I am building gcc-15.1.0 on my iMac G4 (Tiger) machine. It is on stage2, which is a good sign.

It will include C, C++, Fortran, Modula-2, Objective C, and Objective C++ compilers.

It will depend on my new PowerPC Mac OS X modernization library, libpcc: https://github.com/ibara/libppc

I'll write a blog post about how to use it once it is all compiled; my goal is to produce a turnkey solution that just works(TM), including assembler, linker, and other utilities, as recent as possible for PowerPC.

And libppc can be instantly extendable to incorporate more C11 and later features. Hopefully others in the retro Mac community are interested in building that up with me.

My ultimate goal is to build some flavor of WebKit some day and have a modern web experience (even if slow, and possibly using X11). But in the meantime we will probably build a lot of excellent modern software to keep these machines going.

#gcc #compiler #compilers #c #unix #linux #macos #macosx #osx #apple #powerpc #retro #retrocomputing #bsd #mac #macintosh

Are there any #linux distros left which support i586?
I'd like to install it on an EBOX-553350DX2, Vortex86DX2 A9125 CPU.
I've tried Netboot.xyz - Gentoo and Arch fail to load, Debian wants the CMOV extension, Kali wants i686, and Alpine kinda tries to load then barfs.
The only OS I've had success with (so far) is OpenBSD 7.6.

The meaning of life, according to my #Linux server, is to silently serve files until the power goes out, at which point it enters a profound state of unresponsive thought

How to build and run a minimal Linux: compile kernel, create an initramfs, embed BusyBox and test it with QEMU - Article by David Legrand #Linux https://labs.davlgd.fr/posts/2024-05-whats-a-minimal-linux/

I run ls -l.
I run grep.
I run awk.
This is my #Linux file manager. It is simple and that is what I signed up for 😌

So, known parties tirelessly work to make Linux a new Windows. Gnome announces even harder dependency on systemd.
GDM will depend on systemd userdb infrastructure. gnome-session will use systemd service manager instead of its own code that "has received very minimal attention in the 17 years since it was first written".
As per article, even now they do not test Gnome in non-systemd environments.
It's like a writing on the wall.
https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2025/06/10/gnome-systemd-dependencies/
#Gnome #Linux #systemd

@AdrianVovk Hey Adrian, I'm curious if you're familiar with the benefits of software diversity. #GNOME forcing #systemd seems to be at odds with the concept of software diversity.

I really like the #FreeBSD #devsummit presentation given earlier today (2025-06-11) on the topic of OS diversity. I'm wondering if I could ask you to watch it, in the hopes that it inspires you (and the broader GNOME development community).

In a nutshell, software (and hardware!) diversity keeps us safe. Building a software monoculture that requires systemd will inevitably decrease overall security posture.

I understand some of the points you make in your blog post. I fear that if GNOME continues down this path, projects downstream from GNOME (like the BSDs in their ports/pkgsrc trees) will feel undue headaches and burdens.

Can you help address my concerns and fears?

Link to the presentation: https://www.youtube.com/live/0DdnAgKLdG8#t=7017

#infosec #Linux

Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for #LibreOffice and #Linux https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-denmark-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-libreoffice-and-linux/ by @sjvn

Europe doesn't trust the US government or its tech powers, so its countries are looking elsewhere.

There was a presentation at today's #FreeBSD developer summit about the importance of OS diversity. The presenter made several convincing arguments towards the need for continued OS diversity.

I wonder how well that presentation would be received at #GNOME.

When the individual presentations are published, I'll reply to this post. Until then, the live stream is here: https://www.youtube.com/live/0DdnAgKLdG8?si=0LTqHI3CziWfUxEo

#linux #infosec #RunBSD #WinWithBSD

This is a screen capture of KDE Connect on one of my Androids.

As you can clearly see my LAN has quite an amount of devices. All of these devices are being used by me.
They have specific purposes which makes my Android experience along with my Computing experience versatile and efficient.

