Hey, Linux people: a LOT of folks are screaming off Windows right now.

Be. Kind. To. Them.

They don't know much yet, so they are going to ask really basic questions. If you're KIND, you might get some to give it a try and stick to it bc they know they can ask for help. If you're unkind, you're showing them using Linux will be *worse* than Windows. If you can't bring yourself to be kind, then SAY NOTHING. Let others pick up that slack.

#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Linux #Ubuntu #Debian #LinuxMint

This is AMIga Window Manager (amiwm) is a stacking window manager for the X Window System
https://www.lysator.liu.se/~marcus/amiwm.html Sadly it is not updated any more (last update was in 2010).

#unix #linux #history

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A screeshot of amiwm is an X window manager for Linux and Unix.

There's a new #Linux distro in development, #omarchy headed by DHH of Ruby on Rails fame.

He feels good enough about it to make the default OS for his employees at 37 Signals.

Rather than attempt to copy Mac or Windows, it leans into a distinct aesthetic with tiling window management and no toolbars on terminal apps and some web apps.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/all-in-on-omarchy-at-37signals-68162450

Right now Omarchy is #ArchLinux + #hyprland plus some scripts and customizations.

TIL that software (especially #scripting runtimes like #Python, #Perl, and #NodeJS) running in #Alpine #Linux containers is often slower than in other distros like #Ubuntu. This is despite Alpine being faster on startup and often vastly more efficient with CPU, memory, and storage.

It mostly comes down to Alpine’s use of musl libc rather than #GNU’s glibc. musl is optimized for minimalism, not raw performance. Also, the Alpine packages are often not compiled with as many optimizations.

@deborahh On Mastodon we have some very kind #Linux specialists who can help laypeople with such problems. This problem with #canon interests me, too, because I am still unsure to change to Linux (and have a Canon printer).

#fedihelp #linuxhelp

There's been a flood of Debian 13 users sending bug reports to upstream(s) again.

A lot of them are closed as "fixed in newer version."

The bug reports are appreciated, but they're going to wrong place! Please report them to Debian directly!

#Debian #Linux

@CppGuy @Lydie I'm going to be honest because it's Mastodon; as soon as I saw 'display driver' I was like, "Yeah, except for that.' I've only been using #Linux for a few years. I still get too excited.

A new #blog post appears!

I discovered that the GNU D compiler has been broken on FreeBSD 14 for over a year and it seems no one noticed. Let's discover the issue and brainstorm some solutions to it.

A great case study for why operating system package maintainers matter.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250813.html

#dlang #dlanguage #freebsd #bsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #unix #gcc #gdc #gnu #compiler #compilers #d #linux #opensource #freesoftware

Ceci n'est pas Linux.

#illumos #SmartOS #Debian #Linux

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The default Apache Debian index.html - but actually running inside a LX zone on SmartOS

I've never hidden my admiration for #illumos-based systems. I have a few setups based on #OmniOS and #SmartOS, and they're solid as a rock. I like them both: OmniOS is more "malleable", while SmartOS is more of a hypervisor like #xcp-ng or #xen - meaning you install it on the host and delegate everything else to the zones.

I also love #FreeBSD jails, but zones sometimes cover use cases that jails can't (and vice versa). For example, imposing RAM limits in jails works, but it effectively "denies more ram" to a process when it requests more memory. The end user doesn't see this directly. On illumos, the user sees everything. I have some `lx` zones with Debian and Virtualmin, and users have never noticed that they aren't really on #Linux. A free or top will show only the assigned RAM.

And that's one of the biggest problems with open-source operating systems: they all have something good, and I always feel the urge to use them all! 🙂

#OpenSource #IT #SysAdmin

Dear #Linux Distributions,

Please switch to #BSDTar by default. It's the archive Swiss Army Knife, able to read many, many additional file formats thanks to #libarchive.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk,

#WinningWithBSD

If you're running Nextcloud on top of Apache2 on Debian 12 server and after upgrading to Debian 13 server it refuses to start up again, do the following:

a2dismod php8.2
a2enmod php8.4
systemctl restart apache2

At least that was what I needed to do.

