Since release, 15.0 has received not only security fixes, but also new packages and updates that match or closely track
Slackware-current (glibc-zoneinfo, curl, kernel firmware, and Mozilla ESR/SeaMonkey).

It also maintains supported versions of PHP in its extra directory and updated Rust in testing to support modern software.
What diverges in -current is mostly graphics stacks, toolchains, and desktop layers.

Slackware 15.0 is not frozen -- it is maintained by design.

#slackware #linux #unix #opensource

New year, new possibilities. This year will bring many good things and it will (for sure) be the "Year of the Linux and BSD desktop", and hopefully also a "AI was yesterday, now it's time for NI (natural idio... I mean intelligence)" year.

So, happy new year everyone!

#linux #bsd #linuxdesktop #bsddesktop

New blog post: Can I finally start using Wayland in 2026?

Wayland is the successor to the X server (X11, Xorg) to implement the graphics stack on Linux. […] I don’t want to be stuck on deprecated software, so I try to start using Wayland each year, and this articles outlines what keeps me from migrating to Wayland in 2026.

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-01-04-wayland-sway-in-2026/

#wayland #sway #i3wm #linux

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screenshot of my blog post: Can I finally start using Wayland in 2026?

"Linux is useless as a daily driver OS, always will be."

You're either naïve af or you're a troll.

#Linux

Gibt es Menschen in #Bingen oder #Ingelheim und Umgebung, die sich vorstellen können, gemeinsam etwas zum #diday auf die Beine zu stellen? Vielleicht ab Februar oder so?

Ich selbst bin gerade zum Auftakt mittendrin von Windows zu #Linux zu wechseln.

#DigitaleSouveränität
#DigitalIndependenceDay
#LernenImWandel

cc: @binhacken

https://di.day/

Transparency over abstraction.
Stability over novelty.
Responsibility over convenience.

This video explains why Slackware is loved even when not used daily:
transparent design, stable behavior, no silent changes -- and the honest trade-off of time for control.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=R-gJ7aJJnqg

#Slackware #Linux #Unix #Philosophy

2025 has been an interesting year for me when it comes to Linux apps. 🤓

https://itsfoss.com/news/my-choice-linux-apps-2025/

#linux #2025

New year, same love for clean code. 🧡

I saw @netbsd 🚩was short $327 on their 2025 funding goal, so I sent a donation to start 2026 on a high note.

Wishing the team a great 2026.

Wishing all BSD users Happy New Year ahead!

#NetBSD #Unix #OpenSource #linux #sysadmin #runbsd

@osnews Its scary how all the dominant UNICES have all gone extinct. Imagine if companies like IBM, HP, SUN, Caldera had all taken the distribution approach of #Linux around the 1994? I take it Linux would still exist alongside a thriving UNIX, but they would using KDE and Gnome for parity, optimized and easier to use.

Running out of disk space on your Linux, macOS, BSD, or Unix-like OS? Or perhaps you're hitting the classic disk quota limits set by your sysadmin? Fear not. Run `du -sh * | sort -h` command to get a sorted list of your directory sizes so you can remove or compress unwanted files. Here is another useful shell alias:
```
alias ducks='du -cks -- * | sort -rn | head'
ducks
```

See https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-find-the-largest-filesdirectories-on-a-linuxunixbsd-filesystem/ for more info.
#unix #linux #macos

@jwildeboer I’m curious about Kopia’s server mode, wondering if it might be suitable for a “family backup manager” who is responsible for backing up Linux, Mac and Windows computers around the house.

https://kopia.io/docs/features/#optional-server-mode-with-api-support-to-centrally-manage-backups-of-multiple-machines

#kopia #backups #linux

@bytebro

I think that the telling diagnostic here is that in an otherwise identical setup, for a single-monitor system and the old HP monitor type, you replaced one monitor that worked with a supposedly identical one, and that second one did not.

That's highly suggestive of those two monitors no longer being identical, where once they were.

Do they send the same EDID/DisplayID information to the system?

Have you configured any EDID overrides for the kernel, with custom EDID files?