I did not know how important KDE connect was for me. When I learned about it, I knew that it doesn't just enrich what I can do

KDE Connect is not a gimmick where I can control a Media Player, without any network connectivity by itself, from any of my KDE Connect devices. Many different functions can be handled smoothly without any problems, with the highest Speed that my wLAN can deliver from the point of my view of the LAN routers I have in my network.

Right now I'm using a wLAN router that is portable. This enables me to have the most efficient data transfer Speed between the devices I have on me without any snooping from any Big Company.

#KDE #Connect #KDEConnect #LAN #wLAN #network #Android #Linux #POSIX #OpenSource #portable

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The image shows a mobile device screen displaying the "KDE Connect Devices" interface. The background is dark, and the text is white, providing a clear contrast. At the top, the time "03:07" is displayed, along with various status icons, including a Wi-Fi signal, battery level at 79%, and signal strength. The main title "KDE Connect Devices" is centered at the top, with a menu icon on the left and three vertical dots on the right. Below the title, there is a message stating, "Other devices running KDE Connect in your same network should appear here." The screen is divided into two sections: "Connected devices" and "Remembered devices." Under "Connected devices," three devices are listed: "SM-A260G," "Xiaomi Redmi A2 Blakka," and "Galaxy A2 Core Lucāa," each accompanied by a smartphone icon. Under "Remembered devices," four devices are listed: "Devakprata," "Xiaomi Note 12S," "Polawiri," and "Krishna," each with a computer monitor icon. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.269 Wh

After 20 years of using #pf on #BSD and only dabbling in iptables when I absolutely had to in #Linux, nftables looks like an unreadable, incomprehensible shitshow; A crayon scrawl by a toddler of weird nat and mangle chains that make no sense.

The Linux developers would have been much better off porting pf to Linux.

You know it’s bad when you spend more time compiling the open source software on #Linux than actually using it
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Heads up: The next version, Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka," is making a big change. They are getting rid of the Xorg system for the Ubuntu desktop. Starting with this release the “Ubuntu” session in GDM will run exclusively on Wayland. https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-25-10-drops-support-for-gnome-on-xorg/62538 #linux #OpenSource

Is everything terrible again? Let's focus on something completely different. Do you write amazing, perfect code on Linux or the BSDs? Well stop reading and get out. For the rest of us, how do we secure our systems? I've put together a survey on Source Code Sandboxing, https://kristaps.bsd.lv/devsecflops, which surveys the practical complexity and uptake of sandbox tools like seccomp, landlock, pledge, and capsicum.

If you've ever interfaced any of the tools I've mentioned, or want to mention another, head on over to https://github.com/kristapsdz/dev_sec_flops and make a pull request.

Enjoy! #Linux #openbsd #freebsd #programming

A Linux server and a Windows server are having a debate about security.

The Windows server says, "I've got firewalls, antivirus, anti-malware... I'm like Fort Knox!"

The Linux server running Kali #Linux just calmly says, "I'm already inside your network, and you didn't even know."

Just finished preparing V1 of my talk (then practice run, V2, another practice, …) 🥳

My 2025 Linux + Go self-hosting stack
2025-06-21 15:15–16:15, ZKM Kubus
Language: English

I’ll show you how I use Go to run my entire home, […]

https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn23/talk/U8D9KR/

Yes, it will be recorded (and probably also live-streamed, I think?)

#golang #gpn23 #linux

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screenshot of the description of my talk at GPN23

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟲/𝟬𝟵 (Valuable News - 2025/06/09) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/valuable-news-2025-06-09/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟲/𝟬𝟵 (Valuable News - 2025/06/09) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/valuable-news-2025-06-09/

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

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

Want to read accurate description of the #Linux or #Unix filesystem hierarchy? Type `man hier` at your terminal.

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A man page screenshot for hier(7) which is a description of the filesystem hierarchy on Linux and Unix-like systems such as freebsd or macos and others.

