Sony's introduction of the PS2 Linux Kit caught the attention of researchers at NCSA. They combined 70 PS2 consoles in 2003 to form a supercomputer, highlighting its ability to perform complex scientific calculations.

credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsoleteSony/comments/1ije8cz/sonys_introduction_of_the_ps2_linux_kit_caught/

#linux #opensource

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A person (man) in an "Area 51" T shirt stands next to a large server rack filled with many of networked Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2) consoles.

PSA

Your "old" computer is probably NOT EWaste.

Especially not, if the provider of your commercial OS or other paid service says so.

#E_Waste_Conoisseur

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Linux #HAIKU_OS #HaikuOS

@dfloyd888

I do love debian, although I'd kill for a yearly release cycle XD

#Linux running #btrfs and snubbing #ZFS (although I understand the license is... horricle) is the Linux equivalent to "Americans will use ANYTHING but use the metric system"

5 Linux servers that let you ditch the public cloud and reclaim your privacy - for free https://zdnet.com/article/personal-digital-sovereignty-choices-free-linux-servers/ via @ZDNet & @sjvn

What are your #Linux-based Personal Digital Sovereignty choices?

@jbz

It is nice they looked at #rust and found it good for #Linux, but may limit what platforms #Linux can run on. Curious what that means for #IOT, which I think tends to have little resources when compared to amd64.

I saw this post here on sdf/mastodon from a #NetBSD developer and it nicely explains why #rust as it is now is not really good for use on some systems:

https://bentsukun.ch/posts/netbsd-rust-kernel/

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟮/𝟬𝟵 (Valuable News - 2026/02/09) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/valuable-news-2026-02-09/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟮/𝟬𝟵 (Valuable News - 2026/02/09) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/valuable-news-2026-02-09/

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

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

Adventures in Guix packaging

We talked about Nemin's first impressions of the Guix System as someone coming from a Nix environment, but today they've got a follow-up article diving into the experience of creating new packages for Guix.

I spent about a week packaging WezTerm and learning the ropes of being a Guix contributor along the way.

During the packaging process I stumble many times, only to stand

https://www.osnews.com/story/144359/adventures-in-guix-packaging/

#Linux

Episode 3 of Dark Blue Weekly released

https://darkblueraven.com/sites/news/dbw-e3.php

#darkblueweekly #darkblueraven #freesoftware #opensource #linux #linuxfromscratch #cosmicdesktop #system76 #kdelinux #libreoffice

New blog post: Dark Blue Weekly published

https://darkblueraven.com/sites/blog/dark-blue-weekly-published.php

By the way, 2 episodes are already published.

#darkblueweekly #darkblueraven #opensource #freesoftware #linux #bsd

Dummy question.

On one of my Kali Linux installations there isn't enough space on /boot. So, installing a new kernel image fails.

Usually this is caused by having too many old kernels installed. But I my case I only have the running kernel installed. But the initrds have a size of ~200MB. As the initrds on a different Kali system are only around 125 MB I wonder if something goes wrong creating the initrds? Any ideas what I should check?

#Kali #Linux

After decades on #Linux, #FreeBSD finally gave me a reason to switch operating systems

https://www.newsbeep.com/nz/270060/

What does `git pump out` do? Wrong answers only

#Linux #Git

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A fire hydrant pump? Stencil font is cut out saying "post office square Git pump out"

Instead of an #introduction post, I'm just going to put a whole bunch of tags in here:

#adhd #amiga #antifa #audhd #autistic #c64 #chiptune #civilrights #classical #classicalmusic #coding #commodore #commodore64 #debian #emulation #europe #eu #fanfiction #fiction #foss #gabber #gamer #gnulinux #linux #linuxgaming #metal #music #openbox #random #transgender #wargaming #warhammer40k #woman #writer #writing #writingcommunity #xorg

It's time for an #introduction.

I'm glad to meet you! I'm the barista and main administrator of the bsd.cafe and illumos.cafe instances (and other projects), a computer science enthusiast who's been fascinated by technology since childhood. I'm a big supporter of open-source solutions and enjoy working with #BSDs as well as #illumos based OSes and #Linux systems. I enjoy #music and #photography. I've been an avid traveler and am now looking forward to getting back to traveling.I'm married to a wonderful wife and strive to live each day with a positive attitude,making the most of every day to improve our lives.

I like writing blog articles, especially tech ones (https://it-notes.dragas.net) and, from time to time, some of them are widely appreciated, especially in the open-source community.

Thank you for passing by and reading my introduction, enjoy your stay here in the #fediverse

I've got a weird issue with #XWayland. It's not a total deal-breaker, but it's just a bit annoying...

(I'm running KDE Plasma 6.3.6 on Debian Trixie (stable))

My laptop display (left) is set to 1.85x scaling. My 1080p display (right) is set to 1x.

If I don't turn on the option to manually scale XWayland applications ("Legacy applications (X11): Scaled by the system"), the X11 applications I use look SMALLER than normal on my main (right) screen. Left screen too, IIRC.

If I DO turn on that option ("Scaled by the system"), then the applications look great on the main (1x) screen, but they're of course a blurry mess on the left (1.85x) screen.

I thought the setting meant that the applications would be smaller than normal (unscaled) on the left screen, but they're actually tiny on both screens.

Any ideas?

#Linux #Wayland #X11 #AskFedi #HiveMind

Installing #Slackware #Linux using #vmm on #OpenBSD. Got some help from this video on getting the console to display correctly in the terminal. ​ #RunBSD #BSD #virtualization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZnM-T6Os-s

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Screenshot of MATE Desktop on OpenBSD showing MATE System Monitor on the lower right showing brief system information, and MATE Terminal maximized underneath the System Monitor showing three terminal tabs, but focused on the left one where the Slackware installation process is taking place via a serial console connection to vmm. It's waiting for me to select a partition on which to install Slackware, and highlighted on device /dev/sda2 which is 8 gigabytes.

@feld @lattera @drwho

Digging into the talk page of the article on the FAT filesystem and Linux, one finds that, back in 2009, #Wikipedia people thought the same thing. (-:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/UMSDOS

It was past tense even then. Linux 2.6 had come out some 6 years beforehand.

Amusingly, the Linux Documentation Project has a UMSDOS how-to written in the present tense that has not been updated since 2001.

#FAT #Linux #UMSDOS #LinuxDocumentationProject