✨ 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

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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

After two weeks of writing, revising, and trying to make everything as digestible as possible, I finally published "GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days", where I explain in detail the steps we took to turn GNOME Calendar from an app that was literally unusable with a keyboard and screen reader to an app that is (finally) accessible to keyboard and screen reader users as of GNOME 49!

https://tesk.page/2025/07/25/gnome-calendar-a-new-era-of-accessibility-achieved-in-90-days/

#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #DisabilityPrideMonth #Linux #FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #GTK #libadwaita

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

@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

I’m looking for anyone in my circles who:

• is a front-end web developer
• has some design sense
• understands the allure of buying a Linux computer
• is open to paid work

A Linux computer company reached out asking if I was available for paid work on their website and while I would love to, I’m just not able to find the time right now. But they’re a great company and I would love to connect them with someone!

#Linux #OpenSource #WebDesign #WebDev

`vet` is a CLI tool that acts as a safety net for the common but risky `curl | bash` command. It lets you inspect remote scripts for changes, run them through a linter, and require your explicit approval before they can execute on your developer or production machine.

Repo https://github.com/vet-run/vet

#security #unix #linux #opensource

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The Problem: We've all seen this pattern for installing software: This is convenient, but you're blindly trusting the remote script. ``` curl -sSL https://example.com/install.sh | bash ``` This is dangerous. The script could be malicious, the server could be compromised, or a transient network error could result in executing a partial script. The Solution: vet vet wraps this process in a secure, interactive workflow: Fetch: It downloads the remote script to a temporary location. Diff & Review: It shows you what, if anything, has changed since the last time you ran this script. Lint: If you have shellcheck installed, it automatically analyzes the script for potential bugs or malicious patterns. Confirm: It prompts you for explicit approval before executing anything. The new, safer way: ``` vet https://example.com/install.sh ```

Wayback 0.1 released via @lproven https://lobste.rs/s/sf2q8y #linux
https://wayback.freedesktop.org/news/2025/07/23/wayback-0.1-released/

Window Maker Live

｢ Window Maker Live is an installable Linux Live ISO based on the current Bookworm branch of Debian. The system uses the Window Maker window manager as its default graphical user interface. Window Maker Live's components have been carefully preconfigured and the desktop environment has a consistent visual appearance ｣

https://wmlive.sourceforge.net/

#windowmaker #linux #opensource

@dalias @starsider @atax1a @avuko

I think that specialized is the wrong way around, there. Usually it is the generalized tool, the one that can do every possible niche task (e.g. openssl even containing a WWW server) that is complex. Whereas the specialized tool (e.g. other SSL tools that do only SSL wrapping) is the simpler.

#ifconfig is the example that most people bring up, but the tale of #ps on Linux is also interesting as a different case study.

#GNU #Linux

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A Z shell running on a terminal on a NetBSD system, executing the uname and then the ifconfig lo0 command. The Z shell prompt and the ifconfig output are in colour, and the loopback interface has several IPv4 and IPv6 addresses according to the output.

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A Z shell running on a terminal on a Debian system, executing the uname and then the ifconfig lo command. The Z shell prompt and the ifconfig output are in colour, and the loopback interface has several IPv4 and IPv6 addresses according to the output.

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A Z shell running on a terminal on a FreeBSD system, executing the uname and then the ifconfig lo0 command. The Z shell prompt and the ifconfig output are in colour, and the loopback interface has several IPv4 and IPv6 addresses according to the output.

Linux tip: Set `HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:erasedups` in your init script to prevent duplicate commands cluttering your history. Clean history makes command recall much more efficient. #Linux #SystemAdministration #SysAdmin

@Reinald @chaosdorf #Microsoft wirbt sehr fleißig für mehr #Linux. Wir sollten das würdigen!

There are more shells than Bash and I'm curious to see the % of how many people uses wich one of the more or less classic shells. Choose your preferred one.

#UNIX #BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Plan9 #GNU #Linux

1,10!sort

Even better: Today’s batch of Slackware -current updates already includes ed 1.22. If you’re running -current and up to date, you already have the new version!

#unix #linux #ed #texteditor #posix #slackware

@ifixcoinops Okay, I did some poking. First of all, it's not an embedded system, but a full Slackware 9.1.0 (Sep '03) installation.

It had a lot of artefacts left behind, especially in root's bash history. It has a user called rocky, that runs the actual game. As I guessed, it was Xfree86 + Window Maker combo, which autostarts the game itself.

Here's what whoever put this together had done in shell:

https://pastebin.com/n8hSmPbh

When glancing through all that, I see the point where they seem to compile kernel modules, possibly for the arcade integration part.

The Linux seems to live on the 1st partition, the game again on the 4th one.

It'd probably fire up in a virtual machine except it appears to use NVidia's proprietary drivers, so the game most likely won't start.

#linux #arcade

If, like me, you've ever been annoyed at people just saying to grep the output of ifconfig for inet, and the likes, to get the assigned IP address of a network interface.

I got annoyed one time too many.

Have a *proper* solution.

May or may not also work on for example the *BSDs, but should definitely work on any modern typical-userland Linux.

https://michael.kjorling.se/blog/2025/ip-address-of-network-interface-linux/

#Linux #BlogPost #blog #PersonalWebSite #indieweb #networking #IPv4 #IPv6

I just caught an error that was causing chvt n@tty0 and chvt p@tty0 to go the wrong way on #Debian #Linux .

A change introduced by the work done to port to #NetBSD , which has yet another oddball subset of the SCO Multiscreen CONSIO API.

I'm not sitting idly by. Testing is still happening. (-:

#nosh

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Some Linux users might be interested, reading about this (Subscriber link, that bypasses the Paywall, since I find this information important to spread for awareness):

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1029767/0a550f0972703141/

„Linux users who have Secure Boot enabled on their systems knowingly or unknowingly rely on a key from Microsoft that is set to expire in September. After that point, Microsoft will no longer use that key to sign the shim first-stage UEFI bootloader that is used by Linux distributions to boot the kernel with Secure Boot. But the replacement key, which has been available since 2023, may not be installed on many systems; worse yet, it may require the hardware vendor to issue an update for the system firmware, which may or may not happen.“

#linux #secureboot #microsoft #security #servicetweet