When you bring up the monitor's own OSD, what does it say about itself?

https://github.com/linuxhw/EDID/tree/master/Digital/HP

#monitors #HP #EDID #DisplayID #Linux #Wayland

In 2000, Chandra Narayanaswami and his team at IBM presented a highlight of wristwatch integration work with the “ IBM Linux Watch”

https://techcrunch.com/2010/04/05/remember-the-linux-wristwatch/

#technology #Tech #linux #wearabletechnology

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The device in the image is the IBM Linux Watch prototype. First displayed by IBM in June 2000, it was an early smartwatch that ran a full Linux operating system, specifically Linux 2.2. 

When you have workflows like mine it's unreasonable to have dozens of slow usb sticks ready to dd distributions on. It's cumbersome to index / manage so many slow devices. USB sticks also live much shorter than 2.5" SSD's here. I've had some working for years (mostly reads) And some fail in weeks after many writes, for me unreliable storage devices

Ventoy has become a vital tool ISO mangagement and booting for me, since I can dump bootable ISO''s of most OS's on SATA SSD's, structure the ISO's in logical directory flows and have a librarian oversight of them

I can mount the SSD via an USB3 tray and thus move hundreds of ISO's around without a fuzz. I use 2.5" SATA SSD's because they are large enough in physical dimensions to be handled easily and I can write and ID on them with a marker. They can also live for years of R/W operations without failing.

Ventoy can easily boot a variety ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI of OS's which are of various origin.
>> Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files

When a ISO++ fails to boot, you need to make the coder(s) of Ventoy aware of it, and chances are that in the next update, scripts have been finetuned so Ventoy can handle that family of files also.

Ventoy is easy to use update run & maintain for the end user.

Try Ventoy

https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

#Ventoy #ISO #Linux #BSD #VHD #IMG #EFI #Linux #OpenSource #BOOT #POST

Tested files for Ventoy are here

A massive list of 1352 tested images is displayed!

#Ventoy #ISO #Linux #BSD #VHD #IMG #EFI #Linux #OpenSource #BOOT #POST

https://www.ventoy.net/en/isolist.html

More than 95% of Distro Watch Linux distributions can be spawed with Ventoy
That is a gargantuan feat!

#Ventoy #ISO #Linux #BSD #VHD #IMG #EFI #Linux #OpenSource #BOOT #POST

https://www.ventoy.net/en/isolist.html

I miss when buying technology meant you actually owned it. Now...

❌ Your car needs a subscription for heated seats.
❌ Your printer won't print black text because you're out of Cyan.
❌ Your OS serves you ads in the start menu.
❌ Your "Smart" home stops working if the company goes bankrupt.

I don't need more AI features. I need "dumb" tech that just does what it’s told and lasts for 10 years. But where's the share holder value in that right?

#RightToRepair #techbros #enshittification #privacy #technology #noai #electronics #linux #capitalism #windows #Firefox #writing #books #art

While many linux distros are agnostic on LLM generated code; unsure they ought to be dictating the dev tools contributors use; or even developing policies on how to incorporate it into their projects responsibly.

Gentoo and ElementaryOS have banned LLM code from their project code entirely. (Though they can do nothing about upstream projects they consume.)

NetBSD has instituted a policy barring any LLM generated code from the entirety of its base system.

AND FreeBSD's draft policy appears to be similar.

The bans on LLM generated code...

#linux #bsd #netbsd #freebsd #gentoo #elementaryOS #floss #stochasticparrots #llm #ai #eliza

＂… Nearly two dozen different Windows-like UIs represents a titanic waste of programmer effort, skill, and time. Hundreds, maybe thousands of people, working hard for decades… but all on different projects, meaning that none of them achieve greatness. …＂

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/deduplicating_the_desktops/ @lproven

(I thought I boosted this seven weeks ago. Mind playing tricks on me. It's one of a few things on my ridiculously long reading list that I actually do keep revisiting. I don't know what to think. I'm reading it in overlapping chunks.)

#desktop #Lumina #Windows #KDE #Plasma #Trinity #GNOME #MATE #Xfce #LXDE #Cinnamon #Budgie #LXQt #Deepin #Enlightenment #Equinox #IceWM #JWM #GNU #FOSS #Linux

While many linux distros are agnostic on LLM generated code; unsure they ought to be dictating the dev tools contributors use; or even developing policies on how to incorporate it into their projects responsibly.

Gentoo and ElementaryOS have banned LLM code from their project code entirely. (Though they can do nothing about upstream projects they consume.)

