The two original StrongARM RiscPCs used to port Slackware to ARM over 20 years ago are finally reunited!

🖥️🛠️ CMOS battery swap & boot config tweaks next—then I’ll try to boot the 22-year-old dev instance. Pure nostalgia.

https://youtu.be/5uEJ0eYyhl0

#retrocomputing #slackware #linux #opensource

A call for speakers for upcoming Sydney Linux Users Group meetings. Women are especially encouraged to apply!

The meetings are held in Pyrmont on the last Friday of each month.

This is a great opportunity to highlight your work with Linux, and any interesting FOSS projects you're working on.

And by FOSS-related projects, that definitely includes stuff like working on a Fediverse app or running a Mastodon server.

#FOSS #Linux #Sydney #Australia #AskFedi #FediHelp

@aparrish let the record state that it's 2025 and there's no official Delphi-like #OpenSource RAD IDE for, say, #python. (Python's official GUI toolkit is laughably TCL/Tk). Not even $5 million can be scrounged for funding this, by, say, the #Linux Foundation, which is a sum of money which is next to nothing for them.

7 fresh stable/LTS #Linux kernels just released.

However, if you need to use IPv4 broadcast for anything (eg. Wake on LAN) you might want to wait for the next release in about a week.

All current stable kernels now have the same regression, as does mainline. Wheey! 😃

Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-n.html

Alyssa Anne Rosenzweig writes: ""In 2020, #Apple released the M1 with a custom GPU. We got to work reverse-engineering the hardware and porting Linux. Today, you can run Linux on a range of M1 and M2 Macs, with almost all hardware working: wireless, audio, and full graphics acceleration.

Our story begins […]

…Now what?

Ship a great driver? Check.

Conformant OpenGL 4.6, OpenGL ES 3.2, and OpenCL 3.0? Check.

Conformant Vulkan 1.4? Check.

Proton gaming? Check.

That’s a wrap.

We’ve succeeded beyond my dreams. The challenges I chased, I have tackled. The drivers are fully upstream in Mesa. Performance isn’t too bad. With the Vulkan on Apple myth busted, conformant Vulkan is now coming to macOS via LunarG’s KosmicKrisp project building on my work.

Satisfied, I am now stepping away from the Apple ecosystem. My friends in the #Asahi #Linux orbit will carry the torch from here. As for me?

Onto the next challenge (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/introduction-to-the-xe-hpg-architecture.html)!""

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At the book club last night someone was saying how they got IT support from relatives, and I joked that I avoided being that support by not running Windows. I was asked what I used instead, and people knew what Linux was! One of them even said that their spouse had suggested they start using it. 😃

#linux

pas mal ça https://linuxdaw.org/ #linux #daw #music

Asahi Linux is a truly an inspirational effort, illustrating what passionate people are able to achieve without any need for a financial incentive.

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-n.html

#linux #opensource

To be usable by the less savvy, the Linux desktop lacks stability. Not software stability, but organizational and human stability.

I want maintainers to have a stable income. I want apps to last a decade, instead of having to chase the next rewrite of an abandoned project.

The Linux desktop is a beautiful accident that only exists because people devote part of their lives to it, for better or worse. We ought to support it financially, as a public service.

#linux #publicGood

Je continue dans mes questions de remise à niveau #linux : #virtualbox toujours ok ? OU mieux ? Je vois Oracle maintenant... :)

(besoin de windows pour installer des vst3 / musique)

… update: my dual-boot PC setup with Win11 (eww) and Linux handles zoom video differently depending whether I boot into Win or Ubuntu.

Zoom had to manually turn on HD capability for my paid account. But HD option is still disabled in Ubuntu.

Zoom support now says: my computer *hardware* (not the camera) is insufficient for HD in Ubuntu, but sufficient in Win. 😵‍💫

It's not a dealbreaker, but it's weird. #linux

Linux app launcher Fuzzel 1.13 adds new features for menu building and usability

https://mark.stosberg.com/fuzzel-1-13-adds-new-features-for-menu-building-and-usability/?ref=mastodon

https://social.treehouse.systems/@dnkl/115044211269966689

#linux #wayland #sway #hyprland #fuzzel

Guix gets a new Rust packaging model

While Nix and NixOS get all the attention when it comes to declarative package management, there are other, competing implementations of the same general idea. Guix, developed as part of the GNU Project, was originally based on Nix, but grew into its own thing. The project recently announced a major change to how it packages Rust and its countless dependencies and

https://www.osnews.com/story/143182/guix-gets-a-new-rust-packaging-model/

#Linux

My eyes are so itchy and watery (presumably due to seasonal allergies) that I haven't been able to get much work done in the past few days. I'm writing this toot with my eyes closed most of the time. 😑

Dear #accessibility hivemind, is there an easy way to have #Orca working with a natural-sounding text-to-speech voice, that is not eSpeak, but rather something like #MyCroft's Mimic3 ?

