As of GNOME 49, GNOME Settings will feature a button for configuring the Orca screen reader!

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/3215

#GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #Orca #ScreenReader #ScreenReaders #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

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A screenshot of the screen reader section, with a "Screen Reader" switch row and "Configure" button

@nixCraft There should be a #nobel price for #gnu and #linux. But I am not sure in which category.

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@nixCraft

Historical, indeed.
...and thanks Stallman for #GNU:

Without GNU there'd be nothing open for Linus to start with or contribute to in the first place.

Imagine where we'd be at without those decisions back then?

Forced to either choose Windows or ... ? oh. Without #FOSS/GNU and #Linux, Apple would not exist anymore - and there'd be no Google too.

Wow. Thanks everyone doing GPL to provide choice and hope for all of us!

The Register is now banned from all Linux "news" for me. From spreading lies about accessibility and Wayland, promoting dangerous alternatives to upstream software, and recently, and over focusing on the Linux kernel mailing list.

Namely, the people in question are Liam Proven (who has doubled down on misinformation about accessibility on Linux after being confronted by developers) and "veteran technologist" Rupert Goodwins recently accusing Linus of not having a transition plan while not actually interviewing any of the people his speculative "opinion" piece mentions. Nice jab at Red Hat btw. Poorly researched takes and this is made worse by content creators on the prowl for daily content repeating their misinformation.

Both of them have completely lost my respect and need to be ignored by the Linux community until they stop profiting from spreading fear, uncertainty, and false information. Shame on the editors of the Register not doing their due diligence.

#theregister #linux

CachyOS August 2025 released, with a new packages website, LTS kernel as a fallback option, Niri WM window manager, new features in Proton-CachyOS, bootable btrfs snapshots in GRUB when choosing btrfs, and more

https://cachyos.org/blog/2508-august-release/

#cachyos #archlinux #linux #linuxlts #linuxdesktop #opensource #freesoftware

@deborahh @Walrus @slothrop @albertcardona @merialc Taking photos is a good idea. But once you’ve set your PC to boot from USB, created a bootable installation file and popped it on a USB drive, #Linux installation is pretty easy. Most distributions come with detailed (perhaps too detailed?) instructions on what to do. And feel free to reach out on forums or here if you have problems. Someone will help you. Or ask around and find out if anyone you know has done it already 🙂

@deborahh @Walrus @slothrop @albertcardona @merialc Hmm, actually getting to the BIOS/UEFI can be done in a whole range of different ways! Many seem to be listed here: How to Enter BIOS in #Windows: 7 Methods That Work: https://www.maketecheasier.com/enter-bios-windows-7-methods/ #Linux

Core postmarketOS contributor Clayton is crowdfunding a new laptop for @postmarketOS development. He's raised over 50%, let's get it all the way! This is an excellent way to support the advancement of Mobile Linux. @craftyguy @linmob #linux #mobilelinux #postmarketos

https://ko-fi.com/craftyguy

I've had a bit more time to play with @postmarketOS.

It is a joy.

I must look at how I can contribute, as this is a massively useful project, which I can see liberating numerous devices from outdated OSs in the future.

#postmarketOS #pmOS #Linux #FOSS

FFmpeg 8.0 has been released https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8.0

#opensource #linux #unix

Just so that anyone coming across this #OpenBSD idea has any questions about the #nosh user-space virtual terminals:

In nosh uservts, USB HIDs are opt-in; whereas with most kernel VTs & X11, USB HIDs are opt-out.

The administrator has to explicitly choose (in the ways laid out in user-vt-realizer-configuration(5) which allow various combinations of address, class, and ID matching) to have a #YubiKey realized as a keyboard HID on the #uservt.

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250822064253

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #Linux

Does anyone know of a Gnome extension that makes number appear under the apps in the dash? The SUPER+NUMBER activation really suits me, but I have enough apps on there that I end up having to count them half the time, so a little number underneath each one would be great. I've done a web search myself, of course, and not come up with anything yet.

#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Linux #Debian #Gnome #GnomeExtension #Debian13 #Debian13Trixie #DebianTrixie

Dear fellow nerds,

I recently started to use aerc, synched with mbsync.
Unfortunately, I'm facing a rather annoying problem with Gmail:
1) I read emails (flag "seen") and move them to the archive;
2) run the mbsync <account> command to sync;
3) the mails are correctly moved, however, they seem to lose the "seen" flag, and they revert to unread.

