How to easily switch your PC from Windows to #Linux Mint - for free https://zdnet.com/article/how-to-easily-switch-your-pc-from-windows-to-linux-for-free/ by @sjvn

With #Windows10 about to retire to the big bit farm in the sky, now's an ideal time to give Linux Mint a try.

Hi all you #freebsd #linux experts: what *nix should I install on a spare MacBook Air I have? I last installed RedHat and Ubuntu over 10 yrs ago on an old PC desktop. I'm comfortable on the cmdline and can do sysadmin stuff, but would like to not have to do much. Will use for general home office tasks and some dev projects, but not a gamer. Looking to this as baby-step in larger move away from big-tech, extractive software.

Hehe, what do you think? 😜

#linux

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Linux is not magic, it's sudo-science. There is a penguin dabbing, with a magical hat near it.

I 💝 OpenZFS

Working on research for a HPC storage cluster, one of my architecture doc sections quote this information from the wonderful group at Klara:

> OpenZFS In the Wild
>
> .. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) undertook porting ZFS to Linux, to form the backbone of their Lustre distributed filesystem. They noted that OpenZFS facilitated building a storage system that could support 1 terabyte per second of data transfer at less than half the cost of any alternative filesystem.
>
> Based on the success seen at LLNL, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) started using ZFS as well.
>
> In the latest example, just a few months ago the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced it had built Frontier, the world’s first exascale supercomputing system and currently the fastest computer in the world, backed by Orion, the massive 700 Petabyte ZFS based file system that supports it. This impressive system contains nearly 48,000 hard drives and 5,400 NVMe devices for primary storage, and another 480 NVMe just for metadata.

https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs-openzfs-for-hpc-clusters/#:~:text=built%C2%A0Frontier%2C%20the%20world%E2%80%99s%20first%20exascale,480%20NVMe%20just%20for%20metadata

#openzfs #zfs #freebsd #linux #engineering #supercomputing #hpc

I have a fanless thin client arriving in the next couple of days (snagged it for $35!). The original plan was to port over my existing OpenBSD desktop, but I’ve been eyeing elementaryOS for a while now.

I remember playing with version 6 back in the day and quite enjoying it. Might test it out first before fully committing to OpenBSD right away 😛

#openbsd #linux #elementaryos

The Myth of #Linux #Security: A Critical Analysis

https://exquisite.tube/w/knKTNJqQfTr2AYyjLxhZMM

BTW, if you run #Docker on #Linux and you wonder why your ICE #TrainWifi does not work, Die #Bahn decided in their wisdom to use the 172.x address range for their on train network and so chances are great that a docker network occupies the spot of their gateway.

Took me a while to fix that. (You can set network ranges in the docker daemon config file)

I emailed #Korg support to ask if they are considering making #Linux versions of their VSTs. The response was at least semi-promising (below). I would love it if more people here would send a similar request. Native Linux versions of their collection would be awesome!

"Thank you for contacting Korg USA Product Support and for all your years of supporting Korg!

I will be more than happy to forward your request to our software engineers to develop a Linux version of the Korg Collection."

#VST

#Linux #Windows
Sous le coude si un jour vous avez à déchiffrer une partition BitLocker sous Linux (je n'ai pas testé) :
https://std.rocks/gnulinux_bitlocker.html

Q4OS 6.1 "Andromeda" released, based on Debian 13.1 "Trixie", with KDE Plasma 6.3.6 and Trinity desktop 14.1.5

https://q4os.org/blog.html#news250912

#q4os #debian #linux #kdeplasma #trinitydesktop #linuxdesktop #debiantrixie

Wow, just plugged my label printer into my new Ubuntu 24.04 desktop (migrating from old desktop which is failing) and it was detected with drivers installed immediately - no interaction required from me at all.

#ubuntu #linux

How do you lure your kids off iPhones?

Give them MacBooks…running a "cool" version of Linux. Snagged 2 old Airs for just €50 each.

Wiped macOS, & installed @elementary - a clean, distro that feels familiar to macOS users but comes with a lot less bloat.

Now they’ve got "cool" Apple gear, with the the rich world of #Linux that respects their freedom and sparks curiosity.

Kids 1, Dad 1
Win-Win

Full guide here:
https://mangotek.eu/posts/breathing-new-life-into-macbook-airs/

#opensource #linux #elementaryOS #macbook #apple

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2 macbook airs lying flat and closed on a table. you can see the apple logos

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2 open macbook airs displaying the desktop running elementaryOS linux

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟵/𝟭𝟱 (Valuable News - 2025/09/15) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/valuable-news-2025-09-15/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟵/𝟭𝟱 (Valuable News - 2025/09/15) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/valuable-news-2025-09-15/

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

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

So I just rebuilt my personal #python venv in my home directory on my #linux daily driver laptop. I did pip freeze > requirements.txt to capture all the packages I had installed. Then I took away all the ==a,b.c versioning so I'd install the latest compatible version.