When was the last time you have played with KDE Connect?

You've never heard of that? Let me enlighten you. KDE Connect is a suite of very handy Network tools, to get the maximum out of the transfer and the control of data & programs between your KDE computer and your Androids.

It is in fact so versatile that even if your KDE computers are not connected, you can still do a lot of things between your Androids which are running the network software suite.

There are so many things you can do you should just download it yourself and put it on your Androids

A few highlights are transferring files between your devices in a transparent manner where no company like Google can snoop anything

Controlling media players from 1 device through all the others.

Getting notifications between different devices and even getting output, graphical output from different devices on others.

Controlling your Android with a mouse from a KDE Connect computer

The list goes on

Note:
If you're running a Linux distro with a running firewall, you have to make sure that your firewall has all the ports open for KDE connect. There are examples of the ports needed, in the docs.
I also have them {for {g}ufw}

#Linux #Android #KDE #Connect #KDEConnect #MultiMedia #networking #programming #OpenSource #POSIX

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The photograph shows a smartphone screen displaying a notification panel. The time is 15:47, and the date is Sunday, 8 June. The battery level is at 97%, with a current discharge rate of -160 mA and an average rate of -286 mA, indicating a total discharge of -44 mAh. The screen shows notifications from KDE Connect, indicating file transfers from devices such as a Xiaomi Redmi A2 and a Galaxy A2 Core Lucia. The SD card is mentioned for transferring photos and media. The device is connected to "Bung Bigi Bana" via KDE Connect. The bottom of the screen shows the network provider "SR.TELESUR.GSM" and the Telegram app icon. The background of the phone is dark, and the screen is illuminated, making the text and icons clearly visible. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.212 Wh

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The screencap displays a mobile device screen showing the "KDE Connect Devices" interface. The background is black, and the text is white, providing a high contrast for readability. At the top, the time is shown as 16:03, with a battery level of 76%, and a 4G signal indicator. The main section of the screen lists devices connected to the network, with a heading "Connected devices" followed by two entries: "SM-A260G" and "Galaxy A2 Core Lucãa," each accompanied by a smartphone icon. Below this, there is a section titled "Remembered devices," listing four devices: "Bung Bigi Bana," "Devakprata," "Xiaomi Note 12S," and "Polawiri," each with a corresponding icon. The interface is designed for easy navigation, with a menu icon on the left and a three-dot menu on the right. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.236 Wh

I just stress-tested the current dev state of #swad on #Linux. The first attempt failed miserably, got a lot of errors accepting a connection. Well, this lead to another little improvement, I added another static method to my logging interface that mimics #perror: Also print the description of the system errno. With that in place, I could see the issue was "too many open files". Checking #ulimit -n gave me 1024. Seriously? 🤯 On my #FreeBSD machine, as a regular user, it's 226755. Ok, bumped that up to 8192 and then the stress test ran through without issues.

On a side note, this also made creating new timers (using #timerfd on Linux) fail, which ultimately made swad crash. I have to redesign my timer interface so that creating a timer may explicitly fail and I can react on that, aborting whatever would need that timer.

Anyways, the same test gave somewhat acceptable results: throughput of roughly 3000 req/s, response times around 500ms. Not great, but okayish, and not directly comparable because this test ran in a #bhyve vm and the requests had to pass the virtual networking.

One major issue is still the #RAM consumption. The test left swad with a resident set of > 540 MiB. I have no idea what to do about that. 😞 The code makes heavy use of "allocated objects" (every connection object with metadata and buffers, every event handler registered, every timer, and so on), so, uses the #heap a lot, but according to #valgrind, correctly frees everything. Still the resident set just keeps growing. I guess it's the classic #fragmentation issue...

Master Foo, watching a student try to debug a slow #Linux desktop system, offered, "The htop command reveals much. Mostly, that Firefox is still eating all your RAM. The universe, too, has its hungry daemons."

