NetworkManager 1.54 released with support for per-device IPv4 forwarding, updated nm-cloud-setup for OCI baremetal setups, loopback configuration support in nmtui, and NVMe Boot Firmware Table support in the builtin initrd-generator

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/blob/1.54.0/NEWS

#networkmanager #linuxnetworking #linux #freedesktop

KDE released their own immutable distribution KDE Linux that is based on Arch Linux (without Pacman) and uses Flatpak/Snap as the primary package managers. It comes with Distrobox and Toolbox pre-installed

https://kde.org/linux

#kdelinux #kdeplasma #linux

#Linux #sécurité
Un graaaaaannnd guide de sécurisation de Linux (plutôt orientée Debian)
https://github.com/imthenachoman/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server

@evan

There be zeroes.

Oh, you meant windows, not factorial.

Carry on.

#Linux

A weird thing about #Slack on #Linux #X11: whenever it gains keyboard focus, it immediately reads the X11 clipboard, even if you didn't try to paste anything. I see no evidence that it _does_ anything with what it reads, but I know it reads it.

I found this out by accident, because I wrote a stunt X11 client which owns the clipboard for just long enough to paste _once_, and then terminates. The idea was to queue up three different pastes on the command line, and paste them in quick succession into fields of a form. Works very well, _unless_ I accidentally mouse over Slack on the way to the form I want to paste into – then my focus-follows-mouse activates it, and it consumes one of my clipboard strings!

I have no idea why, or whether it's on purpose. I'm prepared to give it the benefit of the doubt, by assuming until further evidence that it's some unforeseen emergent consequence of the huge wobbly tower of libraries and wrappers and browsers that the desktop Slack app is built on top of. But it's not great. Some password managers will put passwords in the clipboard!

Anyone tried one of the Waveshare 7.5inch E-Paper HAT Display units?

I'm planning to DIY an eBook reader with the kids - think 3D printed case, eink display, RPi running Linux & booting straight into an open source reader.

Not sure what these displays are like to use though, & given their low price I'm suspicious.

#linux #ebook #diy #hardware

@nixCraft I know I'm just adding the usual "my Linux is more awesome than yours" here, buuuut... 🙊

I'm 20+y #Linux desktop user, and I've left KDE 3.5 and have become quite fond of medium-lightweight desktop distros.

#MXLinux is one I recently fell in love with. And #AntiX to revive all my <1GB RAM notebooks to modern times: All running super-smooth! 🍰

...just saying... 😉

So /is/ KDE worth checking out again?

Introducing KDE Linux, a free operating system that can turbocharge new computers and breathe new life into old ones. Linux has been used for decades powering the world’s supercomputers, data centers, web servers, and most smartphones. Now KDE makes it available for you too! https://kde.org/linux/

#linux #opensource #kde

`neofetch` developer discontinued the project and took up farming. i think that is beautiful and i think about it all the time.

#linux #unix #opensource

My os/2 poll just ended with 52 votes and I am fascinated by these results.

48% yes awesome.
48% yes meh.

#retrocomputing #os #linux #windows #ibm

Do you use lots of Linux containers? Try, `ctop` cli utility on Linux, macOS or Windows, that provides a concise and condensed overview of real-time metrics for multiple containers. It is `top` like interface for container metrics and a good tool for all developers and IT pros.

Repo https://github.com/bcicen/ctop

#opensource #linux

Alt...

A screenshot of ctop which is nothing but top-like interface for container metrics.

#RUNBSD! But BoxyBSD now also starts to support #Linux! We're starting soon with the Linux support for already present users, offering free boxes:

* #AlmaLinux
* #Alpine
* #Debian
* #Devuan
* #CentOS
* #Fedora
* #Gentoo
* #OpenSuse
* #OpenEuler
* #RockyLinux

Just next to our core OS like #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, #MidnightBSD and #DragonflyBSD (and #illumos). This should also make the step easier to compare and test different scenarios where BSD provides a different behavior compared to Linux systems.

Thanks to @gyptazy for the implementation!

#VPS #VM #VirtualMachine #OpenSource #Hosting #IPv6 #BGP #FreeHosting #Community

@thomholwerda The snobbery espoused by Apple enthusiasts that go on about the supposed high quality of Apple's visual design is pretty ridiculous at this point.

As an Apple user of decades recently upgraded to GNU/Linux Trisquel with KDE Plasma and Mint with Cinnamon I'm embarrassed at how uninformed I was as to the quality of the design over here.

#Apple folk, step outside of your echo chamber and have an honest look at the quality of the alternatives.

#GNU #Linux #FreeSoftware

Today I "inherited" an ancient #iMac ("late 2013"). No support by its manufacturer, no support for the obsolete OS version by other software vendors. EoL. E-waste.

I connected an external USB3 SSD (34€) and installed #Linux Mint on it. Everything worked flawlessly out of the box. It even boots automatically from the SSD without any configuration (possibly because I nuked MacOS). It runs *great*. Almost too boring.

I'm (again) horrified that we let MS and Apple off the hook this easily.

