@dfloyd888

I do love debian, although I'd kill for a yearly release cycle XD

#Linux running #btrfs and snubbing #ZFS (although I understand the license is... horricle) is the Linux equivalent to "Americans will use ANYTHING but use the metric system"

5 Linux servers that let you ditch the public cloud and reclaim your privacy - for free https://zdnet.com/article/personal-digital-sovereignty-choices-free-linux-servers/ via @ZDNet & @sjvn

What are your #Linux-based Personal Digital Sovereignty choices?

Linux 7.0 Officially Concluding The Rust Experiment - Phoronix

｢ formally concluding the "Rust experiment" with upstream kernel developers now in acceptance that Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stay ｣

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-Rust

#rust #linux #opensource

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Adventures in Guix packaging

We talked about Nemin's first impressions of the Guix System as someone coming from a Nix environment, but today they've got a follow-up article diving into the experience of creating new packages for Guix.

I spent about a week packaging WezTerm and learning the ropes of being a Guix contributor along the way.

During the packaging process I stumble many times, only to stand

https://www.osnews.com/story/144359/adventures-in-guix-packaging/

#Linux

Episode 3 of Dark Blue Weekly released

https://darkblueraven.com/sites/news/dbw-e3.php

#darkblueweekly #darkblueraven #freesoftware #opensource #linux #linuxfromscratch #cosmicdesktop #system76 #kdelinux #libreoffice

I saw this on a Finnish post, so let me reformulate it a bit and post it in English.

Finnish universities 1996:

"Here's an operating system we created for you. Here's a chat network we created you can use with the operating system."

Finnish universities 2026:

"We don't know how to replace Facebook for public communications."

Learned helplessness.

#Linux #IRC #Finland #Suomi

Since some people have asked me if I they could collaborate on my rust IPS work, I decided to publish the Repo now on @Codeberg
https://codeberg.org/Toasterson/ips

Note: illumos is the main OS using this package manager but we should make this available for many operatingsystems as we can,

Happy if someone makes ipsOS based on linux aswell. (Please choose a better name though)

The Goal is to bring the IPS innovations to as many people as possible.

#illumos #Rust #Linux

New blog post: Dark Blue Weekly published

https://darkblueraven.com/sites/blog/dark-blue-weekly-published.php

By the way, 2 episodes are already published.

#darkblueweekly #darkblueraven #opensource #freesoftware #linux #bsd

Dummy question.

On one of my Kali Linux installations there isn't enough space on /boot. So, installing a new kernel image fails.

Usually this is caused by having too many old kernels installed. But I my case I only have the running kernel installed. But the initrds have a size of ~200MB. As the initrds on a different Kali system are only around 125 MB I wonder if something goes wrong creating the initrds? Any ideas what I should check?

#Kali #Linux

What are #linux folks using for reminders and calendar? I use apple products and have always used apple reminders and calendar. Switching to linux has me flummoxed. I need cross platform compatibility.

What does `git pump out` do? Wrong answers only

#Linux #Git

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A fire hydrant pump? Stencil font is cut out saying "post office square Git pump out"

Quick hallway usability poll for #Linux #CLI users: if you were running a program to print selected lines from a file, what syntax would you want to use to tell it which lines to choose? Example use cases for inspiration:

- print only line 12
- print lines 15 through 42
- print the first 10 lines
- print the last 10 lines
- print the 100th-last to 90th-last lines
- print every third line
- print every other line between the 10th and 50th

and so on. (No need for a complete answer; I'll take any constructive input whatsoever)

(yes I am writing this, more as an excuse to learn Rust than anything else, but I do want to make a good go at it)

It's time for an #introduction.

I'm glad to meet you! I'm the barista and main administrator of the bsd.cafe and illumos.cafe instances (and other projects), a computer science enthusiast who's been fascinated by technology since childhood. I'm a big supporter of open-source solutions and enjoy working with #BSDs as well as #illumos based OSes and #Linux systems. I enjoy #music and #photography. I've been an avid traveler and am now looking forward to getting back to traveling.I'm married to a wonderful wife and strive to live each day with a positive attitude,making the most of every day to improve our lives.

I like writing blog articles, especially tech ones (https://it-notes.dragas.net) and, from time to time, some of them are widely appreciated, especially in the open-source community.

