@thomasfuchs Aaaand AMD already has unified memory for x86.
Could be a good chip to run #linux though

On #Linux, I had been using Sway, but moved on to try Swayfx, Scroll, Niri, Hyprland and even a couple tiling solutions for Gnome and now I'm back on Swaywm.

I'll give some quick thoughts on each:

- Swayx: Great incremental improvement to Sway with rounded corners and drop shadows. If better supported on Ubuntu (work requirement), maybe I'll return.
- Niri. Nice scroller. Missing left/right alignment. 🧵

You don’t love systemd timers enough

My favorite metonymic technology term is "cron job": even though cron may not literally be the daemon that executes actions on a schedule, we apply the term to anything that walks like a cron and quacks like a cron. As Patrick McKenzie likes to point out, cron jobs are one of the most eminently useful computing primitives. They offer utility that's almost immediat

https://www.osnews.com/story/145175/you-dont-love-systemd-timers-enough/

#Linux

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟲/𝟬𝟭 (Valuable News - 2026/06/01) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/valuable-news-2026-06-01/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟲/𝟬𝟭 (Valuable News - 2026/06/01) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/valuable-news-2026-06-01/

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

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

After being hosed by #btrfs on #linux 7.0.1, the #atomdrift postgresql master database is on #OmniOS & #ZFS

It's good to be back, even if I'm rusty in Solaris-based environments.

The store was all out of Debian KDE but they did have this…

#linux #dadjokes

Alt...

“Red Hat Gnome”

I don't know how I hadn't discovered this sooner, but the Gardenhouse project (https://gardenhouse.pinkro.se/) is everything I've ever wanted. The novel systemd utilities reimplemented in a distro (and kernel!) agnostic way and fully stand-alone. Their tmpfiles.d implementation is particularly impressive.

#GardenHouse #Linux

Anyone had success running Distrobox (Debian/Ubuntu vm) under Alpine Linux to get Blender with Cycles/HIP support working on an Alpine host? Something I gotta try...

#Linux #Alpine #AlpineLinux #Blender #ROCm #AMD #HIP #Distrobox #Podman #Docker

Flathub disallows LLM-based submissions https://lobste.rs/s/l4qeud #linux #vibecoding
https://social.treehouse.systems/@barthalion/116657011366876079

Flathub moves to ban nearly all apps and submissions made with generative AI https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/flathub-moves-to-ban-nearly-all-apps-and-submissions-made-with-generative-ai/

#Linux #OpenSource #Flathub #AI #GenAI

One wonderful thing about migrating from #GitLab to #Radicle is that we got rid of our one and only #Linux VM. The #HardenedBSD dev/build infrastructure now runs 100% on HardenedBSD (rather than 99% 🙂).

Edit[0]: Clarified that it's the dev/build infrastructure that's 100% HardenedBSD. We do have one off-site backup system (maintained by a trusted third party) running OpenBSD.

Flatpak’s future sandboxing design may rely more heavily on systemd services, raising questions about compatibility with non-systemd systems.
https://linuxiac.com/flatpaks-future-may-leave-non-systemd-distros-behind/

#linux #opensource

Alt...

Flatpak’s future sandboxing design may rely more heavily on systemd services, raising questions about compatibility with non-systemd systems.

🚀 #Gitte 0.5.0 is out!

- Signed commits & tags (GPG, SSH & X.509)
- Signature validation in the commit log
- Signing status helper
- Collapse-all / expand-all in stash view and commit log view
- New Cornish (kw) translation, thanks to @pigeon_

Also included:
- Overhauled dialogs
- Refresh handling based on IO activity
- Fixes & dependency updates

Flathub: https://flathub.org/en/apps/de.wwwtech.gitte
macOS: https://gitlab.com/dehesselle/gitte_macos/-/releases/v0.5.0+24
Repo: https://codeberg.org/ckruse/Gitte

#git #gnome #rustlang #linux #macos

Alt...

Git GUI dialog reporting unavailable SSH commit and tag signing due to a missing SSH signing key file, with configuration details and troubleshooting guidance

Alt...

Git GUI showing commit history with verified SSH-signed commits, branch indicators, commit details, and a diff view for changes in a README file

Guten Morgen! ☕

Erinnerung an mich selbst: `man <befehl>` ist immer noch schneller als ChatGPT zu fragen, was `tar -xzvf` macht. Und nebenbei lernt man, dass `tar` über 80 Optionen hat – wovon man genau drei jemals benutzt.

