One of the main problem with #Slackware #Linux is that it is rock solid. Why is this a problem? Because I never feel like doing updates!

If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.

Fini le nil et les crashs cachés : dans Revo, langage dynamique open source, les erreurs sont des valeurs explicites. Pattern matching, macros sur l'AST et des fibers qui rendent n'importe quel code bloquant async avec un simple spawn. ⬇️
https://revo.lung.fyi/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Page d'accueil de Revo, un langage de programmation dynamique présenté avec des exemples de code, une description des fonctionnalités (notamment le système de pipes) et des liens d'accès à la documentation et communauté.

Next Saturday at #EuroBSDCon 2026, I'll tell the story of one of the longest nights of my career.

On 10 March 2021, I had just fallen asleep when the alerts started arriving. One server down. Then another. And another.
Different servers, different workloads, one thing in common: the OVHcloud Strasbourg data centre.

Then came the news: SBG2 was on fire.

I had 142 servers there.

The mission for the night was simple to state: bring the critical services back before 8, then recover everything else as quickly as possible.

This talk is about what happened next. The things that worked, the architectural choices that saved us, and especially the ones that failed when we needed them most.

And it's also the story of why that night changed the way I design infrastructure, and why BSD systems became such an important part of it.

The night 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. Physically.

📅 Saturday 12 September, 11:15
📍 EuroBSDCon 2026, D.0.02

#BSD #FreeBSD #EuroBSDCon #Sysadmin #Infrastructure #RunBSD #NetBSD #OwnYourData #Linux #DisasterRecovery

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Cover slide for Stefano Marinelli’s EuroBSDCon 2026 presentation. A nighttime photo shows the OVHcloud Strasbourg data centre engulfed in flames and thick smoke. A huge orange "142" overlays the fire. Below, on a black background, the title reads: "The night 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. Physically." In the top-right corner: "Stefano Marinelli · EuroBSDCon 2026 · Saturday 12 September, 11:15 · D.0.02."

CERN is dropping #RHEL for #Debian. All 2200+ systems by the end of the year.

The reason being is that the "-march=x86-64-v2" compiler flag default as "forced obsolescence" for old hardware.

It's not without headaches, mostly due to "the lack of standard tooling for automated building and publishing of packages - a lot of gaps in the official tooling. There are also a number of tools not supporting multiple versions of the same packages."

https://www.phoronix.com/news/CERN-Goes-Debian-Leaving-RHEL

#linux

Veronica Explains is a series of really fun and useful videos about computing, technology, self-hosting, FOSS, Linux, retro computing and assorted other stuff. You can follow at:

➡️ @vkc

(Don't worry if it looks blank to you, that just means no one from your server has followed it yet. Follow the account and its videos will start gradually showing up on your server too.)

You can also follow Veronica's non-video account at @veronica

#FeaturedPeerTube #Tech #FOSS #Linux #PeerTube

@dnkl Now that #fuzzel 1.15 is out for #Linux I'm working on on a micro-app that uses it as a frontend for a todo.txt TODO file.

Using the features like custom keybindings, prompt-only mode and the new header and emoji support, a small script is able to display, prioritize, add, edit and check off a todo list.

Still not sure if I'll prefer it over the CLI interface for todo.sh, but it's nice the Fuzzel UI is always one keybinding away.

Once I've fixed the obvious bugs, I'll share it.

Hey look at that! cyberpunk dot lol running just fine on qutebrowser (Chimera #Linux)

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complete snapshot of the Pnictogen Wing's widescreen desktop, showing two `kitty` terminal windows open and an instance of `qutebrowser` with Mx. Chara Aznable's cyberpunk.lol webpage on display

I am finding Chimera #Linux quite spiffy and to my liking. I got both X11 (fvwm3) and Wayland (Xfce4 and LXQt) desktops working, but switched back to #NetBSD for the wee hours.

