I've been meaning to write about the state of #accessibility support in #tech for a while now but figured it was a good time to do it now since The Register published this article.

As a #parent of a child with #disabilities, as well as being a #disability #advocate and #technology professional, I appreciate The Register's coverage of Global Accessibility Awareness Day and Apple's pursuit in improving accessibility in their OSes. Accessibility support is simultaneously necessary and perpetually a challenge. Often it seems like a clumsy afterthought or just prohibitively expensive.

As much as I am an #opensource advocate, the reality is out of all the mainstream OSes, #Microsoft #Windows has, unquestionably, the best support. #Apple has some catching up to do. The open source world trails behind with projects in various states of quality.

One of the areas needing serious improvement is eye gaze technology. Users who have serious motor impairments (spinal cord injury, stroke, cerebral palsy, ALS) rely on this technology to communicate. Windows 10 supports this functionality natively yet #Linux still treats it as a #DIY project, at best. There is little coordination between desktop environments like #KDE #GNOME and #XFCE nor is there any kind of unified API.

It's 2025, we have reached the first quarter of the 21st century and accessibility support is still an afterthought. We can and must do better.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/18/apple_accessibility_features_2025/

#news #technews #technology

A client sends me an email:
"Do you remember that internal backup server you set up a few years ago? Could you log in and check if everything’s okay? I’m not seeing any errors, but I’m not sure if it’s actually working properly".

I have a vague memory of it - I’m guessing “a few years ago” is quite a high number.
They send me the credentials and I log in:

08:46:41 up 2957 days, 18:01, 1 user, load average: 7.09, 2.34, 1.50

And, surprisingly, no errors.
Everything is working correctly, backups are present, and the disks show no issues whatsoever.
Debian.
Boot date: 14/04/2017.

Impressive.

#Debian #Linux #Uptime #ServerUptime

If you contribute in some way to GNOME, are you already a GNOME Foundation member? If not, you should apply ASAP: https://foundation.gnome.org/membership/

Once you do (or if you’re already a member), don’t forget to VOTE in the upcoming Foundation elections!

The GNOME Foundation Board of Directors is elected by Foundation members. If you want to influence how the Foundation is run, one of the most effective things you can do is to become a member and vote.

#GNOME #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS

In addition to open sourcing WSL at 2025 Build, Microsoft open sources GitHub Copilot and… <checks notes> a command-line text editor that isn’t emacs, vi, vim, Neovim, ed, edlin, nano, pico, e3, JOE, micro, Kakoune, mcedit, mle, Yi, Tilde, sublimious, ne, slap, multitextor, Mg, vis, or any other terminal editor from the last 50 years.

Sounds like somebody vibe-coded themselves a new application!

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/19/microsoft-open-sources-a-command-line-text-editor-and-more-at-build/

#unix #linux #cli #terminal #texteditors

What's the new hot #Linux distro? I'm bored and I want to fuck up my laptop.

Anyone who says Nix OS is getting a middle finger emoji.

People working on Linux or the BSDs (or illumos based OSes, etc), are you using two monitors? And, if so, what do you use them for?
I'm trying to understand if it makes sense to keep two monitors on my desk

Please boost

#Linux #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #illumos #SmartOS #OmniOS #IT #SysAdmin

And of course, as it's Cambridge, the beer festival is sponsored by a #Linux debugging tool.

What I'm still missing is a custom #recovery that can actually do any useful stuff (especially full #backup).

My device has recovery as a #ramdisk in vendor_boot, and there are some prebuilt vendor_boot images with #twrp around, which I don't want to use directly because there's also an init-boot ramdisk in there that needs patching for root with #magisk ... and as far as I understood now, these ramdisks are userland only, using the shared #kernel from the boot partition, so it's unlikely a recovery built for #HyperOS1 (#Android 14, #Linux 5) will work with #HyperOS2 (Android 15, Linux 6).

What I *did* try nevertheless was modifying my vendor_boot using Magisk's #magiskboot utility, replacing ONLY the recovery ramdisk. It resulted in #bootloop trying to boot the normal system, so there seems to be something I still don't understand (I *thought* this ramdisk would only ever be loaded when booting to recovery).