Then I ran uv pip install -r requirements.txt. This blew me way:

$ time uv pip install -r requirements.txt 
Resolved 250 packages in 2.38s
      Built python-ldap==3.4.4
      Built py-cui==0.1.6
      Built docopt==0.6.2
      Built email-normalize==2.0.0
      Built ecos==2.0.14
... bunch of lines...
real    0m14.028s
user    0m11.605s
sys     0m4.131s

Wow. 250 packages in 14 seconds.

Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment

Week 2: File Sharing

In this final video lecture segment for our week 2 materials, we take a look at what it means when multiple processes access the same files and what the implications of that are on the syscalls we know. We conclude with a look at /dev/fd on different operating systems, including #NetBSD, #macOS, and #Linux

https://youtu.be/CAbUtc86ULw

#apue #unix #programming

Interesting article from The Register on Friday about alternative kernels. As per the article, the topic of other kernels surface again after #Linux developers continue to clash over certain tech like Rust, SystemD, and bcachefs.

The three kernels discussed are Managarm, Asterinas, and Xous. Until stumbling across this article today, I've not heard of any of them. I guess I have some reading ahead of me. The article also mentioned the idea of disgruntled devs possibly forking the Linux kernel - a fascinating and probably confusing experience for a lot of people.

Would certainly be an interesting thought experiment, now giving a valid reason to explicitly list the userland and kernel with which OS you happen to be using, ie Debian GNU/Fork-this, openSUSE GNU/Linux, Gentoo GNU/Asterinas, or whatever.

It also might just be easier and more straightfoward to use #FreeBSD instead. 🤷‍♂️

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/three_new_microkernels/?td=rt-3a

#tech #technews

The touchpad on my #Framework responds poorly at first, then over a few minutes seems to self-calibrate.

Claude recommends this 10-second "touchpad yoga" sequence to force more rapid calibration after booting. What do you think?

* Full-palm touch (2 seconds)
* Five-finger spread (2 seconds)
* Edge-to-edge swipes (3 seconds)
* Left click, right click, two-finger click (3 seconds)

Sort of makes sense, but this is the first laptop where it feels like the touchpad needs a warm-up routine.
#LInux

Lookat 2.1.0 released

https://stafwag.github.io/blog/blog/2025/09/14/lookat-2-dot-1-0-released/

Lookat 2.1.0 is the latest stable release of Lookat/Bekijk, a user-friendly Unix file browser/viewer that supports colored man pages.

The focus of the 2.1.0 release is to add ANSI Color support.

#bsd #freebsd #linux #lookat #manpage #ncurses #netbsd #openbsd

#stafwag @stafwag

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Lookat/Bekijk 2.1.0

New poll:

I am a tech moron (TM). Should I attempt to install #Linux on my old unused laptop to learn something new and familiarize myself with how it works?

🙅 Goodbye Forever OPNsense 🙅

It displeases me to finally and heartily say GTFO to OPNsense; to abandon a solid decade of use.

I've had it on everything from embedded arm64 experiments to baremetal with ranges of 10, 25, 40, and 100GbE NICs. I've used all of the core features, built complex global service meshes, H/A systems, etc. I used to love it. I used to pay for it.

OPNsense was great, until it wasn't (starting around the time they axed their use of HardenedBSD), and with each release it gets more convoluted, out of date, tedious to debug, and generally a source of disappointment. The command line controls are anemic, inconsistent, and the lack of unified and useful system state tracking is a source of sailor level obscenities. Also, dear gods get rid of XML configs, no one can parse it without going blind! What is this, SOAP and XML-RPC era nonsense, really? 😠

I do not have time to waste, and I do not say that lightly.

I am never debugging OPNsense ever again, especially not for four hours on a (yesterday) Saturday, and especially not putting off updates in a colo for TWO YEARS because their team decided to break admin group SSH controls, hamper CARP flapping controls, breaking IPMI fencing, and the list goes on. I am done.

What now? Three realistic options.

1) BSD Router Project: I've built custom BSD-RP releases with Poudriere, loved just about everything it offers.
2) VyOS: configurable via CLI in a fraction of the time that was wasted on debugging OPNsense. Solid product, enjoying it more every day.
3) OpenWRT: I build custom releases for NanoPi and Meraki rooted WAPs and SOHO boxes, it's fun, though it's not running my 100G infra.