NetBSD has instituted a policy barring any LLM generated code from the entirety of its base system.

AND FreeBSD's draft policy appears to be similar.

#linux #bsd #netbsd #freebsd #gentoo #elementaryOS #floss #stochasticparrots #llm #ai #eliza

The bans on LLM generated code...

While many linux distros are agnostic on LLM generated code; unsure they ought to be dictating the dev code contributors use; or even developing policies on how to incorporate it into their projects responsibly.

Gentoo and ElementaryOS have banned LLM code from their project code entirely. (Though they can do nothing about upstream projects they consume.)

NetBSD has instituted a policy barring any LLM generated code from the entirety of its base system.

AND FreeBSD's draft policy appears to be similar.

#linux #bsd #netbsd #freebsd #gentoo #elementaryOS #floss #stochasticparrots #llm #ai #eliza

Just one more week to join our January* "Secure FreeBSD Administration" course!

Only $549 for a six week course with ten hours of instructor led training, access to our course library, and practice labs!

Expand your toolkit. Expand your career.

Contact training@bastillebsd.org for more info.

* next cohort beginning in mid-February

#FreeBSD #Training #Linux #BastilleBSD #InfoSec

#TIL `ack` is way faster when `grep --recursive`:

```$ time bash -c 'ack dbw32.a | wc -l'
21
bash -c 'ack dbw32.a | wc -l' 0.25s user 0.49s system 98% cpu 0.750 total
```

vs

```
$ time bash -c 'grep --recursive dbw32.a . | wc -l'
22
bash -c 'grep --recursive dbw32.a . | wc -l' 2.39s user 0.62s system 99% cpu 3.023 total```

... because `ack` does not `grep` (!!!) binary files:

```$ grep --recursive dbw32.a .
[...]
Binary file ./.git/index matches```

#Linux

The current draft linux kernel policy allows LLM generated code into the linux kernel as long as the commit is documented as such.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-AI-Guidelines-v3

#linux #floss #stochasticparrots #llm #ai #eliza

If finalized and llm generated code is regularly introduced into the kernel....

#NetBSD 10.1 toimi #RaspberryPi2B:ssä kuin täi tervassa. Pelkästään asetustiedoston muokkaamiseen meinasivat mennä hermot, kun kohdistin laahaa sekuntikaupalla näppäinpainallusten perässä. Seuraavaksi kokeiluun #AlpineLinux 3.23.2. #floss #bsd #linux #atkjuttuja

Suuri kokeilupäivä! Kaksi #RaspberryPi'ta, 2B+ (#armv7) ja 4 (#aarch64). Kolme kokeiltavaa järjestelmää, #AlpineLinux 3.23, #FreeBSD 15.0 ja #NetBSD 10.0 (vain uudempaan RasPiin). Tästä tulee hauskaa. #floss #linux #bsd #atkjuttuja

dirty dozen

#japanese_jesus #unix_surrealism #linux #gentoo #openbsd #fish #mnt #thinkpad #ibm #darts #pool

Alt...

the twelve apostles and japanese jesus in a milkbar

I need RHEL+Podman for something. But I also really really like ZFS, that I use on my #FreeBSD systems ...

RHEL 9.7 on a ZFS root 😀

Note: This is ENTIRELY unsupported and shouldn't be done in a production environment (seriously!) 🤡 😆

#linux #rhel #redhat #zfs #openzfs #unsupported #sysadmin

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Screenshot showing neofetch and a RHEL 9.7 system, that is running on a ZFS root

Dit you spot it? @vermaden has released a LVN. It could be the last one of 2025, so go read learn

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/valuable-news-2025-12-29/

#Technology #news #BSD #freeBSD #OpenBSD #netBSD #linux #unix #ZFS #opnSense #ghostBSD #solaris #vermadenday

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟭𝟮/𝟮𝟵 (Valuable News - 2025/12/29) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/valuable-news-2025-12-29/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟭𝟮/𝟮𝟵 (Valuable News - 2025/12/29) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/valuable-news-2025-12-29/

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

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

Great update

Bash Static Site Generator

Stefano coded an important update

#Programming #OpenSource #HTML #site #generator #BSD #freeBSD #Linux #ghostBSD

https://blog.bssg.dragas.net/2025/12/28/announcing-bssd-0-33-0-full-content-homepage/