More on KDE's fight for #efficiency: We have driven down the number of unconfirmed #bug reports to its lowest levels in over a decade and are managing to keep it there.

To improve that number further, we need your help:

https://pointieststick.com/2026/09/03/bug-triaging-help-needed/
--
Keep KDE funded💲! Become a Supporter! Adopt an App! All at once!:

https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/?mtm_campaign=SupportingMemberDrive&mtm_kwd=m#become-a-member-and-build-a-better-world

#bugs #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #desktop #Linux #BSD

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A graph showing a dramatic drop in the number of unconfirmed bugs (red curve) over the last 5 years. This is important because unconfirmed bugs cannot be fixed, because we don't know if they are real or not.

bash: 20 minutes
ksh: 8 seconds

whatever optimizations ksh93 has, they are insane.
#ksh #bash #linux #unix

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time bash -c 'for ((i=0;i<1000000;i++)) do foo=$(printf var); done' real 20m12.13s time ksh -c 'for ((i=0;i<1000000;i++)) do foo=$(printf var); done' real 0m08.40s

Phosh's caffeine quick setting (☕) can be used to prevent the system from going idle and from suspending.

This can be tweaked now so that one can have the system go idle but not suspend.

Very useful on Qualcomm based 📱 so one can prevent the system from suspending (to receive incoming phone calls and SMS) but still have blank and lock work as expected.

#phosh #LinuxMobile #linux #mobile #gtk #caffeine

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A screenshot from a phosh session. The mobile settings app is open and shows the caffeine prefs. The user can tweak inhibit idle and inhibit suspend via two separate toggles.

Also been introducing more local people to the DeltaChat privacy messenger.

Don't hesitate to message me, especially if you are wanting to buy a ThinkCentre mini PC with Linux. I still have some available.

#Fediverse #DeltaChat #privacy #Linux

#linux #distros #casuarina

I've been using Chimera Linux for some time now, and it's great. (The maintainer of it is a bit of a strange one, but hey-ho).

Chimera Linux is the Linux based on musl using the freebsd userspace. (This isn't anything new, Debian had an attempt at this with Debian-freebsd).

@wezm has created Casuarina which is essentially Chimera Linux with glibc rather than musl.

Very cool. I'll be looking into this!

https://casuarina.org

Oh. A casuarina is a type of Australian Pine; I've never seen one (they're native to Australia), but thanks to all the #crypticcrossword puzzles I solve, I've heard of one. ;P

tHe MeTRiC SySTEm iS BetTeR BEcUz iTS MoaR PreCiSE

#meme #html #webdev #linux #css #funny

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borgbackup 2.0.0b24 was just released!

Contains a few new features and a lot of fixes, please check the change log and help testing:

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases/tag/2.0.0b24

#linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #macOS #windows #python

How do you name your variables?

#programming #askfedi #softwareengineering #linux #windows #macos

Upgrade complete! We can now build pmOS #duranium images for more devices. Starting slow to monitor builder scalability, so only going to add a few more initially.

More devices mean more chances to try immutable #Linux on phones. More testers means faster bug spotting & feedback ❤

Which device do you want to test? Only pmOS supported devices with EFI boot can be added. Have another in mind that's not in the poll? Let us know!

The current list of devices/images is here: https://duranium.postmarketos.org/

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@dnkl/117200282565531061

My fav Linux launcher / menu tool has a new release.

I contributed IME support for easier input of alternate character sets.

#Linux #Fuzzel

dnkl » 🌐 2026-09-02
@dnkl@social.treehouse.systems

#fuzzel 1.15.0 has been released! 🥳

Fuzzel is a wayland native application launcher and a dmenu-like general-purpose picker.

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fuzzel/releases/tag/1.15.0

I noticed today that an update to the #Linux #Zoom client has made it start proactively reading _everything_ written to the X11 clipboard.

If you keep interesting secrets in your clipboard – particularly, if a password manager uses it as a means of getting the password to where it needs to be – this might be a thing you need to know about!