As a Barista at BSD Cafe, I'm also an admirer of tea – a metaphor for my appreciation of the good features of other operating systems. And the fact that I like and support BSDs doesn't mean I don't appreciate those other solutions.
For example, #SmartOS, #OmniOS, and #Tribblix are superb examples of well-crafted operating systems.

Similarly, #Linux - #openSUSE Tumbleweed-based desktops give me a lot of satisfaction every day.

The foundation of my passion for Open Source also stems from the ability to study, explore, and choose without constraints or restrictions. It's that sense of freedom that drives me to appreciate the good in every solution.

If and when I feel caged or forced, all of that vanishes.

#Freedom #OS #IT

#OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #Linux

The long version of why you need key authentication for your SSH servers - "The Hail Mary Cloud and the lessons learned" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/hailmary_lessons_learned.html #ssh #passwordgroping #unix #linux #openbsd #freebsd #pf #packetfilter

Also The 4th edition of the Book of PF is coming soon: https://nxdomain.no/~peter/yes_the_book_of_pf_4th_ed_is_coming.html

Well, it's time. I'm releasing my tool that lets you aggregate patch and update status of hosts over ssh on unix-like systems.

The github repository has details as well as links to the exhaustive documentation.

It is my hope that at least another person finds it useful

https://github.com/mrdaemon/exosphere

#SRE #HomeLab #Python #unix #linux #freebsd #SysAdmin

Linux Kernel 6.16 released with XFS support for large atomic writes, USB audio offload support, support for Intel Trusted Domain Extensions and Intel Advanced Performance Extensions, ext4 performance improvements

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel-announce/20250728042036.release-6.16@kdist.linux.kernel.org/T/#u

#linux #linuxkernel

✨ Wayland Will Never Be Ready ✨

The full article titled, "Wayland Will Never Be Ready For Every X11 User" is one of my favorite writings on the topic. Well done Maya Posch, well done indeed.

https://hackaday.com/2025/07/28/wayland-will-never-be-ready-for-every-x11-user/

#linux #freebsd #wayland #xorg #x11 #foss

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟳/𝟮𝟴 (Valuable News - 2025/07/28) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/valuable-news-2025-07-28/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟳/𝟮𝟴 (Valuable News - 2025/07/28) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/valuable-news-2025-07-28/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

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

I am sure that most of you know about this free and open-source security tool that bans hosts causing multiple authentication errors on Linux or Unix. It could be a lifesaver for developers or IT professionals, protecting many services including SSH and web services.

https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban

#opensource #unix #linux #security

openSUSE Tumbleweed has been powering my mini PC (my main daily driver, with KDE Plasma) since early may and I am really satisfied with it.
I'd love to run one of the BSDs there, but this setup is doing great.

#Linux #KDE #Plasma

How many #Linux distros do actually use on a daily basis?
Kinda curious to see what the results will be.

Bonus points:
Commenting which ones you use! 😎

me: ^D

bash: There are stopped jobs.

me:
fg
:qa

me: ^D

bash: There are stopped jobs.

Yeah maybe I ^Z Vim too much. 🙈

(Yes ^Z is a verb, okay?)

#Vim #bash #CLI #Linux

From the results I can see there is a solid group of Korn Shell users but I'm a bit surprised abouth the C Shell. I didn't though there was such a difference betwen the number of CSH users and KSH users. I guess part of it is because Korn is more similar to Bourne.

Thank you all for taking part and for your comments. I learned some things 🙂

#unix #bsd #ksh #csh #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #gnu #linux

The release of Debian 13 "Trixie" is near as the Full Freeze starts on July 27th. The final release it set for August 9th.

Debian 13 will add official support for riscv64, a total amount of 11294 new packages, over 42821 packages will be updated, and it will transition to 64-bit time_t ABI

More informations in their release notes:
https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/whats-new.en.html#what-s-new-in-the-distribution

#debian #debian13 #linux

Can't really decide which game to invest some time into (or more time).
So let's make a poll 😂

All on #Linux ofc

Wan't to start to get into #gaming again - did not play anything for quite some time tbh.

@dalias @ska @lanodan @navi

One of those someones was Rob Pike in 2004.

https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/04/10/18/1153211/rob-pike-responds

And the underlying kernel change happened in 2007.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b6a2fea39318e43fee84fa7b0b90d68bed92d2ba

Interestingly, modern #FreeBSD has a sysctl() limit (kern.ps_arg_cache_limit) on how large processes can resize their argument block and environment string block and still have it show up in the ps command.

I just raised mine to 768 bytes, coincidentally. I could have got away with just 512, I think.

#Linux

Second day using Linux, my thoughts are such:

There's a sort of intangible but noticeable difference between software made by people who fucking love computers and can't help themselves but make things for them on them, and software made by people trying to make rent and bonuses because a boss said so.

Sure, not everything instantly works, but a whole lot of people have collaboratively tried!

#Linux #LinuxMint

@lanodan @ska @navi

Even on Linux-based operating systems, one can get strnvisx() and strunvis(), which solves that problem, should one choose to have it in the first place.

https://libbsd.freedesktop.org/wiki/

#Linux #BSD #vis #unvis #CommandLines

@nixCraft os be #linux