#opnsense #bsd #freebsd #linux #networking #engineering #homelab

What #video cutting tool do I want to use for #Linux? I don't need fancy stuff, just grabbing footage from action cameras, making a few transitions, maybe an intro text or subtitle now and then.

welcome to the tea party

@grahamperrin #unix_surrealism #technomage #runbsd #bsd #linux #plan9 #tea #fediart #mastoart #comic

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Girl, Puffy, Beastie, Fred, Daemon, Pocket Daemon, Penguin and Glenda are having a tea party outside on the backdrop of a destroyed city and a corpse hanging in the wind. Everyone is cheerful. Even the Sun.

New article published:
Arch Linux Install Guide - 2025/09

Hello guys, we've published a detailed guide on how to install Arch Linux on amd64 devices with UEFI firmware.

NOTE: This guide will be updated from time to time when things change or when we want to add something new.

https://r1os.com/sites/articles/arch-install-guide-2025-09.php

#r1os #archlinux #linux

@nixCraft Windows 10's expiration has pushed me to switch to #Linux.

#Ubuntu repeatedly failed to install for me so I'm with Linux #Mint Cinammon and very pleased with it.

Might give Pop!OS with #Cosmic a try later.

Das Wochenende beginnt mit jeder Menge Reparatur Cafés. Gerne mal mit einem defekten Gegenstand vorbeischauen!

Ein Reparaturcafé ist eine gute Anlaufstelle um unabhängig Expertise zu euren defekten Geräten zu bekommen.

Heute und morgen:
#Rostock #Frankfurt #Bremen #Heidenheim #Lübeck #Berlin #Bremerhaven #Starnberg #Erding #Coburg #Nürnberg #Aachen #Essen #Stuttgart #München #Hamburg ... und viele mehr
Ab Montag:
#Bamberg #Leipzig #Regensburg #Dortmund #Ingolstadt #Magdeburg #Gießen #Ulm #Ilmenau #Hannover #Köln #Kassel #Osnabrück ... und viele mehr

#Deutschland
https://www.reparatur-initiativen.de/termine

#Österreich
https://reuseaustria.at/repaircafes-und-initiativen/#repaircafeinitiativen

#Schweiz
https://www.repair-cafe.ch/reparieren/

#Linux Installation
https://endof10.org/de/places/

#repair #reparatur #electronics #opensource

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Nächste Reparatur Cafés.

I found this screenshot again and I still think it's brilliant. The best OS overview I've ever read.
#Linux #FreeBSD

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Screenshot of a Reddit comment saying this: Time for my OS opinion that's guaranteed to be unpopular with someone... Sun Solaris used to be the OS that required overpriced proprietary hardware and still couldn't compete with Linux. That OS is now MacOS. MacOS used to be the colorful and friendly walled garden OS that your non-techie parents would enjoy but was completely useless to you as a power user. That OS is now Windows. Windows used to be the OS that could run a lot of apps, but was a headache to setup and maintain correctly and would sometimes blow up for no reason. That OS is now Linux. Linux used to be the techie and developer oriented command-line OS that was lacking in desktop apps and might not support your hardware, but once you got it going, was rock solid and had no limits. That OS is now FreeBSD.

KomoDo has now 1.5.0 release available: https://download.kde.org/stable/komodo/1.5.0/komodo-1.5.0.tar.xz.mirrorlist

Flathub build is on it's way soon:tm:

Happy todo.txting!

#KDE #Linux #KomoDo

I have a build of #OpenZFS working just nicely against #Linux next-20250911. You know, the one with the "Linux hates out-of-tree filesystems" change slated for 6.18, that is filling my DMs today.

This is not magic or heroism, just looking at the changes, thinking for a while, and doing the work. It took a morning.

Don't be sucked in by the noise and nonsense. Instead, trust that we've got your back, and are working hard to give you a filesystem that you can trust to take care of your data long into the future.

I'll also take a tip, if you're offering 💚
https://despairlabs.com/sponsor/

@krutonium @landley I mean, Ideally @OS1337 would be come a simpler and better alternative to #LinuxFromScratch or #YoctoLinux / #YoctoProject when it comes to getting started on a device.

• Ideally #SBC manufacturers would at least release the #drivers (if they can't be assed to #mainline them into #Linux) and #ReproduceableBuilds with build scripts to make them go brrr...

Cuz #RaspberryPi de-facto monopolized non-#amd64 / non-#ix86 - #SBCs because they actually give a shit and publish #documentation!

• So whilst they certainly don't support other OSes than #RaspberryPiOS, they don't just tell folks like @geerlingguy to not pester them with questions in their Forums.