@purple

Some people say they were ditching @debian, just like before after our #systemd #GR. But I where are they migrating to? #Linux distributions are out, if it's about #LLMs. Hurd? BSD? Haiku?

#Debian #AI

@debacle @purple @debian
For the kernel:
#Linux❗
#Hurd❗
#FreeBSD❔(probably ☑️ soon)
#NetBSD ☑️
#OpenBSD❔
#DragonflyBSD❔
#KolibriOS❗
#RedoxOS ✅
#Haiku ☑️
❗LLMs used
❔Unknown or unclear position about LLMs but I didn't found any LLM generated commits
☑️ LLM use forbidden or limited for the code
✅ LLM use forbidden

ah la la la #linux #mao
https://www.tone3000.com/plugin

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écran de dl pour linux du nouveau plugin tone3000

can i allow a program running as another user to connect to my jackd? #lang_en #linux #linuxAudio

(this is a question about realistic possibility and methods, not theoretical possibility)

After all these discussions about using BSD systems instead of Linux, I very quickly found myself reading the FreeBSD installation guide. I believe it could definitely be my new operating system to replace Windows 10. In fact, I’m already on their IRC channel, although that doesn’t necessarily mean I’ll post anything there (I’m not entirely confident about writing, and often the solution to a problem presents itself after the third or fourth sentence while I’m trying to explain it)
#freebsd #linux #windows10 #justatool

Every few years I'm like "whose DHH" and every fucking time I go and flip that log over I remember why I closed the page on that chapter.

I think https://omarchy.org is a HELL fucking no for me.

Fucking fascist prick slopware purveyor.

I might have a wait and see on Debian but I definitely have seen enough of this omarchy AI VC homeypot. Fuck that fascist shit.

#DHH #Fascist #Linux #AI #slopware

Cool talk on feasability of making it possible to build an IPv6-only version of the Linux kernel with no IPv4 support:

https://netdevconf.info/0x1A/sessions/bof/could-an-ipv6-only-kernel-be-a-reality-an-architectural-and-performance-evaluation.html

#Linux #IPv6 #IPv4 #IPv6only

Whats the standard procedure for Manual pages that reference an old email that clearly no longer works in the Author section? Yes, it was the authors email at the time of the commit, but the domain is no longer theirs.. Just leave it be, track down the email they use now, remove it for security reasons? #FreeBSD #Linux #InfoSec

Dear #Linux,

SIGINFO is incredibly useful, especially when capturing packets with tcpdump.

Continuously annoyed,

He who has been spoiled by the BSDs

Built an open-source systems engineering learning log & roadmap to track my daily FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Go, and Rust studies.

• Built with Zola + Vanilla JS (0 dependencies)
• Sub-40ms static build
• Interactive diagrams & local progress tracking
• Works offline (PWA)

Live: https://deshmukhrahul.github.io/learning-log/
Code: https://github.com/deshmukhrahul/learning-log

#golang #rustlang #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #linux #opensource

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟴/𝟯𝟭 (Valuable News - 2026/08/31) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/31/valuable-news-2026-08-31/

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

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

What are the remaining maximally useful alternatives to #Linux / #Debian with a strict #noAI policy?

What are the most important selection criteria for you and how do they do against those?

Please answer both parts 🙏

No #LLM #FOSS

Not my first #Linux material but the oldest I could find that survived my several movings.

#Slackware CD from 1995. I had no Internet access at that time. Just the provided binaries, sources and documentation.

EDIT: I found an online archive 😍 https://www.abandonware-magazines.org/affiche_mag.php?mag=109&num=8503&album=oui

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A photo collage showing to sides of a CD-ROM and its cover. Content of the CD is listed. In all those, one can see a Slackware Linux reference.

Après #quitx , un #quitlinux et un #welcomeNetBSD ?

