The first scrollable tiling window manager/whatever I'm aware of was PaperWM -- that wasn't the first one, though, or was it? Anybody familiar with a prior implementation? (Not merely a "tiling" window manager -- talking about the scrollable-tiling implementation like PaperWM and niri.) #Wayland #X11 #Lazyweb #Linux #OpenSource

Primarily a C Developer ( but not just that, I haz skillz ) looking for full time job or long contract; know #NetBSD, #FreeBSD, even #OpenBSD, some #Linux when I have to.

Indeed & Monster job sites have been a huge failure over 18 months.

Can anyone help?

http://www.snert.com/resume/

https://codeberg.org/izder456/exfetch

I'd love if people would package this!

I am working on packaging for openbsd atm, more linux distros or *BSD variants would be nice

#opensource #linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd

@BrodieOnLinux @neal reminds me that I'n mad that folks suggest #Linux shoud drop #i486 support, because I do want that!

• It's bad enough #i386 got dropped…

@cleverboi @FandaSin @BrodieOnLinux @neal as for #i386 I understood why cuz it was more and more painful m, but the problem with #i486 is that in several #embedded and #industrial setups there are still newly deloyed systems based off it.

I.e. #Vortex86 #SoC's cuz #MSDOS and shit still gets used in #industrial equipment.

• And #Linux is kinda necessary to keep that rollin'...

Linux stopped supporting i386 with versions 3.4.99 (longterm) & 3.6.9 respectably.

• And unlike with i386 where none of the toolchain (#musl) and utilities (#toybox) supoort it, i486 is still supported there.

And I really want t o continue developing a minimalist "rescue" distro that can handle.such legacy hardware because it may be the only option to ddrescue stuff from certain systems or to properly & reproduceably backup & restore them!

@cleverboi @FandaSin @BrodieOnLinux @neal @rasteri

Granted #Linux could rather drop support for other, more nieche architectures, but that doesn't make it better.

• Obviously #NetBSD takes over the "runs on everything" role, but that's becaise they didn't axe #i386...

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#BillGates and #LinusTorvalds just met each other for the first time

(The other two are Mark Russinovich and Dave Cutler)

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/markrussinovich_i-had-the-thrill-of-a-lifetime-hosting-dinner-activity-7341857033932914691-f5Kw

#Linux #Microsoft #Windows

Alt...

Marc Russinovich, Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, Dave Cutler

Wanted: OSS life apps, subscription or self-hosted all good 💯 opinions are requested 💝
- Prefer group of OSS apps, but "Best in Class" list also good
- Requires cross-platform via either web-based, but ideally Android and Linux/BSD native apps
- Prefer not using NextCloud (due to PHP) but open to compromising if necessary
- Terminal access / TUI also yes wonderful
- Examples: reminders, notes, caldav, webdav, docs, etc

Tired of google services, tired of mozilla products, can't do apple anymore, burnt out on enshittification.

#oss #foss #development #linux #freebsd

France quietly deployed 100,000+ Linux machines in their police force - GendBuntu is a silent EU tech success story

https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1lfxdsd/france_quietly_deployed_100000_linux_machines_in/

Well done. Let us get free from Microsoft spyware OS. They are not trustworthy vendors, and all taxpayers' money should go to fund open-source apps/software and not to Bill Gates' fortune.

#linux #OpenSource

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From Reddit post: France quietly deployed 100,000+ Linux machines in their police force - GendBuntu is a silent EU tech success story I wanted to spotlight a quietly massive success story in European digital sovereignty: GendBuntu — France’s custom Ubuntu distribution used by the National Gendarmerie. The GendBuntu project derives from Microsoft's decision to end the development of Windows XP Back in 2005, France’s Gendarmerie began switching from Microsoft products to open-source software — starting with OpenOffice. Fast forward to 2024, and GendBuntu(Linux) is now running on 97% of their workstations (over 103,000 computers!). France has shown what’s possible when a government actually backs open-source, in-house, and EU-grown solutions. More countries should follow suit. Source - Reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1lfxdsd/france_quietly_deployed_100000_linux_machines_in/

Question for anyone out there on fedi with experience:

My mum has increasingly bad ataxia: very wobbly hands and feet. She's got to the point of barely being able to write legibly. Using a mouse is also getting difficult, but she can still use a keyboard at this point.

Are there assistive technologies or techniques that she might be able to use on her Ubuntu machine that would reduce or eliminate the need to use a mouse?

#Ataxia #Accessibility #Ubuntu #Linux

I note that isc-dhcp-server is now deprecated in #Debian

Can anyone recommend a DHCP server for Debian?

Want to be able to configure fixed IPs for specified MAC addresses, and have a failover server.

#Debian
#Linux
#DHCP

From Collaborators to Consumers: Have We Killed the Soul of Open Source?

The Open Source community is becoming increasingly polarized. From the "distro wars" to Wayland vs. X11, the spirit of collaboration is fading. Are we shifting from "collaborators" to "consumers", and what can we do to build bridges instead of walls?

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/06/19/from-collaborators-to-consumers-have-we-killed-the-soul-of-open-source/

#OpenSource #OSS #Linux #BSD

For the past week, I've been so angry and disappointed in the Linux community for being quiet in regards to any kind of celebration to advancing accessibility, but suddenly being vocal and supportive when privileged people start writing about how bad accessibility on Linux while portraying contributors as the devils who don't care about anybody.

I'm so exhausted. I'm so demotivated. The Linux community really doesn't care about accessibility on Linux. No wonder accessibility on Linux sucks. No one wants to work on it because they keep getting bullied and pressured.

https://tesk.page/2025/06/18/its-true-we-dont-care-about-accessibility-on-linux/

#a11y #Accessibility #Linux #FOSS #GNOME #KDE

Is there an opensource tool to find ideal frames to loop a video at?

#askfedi #opensource #linux

Thanks to all our customers who run their own #selfhosting #NetBSD VMs with us for helping with this migration. Our #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD VMs were already running HVM. Yes, we #RunBSD and provide hosting in our UK datacentres (also #Windows and #Linux as required)

CVE-2025-5689 😂🙃

Fire up your "anyone we don't know gets root!" account SSH sessions to gain unmitigated control over Ubuntu systems running "Systemd AuthD"

Clown shoes over there, ffs how is this even a real CVE 🤦🏼‍♀️

- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5689
- https://github.com/ubuntu/authd/security/advisories/GHSA-g8qw-mgjx-rwjr

#systemd #uhuhuhubuntu #ubuntu #infosec #cve #noreally #linux #authd

My #Linux system's uptime is staring at me.
I'm staring back.
One of us is going to need a reboot (it's not me).

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Want to run the given command in the background as root or other user? Try:
```
sudo -b /path/to/job.py
sudo --background /path/to/foo.pl
sudo -u {user_name} -b /path/to/job.py
```
Please note that you can't use shell job control to manipulate background processes started by sudo which is both pro and con at a time.

#linux #unix #sudo #tips #tricks #sysadmin #devops

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