For now, I'll live with the useless stock #Xiaomi recovery. Attempting to do my own build of twrp or orangefox really is too much hassle 🙈

KDE keyboard shortcut note:

Goto

system settings > shortcuts > kwin

Check out the actions which can be bound to keyboard shortcuts.

#KDE #Xorg #Desktop #Environment #OpenSource #POSIX #GNU #is #not #UNIX #Linux #freeBSD #Konnect #Android

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The screencap shows a screenshot of the "Shortcuts" settings in the system settings kwin application, likely from a KDE-based Linux distribution. The left sidebar is labeled "Shortcuts" and includes options such as "Applications," "System Settings," and "Custom Shortcuts." The main area displays a list of shortcuts, with the "Switch to Desktop" shortcuts highlighted. These shortcuts are labeled from 1 to 17, 18 to 20 are not visible There are corresponding key combinations like "Ctrl+Shift+F1" for Desktop 1 and "Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F5" for Desktop 17. The "KWin" section is also visible, indicating the window manager being used. The interface has a dark theme, and the "Apply" button is visible at the bottom right. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.168 Wh

The KDE team has created a wonderful Network for your Androids it's called Konnect (actually KDE Connect) and the things that it can do are so various that I'll just show you one of them in the included photographs

The ease with which I can control a music 🎵 player that works on one Android from all my devices which run Konnect opens up possibilities which are just marvelous for a sound engineer like me

@kde

#KDE #Xorg #Desktop #Environment #OpenSource #POSIX #GNU #is #not #UNIX #Linux #freeBSD #Konnect #Android

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The photograph composed in warm light portrays two smartphones placed on a red fabric with a floral pattern. The phone on the left has a lock screen displaying the time "23:05" and the date "Tue, Apr 29." The background features a vibrant image of a red flower with green leaves. The phone is charging, with a battery level of 82%. A music player widget is visible, showing the song "13_18_21_aug_2021_19Lyntr" by "RadioAzureus (Musicolet)" with a play button and a progress bar. A notification from Mastodon is also visible, mentioning the user by Luca Sironi. The phone on the right shows a similar time "23:05" and date "Tue, Apr 29." The background is dark blue, and the music player widget displays the same song and artist. The weather widget shows "26°C MonPlaisir" with "Clear" conditions. The battery level is also 82%, and the phone is connected to "GSM provider." Both phones are displaying the same time, indicating they are synchronized. The Android on the right is in slight Bokeh due to the shallow DOF because of the wide aparture Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.266 Wh

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The image shows a mobile device screen displaying Konnect "KDE Connect Devices" interface. The background is dark, and the text is white, providing a clear contrast. At the top, the time is shown as 23:06, with various status icons indicating Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and battery level at 84%. The main title "KDE Connect Devices" is prominently displayed, followed by a message stating that other devices running KDE Connect in the same network should appear here. Below this, there is a section titled "Connected devices," listing four devices: "SM-A260G," "Xiaomi Redmi A2 Blakka," "Galaxy A2 Core Lucã," and "Krasiwati," each accompanied by a device icon. The "Remembered devices" section follows, listing three devices: "Devakprata," "Xiaomi Note 12S," and "Polawiri," each with a corresponding icon. The interface is designed for easy navigation, with a menu icon on the left and a back arrow on the right, indicating the ability to return to the previous screen. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.264 Wh

At this moment I'm roughly tuning a very nice FluxBox Desktop in an OpenSource POSIX driven OS.
I'm working on tuning my Desktops Environments in such a way that it doesn't matter whether I run them in Linux or *BSD

That way I'll just fire up the Operating System inject my own configuration for the desktop environment fire up X.org and then start working

FluxBox has been a favorite window / desktop manager of mine a couple of decades ago.

Since it has been written efficient it's blazingly fast
I combine tools that I love from Xfce with FluxBox so that my muscle memory for shortcuts can be used in a super smooth manner

#FluxBox #Xorg #Desktop #Environment #OpenSource #POSIX #GNU #is #not #UNIX #Linux

Since this command...