Il y a 20 ans, #linux était au même point (et en fait pas vraiment, #netbsd supporte maintenant beaucoup de firmware et chipsets, xfce4 est accessible même après #windows ).

Si nous nous y mettons aujourd'hui, lorsque la bulle #IA éclatera, nous serons prêts.

Préparer ici et maintenant un numérique libre et autonome, autogestionnaire, #AntiFascist et résiliants.

Soyons déterminé•es et déterminant•es, ne laissons pas à d'autres choisir ce qui est éthique ou non, ce qui doit être normalisé.

#noai
#antifascism
#opensource
#IciEtMaintenant

Priority for September: buy an additional used #ThinkPad as cheaply as possible (spec not important), install #NetBSD and see how well the #Linux apps I use are supported.

#Debian #Kernel #NoAI #AIslop

What are you switching to now that #Debian and even #Linux is getting slopified? I'm looking at #NetBSD, but I've got zero experience with #BSD so pls help

Packman to be discontinued? From the mailing: After 25 years, the time has come for us to hand over the Packman project. If no one is found who wishes to continue Packman, we will discontinue the project on 31/12/2026.

https://lists.links2linux.de/pipermail/packman/2026-August/018314.html

#linux

FIND yourself a a linux distribution or BSD that does reject AI; use it and donate to it.

If you can't move your daily driver move a secondary machine. Tinker with it, fit it into your life where it makes sense.

YEAH the linux kernel has slop. Most programming languages have slop. Most desktop environments have slop, you will have dependencies that are still slop. This is a big problem; there is no magic off switch to fixing this overnight.

We are in the early days of dealing with a contaminate that polluters are actively dumping into our digital environment.

It is going to take a long time before anyone can truly be slop free.

But support, and invest in the folks doing that hard work which will build a slop free future.

Starlight Network maintains a list of slop rejecting operating systems and distros here: https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html #floss #AntiAI #linux #bsd #netbsd #elementaryos #gentoo

When I see someone say that moving away from an OS that has questionable choices would require "living a hairshirt existence" I laugh out loud. The first 1/3 of my "Linux lifetime" was just that.

I was there when Linux was new. The chances of a UNIX app not being provided by your distribution was quite high. You had to manually calculate monitor and video card clock timings to get a GUI. You probably had to dual boot if you wanted to do anything like gaming.

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Early adopters and contributors refused to accept this situation and stuck with it. It went from hairshirt to mainstream in part due to people sticking to their principles. And, above that, the principles of open source.

So yes, switching is hard. It will be difficult for a time, but enough people standing by their principles can lead to critical mass. It's unbelievable that the very people whose careers are built on open source are forgetting how it works.

1. This list is NOT exhaustive. There was also a binary format change, non-modular kernel and more.

#linux #noai #netbsd

Debian developer Antoine Le Gonidec just quit the project over its decision not to ban #LLM-assisted code contributions:

Pretending to have a "neutral stance" when faced with fascism is not neutrality, it’s active collaboration.

AI slop is fascism materialized. Stop it whenever you can!

Source: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/08/msg00041.html

#aislop #debian #gnulinux #linux #distribution

1. Debian Developer resigns from the project in response to the recent vote to allow generative AI use within Debian.
2. A member of the debian-devel mailing list sends the message at left in response.
3. I just sent the message at right in response to that.
#Debian #Linux #AI

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good riddance, antoine the fascist. you love causing damage to the debian project and now you're throwing a temper tantrum like a five-year old child because you can't comprehend the ai evolution. you are nothing more than a deranged person who spits at people's work and expects people to follow their unhinged beliefs, a waste of human space. you are the one who is being fascist here.

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Either the Debian Community Team officially, on the debian-devel mailing list, states that the message below from David Nickelson violates the Code of Conduct and imposes consequences on him for sending it, or I am resigning as maintainer of apt-listchanges and never again taking on any volunteer role within Debian. My contributions to Debian thus far have been extremely small, and I'm sure they will not be terribly missed. Nevertheless, I will not continue to associate myself with an organization which allows messages like the one below to be sent without repercussions.

