#openSUSE removes Deepin from #Tumbleweed and later #Leap due to numerous violations of packaging policy.
Sounds probably bad for Deepin users, but what surprised me is this:
"In January 2025, during routine reviews, we stumbled upon the deepin-feature-enable package, which was introduced on 2021-04-27 without consulting us or even informing us."
This package basically asked user permission and then injected D-Bus configs and Polkit policies from custom tarballs to circumvent openSUSE strict policy about new D-Bus and Polkit. Sounds shady, right?
But it has been happening for four years! It seems modern OSes and #Linux in particular are overbloated.
How can we expect normal user to know their system, if even maintainers have no idea what's happening behind the curtains?
It's good to see this resolved at last, but man, four years!
What's funny, this "shady" package description plainly states that it asks the user if they agree to openSUSE security circumvention to install D-Bus configs and PolKit policies.

https://security.opensuse.org/2025/05/07/deepin-desktop-removal.html

Just dropped oksh-7.7, get it from the usual place: https://github.com/ibara/oksh

#unix #linux #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #shell #ksh #kornshell #opensource #freesoftware

Do you know why most sysadmins & experienced DevOps folks like to use #Vim ? It's because learning all of Vim's (A-Z) commands actually grants the user temporary telepathic abilities. You see it all the time. All hardcore Vim users, like those sysadmins, often seem to anticipate your needs before you even type them. They can practically fix server /cloud issues by editing text config files or deploy Ansible playbook before they even happen! Vim gives them superpower. I have spoken #unix #linux

Audiobookshelf is an open-source self-hosted media server for your audiobooks and podcasts https://www.audiobookshelf.org/

#opensource #linux #unix

Added 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝟭 - 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 to the 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗝𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 article.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/freebsd-jails-security/

#containers #CVE #docker #freebsd #jail #jails #linux #podman #security #server #vnet #cve

Linux drops support for 486 and early Pentium processors - 20 years after Microsoft https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-drops-support-for-486-and-early-pentium-processors-20-years-after-microsoft/ by @sjvn

Well, I guess since it's been 18 years since the last 486 shipped, it was about time for #Linux to drop it.

Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux
https://mark.stosberg.com/universal-copy-paste/

#Linux #keyboards

i need more RSS feeds. especially programming and/or linux ones.

I have few of them but if you write such a blog, please share. Or just share any ones you like!

edit: High preference on personal blogs!

#RSS #Blogs #linux #programming

This tool can be used to convert a Docker image to an executable https://github.com/rzane/docker2exe

#linux #golang

This past weekend... "I need to swap NICs and change L2, re-logic the L3, clean up the patch panels, install PoE++, etc... shouldn't take long."

Three days later, mostly done.. no. Everything else got in the way, hastily cabled basic bare minimum in-place. Maybe I'll finish it up on Saturday.

#homelab #freebsd #linux #networking

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messy cabling on Eva's server rack, mostly ethernet, some DAC

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patch panels and keystone jacks, various short length ethernet, some cable making tools

@wolf480pl @cas it's easy...

The reasons one can despise something and the reason one appreciates it can be different.

I.e. I can appreciate #macOS for it's #accessibility right from the #installer but I can #despise it for #Apple not selling it as a commercial #Unix distro for a #subscription

Same with #bash: I can appreciate it for being better than #sh (unix-#shell) , #tcsh or #csh but I despise it for not having modernized like #fish.

• And with fish I appreciate it but I despise it's not the default #shell for any #Linux distro I can use in #production.

It's called having "mixed feelings" or rather #NuancedOpinion.

• Kinda like how every #skiddie and #TechIlliterate can use #Windows but that Windows is shit and the only reason they can is because they got groomed into being #consoomers that accept #enshittification as a fact of life.

@wolf480pl So yeah, I think that everything has compromises to some extent.

• I'm shure #OpenBSD could even up their #security if they were willing to break #POSIX and #compatibility in general for their distro, but that'll only introduce more headaches and pain along the way.

I chose #Linux as basis for @OS1337 because it solves the #driver problem for me and I know it. I'm just complete shit with #NetBSD which may arguably be the better option targeting low-end systems, but that'll again result in more pain and frustration getting other #apps ported over when I can't just say: "Target linux-#i486 and statically compile in all your dependencies" to any 3rd party as starting point.

forbidden #unix OS 😲 Hah! #Linux users don't like this one for sure

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A collection of SCO OpenServer software, including CDs labeled "SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.5" and "SCO OpenServer Optional Services," a floppy disk, and product packaging.