`xfce4-screenshooter -S -d 2 --window -s "$HOME/Pictures/$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S)_Screenshot2.png"`

...segfaults in fluxbox atm I did not bother with a screenshot, because xfce4-screenshooter rocks way too much to use another one

#FluxBox #Xorg #Desktop #Environment #OpenSource #POSIX #GNU #is #not #UNIX #Linux

I've been able to configure KDE to my liking so that I feel at home again in the K Desktop Environment.

This is critical because it means that everything from way back in the beginning, decades ago when KDE was released, is still in the current new and fresh version of the K Desktop Environment

It means that the teams which have worked on KDE for the past decades have kept the core of KDE alive

It means that we have an excellent group of programmers, before and current, who have worked on KDE and who have kept KDE beautiful fantastic and magnifique for a wide range of people all over the globe

@kde

#KDE #Xorg #Desktop #Environment #programming #OpenSource #POSIX #GNU #is #not #UNIX #Linux #freeBSD #Konnect #Android

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The photograph composed in total darkness shows an IPS LED computer screen displaying the K Desktop Environment with a dark blue theme. The screen is divided into two main sections: the top section shows a settings menu with various options such as "Audio and Sound," "Display and Monitor," "Input Devices," "Hardware and Devices," "Network," "Settings," "Connections," "User Feedback," "Online Accounts," "Accessibility," "Region and Language," "Notifications," "Personalization," "Search and Shutdown," "Shortcuts and Startup," "Workspace Behavior," and "Appearance." The bottom section features a wallpaper of a gorgeous woman standing in a room with a wooden floor and a window in the background. The woman is wearing a white top and a black skirt with a lace pattern, and she is smiling. The screen also shows a sidebar with options like "General," "Global Themes," "Connections," "Appearance Style," and "User Style." The time displayed on the screen is 22:38, and the date is the 15th of May. The overall image is in subtle Bokeh, because of the translucent effect programmed in KDE The screen is surrounded by a dark background, and has been captured with a puny Android analogue sensor smaller than the tip of my Pinky nail Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.264 Wh

I've easily & smoothly configured KDE Konnect to work in Fluxbox WM

#FluxBox #KDE #Xorg #Desktop #Environment #OpenSource #POSIX #GNU #is #not #UNIX #Linux #freeBSD #KDEKonnect #Android

Est-ce que vous savez s'il existe une/des distributions Linux qui soient adaptées à l'exercice de la médecine générale ?

[c'est pas pour moi c'est pour les copain•es]

(je cauchemarde à l'idée que les ordis sont/soient des passeoires à infos perso sensibles)

Il faut que les logiciels suivants tournent :
- logiciel métier (dossiers patients, etc).
- logiciel de compta
et c'est là que le bât blessait il y a quelques années : il faut pouvoir lire une carte vitale à l'aide des composants info de l'assurance maladie pour faire le lien avec les 2 logiciels, volet informations et volet facturation.

+ réseau avec les autres pros de santé

#Linux #Mastomed

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟱/𝟭𝟵 (Valuable News - 2025/05/19) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/valuable-news-2025-05-19/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟱/𝟭𝟵 (Valuable News - 2025/05/19) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/valuable-news-2025-05-19/

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

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

Can't stand those people who insist on telling you every single detail of their day, no matter how boring or repetitive.

Stupid #linux log files.

Multiplexing will boost your SSH connectivity or speed by reusing existing TCP connections to a remote host. Here are commands that you can use to control multiplexing when using OpenSSH server or client on your Linux, macOS, FreeBSD or Unix-like systems. Not sure what SSH multiplexing is? Learn how to set it up and use it to speed up your SSH sessions with our handy guide: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ssh-multiplexing-control-command-to-check-forward-list-cancel-stop-connections/

#linux #unix #freebsd #opensource #openssh #macos

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List of ssh command to control an active connection multiplexing process on Linux or Unix such as: Valid commands are: “check” (check that the master process is running), “forward” (request forwardings without command execution), “cancel” (cancel forwardings), “exit” (request the master to exit), and “stop” (request the master to stop accepting further multiplexing requests).

