Copy Fail, Dirty Frag and now Fragnesia...

Upside: if you have already ripped out esp4, esp6 and rxrpc for Dirty Frag, you already have the mitigation in place for Fragnesia.

#Linux #Security #Vulnerabilities

Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development https://kde.org/announcements/sovereign-tech-fund-invests-kde/

#opensource #linux #unix

What is your favourite code editor that is:
1) light (feature-wise)
2) pretty (in a customizable way)
3) running on Linux 👀

#Linux #Programming #OpenSource

New #blog #post: Package Manager Tier List

https://rldane.space/package-manager-tier-list.html

1521 words

Note: this is a very off-the-cuff tier list, using speed as the main qualifier, but the article explains exceptions to that as it goes on.

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #Linux #BSD #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Debian #Arch #pacman #AUR #Fedora #homebrew #flatpak #snap #OpenSuSE #RPM

(Edit 2026-07-17: removed stray "DeadLikeMe" hashtag that had been left over from the previous post. Oops! ;)

Some moments from yesterday’s installation.
The clients are Debian Linux, and the server is FreeBSD.

#IT #Debian #Linux #FreeBSD

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Four Lenovo ThinkCentre boxes stacked on the floor in a small office room, with a desk, laptop, backpack, shelves, and blue chairs in the background.

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Two Lenovo ThinkCentre desktop computers set up on long white desks with monitors, keyboards, mice, and visible cables in a small office room.

#Linux users who haven't tried #NetBSD yet will be haunted by these tonight:

Gotta say I was a weeency bit disappointed when I booted Fedora 43 into Linux kernel 7.0.4 and wasn't greeted with THIS... 😁

cc: @dm

#Linux #Kernel7 #System7 #ClassicMac

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A screenshot of Macintosh System 7 (1991) courtesy of infinitemac.org

Beneath the Linux surface: the UNIX legacy, a lively ecology https://lobste.rs/s/ct9mlh #freebsd #illumos #linux #netbsd #openbsd
https://club.unix.rocks/commentary/under-linux/

If anyone wants to recruit a senior R&D code monkey with multiple degrees for a job that will involve neither "AI" bullshit nor "blockchain" bullshit nor "HFT" bullshit nor killing people nor destroying the planet just for the heck of it...

I get cheaper and cheaper by the minute as things descend deeper and deeper into nutty "More cloud and more AI will fix it!!" chaos around me.

Located in Germany. Will only work remote as we're tied to this place due to aging parental units. Strong preference for something related to actual green technology such as solar.

#FediHire #FediHired #Systems #Storage #ProgrammingLanguages #Compilers #GreenTech #Solar #Linux #BSD #Academia #Teaching #noAI #BoostsWelcome

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟱/𝟭𝟭 (Valuable News - 2026/05/11) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/valuable-news-2026-05-11/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟱/𝟭𝟭 (Valuable News - 2026/05/11) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/valuable-news-2026-05-11/

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

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

#Fedora #Suse #Linux refugees are welcome to the #NetBSD world :)

https://www.theregister.com/oses/2026/05/10/both-fedora-and-ubuntu-will-get-ai-support-soon/5237409

I just discovered today that there are Pac-Man clones for the Unix terminal.

People truly will think of everything. Just a little ./configure; make; make install and you're good to go.

MyMan is the best:
https://termplay.github.io/posts/myman-terminal-pacman.html

#linux #freebsd #opensource

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A still from MyMan, a Unix terminal clone of Pac-Man featuring ASCII graphics for the characters

Ca y est avec l'IA, les projets pour remplacer les gros trucs qui n'avancent pas : #proton #drive #linux pour ne pas le citer, pullulent, et ça fait du bien !

@rl_dane @sashin The problem is that #fuckFedora HAS taken a stand, a principled stand. They want to force #systemd, #gnome, #wayland down your throat. They have become the #microsoft of the #linux world. #dumpFedora and #goBSD.

[quote] "The legal instrument protecting your rights as a user of Linux is less important than the commercial ecosystem built on top of it. And that commercial ecosystem as we have established is controlled by the same corporations paying a half a million dollars a year for board seats at the Linux Foundation. ... The message ... enforce the GPL, lose your friends ... violate it openly ... get a seat on the board ... The GPL is not dead but its enforcement mechanism has been systematically dismantled by the very organization that claims to steward it."