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A beautiful tabby cat with a very long, flowing white beard sits on a stone wall, eyes closed, appearing contemplative or asleep, with trees in the blurred background.

Linux with ZFS on root, using ZFS native encryption (no need for luks), works really well on Gentoo. I'm impressed with OddLama's installer tui-based scripts, the time savings are significant.

one item of interest: only two partitions required (three if swap is created). ZFS handles all of the usual requirements except EFI, just the way it should be.

- https://github.com/oddlama/gentoo-install

#linux #zfs #desktop

@paul @linus @stefano @whynothugo I chose Ubuntu (for KDE Plasma) because the installer provides root-on-ZFS.

With that base, I have not yet figured out which of these will be the simplest way forward:

― bemgr
― zectl
― ZFSBootMenu.

<https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/a65f5d819a6a8c54aff6079f63db33f6#user-content-management-of-zfs-boot-environments>

I see verbose guides, the verbosity creates a sense of complication.

I'd like the simplest possible guide to getting started, with any of the three options, where the boot environment layout/structure is predetermined by the installer for Ubuntu.

TIA

#rootonzfs #Linux #OpenZFS #ZFS #bemgr #zectl #ZFSBootMenu

I am not a sticker boy when it comes to computer. But this #ThinkPad running #Linux #Slackware may become the exception.

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A sticker of JR Dobbs dropped on a ThinkPad keyboard.

#linux meme for you

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A two-panel Linux meme with the Drake on a yellow background. The top panel shows Drake looking displeased. Next to him, the text reads: "Password protect and encrypt your computer." The bottom panel shows Drake smiling and pointing approvingly. Next to him, the text reads: "Install i3wm so nobody knows how to use it anyway."

Git is a tool I like, a lot. Before git, you could do RCS {& some others} which is a totally different tool set.

In this video Linus Torvalds talks about the way he created Git two+ decades ago.

What immediately Springs into view, is the fact that Linus gave control of the git project to someone else, as soon as he could he did not want to stay with the project for too long.

Git was created because of pure necessity; it was vital for kernel revision control

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCr_gb8rdEI

#Git #Linus #Torvalds #kernel #Linux #RCS #OpenSource #POSIX #GNU #GPL #programming

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The screencap shows a video player interface with a video titled "Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds." The video is paused at 8:05 out of a total duration of 41:49. Two individuals are seated in a room with a warm, brownish background. The person on the left is wearing a white shirt and blue jeans, while the person on the right, Linus Torvalds, is dressed in a gray jacket and blue jeans. They are seated on chairs with a small table between them, which holds two glasses. The room has a cozy atmosphere with plants and a painting on the wall. The video player interface includes typical controls such as play/pause, volume, and a progress bar, along with icons for sharing, liking, and starring the video. The battery level is at 87%, and the time displayed is 03:13. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.645 Wh

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The screencap shows Linus Torvalds sitting at a table in a warm, indoor setting with large windows that allow natural light to fill the room. He is wearing a gray hoodie and has gray hair. The man is gesturing with his hands, suggesting he is engaged in a conversation or explaining git. The table has a glass container, possibly a water bottle, and a brown leather chair is visible. The background features a blurred view of greenery outside, indicating a peaceful environment. The overall atmosphere is calm and relaxed.

FFmpeg Merges WebRTC Support https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/167e343bbe75515a80db8ee72ffa0c607c944a00

#OpenSource #unix #linux

My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows … to see how it goes | Tom's Hardware

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/my-week-with-linux

#Linux #Windows #Kubuntu #KDE #Plasma #Ubuntu #GNOME

If you and/or your relatives/friends are stuck with Windows 10, maybe here's some potential alternative for you!

https://kde.org/for/w10-exiles/

My personal distro of choice is Fedora KDE, but Bazzite is also excellent (especially if you game).

#EndOf10 #Windows10 #KDE #Linux