Built for a hostile internet: Canonical VP of Engineering on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS https://www.zdnet.com/article/built-for-a-hostile-internet-canonical-vp-of-engineering-on-ubuntu-26-04-lts/#ftag=COS-05-10aaa0j via @ZDNet & @sjvn

Everything you wanted to know about Ubuntu #Linux 26.04 from the Canonical executive in charge of building it.

#Linux Do you have a portable monitor you recommend between 13" and 15.6"? Ideally better than HD resolution. Flexible on price.

I needed to link to my three year old rant about the year of desktop Linux, and because I had the link in my clipboard, you'll get it too

https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2022/goalposts/

#linux #desktop #rant

@themself @cstross

It is interesting that this is on the flavour of Windows, DOS+Windows, that was not even designed to have subsystems and personalities. That was Windows NT.

Amusingly, the screenshot is not using the correct terminal type. Yes, there is in fact a terminfo entry that should be correct for this, that has been there for 30 years, waiting.

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.ti.html#tic-nansi_sys

@hailey
#WSL #WindowsNT #terminfo #Linux

This #ThinkPad so far has been great. #OS and #firmware #updates are regularly available. Performance is snappy and smooth and it handled my long uptimes just fine.

Except I do have one peculiar issue when scrolling down on a webpage the action becomes stuck. ALL webpages just scroll on their own to the very bottom of the page. No key presses, combinations, or even the ESC key fixes or interrupts this. Clicking on a menu item like File causes the selected options to cycle infinitely. The *only* fix is to reboot the laptop.

I've never seen this on any other distro or laptop.

Has anyone else experienced this?

#ubuntu #linux #problems #tech #questions

An #Inferno VM running in a Windows 2000 VM (software i686 emulation) running in a web browser on #Linux.

What a time to be alive. XD

https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows2000 (click on "Inferno OS GUI" icon on desktop)

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A web browser window showing a wasm-based vm running Windows 2000, in which an inferno OS vm is running, showing a memory monitor, a graphical manual viewer, a shell, and a graphical about screen

Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

You can find beauty in the oddest of places.

WSL9x runs a modern Linux kernel (6.19 at time of writing) cooperatively inside the Windows 9x kernel, enabling users to take advantage of the full suite of capabilities of both operating systems at the same time, including paging, memory protection, and pre-emptive scheduling. Run all your favourite applications side by side -

https://www.osnews.com/story/144819/windows-9x-subsystem-for-linux/

#Linux

LINUX NERDS. ASSEMBLE.
I am at my inlaws.
My dadinlaw is trying linux mint and wants to change the cursor colour - is it possible? If so, how?

#Linux #LinuxMint

@jon_bon ok we have the news. DINUM is developing two distros based on #NixOS: Sécurix and Bureautix (they aren't Asterix characters even though their names might give you that impression 😆)

https://www.tech2geek.net/france-moves-to-linux-inside-securix-and-bureautix-the-governments-open-source-strategy/

#Linux #FOSS #France #EUPol #DigitalSovereignty

Heute wieder mal einen alten Laptop mit Linux wiederbelebt. 🐧

Das Ding wäre sonst im Elektroschrott gelandet – jetzt läuft es schneller als vorher mit Windows.

Manchmal ist die beste Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie einfach: frische Software drauf, neues Leben drin.

Danke an alle, die freie Software bauen, damit wir Hardware nicht wegwerfen müssen. 💚

#Linux #OpenSource #Nachhaltigkeit #RightToRepair #FOSS

Never mind just Linux; this would seem to raise serious issues for any group producing their own kernel without an army of lawyers on staff e.g. *BSD, RedoxOS, Graphene, ReactOS, Haiku, illumos and perhaps even plan9 and operating system textbooks and learning frameworks like FluxOSKit. There is furthermore some significant scariness about packets crossing borders rendering ppl liable for violations of all this when passing through spaces wherein USA agents may apprehend them.

https://youtu.be/SVGw0uY1dsQ

#telix #Linux #BSD #NetBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #RedoxOS #GrapheneOS #ReactOS #HaikuOS #illumos #plan9 #Hurd #FluxOSKit

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟰/𝟮𝟬 (Valuable News - 2026/04/20) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/valuable-news-2026-04-20/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟰/𝟮𝟬 (Valuable News - 2026/04/20) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/valuable-news-2026-04-20/

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

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

As I continue my journey for a better desktop environment, I found some new apps for music and reading RSS.

#blogging #blog #smallweb #indieweb #linux

https://basic.bearblog.dev/sayonara-player-and-liferea-happiness/

Episode 13 of Dark Blue Weekly released

https://darkblueproject.com/sites/news/dbw-e13.php

#darkblueweekly #darkblueproject #linux #bsd #freebsd #ghostbsd #solusos #linuxkernel #openssl #opensource #freesoftware

NetBSD turns 33 this Sunday! 🚩

To celebrate 33 years of clean code, portability, and zero bloat, Challenging the rest of the fediverse to help hit this year's funding goals.