@krutonium @landley @geerlingguy IDK but I also didn't knew that #32bit #ARM (i.e. #AMRv5r11 as used by the #RaspberryPi #Pi0 / #Pi0W) is out of patent protection...

• I started @OS1337 as an effort to build a "legacy-friendy" minimalist #toybox + #musl / #linux distro as a basis for #firmware (i.e. for a #minimalist #embedded system like an applianced "#SSH-#Terminal" in critical IT)…

Killing non-#64bit support in Linux would be a death sentence for many #EmbeddedSystems.

• And I don't think they can all be migrated to i.e. #NetBSD, as it already took huge efforts to get them away from #MSDOS & #WindowsEmbedded…

🎶 Call out for bands & musicians!

Looking for people who want to be part of a live stream event in October.

If you are a creative commons musician or an open culture enthusiast and would like to know more or perform on the stream go here to learn more! 😀

https://www.lorenzosmusic.com/2025/09/call-out-for-creative-commons-musicians.html

#ccmusic #musodon #opensource #ubuntu #linux

OS-level sandboxing provides kernel-enforced isolation that restricts processes, filesystems, and resources, ensuring applications run in contained and controlled environments

Here is a comparison of sandboxing support across different OS 😎👇 #infosec #linux #macos #freebsd #windows

Find a high-res pdf book with all my #cybersecurity related infographics from https://study-notes.org/cybersecurity-ebook.html

Restoring data from backups due to my current desktop failing to power off cleanly on Tuesday evening and not starting up on Wednesday morning. Everything seems to be okay so far.

Remember: Backups need to be Automated, Distributed, Secure and Tested, otherwise they're not backups (and use multiple backup software - I have Borg, Restic and tar).

My wrapper scripts are open source:

https://github.com/pwaring/backup-scripts

#linux #backups

I used #DaVinciResolve to edit my latest YouTube Video. Before that, I used #kdenlive - and even before that, #camtasia. Some quick thoughts...

I'm not an expert in video editing, just someone who wants to upload videos to YouTube. I really liked camtasia because it is simple yet powerful, and I knew it well enough so that it didn't get in my way anymore. But there is no #linux version, which is a deal breaker for me now.

KDEnlive is a great piece of software, especially for... [1/]

Is there a #debugger for #Linux Shell scripts?

#Android #Linux #emulation
Un projet à garder à l'oeil : ATL (Android Translation Layer).
En gros, ATL est à Android ce que Wine/Proton est à Windows.
Cela devrait aider à faire tourner directement les applications Android sous Linux, sans avoir à mettre un système Android entier dans une VM.
https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer/android_translation_layer

#Hyprland 0.51 #Wayland Compositor Released with Support for Fully Configurable Trackpad Gestures, New Animations, and More https://9to5linux.com/hyprland-0-51-wayland-compositor-adds-fully-configurable-trackpad-gestures

#Linux #OpenSource

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Screenshot of Hyprland

This might be a longshot... but the fediverse might be the best place for me to post this and get the reply of fellow Linux friends.

One of my kid's buddies found an in-the-box Samsung SM-T113 "Tab." Doing searches, I see it may be possible to put something like PostMarketOS on it.

Anyone out there have experience in this?

boosts appreciated

#Linux #keepingStuffOutOfLandfills

#Linux #media
Plus le temps passe, plus j'apprécie le lecteur vidéo mpv au lieu de VLC ou Celluloid.
Non seulement les raccoucis clavier sont très bien faits, mais il utilise *vraiment* moins de CPU que les autres.
Si vous êtes sur batterie, ça fait une belle différence, vraiment.
mpv utilise à fond le décodage matériel, ce qui le rend énergétiquement plus efficace.

I offered it to a rather prominent Mastodon user who frequently posts #mutualaid requests but they didn't respond, so now I will offer it to you: I have a HP Spectre x360 convertible netbook which won't run Windows 11, but will run #Linux great. If you need it more than I do, it's yours, especially if you're in the #Portland area. I will ship it though if you're really in need and out of the area. If no one claims it it will eventually go to #FreeGeek.

Are you OK, #Linux?

I want to run lsiutil or storcli64, so I figured I’d install Linux on an external drive.

So I download Ubuntu 24.04.3 Desktop for amd64. It boots, I start an install, and a good 45 minutes later, it says there’s an error. I can’t really see what the error is here, can you?

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This is a picture of a screen of an Ubuntu installation that failed mysteriously. Looking at the logs, I haven't the slightest idea what went wrong. The tile is, "Something went wrong". I'm not going to type out the rest because it appears to be nonsense.