Thank you for passing by and reading my introduction, enjoy your stay here in the #fediverse

I do enjoy a desktop environment that allows you to _easily_ create an old skool right-click menu on your desktop.

There's some quirks to configuring the ordering, not sure if I'll need to hand edit the menu once I get it most of the way there.

For a mutli-head setup this avoids having to have an Application Launcher on every screen, but it does require access to unobscured desktop in order to work.

And my nerdy part likes the '80s-'90s UNIX desktop vibes it creates. Ha.

#Linux #RunBSD #KDE #KDEPlasma #desktop #DesktopEnvironment #GUI #UX

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Cropped screenshot showing the KDE Menu Editor app with the resultant right-click desktop menu beside it. Nothing fancy, just basic usability and customization.

I was asked about the @Vivaldi Browser. It is a powerful tool and has some nice features, but I cannot recommend it because it is not fully open source. Following GNU Freedom 1, I believe users must have the right to study and change their software, not just audit some of the files.

With Firefox now introducing a one click AI opt out in version 148, it remains the superior recommendation for people who value privacy and code transparency over proprietary UI features. Don't get me wrong, I am completely #NoAI but knowing a browser has a toggle I can verify is better than trusting a corporation’s word.

Vivaldi claims only 5% is proprietary, yet they keep it closed to prevent forks. They benefit from the open-source community while intentionally blocking others from doing the same. That is hypocritical.

For most people, @librewolf and @zenbrowser remain my top recommendations.

#Vivaldi #FOSS #OpenSource #Librewolf #Zen #GNU #Linux #GNULinux #NoAI #TerminalTilt

Legend for a reason 💪

#linux #git

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DID YOU KNOW? Without Linux, we wouldn’t have Git. When the Linux team lost free access to their management tool, BitKeeper, in 2005, Linus Torvalds built his own replacement in just weeks. That tool now powers almost every major coding platform. Linux didn’t just give us an operating system; it built the foundation for how the world collaborates on code. git logo Follow us IT’S FOSS

I've got a weird issue with #XWayland. It's not a total deal-breaker, but it's just a bit annoying...

(I'm running KDE Plasma 6.3.6 on Debian Trixie (stable))

My laptop display (left) is set to 1.85x scaling. My 1080p display (right) is set to 1x.

If I don't turn on the option to manually scale XWayland applications ("Legacy applications (X11): Scaled by the system"), the X11 applications I use look SMALLER than normal on my main (right) screen. Left screen too, IIRC.

If I DO turn on that option ("Scaled by the system"), then the applications look great on the main (1x) screen, but they're of course a blurry mess on the left (1.85x) screen.

I thought the setting meant that the applications would be smaller than normal (unscaled) on the left screen, but they're actually tiny on both screens.

Any ideas?

#Linux #Wayland #X11 #AskFedi #HiveMind

Installing #Slackware #Linux using #vmm on #OpenBSD. Got some help from this video on getting the console to display correctly in the terminal. ​ #RunBSD #BSD #virtualization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZnM-T6Os-s

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Screenshot of MATE Desktop on OpenBSD showing MATE System Monitor on the lower right showing brief system information, and MATE Terminal maximized underneath the System Monitor showing three terminal tabs, but focused on the left one where the Slackware installation process is taking place via a serial console connection to vmm. It's waiting for me to select a partition on which to install Slackware, and highlighted on device /dev/sda2 which is 8 gigabytes.

@feld @lattera @drwho

Digging into the talk page of the article on the FAT filesystem and Linux, one finds that, back in 2009, #Wikipedia people thought the same thing. (-:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/UMSDOS

It was past tense even then. Linux 2.6 had come out some 6 years beforehand.

Amusingly, the Linux Documentation Project has a UMSDOS how-to written in the present tense that has not been updated since 2001.

#FAT #Linux #UMSDOS #LinuxDocumentationProject

The Open Invention Network looks to the future of open-source patent protection https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/the-open-invention-network-looks-to-the-future-of-open-source-patent-protection by @sjvn

The OIN has expanded the #Linux System Definition and changed its financing model. #OpenSource

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DDWrap provides a graphical interface around the `dd` command that allows you to do things easily.

https://github.com/HarderLemonade/ddwrap/

It maybe useful to many users.

#unix #linux #opensource

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a screenshot of DDWrap GUI tool. it a lightweight, safety-focused Qt GUI wrapper for dd, written in Python