What’s stopping you from building a nice little home lab running multiple VMs, a personal DNS resolver with Ad blockers, a ZFS based NAS and firewall with #Linux or #FreeBSD? 🤔

Just finished building the major Slackware updates (Plasma 6 plus a huge number of core package updates) under Open Source UTM using paravirtualised mode on Apple Silicon M2.

UTM has been absolutely rock solid throughout. Had to revert to the HoneyComb LX2 (16×2GHz cores, 32GB RAM) tho, because I couldn’t dedicate enough memory to the VM -- the host’s OOM killer started terminating some of the large KDE package builds.

Dreaming of a Mac Mini M4 for the main build host...

#linux #slackware

Thx to AI Linux will soon stop being a platform for retrocomputing hardware. Old hw support is getting deprecated to reduce the attack surface.

Meanwhile the Linux Foundation is creating its nth AI/crypto related group.

#opensource #linux #ai #cybersecurity #retrocomputing #retrogaming

Rust is becoming a major part of the #Linux kernel. Even long time C veteran Greg Kroah Hartman (GKH) supports the shift. Rust is next big thing if you are into kernel or device drivers or other stuff where memory safety is essential for security reasons

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A stage screen showing a presntation slide titled Greg's unscientific opinion. The text claims 80% of Linux CVEs would be impossible if the code was writen in Rust

For a decade I carried two iPhones: one personal, one for work. Neither ever felt at home in my Linux and BSD world.

Now it's a single Fairphone Gen6. Repairable with a screwdriver, 8 years of updates, separate work and personal profiles on one device, and it actually talks to my KDE desktop over KDE Connect.

Immich, Nextcloud, K-9 Mail, Tusky, KeePassDX, and finally GPG mail in my pocket. The camera is meh. Everything else is a clear win.

https://blog.hofstede.it/leaving-the-apple-ecosystem-one-fairphone-instead-of-two-iphones/

#Fairphone #Android #FOSS #Linux #FDroid

Step 1: Open terminal
Step 2: Type `alias nano='vim -c "smile"'`
Step 3: Enjoy this whenever someone type `nano`!

#SysAdmin #Linux #FreeBSD

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@funkylab

For #FreeBSD (on that same box), I found a shell script that uses sysctl to get the ACPI name for the battery, and runs acpi_call from ports to set the thresholds, which survives a reboot.
On #OpenBSD, I believe you set the thresholds directly through sysctl.
On #Linux, you set it with something like echo 80 > /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_stop_threshold

"Linux terminal for beginners"

#gnu #linux #gnulinux #cat #head #tail #humor

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5 Easy Steps To Crop An Image in Inkscape

Step-by-step instructions on how to use Inkscape to crop an image whether you are a beginner or advanced user.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/inkscape-crop-image/

#blog #inkscape #linux #windows #macOS #100DaysToOffload

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Sure everyone knows you can compile a .c file into a .so library

TIL you can compile a .so library back into a .c file

🤯

#programming #Linux

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Two gcc commands, one compiling autofile/_move.c into autofile/_move.so, immediately followed by one compiling autofile/_move.so into autofile/_move.c. The second command is shown to complete successfully (with code 0).

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟲/𝟭𝟱 (Valuable News - 2026/06/15) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/valuable-news-2026-06-15/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟲/𝟭𝟱 (Valuable News - 2026/06/15) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/valuable-news-2026-06-15/

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

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

The periodic between 1960s and 1990s was the Cambrian Explosion of #CPU architecture and #OS.

A single manufacturer, DEC, alone, had RSTS, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, RSX-11, VMS, Ultrix, OSF/1, and several other OSs I no longer recall. And DEC had a slew of different CPU architectures, and they each ran many other OSs made by various software companies. Also, there were loads of other hardware makers, large and small, each with a flock of different CPUs and a gaggle of different OSs.

In those days, we bitterly protested against this excess of “diversity”, on the grounds of software incompatibility, development impedance, and investment cost.

Finally, we now have that much-vaunted “uniformity” we always desired: Slackware Linux, Debian Linux, Fedora Linux, SUSE Linux, Gentoo Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Arch Linux, NixOS Linux, SELinux, …, @$&*#Linux, and they all run on the #x86.

😞 #progress 😖

The security situation with the Arch Linux AUR got a lot worse https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/the-security-situation-with-the-arch-linux-aur-got-a-lot-worse/

#Linux #ArchLinux #Security

Got my hands on an old Mac Mini 6,1 from 2012. First time ever attempted to install #Linux on #Apple hardware… Vanilla #Debian, everything, including wifi when selecting proprietary firmware… #Xfce just being so much faster than the latest MacOS update that machine received. Blown away.

🚀 #Gitte 0.7.0 is out!

- Visual commit graph with color-coded per-branch colors
- Greatly overhauled layout
- Rename detection in diffs
- Drop multiple commits at once
- Show word-based diffs more often
- Toggle recursing into untracked directories
- Shortcut (Ctrl+D) to switch between staged & unstaged

Plus many performance improvements & lots of fixes.

Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/de.wwwtech.gitte
macOS: https://gitlab.com/dehesselle/gitte_macos/-/releases/v0.7.0+36
Repo: https://codeberg.org/ckruse/Gitte

#git #gnome #linux #macos

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Idle power usage of my desktop on linux is significantly lower than on windows

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1u4lnm4/idle_power_usage_of_my_desktop_on_linux_is/

Is anyone surprised by this? #linux

RE: https://floss.social/@VolkerKrause/116741489331797800

"… Regardless of how this will eventually materialize, the direction is clear, Android isn’t going to be a viable long-term platform for FOSS software, not even in its Google-free form. I have mostly considered it a stop-gap solution until Linux on the phone is ready anyway, so this is another reason to increase the effort into that direction."

https://volkerkrause.eu/2026/06/13/kde-android-news-june-2026.html#outlook

#Linux #Google #Android #KDE #FOSS

cc @lproven