Am I missing something? Any idea what could be the problem?
If it matters, I'm on a Wayland session on NixOS.

Thanks!

#email #Linux #OpenSource #OSS #FLOSS #NixOS #Wayland

what do the #linux nerds (affectionate) here use as a #console mode email client?

hopefully something that not only can read things from an IMAP server, but also keep stuff cached for offline access as well

New update for Signal Desktop 🎉

- New setting: Keep muted chats archived 🗃️
- Continued work on donations via Signal Desktop ❤️

Read more 👉 https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-desktop-update-keep-muted-chats-archived/

#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #news #windows #linux #macOS #tech

@ken_fallon @paulgatling @klaatu Got around to looking up SparkyLinux this evening and the Web site put me off, probably forever. #Linux

Ich hab hier zwar bei weitem noch nicht so viele Follower wie drüben auf der eX-Vogelseite (pun intended), aber vielleicht mag ja jemand boosten?

Ich arbeite als "Hobbyprojekt" an einem Videotelefon für Senioren. Und es wäre echt schick, wenn sich noch ein paar Leute fänden, die das Projekt unterstützen. Boosten und Faven (auch auf andere Social-Media-Plattformen) hilft, direkt im Projekt mithelfen (Wiki pflegen, Social Media bespielen, Code schreiben, Mitbasteln) natürlich auch, und wer ein paar Euronen übrig hat, darf gerne selbst was in die Kasse werfen:

https://www.grannophone.de/unterstuetzer

#grannophone #senioren #makerfaire #hannover #make #maker #linux #voip #voipfone

Edit 1: Bild ergänzt, da es hier leider keine Linkvorschau mit Bild gibt.
Edit 2: Einen Satz entfernt, der mittlerweile keine Relevanz mehr hat.

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Drei Grannophone-Prototypen und ein Werbeschild auf einem Tisch

Why is my device a touchpad and a mouse and a keyboard?

If you have spent any time around HID devices under Linux (for example if you are an avid mouse, touchpad or keyboard user) then you may have noticed that your single physical device actually shows up as multiple device nodes (for free! and nothing happens for free these days!). If you haven't noticed this, run libinput record a

https://www.osnews.com/story/143134/why-is-my-device-a-touchpad-and-a-mouse-and-a-keyboard/

#Linux

Turns out, if you type #OpenBSD, #FreeBSD or #Linux in DuckDuckGo search bar, cute duck logo changes respectively.
But not for #NetBSD! NetBSD people, rise up!

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Four screenshots of DuckDuckGo search bar: "openbsd", "freebsd", "linux", "netbsd" with DDG logo changed respectively for every search term except for NetBSD.

@ken_fallon @paulgatling Her brother runs Lubuntu on a desktop PC. I wonder why there are so many different #Linux distributions, desktop environments and combinations.

Learning about #pentesting had a nice side effect: Keeping logs of what I do and have done is now basically second nature. This also helps in my dayjob and creates documentation basically as I go.

Did you know you can log your terminal with #tmux https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-logging? Or by using `script` and `scriptreplay` https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/linux-unix/script-command-in-linux-with-examples/

When using script, do not wonder about the color-code-chars in the log :)

#linux #terminal

looking towards the future - konqi and katie (kde) fanart

feel free to use these as wallpapers

#PixelArt #Art #Linux #KDE #KDEPlasma #Konqi #Katie #MastoArt #FediArt #AnubiArts

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A Pixel Wallpaper featuring both Katie and Konqi (mascots of KDE) sitting at the beach, looking forward. Konqi is looking curiously, while Katie is pointing to something that can't be seen.

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Same pixel wallpaper as before, but with darker colors instead.

A #Linux alternative? #Debian /Hurd shows microkernel #Unix dream is alive

#NetBSD

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/debian_hurd_13/

TIL, wget2 is the successor of GNU Wget with much faster download speed due to usage of parallel connections and other such stuff. You can install wget using APT or DNF or package manager of your choice. But they have a web page too https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2

#opensource #gnu #linux

Wisdom of crowds time:

Problem: My LibreOffice is showing me files as huge icons with truncated file names.

But I want a list where I can see full file names, file types and dates.

I cannot see how to set this. I hope it exists. Any help from fedi folk would be awesome :-)

#Linux #ubuntu #LibreOffice

Is there any great book on #AlpineLinux ? I love the concept, and love the considerations of the operating system. Yet, I usually opt for #Debian since I am much more familiar with it. It would be great to change that in the mid-term.