Also do drop a screenshot of your uptime, uname -a, or a pic of the weirdest hardware you've got running NetBSD right now. (RockPro64 NPF routers or Pi's hooked up to retro CRTs highly encouraged).

Throw some money at the developers keeping the real UNIX alive:

https://www.netbsd.org/donations/

#NetBSD #UNIX #RetroComputing #OpenSource #runbsd #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Linux

mini-rant

I guess I'd be less annoyed if a reboot-to-apply-changes cycle didn't mean that I'd have to enter my LUKS password twice.

#Linux #LossyPNG

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"Lisa Simpson Presentation" meme Presentation text: "Non-Immutable Linux distros shouldn't ask the user to reboot after applying updates if the kernel or core services weren't changed." Comment underneath: "This isn't Windows, y'all."

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@prism/116423008987436385

Louder so #Linux maintainers will hear

@raster @darth

The thing with Linux is that it's neither a democracy nor a meritocracy, but actually, functionally, an oligarchy. :(

Whoever has the money to dedicate programming resources gets to determine what the #Linux user space will look like, and more often than not, they resort to REALLY FORKING UNDERHANDED tactics to get their way when there's pushback and meritocratic resistance.

The BSDs are more like somewhat democratic (to varying degrees) monarchies. A limited number of people get to make the decisions, like it or lump it. But there isn't so much cloak & dagger crap.

Not debating whether the law is wrong or not.

- Projects that will refuse any age verification/attestation.

- Projects that'll preemptively comply using some simplistic age bracket eval.

- Projects that are still deciding what to do.

#ageverification #privacy #regulation #linux #opensource

OK, I'm taking a risk now.

Is anybody interested in beta-testing Gitte? I'm looking for a few people. If you are interested, send me a DM.

https://codeberg.org/ckruse/Gitte

#git #gui #gnome #linux

Well, #linux folks using #RedHat who don’t like AI forced into their workflow may want to start looking for other distros. The AI evangelists are full cult mode. (As Bob is my witless, I swear this is a contagion.)

#infosec

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/31/red_hat_ai_dev/

#Linux

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The image is a humorous tech meme. In the foreground, an older man dressed in religious attire (wearing ceremonial robes and a red cap) is holding a broom and appears to be performing a blessing or exorcism ritual. He is facing a large row of black server cabinets in what looks like a data center. The servers are tall, neatly aligned, with cables and metal piping visible above them. Behind him, a cameraman is filming the scene, suggesting this is some kind of staged or documented event. At the bottom of the image, there is a caption in a Linux-style command format: /etc/init.d/daemon stop The joke is that instead of stopping a “daemon” (a background service in Unix/Linux systems) using a command, the person is literally trying to “exorcise” it like an evil spirit using a religious ritual.

I've been running two degraded ZFS arrays for the last few weeks (Debian host).

Yeah, I know. Whatevs.

One of the pools was basically "scratch" backup space and one of the spindles died (breaking the utility of the mirror). Pulled the drive, wiped the remaining, put back in service with minimum fuss as a single drive. I'll throw another spindle at it when drive prices drop again.

The other array had the SSD cache die and it's been chugging along fine ever since. Not a big deal, but from a "experience" point of view it "feels slow" like a working md array.

New SSD arrived in the mail so that'll get sorted sometime today/tomorrow.

So, what's this post about?

Linux peeps, if you are thinking about md arrays, just stop, take the time, and throw 'yer leg over the zfs horse. It's worth it.

#Linux #RunBSD #zfs #md #mdadm #raid #homelab #SelfHosted #SelfHosting

it's getting cereal

#unix_surrealism #technomage #openbsd #linux #comic #ai #mastoart #fediart #foss

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Girl is eating cereal. There's some slop in it. Girl: "Master, my fish food is sloppy!" Fish: "Eat something else." Girl examines the pantry. It's all cereal.

Linux 7.0 released

Version 7.0 of the Linux kernel has been released, marking the arbitrary end of the 6.x series.

Significant changes in this release include the removal of the "experimental" status for Rust code, a new filtering mechanism for io_uring operations, a switch to lazy preemption by default in the CPU scheduler, support for time-slice extension, the nullfs filesystem, self-healing support for the XFS f

https://www.osnews.com/story/144785/linux-7-0-released/

#Linux

New #Linux #kernel #policy: when writing code, humans can be "assisted" by "#AI", but they have to disclose it, and take full responsibility, as contributors.

While this gets celebrated as a "pragmatic stance", it simply delegates responsibilities to individual contributors that no one in good conscience can reasonably take.

Would you be willing to guarantee, legally binding, with all consequences, that your "AI" "assistant" didn't copy-paste code that's under an incompatible license? Or even proprietary, stolen one?

This is a cop out, not a responsible policy. Basically the dirty #subcontractor pattern: Everybody knows that nobody can actually guarantee what they're promising, but hey, wink wink here's their signature, they "promised" it wink wink

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-lays-down-the-law-on-ai-generated-code-yes-to-copilot-no-to-ai-slop-and-humans-take-the-fall-for-mistakes-after-months-of-fierce-debate-torvalds-and-maintainers-come-to-an-agreement