What's the state of the art for screenreader TTS voices on #Linux and how do I get it in #Fedora?

#a11y

@joojmachine
Oh my god, Pied JUST WORKS!
I can't believe my ears!

I just installed Pied's flatpak package, let it install Piper, then downloaded the best English voice I could find ("Lessac", the basis for most other voices), and told Pied to set it as the Speech Dispatcher voice…

Now Orca sounds natural, and I can stand using it, for the first time in 20 years.

Video below demonstrates reading this post.

#Orca #SpeechDispatcher #accessibility #Pied #Linux #texttospeech

As of GNOME 49, GNOME Settings will feature a button for configuring the Orca screen reader!

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/3215

#GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #Orca #ScreenReader #ScreenReaders #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

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A screenshot of the screen reader section, with a "Screen Reader" switch row and "Configure" button

@nixCraft There should be a #nobel price for #gnu and #linux. But I am not sure in which category.

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟴/𝟮𝟱 (Valuable News - 2025/08/25) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/valuable-news-2025-08-25/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟴/𝟮𝟱 (Valuable News - 2025/08/25) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/valuable-news-2025-08-25/

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

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

@nixCraft

Historical, indeed.
...and thanks Stallman for #GNU:

Without GNU there'd be nothing open for Linus to start with or contribute to in the first place.

Imagine where we'd be at without those decisions back then?

Forced to either choose Windows or ... ? oh. Without #FOSS/GNU and #Linux, Apple would not exist anymore - and there'd be no Google too.

Wow. Thanks everyone doing GPL to provide choice and hope for all of us!

CachyOS August 2025 released, with a new packages website, LTS kernel as a fallback option, Niri WM window manager, new features in Proton-CachyOS, bootable btrfs snapshots in GRUB when choosing btrfs, and more

https://cachyos.org/blog/2508-august-release/

#cachyos #archlinux #linux #linuxlts #linuxdesktop #opensource #freesoftware

I've had a bit more time to play with @postmarketOS.

It is a joy.

I must look at how I can contribute, as this is a massively useful project, which I can see liberating numerous devices from outdated OSs in the future.

#postmarketOS #pmOS #Linux #FOSS

FFmpeg 8.0 has been released https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8.0

#opensource #linux #unix

Just so that anyone coming across this #OpenBSD idea has any questions about the #nosh user-space virtual terminals:

In nosh uservts, USB HIDs are opt-in; whereas with most kernel VTs & X11, USB HIDs are opt-out.

The administrator has to explicitly choose (in the ways laid out in user-vt-realizer-configuration(5) which allow various combinations of address, class, and ID matching) to have a #YubiKey realized as a keyboard HID on the #uservt.

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250822064253

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #Linux

what do the #linux nerds (affectionate) here use as a #console mode email client?

hopefully something that not only can read things from an IMAP server, but also keep stuff cached for offline access as well

@ken_fallon @paulgatling @klaatu Got around to looking up SparkyLinux this evening and the Web site put me off, probably forever. #Linux

Ich hab hier zwar bei weitem noch nicht so viele Follower wie drüben auf der eX-Vogelseite (pun intended), aber vielleicht mag ja jemand boosten?

Ich arbeite als "Hobbyprojekt" an einem Videotelefon für Senioren. Und es wäre echt schick, wenn sich noch ein paar Leute fänden, die das Projekt unterstützen. Boosten und Faven (auch auf andere Social-Media-Plattformen) hilft, direkt im Projekt mithelfen (Wiki pflegen, Social Media bespielen, Code schreiben, Mitbasteln) natürlich auch, und wer ein paar Euronen übrig hat, darf gerne selbst was in die Kasse werfen:

https://www.grannophone.de/unterstuetzer

#grannophone #senioren #makerfaire #hannover #make #maker #linux #voip #voipfone

Edit 1: Bild ergänzt, da es hier leider keine Linkvorschau mit Bild gibt.
Edit 2: Einen Satz entfernt, der mittlerweile keine Relevanz mehr hat.

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Drei Grannophone-Prototypen und ein Werbeschild auf einem Tisch

Why is my device a touchpad and a mouse and a keyboard?

If you have spent any time around HID devices under Linux (for example if you are an avid mouse, touchpad or keyboard user) then you may have noticed that your single physical device actually shows up as multiple device nodes (for free! and nothing happens for free these days!). If you haven't noticed this, run libinput record a

https://www.osnews.com/story/143134/why-is-my-device-a-touchpad-and-a-mouse-and-a-keyboard/

#Linux