#Alpine #Linux #Sysadmin #askfedi #askmasto #askinfosec #unix

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Two #blog posts in less than one week!

It was considered known that there is no support within GNAT (Ada) for illumos. We cross-build a complete native binutils+gcc toolchain for illumos to test out this claim.

...only to discover that illumos has full support within GNAT. Not a single test fails.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250817.html

#Ada #illumos #GNAT #GCC #GNU #freesoftware #unix #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #linux #compiler #compilers

is OpenBSD 10x faster than Linux? (tedu@) https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250817075800 #openbsd #performance #benchmarks #fork #development #freesoftware #linux #libresoftware

Just upgraded my test laptop to #Debian #Trixie. Upgrade process couldn't have been any smoother...or any more boring!

Will be upgrading the daily driver this week.

This is one of the reasons why I love Debian. Rock solid stability, predictable, and boring aren't just for servers!

#Linux

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A newly upgraded Debian Linux system running the hyfetch command line program. Hyfetch, a neofetch fork, prints the system's specs along with a Pride-colored Debian logo in a terminal.

If you missed this:

The Register: Linux is about to lose a feature – over a personality clash https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/sad_end_of_bcachefs/ @theregister @lproven #Linux

Dear #BSD / #Anti_SystemD peeps,

Please make friends with #Linux-only, #Systemd fans.

#X114EVR peeps, please make friends with #Wayland fans.

The only way the community at large moves forward is to keep conflict within the domain of friendship. That way we can hold our differences, and learn to synthesize the disagreements.

And please, please don't assume that someone is your ally just because they agree with you on one technical point. I don't have a problem with X11 being maintained until the end of time, I just don't want it to be led by someone with really horrible/destructive politics.

It's not #CancelCulture, it's mercy. I'm trying to cancel a destructive ideology; people are never my enemy.

C'est parti le compte à rebours a démarré pour dégager apple (prison dorée) et retour à #Linux (j'avais commencé en 96 ou 97 ? avec red hat 3 ? Franchement je ne sais plus, sauf que c'était pas simple, genre tu sautes au plafond de joie quand tu voix la croix noire de #xserver). Bref passage apple de 2021 à 2025 suite rachat de ma boite. Je me suis tourné vers @tuxedocomputers , je vous en dirai plus asap.

This came up on #HackerNews, too. And *of course* it spawned a rush of comments from people who had not read beyond the headline.

I was going to aim @ianb at it, but then dang the moderator changed the title. (-:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44916685

#OpenBSD #Linux #Concurrency #MultiProcessing

is OpenBSD 10x faster than Linux? via @RunxiYu https://lobste.rs/s/q4t1wi #linux #openbsd #performance
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/is-OpenBSD-10x-faster-than-Linux

☕ Good Morning Homelabs ☕

Freitagsgrußküsse von dem 💤 verschlafenen 🌞 annnyway, new place, new in-wall panel of cat6 terms and a 5GbE symmetric fiber line. I cleaned up the initial mess in June, second iteration this past week/ish. Generally, most of this hardware should be in one of the office racks (1U switch + 2x 0.5U patches + 1U UPS), specifically NOT in my walk-in closet. It's a work in progress.

#homelab #linux #freebsd #engineering #networking

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first iteration of the telco panel rebuild, just a bit messy

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in-between iterations, the OnQ parts arrived so mostly everything was removed. the two fiber boxes (shitty Comcast, and decent ATT) have to stay put.

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iteration number two, not horrible, needs more ethernet cable management and etc etc

The state of #Linux packaging seems to be a perpetual mess. There is no standard packaging format among distros (something that I don't think will be resolved any time soon) and I've always viewed third party packaging tools like #snap and #flatpak with skepticism, mainly from a #security perspective.

After reading this, I'd rather deal with the perpetual mess of different package managers than the unraveling security headache that is Flatpak.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/when-flatpaks-sandbox-cracks-real-life-security-issues-beyond-ideal

#tech #technews

@nigelharpur @OrionKidder … this is what it was like getting Kubuntu to work:

I need water in the kitchen.
25 steps. "Easy!"

But after each step I must stop & search the web for how to take the next step. I read 10 different opinions on how to do it, b/c the first 9 are unintelligible, sound too risky, or just don't work.

Eventually, a "solution" makes everything unstable. I have to stop and research to figure out if/how I can go back to zero.

Start over.

I fear I may die of thirst. #linux