Die anderen 77? Existieren wahrscheinlich nur, um in Quizfragen aufzutauchen.

#Linux #OpenSource #CLI

If you run your own local DNS servers at home, do you: (select all that apply)

Comment with your preferred DNS stack and privacy friendly DNS providers.

#FreeBSD #Linux #selfHosting #DNS

@cwebber After cringing hard, seeing early #Unix Window Managers like twm and fvwm, it was such a breath of fresh air to see #WindowMaker. I rocked a WindowMaker desktop from about 1998 to about 2002, in #Debian #linux

Still thinking about it? The due date is soon for #SeaGL2026 #cfp

You can submit more than one talk, we also accept remote speakers.

Find out more: https://seagl.org/cfp

Tell your friends!

#linux #opensource #FLOSS FOSS #OSS #oshw #free #libre #open #tech #seattle

This #FreeBSD bug highlights a strength of one of the features that makes #HardenedBSD attractive: optional blocking of loading of kernel modules.

HardenedBSD provides a sysctl node: hardening.pax.kmod_load_disable. By default, it is set to 0, permitting loading of kernel modules. When set to 1, loading kernel modules is prohibited. When set to 2, loading kernel modules is prohibited and a reboot is required to permit loading kernel modules once again.

HardenedBSD also has a notion of "insecure/untrusted" kernel modules. Some kernel modules in base, most notably the #Linux syscall emulation layer known as the linuxulator, are explicitly marked as untrustworthy. Users wishing to use those kernel modules must explicitly tag them as trusted (hbsdcontrol pax disable insecure_kmod /path/to/kernel/module.ko). Only then will the kernel module be permitted to load (the hardening.pax.kmod_load_disable sysctl node does need to be set to 0).

These two features can help protect users against situations where kernel modules get autoloaded, like with puppet, ifconfig, zfs, and other tools.

#infosec #FatGid

California and Colorado legislated that Linux distributions, being free and open-source, are exempt from the age verification in operating systems, unless they are proprietary like SteamOS (and Windows).

Too bad the systemd developers already complied with fascism in advance before the bills were even finalized.

Will Lennart Poettering and his followers now please remove the birthDate field from systemd?

P.S.: If you reply with any variation of "You need to calm down," I will block you.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/colorado-and-california-age-verification-bills-exempt-open-source-operating-systems/

#fascism #surveillance #AgeVerification #Linux #systemd

I guess since the whole "Flatpak creating a dependency on systemd" bullshit has surfaced this week there has been some other conversations about systemd going on throughout the Fediverse.

I've seen some oblique references to Debian making an effort to make OpenRC more viable as an alternate init system. That's about all I've gathered on my hit-n-run timeline surfing the last several days. Not sure if this is an official Debian project or just someone's wish list.

Anyone have the skinny? Links to actual discussions?

#Linux #Debian #systemd #OpenRC #Flatpak

Colorado and California age verification bills exempt open source operating systems https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/colorado-and-california-age-verification-bills-exempt-open-source-operating-systems/

#Gaming #USA #PCGaming #US #AgeVerification #Linux #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! ;)

NetBSD turns 33 this Sunday! 🚩

To celebrate 33 years of clean code, portability, and zero bloat, Challenging the rest of the fediverse to help hit this year's funding goals.

Also do drop a screenshot of your uptime, uname -a, or a pic of the weirdest hardware you've got running NetBSD right now. (RockPro64 NPF routers or Pi's hooked up to retro CRTs highly encouraged).

Throw some money at the developers keeping the real UNIX alive:

https://www.netbsd.org/donations/

#NetBSD #UNIX #RetroComputing #OpenSource #runbsd #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Linux

Here's my setup: https://schmonz.com/2025/11/12/small-macs/

(Writing... muscles... loosening.)

#macos #linux #netbsd

Strong suspicion I could swap out #macOS for #Linux, do better with #Minecraft and most everything else, and not do much worse at macOS-specific stuff like #GarageBand and Messages under #OSXKVM (https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM).

Anyone done this, or something similar?

A new #blog post appears!

I built a native GCC 14.2.0 for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger PowerPC.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250329.html

#macos #macosx #tiger #powerpc #power #unix #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #linux #solaris #illumos #gcc #llvm #clang #compiler #compilers #assembler #linker #toolchain #freesoftware #opensource #gnu