@nixCraft

changed port to 22022, it's all good

#devops #sysadmin #linux

Here is how coding without a laptop looks - Two weeks with AR glasses and #Linux on Android https://holdtherobot.com/blog/2025/05/11/linux-on-android-with-ar-glasses/

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i3, picom, polybar, firefox, and htop running on Linux on Android (Pixel pro 8 phone)

Nach meinem Unplug-Trump-Tröt gestern ist mir aufgefallen, dass das amerikanische Fedora Linux (im Besitz von IBM) auf meinem Laptop eigentlich inkonsequent ist.

Also habe ich beim Putzen nebenher Backups gezogen und ein OpenSuse Linux (Sitz in Europa) eingespielt. Heute ziehe ich noch ein paar Programme nach (dank AppStore-ähnlichem Paketmanager ganz easy) und lasse Nextcloud die Musiksammlung synchronisieren und dann bin ich wieder im Geschäft 🙂

#Linux #UnplugTrump

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Ein Screenshot der KDE-Oberfläche von OpenSuse. Der Paketmanager ist geöffnet und bietet beliebte Anwendungen wie VLC, GIMP, Telegram und Chromium an. Ein Urlaubsfoto aus Island mit schneebedeckten Bergen ist als Hintergrund eingestellt. So gut hat das mit den Backups funktioniert ;)

This is what real nightmares are made of: the error "ssh: connect to host ec2-bastion-host-your-public-ip port 22: Connection refused."

#devops #sysadmin #linux

@nen @dalias @tokyo_0 @abhijith @fossunleashed @llutz @zenbrowser The FS goes read-only, only when I open #ZenBrowser. I'm also looking forward to reinstall #fedora once I get my hand on an external HDD or SSD for backup.

#linux

Bug fix releases for syslog-ng 4.8 are already out. However, 4.9.0 is still ahead of us. My call for testing #syslog_ng is still live for that:

https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/a-call-for-testing-the-upcoming-syslog-ng-releases

File and directory monitoring became a lot more efficient on #Linux, and there are many more changes.

Which distro did you pick as a beginner? 🤔

#linux

So, I'm facing a weird issue with my #fedora workstation. The filesystem goes "read-only" at random times and I dont know why. I've do a reboot to fix it. Do you have any idea about this and how to fix it ?

#linux #fedora #Fedora42 #gnome #mastodon #fediverse #btrfs

@tokyo_0 @abhijith @fossunleashed
@llutz (1/5)

I now think that I can pinpoint the problem of the filesystem going read-only and it's (probably) neither the FS itself nor the nvme drive. And definitely not the RAM.

The problem is a single app that's causing this or that's what I found and its the @zenbrowser browser.

#ZenBrowser #linux #fedora #fedora42 #gnome #mastodon #fediverse #btrfs

@tokyo_0 @abhijith @fossunleashed @llutz @zenbrowser (2/5)

So, today morning I opened the laptop with #wifi turned off and checked the system. It was going alright. The filesystem was behaving normally like it should. I also double-checked it using `mount | grep "btrfs"` and `fastfetch`. To check the nvme drive, I used `sudo smartctl --xall /dev/nvme0n1p3` + the diagnostics tool in the bios menu.

#ZenBrowser #linux #fedora #fedora42 #gnome #mastodon #fediverse #btrfs

@tokyo_0 @abhijith @fossunleashed @llutz @zenbrowser (3/5)

To check the memory I used `sudo memtester 1024 5`. And EVERYTHING was fine. Even when I turned on the #wifi nothing changed. I opened the #gnomesoftware app, I also opened #firefox to browse #youtube and log in to this instance. Everything was fine.

#ZenBrowser #linux #fedora #fedora42 #gnome #mastodon #btrfs #fediverse

@tokyo_0 @abhijith @fossunleashed @llutz @zenbrowser (4/5)

But, the moment I opened Zen Browser suddenly the filesystem went read-only. Coincidence, I think not. This also happened when I was offline. I opened Zen it showed me the webpage, all good. I reloaded it, it showed me the classic thing "something unexpected happened". All good. But when I closed the #browser, suddenly the FS went read-only.