#Nextcloud #Apache2 #Debian #Linux

I cannot say what a relief it is to work with a computer for hours and not see a single, intrusive, "Try This AI Feature Now!!!"
#linux #ubuntu

#RunBSD #dragonflybsd #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Linux

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟴/𝟭𝟭 (Valuable News - 2025/08/11) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/valuable-news-2025-08-11/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟴/𝟭𝟭 (Valuable News - 2025/08/11) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/valuable-news-2025-08-11/

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

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

Think Linux desktop market share isn't over 6%? This 15 million-system scan says otherwise
https://www.zdnet.com/article/think-linux-desktop-market-share-isnt-over-6-this-15-million-system-scan-says-otherwise/ by @sjvn

The #Linux desktop has finally taken off.

When I reboot my laptop's cell modem by running /reset, /remove, and rescan, the CPU becomes blocked from entering C-states deeper than 3, resulting in an appreciable increase in power consumption. #Linux #lang_en

I think I've gotten further with this #FreeBSD #wine issue, knowledge-wise. The program I run for it does some live patching in memory (basically reads in a .dll and binary patches it in memory)

This all runs just fine in #Linux but fails in FreeBSD.

The system call I could find for it in WINE debugging was: KERNEL32.ReadProcessMemory

I also get this dreaded message:
wineserver: file_set_error() can't map error: Cannot allocate memory

This is FreeBSD 14.3, wine-devel 10.12.
Have tried disabling ASLR, enabling W^X (which I know is bad), have tried both 64-bit and 32-bit (WINEARCH=win32) prefixes. Same problem happens.

Is FreeBSD preventing WINE programs from reading each others' memory? I don't even know if it even got to the write part, it couldn't read it at all.

Please boost far and wide and many thanks in advance to anyone in the FreeBSD gaming community who might know the answer here (or a friendly FreeBSD dev?)

@nixCraft

80 to 90% of the web is served on linux computers, Microsoft owned servers, serving Windows products, are linux.

If Intel can't provide linux kernel code for their hardware, they will stop selling hardware.

#linux #kernel #intel

New #blog post:

"'Here's what I do' versus 'You should'"

A bit of a gripe about people who tell others what they *should* do.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2025/08/heres-what-i-do-versus-you-should/

#fedimeta #Linux #FOSS

Debian 13 "Trixie" released with official support for riscv64, HTTP boot support, 64-bit time_t ABI, GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, Xfce 4.20, LXQt 2.1, Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS

https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/index.en.html

#debian #debian13 #linux

@nixCraft It's because the Linux desktop market doesn't generate nearly the profits the server market does. Unfortunately.

Traditionally, the corporate #Linux distros' desktop lineup is more limited than the standard desktop distros. Fewer bundled packages and supported third party packages.

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#Linux #Arch #ArchLinux #LinuxMint #LinuxGaming #Fedora #Debian #Ubuntu #Desktop #FOSS #Privacy #Security #OpenSource #Microsoft #Windows #TechNews #CyberSecurity #UserFreedom #Freedom #Tech #Technology #AI #OS #MacOS

My home desktop - 1 March 2000 - a Pentium 233 MMX.
The OS was Debian Linux - you can see a printed Tux near the keyboard.
No broadband connection, just a 56k modem.
Iomega Zip drive - so I could download stuff at Uni and bring it back home.
One year later, this became my first 24/7 server.

#IT #SysAdmin #Linux #Debian #Throwback #Memories #Vintage #OldPhotos #OldTimes #OldNerd #OldMe #VintageSetup

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A late 1990s - early 2000s computer setup on a white desk, featuring a large beige Sony CRT monitor, a beige tower PC with front-facing floppy disk and CD-ROM drives, an external 56k modem, a beige keyboard, and various scattered items such as CDs, cables, and glasses. Behind the monitor is a large black Sony speaker, and a motorcycle poster hangs on the wall. The photo’s timestamp reads “1.3.2000.”

Dans les choix de laptop (pour #linux) je vois encore le concours : intel versus amd. La différence est forte aujourd'hui ?

Je trainais mes #apple depuis le rachat de la boite par la boite zombie. Bon avec Tim Cook c'est plus possible. Je reviens à #linux (linux de 95 à 2021 hein ok me brisez pas les croustillons). Quel laptop vous conseillez ? Lésinez pas ! merci !

"backdoor" is the new "virus" in overused and wrongly applied terminology.

Over at the facesite I came across a piece (Not linking to that sh*t) about "Linux malware PLAGUE" which describes a piece of software that is useful *post-compromise* to whoever wants to hide their tracks.

Not a backdoor because it requires already established access. #cybercrime #backdoor #security #linux #fluff

@nixCraft

I will stay wait a couple of weeks to distribute server load.

#Debian #Linux