Beyond the limits of physical VRAM

Earlier this year, Natalie Vock made a splash with a set of patches to the Linux kernel that greatly increased performance on AMD GPUs with lower amounts of VRAM. With that work now accepted by upstream, Vock decided to turn their attention to another interesting problem: what if you run out of VRAM, and how can we improve performance when we do?

Regardless, what I

https://www.osnews.com/story/145846/beyond-the-limits-of-physical-vram/

#Linux

I wrote a thing https://blogs.gnome.org/engagement/2026/08/17/engagement-team-introduction-blog-post/

#gnome #linux

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https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/valuable-news-2026-08-17/

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

Linux 7.2 released

Version 7.2 of the Linux kernel has been released.

Significant features in this release include common attributes support in the bpf()vsystem call, cache-aware load balancing for the CPU scheduler, large-folio support in the Btrfs filesystem, further swap subsystem improvements, improvements to the Landlock security module, support for block devices with inline encryption hardware via the dm-inli

https://www.osnews.com/story/145830/linux-7-2-released/

#Linux

git-knife : GUI open source pour réécrire en profondeur l'historique git (message, auteur, dates), avec recherche-remplacement regex. Basé sur git commit-tree, le contenu des fichiers reste intact. ⬇️
https://github.com/TheRealYT/git-knife

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Interface d'une application de gestion Git appelée git-knife, affichant l'historique des commits d'un projet avec la possibilité de rechercher et remplacer du contenu dans 22 commits chargés. Le panneau de droite propose des options de sauvegarde et restauration des modifications.

#Debian Marks 33rd Birthday As One Of The Oldest Maintained #Linux Distros

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-33-Birthday

VisiGrid : tableur natif en Rust, keyboard-first, local-only, démarre en 300ms. Palette de commandes, compatible Excel/CSV/ODS, IA cantonnée à un rôle de témoin traçable, jamais éditrice sans validation. ⬇️
https://github.com/visigrid/visigrid

#SelfHosted #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux

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Capture d'écran de la page GitHub du projet VisiGrid, un tableur local rapide et optimisé pour le clavier. Elle affiche 2 contributeurs, 4 problèmes, 1 discussion, 82 étoiles et 3 forks du projet.

Docker Sandboxes crée des environnements jetables en microVM pour faire tourner Claude Code, Copilot CLI, Codex ou Kiro en mode YOLO sans risquer la machine hôte, agents isolés sans supervision manuelle. ⬇️
https://www.docker.com/products/docker-sandboxes/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Logo Docker blanc sur fond bleu dégradé. Le logo représente un conteneur blanc stylisé avec des cubes empilés, accompagné du texte "docker" en blanc.

Une base SQLite locale sur chaque client, synchronisée via un commit log qui fait autorité côté serveur. Un seul protocole pour le web, Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native, Tauri et Rust. ⬇️
https://syncular.dev/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Art ASCII représentant une structure de données ou une architecture système avec des caractères colorés (or, blanc, orange) sur fond noir, illustrant le concept de synchronisation distribuée de bases de données décrit par l'outil Syncular.

Bluesky Protocol Services regroupe l'infra publique de l'AT Protocol. Jetstream v2 apporte Network Replay pour rejouer l'historique puis basculer en live sans backfill maison, avec SDK Jetstream TS/Go, open source et self-hostable. ⬇️
https://atproto.com/blog/introducing-bluesky-protocol-services

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Annonce de Bluesky Protocol Services, une nouvelle infrastructure pour Bluesky fonctionnant sur un réseau ouvert, incluant Jetstream v2 avec replay réseau, un nouveau SDK Jetstream et un SDK TypeScript basé sur lex.

I was thinking today about my diversity of hardware and systems I maintain.

Sure, I've got a few standard VPS cloud systems (vultr, hetzner) running #FreeBSD. These do the heavy lifting for my web, DNS and other services.

My least standard setup is an RPI4 installed in an RV. The electronics are 100% solar powered and connected to the internet via Starlink. Starlink was also converted to 12v and the router replaced with an openWrt powered system.

What's your most unique setup?

#NetBSD #Linux

RE: https://cyberpunk.lol/@mxchara/117072168428690503

OK! After running this poll about X11 vs. Wayland vs. other application environments on #Linux or #BSD or other #UNIX type operating systems, let me ask...what TOOLKIT, what general-purpose widget set or GUI toolkit, is your preferred option:

C is what made the #Linux miracle possible and the #tech elite are very into that.

There's not space here to go into the disastrous corporate corruption underlying the Linux community and fanbase, or the way in which the words #FreeSoftware have come to mean basically nothing in a world where "open source" is a mere buzzword in the mouths of Sam Altman and Elon Musk. There's not a particle or glimmer of actual #freedom anywhere in this scene, all because Linux nerds have tended to like money and power. Lots of it, all the time.

(cont'd)

SolidStart 2 est sorti : le framework fullstack de SolidJS avec routing par fichiers, API routes, SSR sync/async/stream, CSR, SSG, streaming, TypeScript et adaptateurs de déploiement (Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare) ⬇️
https://github.com/solidjs/solid-start

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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I'm finally switching from ack to ripgrep for quickly searching through text files.

https://ripgrep.dev/vs/ack/

I kept using ack because it's quite fast and being written in Perl, Ack has perfect Perl regex support.

But ripgrep is 10x faster on my projects, popular across teams and has good-enough Perl regex support.

(I recall some bug in the past where another tool get a Perl regex wrong but Ack got it right, but I'm not 💯 it was ripgrep at fault.)

