I found this is misleading, but I read this protest a lot around, and while I understand it, I think it is a misunderstanding.
Linux never got has goal to make run forever all kind of hardware. It is a misconception because the hardware support is longer and many used it for old machines, but this is coincidental, not a stated goal.

If you need a OS that runs "forever" on everything, that's NetBSD: running everywhere is their goal.

https://invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch?v=8vDSSxaQ7ZU

#foss #linux #netbsd

Perhaps what is really needed around is more awareness to alternatives to Linux too, not just for Windows/MacOsX.

A lot of these drivers that are getting removed from Linux, along the 32bit, are niches that can fall into retrocomputing at this point.
If you fall in it, I could suggest you to pick NetBSD, that has the 32 bit support along many things.
You could even run it on an Amiga68k (the CLASSIC hardware!) even if is a low priority port.

https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/

#foss #linux #netbsd

This #FreeBSD bug is exactly why #HardenedBSD makes using the Linuxulator incredibly difficult and painful: emulation/compatibility layers are extremely complex and tend to have weird issues that can turn into exploitable vulnerabilities if one isn't careful.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=297426

#Linux #infosec

Où voir l'éclipse ce soir ?
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#SelfHosted #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux

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Carte interactive montrant les meilleurs spots pour observer l'éclipse du 12 août 2026 près de Montpellier, avec un score de qualité de 97% de couverture et trois emplacements recommandés à proximité.

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https://nikolays.github.io/PGSimCity/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Gonna run a different poll, this one on #OS stuff, namely: have you used (on Intel/AMD hardware) anything other than #Windows, #Linux, or #BSD for more than a quick experimental trial?

EDIT: made it multiple choice. And I'm hoping to find out if anyone's managed to use a weird operating system regularly

Gonna run a different poll, this one on #OS stuff, namely: have you used (on Intel/AMD hardware) anything other than #Windows, #Linux, or #BSD for more than a quick experimental trial?

A wild #blog post appears!

I discuss a new #research publication: an empirical evaluation of the #OpenBSD -fret-clean flag. We examine the history of the mitigation, measure its costs, and deliberate whether or not it is worth keeping.

Worth the read if you like security and/or compilers.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20260811.html

#freebsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #bsd #linux #unix #solaris #illumos #compiler #compilers #llvm #gcc #rop #cybersecurity #cybersec #cyber #security #infosec #informationsecurity

@thomholwerda almost all Linux desktops appear to be slop-infested as per their own policy,, including KDE, GNOME, LxQt, XFCE, and more.

River is the only desktop project I've found so far that bans AI: https://codeberg.org/river/river#strict-no-llm-no-ai-policy But that one also needs a WM, where the only one alike a regular desktop is perhaps this one: https://gitlab.gwdg.de/leonhenrik.plickat/tarazed But doesn't even have a basic task bar, from what I can tell.

TL;DR: it's looking grim in beginner-friendly desktop land when it comes to LLM use.

#aislop #sloppening #slop #ai #opensource #linux #desktop #foss #floss #noai

> Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' #Linux kernel updates the new normal. https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/08/10/linus-torvalds-says-ai-has-made-huge-linux-kernel-updates-the-new-normal/5285268

One *major* concern I have about this, entirely aside from any concerns about generative #AI? Are these massive pushes to the git repos getting enough human eyes on them to make certain no one is sneaking in Trojans and Back Doors? (Even accidentally, given the way #LLMs work…)

#security

RE: https://cyberpunk.lol/@mxchara/117072168428690503

I decided to put in the "other graphical environment" without knowing whether such a thing exists for #Linux or #BSD partly as a place for things like HaikuOS or Redox (which hasn't worked for me yet), but also because I've wondered whether such a thing couldn't exist. Why not simply start from scratch using OpenGL or libsdl or something similar in order to handle the low-level graphics?

There's answers to that of course, lack of interoperability, but it would seem a reasonable stopgap to implement an X11 server like Wayland does.

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟴/𝟭𝟬 (Valuable News - 2026/08/10) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/valuable-news-2026-08-10/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟴/𝟭𝟬 (Valuable News - 2026/08/10) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/valuable-news-2026-08-10/

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

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

Dembrandt : extrait le design system d'un site en une commande, couleurs, typo, ombres, logo. Export en tokens W3C, intégration MCP pour Claude Code ou Cursor, suivi du drift via CI. ⬇️
https://github.com/dembrandt/dembrandt

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Dembrandt est un outil qui convertit automatiquement le design d'un site web en tokens de design réutilisables, permettant d'extraire couleurs, typographies, bordures et autres éléments visuels en une seule commande.