#ZenBrowser #linux #fedora #fedora42 #gnome #mastodon #fediverse #btrfs

@tokyo_0 @abhijith @fossunleashed @llutz @zenbrowser (5/5)

It can't be a fluke right if it happened twice.

#ZenBrowser #linux #fedora #fedora42 #gnome #mastodon #fediverse #btrfs

A wild #blog post appears!

I revived pkgsrc on AIX.

(Yes, I already sent a PR to NetBSD.)

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250516.html

#linux #unix #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #aix #ibm #solairs #illumos #pkgsrc #opensource #freesoftware

When you can't xwininfo or xprop under Wayland on KDE to get window information, you can instead.

qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin queryWindowInfo

Create an alias in your .zshrc or .bashrc or whatever shell you use so you don't have to remember that entire line to something like;

alias "qwinfo"='qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin queryWindowInfo'

q = qdbus
win = window
fo = info

or Query Window Info

something easy to remember. c:

#kde #linux #wayland

Linux containers (OCI Containers) are ephemeral by design, except the volumes, you mount into them. In large scale environments, that can be useful (cattle vs pets argument). But that also introduces new challenges and makes it more complex to manage them.

For my personal environments, I like the approach of FreeBSD jails more. They are just a directory (or ZFS Dataset) with their own, persistent copy of the OS, easy to manage and the networking capabilities are flexible (bridged, vnet, they can be routed, firewalled, etc).

Jails are well aged, are around since FreeBSD 4 back in 2000, the non-ephemeral approach (and the absence of overlay file systems etc) makes them more feel like individual virtual servers than modern Linux containers but with extreme levels of flexibility.

Tools like jmore(8) (by @vermaden) and Bastille (Jails “Templates”) makes them even easier to manage.

#linux #container #freebsd #jails #ansible #opensource

I use Jails with Ansible to automate their creation, their lifecycle management and automation of the jailed applications and I highly enjoy, how comfortable and easy it is.

No immutable images, no “Dockerfiles”, no weird volume mounts or image registries and no constant re-creation of images and new deployments just to update something. Just some simple, well isolated operating systems to run my applications in 🙂

I don’t say that Linux containers are bad. There’s for sure situations, where they shine. Just for my personal use-case, they are more effort in comparison to BSD jails and I’m a fan of “using the right tool for a task”

And the idempotent nature of Ansible automation makes it easy to describe them in a declarative way and manage them at scale.

#linux #container #freebsd #jails #ansible #opensource

PSA: In case you run #Ubuntu 24.10 with #ZFS on Root, DO NOT TRY TO UPGRADE YET! You are very likely to run into a #Linux kernel deadlock mid-flight during the upgrade which leaves you with a broken system.

Also: Use zfs snapshot before trying to upgrade. zfs-auto-snapshot to the rescue! #openzfs #linuxmint

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/17337

Switching to #linux was the best decision of my life, and i'm not exaggerating.

I've learned more in the past four years than in seven years of using #windows. What i've learned is valuable and useful. And i regret nothing but that i didn't switch earlier.

Switching to linux doesn't have to be fun. It will be exhausting, time consuming and frustrating at most times. And this is exactly what you should want.

Trying, breaking and fixing things are essential parts of your learning process. Daily driving linux is a daily learning experience.

I have a #learningdisorder which made me feel useless to the #IT industry. This year i had an internship which changed that completely. My #impostersyndrome and doubts are gone. And i can't even describe how good this feels.

#switchtolinux #switchedtolinux #it #career

Did you know that there is comparison chart for
- #linux distributions
- #browser
- #android distributions
- linux desktop environments
- #messenger
- #mail providers

Take a look https://eylenburg.github.io/
it's regularly updated

#opensource #foss #development #developers #programming #coding #ubuntu #opensuse #fedora #freebsd #archlinux #arch #gentoo #nixos #alpine #redhat #debian #grapheneos #calyxos #IodeOS #lineageos #firefox #vivaldi #brave #signal #deltachat #element #matrix #til

Is there a #CLI tool that can convert markdown files to PDFs that is not Pandoc? Pandoc has a lot of dependencies that I won't use, so I'd like to avoid that.

