I only just learned you can use the mouse in the TTY! (The Linux text-only console you get to by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1, F2, etc.)

Some applications that enable this are gpm and consolation.

consolation worked better for me, especially when in tmux; however, I still can't get scrolling with middle button and trackpoint to work, which is what would be the most useful for me. I don't know if it has to do with consolation, tmux mouse bindings, my particular ThinkPad model, etc. I can't find anything online about this, so if you've also dabbled in this, please share your experience!

#CommandLine #cli #tmux #tty #linux #thinkpad

How to easily switch your PC from Windows to #Linux Mint - for free https://zdnet.com/article/how-to-easily-switch-your-pc-from-windows-to-linux-for-free/ by @sjvn

With #Windows10 about to retire to the big bit farm in the sky, now's an ideal time to give Linux Mint a try.

Hi all you #freebsd #linux experts: what *nix should I install on a spare MacBook Air I have? I last installed RedHat and Ubuntu over 10 yrs ago on an old PC desktop. I'm comfortable on the cmdline and can do sysadmin stuff, but would like to not have to do much. Will use for general home office tasks and some dev projects, but not a gamer. Looking to this as baby-step in larger move away from big-tech, extractive software.

Hehe, what do you think? 😜

#linux

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Linux is not magic, it's sudo-science. There is a penguin dabbing, with a magical hat near it.

I 💝 OpenZFS

Working on research for a HPC storage cluster, one of my architecture doc sections quote this information from the wonderful group at Klara:

> OpenZFS In the Wild
>
> .. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) undertook porting ZFS to Linux, to form the backbone of their Lustre distributed filesystem. They noted that OpenZFS facilitated building a storage system that could support 1 terabyte per second of data transfer at less than half the cost of any alternative filesystem.
>
> Based on the success seen at LLNL, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) started using ZFS as well.
>
> In the latest example, just a few months ago the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced it had built Frontier, the world’s first exascale supercomputing system and currently the fastest computer in the world, backed by Orion, the massive 700 Petabyte ZFS based file system that supports it. This impressive system contains nearly 48,000 hard drives and 5,400 NVMe devices for primary storage, and another 480 NVMe just for metadata.

https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs-openzfs-for-hpc-clusters/#:~:text=built%C2%A0Frontier%2C%20the%20world%E2%80%99s%20first%20exascale,480%20NVMe%20just%20for%20metadata

#openzfs #zfs #freebsd #linux #engineering #supercomputing #hpc

I have a fanless thin client arriving in the next couple of days (snagged it for $35!). The original plan was to port over my existing OpenBSD desktop, but I’ve been eyeing elementaryOS for a while now.

I remember playing with version 6 back in the day and quite enjoying it. Might test it out first before fully committing to OpenBSD right away 😛

#openbsd #linux #elementaryos

#Linux #Windows
Sous le coude si un jour vous avez à déchiffrer une partition BitLocker sous Linux (je n'ai pas testé) :
https://std.rocks/gnulinux_bitlocker.html

Q4OS 6.1 "Andromeda" released, based on Debian 13.1 "Trixie", with KDE Plasma 6.3.6 and Trinity desktop 14.1.5

https://q4os.org/blog.html#news250912

#q4os #debian #linux #kdeplasma #trinitydesktop #linuxdesktop #debiantrixie

Wow, just plugged my label printer into my new Ubuntu 24.04 desktop (migrating from old desktop which is failing) and it was detected with drivers installed immediately - no interaction required from me at all.

#ubuntu #linux

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟵/𝟭𝟱 (Valuable News - 2025/09/15) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/valuable-news-2025-09-15/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟵/𝟭𝟱 (Valuable News - 2025/09/15) available.

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

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

So I just rebuilt my personal #python venv in my home directory on my #linux daily driver laptop. I did pip freeze > requirements.txt to capture all the packages I had installed. Then I took away all the ==a,b.c versioning so I'd install the latest compatible version.