Linux Foundation has squelched the voice of the lay contributors and now corporations control the decision-making process.

Now that your contributions to GPL'd free software have created mega-millionaires and billionaires ... those same rich fat cats that profited from your free code now want to keep you from sharing your own free code or profiting from it while they violate the software license to cash in. They promote ideology campaigns employing useful idiots and ideological parrots to insulate themselves from criticism and hold themselves above reproach from the people they are exploiting to build their tech empire. The Linux Foundation has joined the empire.

I have said before that a new alternative operating system is required if software freedom and privacy are to survive. Linux is not the resistance against the system. Linux is the system.

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Full video for your earbuds: https://youtu.be/efDXFsUWk8U

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Our latest discussion builds on previous conversations, exploring the alleged corruption within the Linux Foundation and Linus Torvalds's potential awareness. We'll examine the intricate relationship between user space and the linux kernel developer, diving into how these components interact and influence the broader linux internals. This video aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the situation, explaining the nuances of these operating systems and the impact on open source software.

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#LinusTorvalds #Linux #LinuxFoundation #OperatingSystem #Corruption #BigTech #GPL #FreeSoftware #FOSS #Tech #Desktop

Let's Encrypt just stopped the issuance of certificates after an (so far not publicly disclosed) incident:

https://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/incident/55957a99e800baa4470002da/69fe2d6698ca07050eb4b1b3

If anyone encounters issues today with failed certificate renewals: It's probably not your setup.

#letsencrypt #itsec #devops #linux #security #tls

Various #FOSS OS communities' reactions to joining them:

#Linux: "Hey, welcome to the fam! Here's a stack of CDs I burned, see which one boots for you."
#FreeBSD: "Hey, we're glad you're here! Here's an amazing handbook to get you started, holler if you need a hand!"
#NetBSD: "Of course it runs NetBSD! Welcome! :D"
#OpenBSD: "Don't expect a lot of hand-holding, but we're all having fun with it, and hopefully you will enjoy the process, too."
#9front: "Are... you... sure you want to do this?"

😆

(For the record, I love them all. I only regret I haven't had much of a chance to play with #Haiku, or interact with that community, yet!)

I tried a bit more Linux distro investigation, and I think I just should have listened to @hipsterelectron in the first place.

TL;DR: If you want to run Linux without systemd, with something other than GNOME as a desktop (which is implied if you don't want systemd), and if you're comfortable with using the command line for installation, Alpine Linux is a great choice. The default install has zero systemd.

Yes, it's a command-line install, but it's far easier to install than Gentoo. The core OS install was so fast that I thought it had failed. Once I had that sorted and had installed a few support items, the setup-desktop script installed the whole of KDE and Wayland in a couple of minutes. I rebooted and everything worked. It even got the high DPI screen's resolution right for both KDE and sddm, which literally no other distro I've tried has managed.

A lack of bloat doesn't just make Alpine good for containers, it's also really responsive in general use. (Which is how computers ought to be with modern hardware.)

The package manager is nice. Think APT, but much faster. It automatically keeps a separate record of what you've actually asked to install versus dependencies that were dragged in, for easy automatic bloat removal.

Downsides:

- No proprietary Nvidia driver available, you need to use nouveau, so no CUDA or high performance gaming.
- Documentation (including installation) is scattered in pieces on a wiki.
- A lot less stuff prepackaged for you than Debian. Check https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/ to see if things you need are available.
- You'll need to get used to some things being different thanks to use of busybox, no sudo, no bash by default, and so on.

My conclusion: Command line user? Try Alpine. Everyone else? Use Debian, and hope they move away from systemd.

I might revise this opinion if things break a lot during regular updates (hello Fedora), time will tell. #AlpineLinux #Linux

Another day, another #Linux security vulnerability!

Dirty Frag: https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag

For my fellow #NixOS users, here is the mitigation I applied to my systems: https://github.com/stapelberg/nix/commit/05e40d77799a8d68dc019b316cb824904a53361c

#Linux kernel exploit mitigation:

rm -rf /boot /lib/modules && reboot

Will mitigate all exploits, not just #DirtyFrag 🧐☝️