#Linux #markdown

Gaming on Tumbleweed with SELinux

So, for the record I had a perfectly working install of Tumbleweed on my laptop, previously installed with apparmor on it before they switched to SELinux. Everything was working great, including games like Magic: The Gathering Arena. But, as a good Linux tester (especially on behalf of openSUSE) that will never do. I've been hearing complaints about...
#linux #gaming #opensuse #tumbleweed #selinux

https://lowtechlinux.com/2025/05/15/gaming-on-tumbleweed-with-selinux/

Re- #intro / #introduction I am a software engineer from #Chicago. I am an organizer of the Chicago Kotlin User Group. On fediverse since 2017. I'm interested in #linux #java #javaFX #kotlin #spring. I'm a critic of #agile: https://wakingrufus.neocities.org/fail-agile.html
I used to talk tech at @wakingrufus@mastodon.technology, but since that instance ended, I have consolidated my identity here. I also talk about #StarTrek, film, gaming, politics, music, and Chicago.

vnStat is a console-based network traffic monitor for Linux/BSD/UNIX, logging usage hourly, daily, and monthly on the server or router

* Linux installation
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ubuntu-install-vnstat-console-network-traffic-monitor/ or https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/centos-redhat-fedora-linux-install-vnstat-bandwidth-monitor/

* FreeBSD installation https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-install-vnstat-network-traffic-monitor-software/

#linux #freebsd #opensource

From servers in a data center to desktop computers, many devices communicating on a network will eventually have to filter traffic, whether for security or performance reasons. Bpfilter is a project that allows packet filtering to be done with BPF, which can be faster than other mechanisms. Even small performance improvements in this area can lead to significant gains.

#linux #kernel #bpfilter #bpf

More #linux shenanigans...

You know how for ages, Unix systems let you specify which editor other tools should invoke via the $EDITOR and/or $VISUAL environment variables, falling back to a very sensible vi(1) (or even ed(1)).

The value of that environment variable is used by e.g., pw_edit(3) from vipw(8), notably via execvp(3), so e.g., 'EDITOR="cmd; vi"; vipw' does _not_ lead to the execution of 'cmd'.

Makes sense, right?

Internally debating whether I should pick up a #ThinkPad T43 and using it as my main #NetBSD machine. Currently I have an X260 running #Slackware and an X1 Carbon 6th gen running #CRUX and #Debian but I don't have a machine I can dedicate solely to NetBSD. I also got my Raspberry Pi 4 running #SlackwareARM. I've always just had to run NetBSD in a VM, but I don't wish to anymore. Is it a worthwhile endeavor?

#FOSS #Linux #BSD #OpenSource

To clear the terminal after logging out, here is a method that works in all modern shells (I'm using `ksh`).

Add to `~/.profile`:

test -f $HOME/.exitrc && trap ". $HOME/.exitrc" EXIT

Create `~/.exitrc` with:

type clear >/dev/null 2>&1 && clear

Useful!

Source: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/12013

#Shell #RunBSD #Linux

Google Chrome was not following the notification spec on Linux for years. This went unnoticed by most of users as services worked it around to accommodate Chrome.

@dnkl took the stand with his notification service that notifications from Chrome wouldn’t work until they followed the spec. After a few years this led to Chrome getting patched to follow the spec.

#opensource #linux https://social.treehouse.systems/@dnkl/114506343509370120

I've been talking about it for months, but I finally followed Jami Kettunen's instructions and got Chimera Linux installed in my Yoga Slim 7x ARM laptop.

Windows was crashing every few days (while unattended) with the error "The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error is caused because the system stopped responding and the hardware watchdog triggered a system reset." even after a full restore.

I'm hoping Linux is more stable.

#ChimeraLinux #Linux #SnapdragonX #ARM

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Screenshot of the the default Chimera Linux GNOME desktop with a terminal running. The terminal is showing the output of fastfetch.

Nobara Linux 42 released as a rolling release with Brave as new default browser, new in-house flatpak store called Flatpost, updated driver manager, GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3.4, Mesa 25.1 and Linux Kernel 6.14.6

https://nobaraproject.org/2025/05/13/may-132025/

#nobaralinux #fedora #linux #linuxgaming