s6 and #execline and suchlike. Of course, those are also available on actual #NetBSD too.

I suspect that it's not aimed at people who want to switch operating systems as such, but at people who use #AlphineLinux but who do not want to have #Linux as part of that any more.

#AlpineBSD #Debian

#AIslop getting closer by the day...

NetBSD, anyone?

#Linux #seekingalternatives

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whTs09_ozN+e09GU68N1wPP56MUzDjrg9rnKxQUa0A_4Q@mail.gmail.com/

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Professor Farnsworth's "I don't want to live on this planet anymore" frame but it goes "I don't want to use this OS anymore" with a hint of Linux from an image of Tux flipped over as though Farnsworth has chucked it away.

zerobrew : une alternative à Homebrew qui accélère l'installation de vos packages sur macOS et Linux. Même Brewfile, commandes proches (zb install, zb bundle, zb upgrade).

Sur 100 packages, le benchmark donne 6,6x plus vite à froid et 68x avec le cache. ⬇️
https://github.com/zerobrewhq/zerobrew

#Linux #macOS #Programming #WebDev

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Working on some vector artwork - And I'm again amazed how well the #Affinity tools work on #Linux with #Lutris.

Yes, there are some annoyances (Like wine forgets the DPI settings sometimes or the tools do not see my second HDD), but it works well enough for the little tasks I need.

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Screenshot of Affinity Designer. There is a document open that only shows templat text in Pink and Grey.

I leave getting a login.conf(5) patch into util-linux login(1) as an exercise for those who actually use util-linux login(1). I don't use it.

https://github.com/jdebp/slashpackage/blob/trunk/sysutils/util-linux-2.42.4/package/patches/login_conf.patch

I have instead stepped boldly into the new 1973 world of cursor-addressable video terminals. I log-in full-screen. (-:

@argv_minus_one
#utillinux #login #VirtualTerminals #Linux #login_conf

i will stay on lenuks because i still like it and well, i work on stuff that runs on linux. however, i am very curious how peoples adventures in smaller OS' go, and i hope they get more love from enthusiastic people.

more operating systems is always a great thing. i might try netbsd on some of my older devices, see if i can get it to work on ancient netbook for example.

let the cycle of people tinkering with their computers continue :)

#linux #netbsd