#Linux

Grafikart présente Herdr, un multiplexeur de terminal façon tmux pensé pour les workflows agentiques : panneau d'état des agents (actifs, terminés, en attente), gestion des workspaces et création de git worktrees en un clic ⬇️
https://grafikart.fr/tutoriels/herdr-multiplexer-2351

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Interface de terminal affichant Herdr, un multiplexeur de terminal pour la gestion d'agents, avec plusieurs panneaux de code et de documentation visible en arrière-plan, accompagné du logo du projet représentant un mouton stylisé.

I just adjusted my relay instance which now also finally supports #GoToSocial! Of course, it also supports Pleroma, snac, Mastodon, littlefedi, starling and many other ones!

With relays, your own posted content gets distributed to all connected instances, as well you get the content all other instances. Currently, mostly tech related instances are connected, focusing on #Linux, #Proxmox, #BSD / #FreeBSD, #IPv6 and many other things!

More information at: https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com

#socialmedia #fedi #fediwall #fediverse #activitypub #activitypubrelay #relay #social #snac #snac2 #mastodon #gts #gotosocial #littlefedi #pleroma #misskey #services #devops #starling #tech

Chrome décode les petits JPEG à échelle réduite via libjpeg-turbo, ne garde que les basses fréquences, d'où des icônes plus épaisses. Le JPEG reste pensé pour la photo, pas les icônes. ⬇️
https://guillaumetech.github.io/posts/jpg-scaling-chrome/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Comparaison d'un petit logo en grille de 5x5 carrés affichant une différence de rendu visuelle entre Firefox (à gauche, plus net) et Chrome (à droite, plus flou), illustrant un problème de mise à l'échelle d'images JPEG miniatures.

I found this is misleading, but I read this protest a lot around, and while I understand it, I think it is a misunderstanding.
Linux never got has goal to make run forever all kind of hardware. It is a misconception because the hardware support is longer and many used it for old machines, but this is coincidental, not a stated goal.

If you need a OS that runs "forever" on everything, that's NetBSD: running everywhere is their goal.

https://invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch?v=8vDSSxaQ7ZU

#foss #linux #netbsd

Perhaps what is really needed around is more awareness to alternatives to Linux too, not just for Windows/MacOsX.

A lot of these drivers that are getting removed from Linux, along the 32bit, are niches that can fall into retrocomputing at this point.
If you fall in it, I could suggest you to pick NetBSD, that has the 32 bit support along many things.
You could even run it on an Amiga68k (the CLASSIC hardware!) even if is a low priority port.

https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/

#foss #linux #netbsd

This #FreeBSD bug is exactly why #HardenedBSD makes using the Linuxulator incredibly difficult and painful: emulation/compatibility layers are extremely complex and tend to have weird issues that can turn into exploitable vulnerabilities if one isn't careful.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=297426

#Linux #infosec

the people saying you shouldn’t look at the eclipse through a floppy don’t know about this.

#eclipse #linux #floppy

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100MB Zip drive floppy

Am Wochenende noch nichts vor? Die @FrOSCon findet wieder in Sankt-Augustin statt.

Dieses Mal dürfen @Tronde und ich sowohl einen Vortrag (https://programm.froscon.org/froscon2026/talk/383a9fe1-c572-41d9-8ba6-e479a5aec0fc/) als auch einen Workshop (https://programm.froscon.org/froscon2026/talk/fffc3668-5fc8-4811-a807-068fda1375ad/) zum Thema Patch-Management unter #Linux beitragen.

Das Vortragsprogramm ist dieses Jahr wieder sehr umfangreich. 🙂

#FrOSCon #FrOSCon21

Où voir l'éclipse ce soir ?
Sunset Atlas : carte gratuite qui note la qualité du coucher de soleil en Europe à 30m de résolution, avec forecast nuageux et couche spéciale éclipse du 12 août 2026. ⬇️
https://www.sunsetatlas.ch/?lang=fr&mode=eclipse

#SelfHosted #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux

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Carte interactive montrant les meilleurs spots pour observer l'éclipse du 12 août 2026 près de Montpellier, avec un score de qualité de 97% de couverture et trois emplacements recommandés à proximité.

PGSimCity : une ville 3D explorable qui modélise le fonctionnement interne de PostgreSQL, buffer pool, WAL, vacuum, tout y est représenté de façon visuelle et interactive. ⬇️
https://nikolays.github.io/PGSimCity/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Gonna run a different poll, this one on #OS stuff, namely: have you used (on Intel/AMD hardware) anything other than #Windows, #Linux, or #BSD for more than a quick experimental trial?

EDIT: made it multiple choice. And I'm hoping to find out if anyone's managed to use a weird operating system regularly

Gonna run a different poll, this one on #OS stuff, namely: have you used (on Intel/AMD hardware) anything other than #Windows, #Linux, or #BSD for more than a quick experimental trial?

@flyingsaceur

1. #NetBSD on a nice toaster (aka ASUS eeePC 701)
2. I actually tried to run Linux (see, even more mainstream than #FreeBSD) on a RISC-V netbook, but it has croaked and is stuck in an boot and shutdown cycle.
3. SvarDOS or OS/2 Warp 3 on Pocket 386.
4. Oh, MSDOS 3.22 (from ROM) on HP 95LX.

#netbsd #freebsd #linux #dos #svardos #picket386

Getting back into photography, got a beautiful used Sony a7c ii.

Now it's time for the photog/linux nerd crossover:

What are our favorite OSS Lightroom replacements?

#photography #linux #oss

A wild #blog post appears!

I discuss a new #research publication: an empirical evaluation of the #OpenBSD -fret-clean flag. We examine the history of the mitigation, measure its costs, and deliberate whether or not it is worth keeping.

Worth the read if you like security and/or compilers.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20260811.html

#freebsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #bsd #linux #unix #solaris #illumos #compiler #compilers #llvm #gcc #rop #cybersecurity #cybersec #cyber #security #infosec #informationsecurity