Then I ran uv pip install -r requirements.txt. This blew me way:

$ time uv pip install -r requirements.txt 
Resolved 250 packages in 2.38s
      Built python-ldap==3.4.4
      Built py-cui==0.1.6
      Built docopt==0.6.2
      Built email-normalize==2.0.0
      Built ecos==2.0.14
... bunch of lines...
real    0m14.028s
user    0m11.605s
sys     0m4.131s

Wow. 250 packages in 14 seconds.

Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment

Week 2: File Sharing

In this final video lecture segment for our week 2 materials, we take a look at what it means when multiple processes access the same files and what the implications of that are on the syscalls we know. We conclude with a look at /dev/fd on different operating systems, including #NetBSD, #macOS, and #Linux

https://youtu.be/CAbUtc86ULw

#apue #unix #programming

Interesting article from The Register on Friday about alternative kernels. As per the article, the topic of other kernels surface again after #Linux developers continue to clash over certain tech like Rust, SystemD, and bcachefs.

The three kernels discussed are Managarm, Asterinas, and Xous. Until stumbling across this article today, I've not heard of any of them. I guess I have some reading ahead of me. The article also mentioned the idea of disgruntled devs possibly forking the Linux kernel - a fascinating and probably confusing experience for a lot of people.

Would certainly be an interesting thought experiment, now giving a valid reason to explicitly list the userland and kernel with which OS you happen to be using, ie Debian GNU/Fork-this, openSUSE GNU/Linux, Gentoo GNU/Asterinas, or whatever.

It also might just be easier and more straightfoward to use #FreeBSD instead. 🤷‍♂️

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/three_new_microkernels/?td=rt-3a

#tech #technews

The touchpad on my #Framework responds poorly at first, then over a few minutes seems to self-calibrate.

Claude recommends this 10-second "touchpad yoga" sequence to force more rapid calibration after booting. What do you think?

* Full-palm touch (2 seconds)
* Five-finger spread (2 seconds)
* Edge-to-edge swipes (3 seconds)
* Left click, right click, two-finger click (3 seconds)

Sort of makes sense, but this is the first laptop where it feels like the touchpad needs a warm-up routine.
#LInux

New poll:

I am a tech moron (TM). Should I attempt to install #Linux on my old unused laptop to learn something new and familiarize myself with how it works?

🙅 Goodbye Forever OPNsense 🙅

It displeases me to finally and heartily say GTFO to OPNsense; to abandon a solid decade of use.

I've had it on everything from embedded arm64 experiments to baremetal with ranges of 10, 25, 40, and 100GbE NICs. I've used all of the core features, built complex global service meshes, H/A systems, etc. I used to love it. I used to pay for it.

OPNsense was great, until it wasn't (starting around the time they axed their use of HardenedBSD), and with each release it gets more convoluted, out of date, tedious to debug, and generally a source of disappointment. The command line controls are anemic, inconsistent, and the lack of unified and useful system state tracking is a source of sailor level obscenities. Also, dear gods get rid of XML configs, no one can parse it without going blind! What is this, SOAP and XML-RPC era nonsense, really? 😠

I do not have time to waste, and I do not say that lightly.

I am never debugging OPNsense ever again, especially not for four hours on a (yesterday) Saturday, and especially not putting off updates in a colo for TWO YEARS because their team decided to break admin group SSH controls, hamper CARP flapping controls, breaking IPMI fencing, and the list goes on. I am done.

What now? Three realistic options.

1) BSD Router Project: I've built custom BSD-RP releases with Poudriere, loved just about everything it offers.
2) VyOS: configurable via CLI in a fraction of the time that was wasted on debugging OPNsense. Solid product, enjoying it more every day.
3) OpenWRT: I build custom releases for NanoPi and Meraki rooted WAPs and SOHO boxes, it's fun, though it's not running my 100G infra.