Posta : plateforme d'envoi et de réception d'e-mails self-hosted, alternative à SendGrid ou Mailgun. API HTTP, templates versionnés, gestion des bounces, tracking, campagnes, webhooks inbound, sans dépendre d'un tiers pour votre infrastructure mail. ⬇️
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#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Tableau de bord de Posta, une plateforme d'envoi d'e-mails auto-hébergée, affichant des statistiques clés : 579 e-mails envoyés, un taux de livraison de 88,1%, ainsi que des graphiques de volume d'envoi et des métriques de webhooks avec un taux de succès de 100%.

When you do:

usermod -a -G libvrit bob

..the -a is very important. Saying this as a former member of the sudoers group.

#Linux #Unix #facepalm

New 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗦𝗜 [FreeBSD Storage for OpenShift with Democratic CSI] article on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/09/freebsd-openshift-democratic-csi/

#verblog #freebsd #linux #openshift #kubernetes #k8s #k3s #csi #miami #storage

Okay, this is literally incomprehensible: on my Alpine v3.24 VPS, drill github.com, nslookup github.com, getent ahosts github.com, ping github.com, lynx https://github.com/, and manually sending hand-written queries to the configured DNS servers all return/use the correct IPv4 address, and return nothing as expected when querying for AAAA records.

And yet, curl and git both have completely nonsense IPv6 addresses returned (they're random Cloudflare addresses) alongside the correct IPv4 address, and then prioritize them. Those tools also completely ignore any overrides in /etc/hosts.

There is literally no possible source for those addresses to be returned when resolving github.com AFAICT and no way to override them other than having to edit literally everything that might touch github to add -4 to those utilities' command lines

#Linux #AlpineLinux

Do mini PCIe hardware security modules or standalone cryptographically strong pRNGs exist? If they do, where can I get one? NetBSD is complaining about low entropy (laptop from 2011) & suggests I keysmash, use an entropy file, or get a USB pRNG. I would prefer to have all of my USB ports free.

I have no idea where to find such a thing & I can't even find USB HSMs besides the one that YubiCo sells. The closest thing I have found is a bunch of TPM2 chips with SPI headers on them & I don't think I have any free SPI connectors in the laptop. For now I'll use an entropy file but I would rather do something better like using a proper RNG device.

I think people watching these tags might know more than I can find with a search engine. Thank you.

#Security #BSD #NetBSD #Linux #Cryptography

#surrealchan can't sleep

#unix_surrealism #comic #fossangel #ai #linux

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Surrealchan can't sleep. She invokes the Fossangel by a prayer. It appears. Fossangel: "I heard a prayer... You wanted to ask something?" Surrealchan: "Fossangel, why do AI generated penguins have human hands?" Fossangel: "Are you fucking serious?" Surrealchan: "I guess..." Fossangel: "Do you have an idea how much power is wasted on me answering to such a meaningless prayer?" Surrealchan: "Nowhere close to generating a penguin?" Fossangel: "Smartass."

#NetBSD uptime

#Linux #runbsd

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#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Alexandrie : wiki self-hosted open source à déployer en une commande Docker, avec un éditeur Markdown étendu (LaTeX, diagrammes, blocs personnalisés), gestion multi-équipes, SSO OIDC et backups S3. PWA offline-first, fonctionne sans dépendance cloud. ⬇️
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#SelfHosted #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux

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Kaneo : un outil de gestion de projet open source (MIT) pensé pour rester hors du chemin. Interface minimaliste, self-hosted, déploiement via Docker Compose ou en une commande avec le CLI drim. 4 000 étoiles sur GitHub. ⬇️
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#SelfHosted #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux

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Capture d'écran de l'interface de Kaneo, un outil open source de gestion de projet, affichant un tableau Kanban avec des colonnes "To Do", "In Progress", "In Review" et "Done", accompagné du slogan "All you need. Nothing you don't."

superfile : un gestionnaire de fichiers pour le terminal, construit avec Go et Bubble Tea. Panneaux multiples, recherche fuzzy, prévisualisation d'images, thèmes (Catppuccin, Nord, Dracula…), plugins. Open source, MIT. ⬇️
https://superfile.dev/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Capture d'écran de **Superfile**, un gestionnaire de fichiers moderne pour terminal, affichant une interface multi-panneaux avec arborescence de fichiers et code source Go, sur fond sombre.

usbtree : visualiser l'arbre de périphériques USB dans le terminal, sans root, sans libusb. Binaire statique en Rust, moins de 2 Mo. Sur Linux, on obtient en plus des métriques d'activité en temps réel par device (URBs/s, et bytes/s via usbmon en root). ⬇️
https://github.com/gnomeria/usbtree

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Attending #Fossy this week! Topic is open source so it has a wide range of talk tracks: open source governance & community, right to repair, legal issues, kernel dev, KDE, databases.

Fave talks yesterday were on installing Linux on Chromebooks for daily use, and state of right to repair/iFixit. Looking forward to legal and fedicon today.

Streaming appears to be free if you want to join https://2026.fossy.ca/livestream/

#opensource #linux #RightToRepair