#Debian was structured as a democracy of developers (maybe technically a platonic aristocracy, but it does not matter here).

Thanks to this, it got trust that turned it into a fundamental building block for #Linux users (most used distro are Debian derivatives).

Unfortunately, such trust also attracted commercial interest.

Now most of Debian Developers (just like most of #Linux kernel's devs) are corporate employees that would not be assigned to Debian development if they would oppose corporare interests.

So ultimately Debian cannot be trusted anymore: the vote on #LLM is just an evidence of this fact.

To people who use it since decades (I started with Potato because of its focus on #freedom), it's a pain.

Right now I'm slowly moving to #NetBSD.

@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online @freshstart@hachyderm.io @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

Mailflare : client email self-hosted avec domaine personnalisé, basé sur Cloudflare (Email Routing, Workers, D1, R2). Gestion de boîtes mail, pièces jointes, notifications temps réel, et un agent IA qui résume, priorise et propose des réponses. Déploiement en un clic. ⬇️
https://github.com/hieunc229/mailflare

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

📬 Ma veille dev, chaque vendredi par email → https://l.camilleroux.com/sig-EB8

@linuxuserspace
For the kernel:
#Linux❗
#Hurd❗
#FreeBSD ☑️
#NetBSD ☑️
#OpenBSD❔
#DragonflyBSD❔
#KolibriOS❗
#RedoxOS ✅
#Haiku ☑️
❗LLMs used
❔Unknown or unclear position about LLMs but I didn't found any LLM generated commits
☑️ LLM use forbidden or limited for the code
✅ LLM use forbidden

@cffiegel @hermod @phaeton @pOtiron @bastamedia
#Linux❗
#Hurd❗
#FreeBSD ☑️
#NetBSD ☑️
#OpenBSD❔
#DragonflyBSD❔
#KolibriOS❗
#RedoxOS ✅
#Haiku ☑️

❗LLMs utilisés
❔Position inconnue ou peu claire mais pas de commits par LLM (en tout cas à ma connaissance)
☑️ Usage de LLMs interdit ou limité pour le code
✅ Usage de LLMs interdit

Certaines distributions linux comme Gentoo ont également interdit les contributions par IA. Malheureusement, il me semble qu'aucun système grand public n'a banni les LLMs.

New bugfix release of Exosphere, my simple, agentless CLI and TUI driven patch reporting application for remote UNIX-like systems.

Documentation refresh and cleanup, and fixes a few edge case issues, especially on Python 3.14.

With the non stop flurry of kernel and CVE updates across all supported platforms, it has sure been dogfooded extensively, and I continue to hope the tool can be of use to people.

https://github.com/mrdaemon/exosphere/releases/tag/v3.0.1

#exosphere #linux #freebsd #openbsd #homelab #SRE

So, what is the linux distro to look into, succeeding to debian? I use debian for so long i would prefer not to relearn a new type of wheel..

I want foss, and by the way, how do i know if any of the pending software has ai hiding in it?

Now that the limits and the citadel walls are crumbling.

#debian #linux #ai

@annantidote Take a hard look at #FreeBSD. No, it's *not* #Linux and that's a good thing.

Boop : une alternative self-hosted gratuite et opensource à Sentry qui tourne avec 8 Mo de RAM. Vos apps envoient l'erreur, le serveur la pousse direct sur votre iPhone via une app iOS open source.
Pas de Slack, pas de Telegram, pas d'abonnement.
Gratuit et open source. ⬇️
https://github.com/chrisgreg/boop

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Interface de Boop, une application d'inbox de notifications self-hosted pour développeurs, affichant une liste de notifications organisées par projets (Personal DB, Uni, FPLXI) avec différents statuts (Success, Info, Error) et timestamps. L'application permet de gérer et filtrer les notifications provenant de diverses applications et services.