Installing #linux packages brrrr 😉

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Drake meme format. Drake disapproves of package manager commands (apt, yum, pacman). Drake approves of compiling from source (git clone, cd, ./configure, make, sudo make install).

@NostalgicKitsune damn...

And I guess there is no #NetBSD #LiveDVD / #BootCD you can plop in on a #BlueBomb'd #WiiMini?

• Or am I too optimistic?

Sorry, I'm too used to #Linux on #Xbox360…

Probably interesting for some #Windows users - during my break here, I also switched to #Linux on my main/every day laptop. I'm everything but a computer expert, but things work absolutely flawless.
Old laptop -> Linux Mint
New laptop -> Pop OS

For the gamers among you: #Civ6 wouldn't run on my laptop on Windows as the OS consumed too many resources, but does so on Linux.

@gamingonlinux

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟱/𝟬𝟱 (Valuable News - 2025/05/05) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/valuable-news-2025-05-05/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟱/𝟬𝟱 (Valuable News - 2025/05/05) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/valuable-news-2025-05-05/

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

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

Credit tends to flow to the applications using the platform, not the platform engineers themselves. It is a sad reality because reliable infrastructure is expected, the effort to achieve and maintain it becomes baseline, not something worthy of specific acknowledgment or appreciation until it fails. (2/2)

#linux #sysadmin #devops #job

💻 HomeLab & Mikrotik RB5009 💻

Do you really need the missing serial console for remote out-of-band managemnt, like most of their devices?

Well, I had one and then returned it for that reason. I've been considering it again, but not without the serial connection... so a little digging around and I found some PCB images and quick info on the OpenWRT site.

Then decided to add those bits to a fork for personal tracking... for those interested in the PCB photos and quick-doc:

- https://github.com/em-winterschon/openwrt-rb5009/pull/1/files

Clearly still a WIP, and would need to re-purchase the device to test it out... so perhaps in the next few months that will happen.

Some light discussion: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/add-support-for-mikrotik-rb5009ug/104391/3

#mikrotik #networking #homelab #soldering #serial #linux

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Diagnonal view of the PCB for a Mikrotik RB5009 router

On continue la migration de VM sous #Proxmox, c'est tout de suite sur https://twitch.tv/ahp_nils ! #sysadmin #devops #twitchfr #twitchstreamer #TwitchStreamers #linux

I've been reading an interesting article by Liguo Yu et. al., "Maintainability of the kernels of open-source operating systems: A comparison of Linux with FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD" (DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2005.08.014). Keep in mind, the article is from 2005 (published in 2006), so it would be interesting to know how things have changed since then. We are talking here about #Linux 2,4,20, #FreeBSD 5.1, #NetBSD 1.6 and #OpenBSD 3.3.
The article basically explores maintainability of said OSes judging mainly by usage of global variables.
Here's some interesting takeouts.
"Unsafe definition" is in their terms a usage of global variables between kernel modules and non-kernel modules.

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Two graphs showing number of global variables and unsafe definitions in Linux and three BSDs. Linux has significantly more of both.

As a long-time Sway window-manager user on #Linux, I gave #Cosmic a try today on a new laptop.

I was surprised that it it seems to support all the tiling keyboard shortcuts I wanted use and nearly all my other other configuration.

One feature missing for me was remapping some mouse keys via libinput.

I'll stick with Sway for now because I have it dialed in with no major complaints, but will keep an eye on Cosmic's future releases. Impressed.

#sway #swaywm #wayland

New blogpost: "Installing postmarketOS with full disk encryption on a OnePlus 6"

The start of my adventure with @postmarketOS, bringing Linux-based life back to an old phone.

postmarketOS isn’t just a fun technical project - although it is a fun technical project - it is part of an important movement of recognising and mitigating the impact of electronic waste and excess consumerism, and giving perfectly functional hardware a new lease of life, without ads or trackers.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2025/05/installing-postmarketos-with-full-disk-encryption-on-a-oneplus-6/

#postmarketOS #Linux #FOSS