#opnsense #bsd #freebsd #linux #networking #engineering #homelab

What #video cutting tool do I want to use for #Linux? I don't need fancy stuff, just grabbing footage from action cameras, making a few transitions, maybe an intro text or subtitle now and then.

welcome to the tea party

@grahamperrin #unix_surrealism #technomage #runbsd #bsd #linux #plan9 #tea #fediart #mastoart #comic

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Girl, Puffy, Beastie, Fred, Daemon, Pocket Daemon, Penguin and Glenda are having a tea party outside on the backdrop of a destroyed city and a corpse hanging in the wind. Everyone is cheerful. Even the Sun.

New article published:
Arch Linux Install Guide - 2025/09

Hello guys, we've published a detailed guide on how to install Arch Linux on amd64 devices with UEFI firmware.

NOTE: This guide will be updated from time to time when things change or when we want to add something new.

https://r1os.com/sites/articles/arch-install-guide-2025-09.php

#r1os #archlinux #linux

Restoring data from backups due to my current desktop failing to power off cleanly on Tuesday evening and not starting up on Wednesday morning. Everything seems to be okay so far.

Remember: Backups need to be Automated, Distributed, Secure and Tested, otherwise they're not backups (and use multiple backup software - I have Borg, Restic and tar).

My wrapper scripts are open source:

https://github.com/pwaring/backup-scripts

#linux #backups

I used #DaVinciResolve to edit my latest YouTube Video. Before that, I used #kdenlive - and even before that, #camtasia. Some quick thoughts...

I'm not an expert in video editing, just someone who wants to upload videos to YouTube. I really liked camtasia because it is simple yet powerful, and I knew it well enough so that it didn't get in my way anymore. But there is no #linux version, which is a deal breaker for me now.

KDEnlive is a great piece of software, especially for... [1/]

#Android #Linux #emulation
Un projet à garder à l'oeil : ATL (Android Translation Layer).
En gros, ATL est à Android ce que Wine/Proton est à Windows.
Cela devrait aider à faire tourner directement les applications Android sous Linux, sans avoir à mettre un système Android entier dans une VM.
https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer/android_translation_layer

Je pense que je vais tenter de redimensionner la partition racine plutôt que de tout réinstaller pour passer de #debian 12 à 13.
Mais ça risque de foirer.

Donc, que dois-je absolument penser à sauvegarder pour une installation propre et pas trop galère si jamais ça foire, en dehors de /home ?

#linux #help

#Linux #media
Plus le temps passe, plus j'apprécie le lecteur vidéo mpv au lieu de VLC ou Celluloid.
Non seulement les raccoucis clavier sont très bien faits, mais il utilise *vraiment* moins de CPU que les autres.
Si vous êtes sur batterie, ça fait une belle différence, vraiment.
mpv utilise à fond le décodage matériel, ce qui le rend énergétiquement plus efficace.

@AnachronistJohn apt-get returns 100 on error; that's the apt-get in the middle of the "Command:" and the "Exit code: 100" after it. Word on the Fedi has it Ubuntu has been having some issues with their repository servers lately; that *may* have something to do with it.

I do agree that it could be a lot easier to see what's going on!

#Linux #Ubuntu

Are you OK, #Linux?

I want to run lsiutil or storcli64, so I figured I’d install Linux on an external drive.

So I download Ubuntu 24.04.3 Desktop for amd64. It boots, I start an install, and a good 45 minutes later, it says there’s an error. I can’t really see what the error is here, can you?

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This is a picture of a screen of an Ubuntu installation that failed mysteriously. Looking at the logs, I haven't the slightest idea what went wrong. The tile is, "Something went wrong". I'm not going to type out the rest because it appears to be nonsense.

If your terminal ever gets confused by random control sequences, for example after you accidentally output binary data, there's a good chance you can restore order with the `reset` command.

#Linux #Shell #SystemAdministration #SysAdmin