@stefano The *perception* that #Linux is anti- #Windows or #MacOS was understandable back in the day when Steve Ballmer was running the show and #Microsoft pumped out no shortage of anti-Linux FUD and propaganda.

It's also important to note at that time the OS landscape was very different.

https://www.suse.com/c/ai-assisted-infrastructure-at-scale/

#AI #infrastructure #SUSE #Linux #agile

I just realized that Hetzner does not treat #FreeBSD as a first-class OS, offering only #Linux distributions for its VPS products. Can anyone recommend a good hoster for a small (experimental) FreeBSD instance?

Edit: Thanks to everyone pointing out that it is possible to install FreeBSD on a Hetzner VPS. I would like to support a native FreeBSD hoster.

Day 20416, the wheel (group) keeps rising in popularity, meanwhile the WORKGROUP (group) keeps losing members.
Keep the wheel(8) spinning!

#Linux #NetBSD #OpenBSD

Time to switch distros 😟 Which ones ban LLMs? https://fosstodon.org/@opensuse/115605274864363757

#linux #ai #noAI #LLM #LLMs

I'm really proud of this #retrospective #article all about the history of #linux #gaming #linuxgaming

https://gardinerbryant.com/how-far-weve-come/?ref=masto

This is a beautiful machine. A bartop arcade cabinet with a wood look running Linux Mint.

Looks like it was built in the 70's or 80's.

#linux #arcade #gaming

https://hackaday.io/project/202861-bartop-arcade-cabinet-from-scrap-and-e-waste

Using #Unbound over #DoT (DNS over TLS) as a local DNS resolver.

Example setup on #Debian - of course not limited to #Debian - any distro or #BSD will do! 😎

#linux #unbound #foss #ubuntu

https://jhx7.de/blog/using-unbound/

RE: https://vt.social/@rogueren/115600686997864089

I'd also like to remind everyone that just a couple months back Windows 11 just killed people's SSDs, this wasn't resolved for WEEKS.

#Linux really isn't perfect, but at this point I'd say the things it's not perfect at are far less bad than what Windows isn't perfect at.

chatcontrol

#unix_surrealism #comic #linux #eu #chatcontrol #openbsd

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Girl and Fish walk home from a store. Girl: "But what was their excuse to take away the FOSS critters' rights?" Fish: "It's basically your fault." UNITED CORPORATE STATES OF EURAMERICAFRICA, VERY LONG TIME AGO: Speaker: "Our corporate benefactors have pledged full cooperation with the federal government. But as long as these... "animals" are allowed to exist, our children will never be safe." MATACORP representative winks and thumbs up. Crowd: "YEAH!" Penguin and Fish representatives of the FOSS republic: "He does know we're in the room, right?" "oh yes"

Once again saw someone blaming the #rust support in the #Linux #kernel for their problems, when in fact the problem at hand had nothing at all to do with it[1].

Kinda funny but also quite worrying at the same time.

See the slightly edited screenshot from a chatroom message below for an example from today. If you look closer, you see that it is a segfault in a userspace #rustlang program.

[1] I once even saw someone complaining when the kernel in fact did not even have CONFIG_RUST enabled…

#LinuxKernel

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Screenshot of log messages from a segfault in some rust userspace program.

@nixCraft for people who are considering #linux or have friends who dislike the direction windows is taking, may i suggests #zorinos as an alternative

https://social.linux.pizza/@NathanALV/115583154402322563

Tuxedo cancels Snapdragon X Elite Linux laptop project

For the past 18 months, the Linux OEM Tuxedo Computers has been working on bringing a Snapdragon X Elite ARM laptop to market, but now they cancelled the project due to complications.

Development turned out to be challenging due to the different architecture, and in the end, the first-generation X1E proved to be less suitable

https://www.osnews.com/story/143893/tuxedo-cancels-snapdragon-x-elite-linux-laptop-project/

#Linux

Why I (still) love Linux

I usually publish articles about how much I love the BSDs or illumos distributions, but today I want to talk about Linux (or, better, GNU/Linux) and why, despite everything, it still holds a place in my heart.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/24/why-i-still-love-linux/

#Linux #OwnYourData #Server #SysAdmin #Workstation #OpenSource #ITNotes

"Linux is too complicated for anyone"

Windows users:

#Linux #Microsoft #FuckAI #Windows11

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Every Windows 11 PC is now an AI PC with Copilot at the center of it all. Here's how to get rid of Copilot completely from your computer (1/3)

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1/ Settings App > Personalization > Taskbar > Other System Tray Icons > Switch "Microsoft 365 Copilot App" Off This hides Copilot from your taskbar

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2/ Press Win + R > Type in "regedit" > Navigate to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows" > Right-click on the "Windows" Key > New > Key > Name the new key "WindowsCopilot" > Right-click on the new key > New > DWORD (32-bit) Value

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3/ > Name the value "TurnOffWindowsCopilot" > Double-click the name of the value > Set the "Value Data" to 1 > Restart your computer Congrats! Copilot is now completely gone from your computer. Hope this helps

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/24/why-i-still-love-linux/

#ITNotes #NoteHUB #linux #ownyourdata #server #sysadmin

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟭𝟭/𝟮𝟰 (Valuable News - 2025/11/24) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/valuable-news-2025-11-24/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟭𝟭/𝟮𝟰 (Valuable News - 2025/11/24) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/valuable-news-2025-11-24/

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

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

Question for my fellow #linux people: I'm looking for a nice, simple, lightweight standalone image viewer. Looking for recommendations along these lines:
- Proper Wayland support
- Maintained to some extent
- Works without a whole DE behind it (it can be associated with a DE, just not depend on it)
- No red flags in the git repo / community / website / etc
- Doesn't explode when coming into contact with mildly "exotic" inputs

I support open source and free software #freedom #freesoftware #opensource #gnu #linux #android #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #macos #ios #windows #google and more

Really nice tool to do some ad blocking 😎

#Foss #linux

https://github.com/tanrax/maza-ad-blocking

Gestern den ersten Laptop (Lenovo Consumer, Windows 8.1) gehabt, den wir nicht auf #Linux umrüsten konnten. Es fand sich im BIOS keine Möglichkeit den USB Stick als Bootmedium festzulegen. Hat uns mega geärgert, aber ich habe auch keine Idee wie man es hätte lösen können. Kennt man ja von #Lenovo eher nicht so.

Wenn Du eine Idee hast, wie es trotzdem gegangen wäre, mach uns gerne klüger.
#linuxsonderschicht #Linux #Linuxmint #bios

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115595277667478795

So glad to be migrating my computers to #linux!

#opensuse Leap 16.0 is out! I have some free time today so I'd figure I'd try it out in a VM.

Initial impressions:

New, streamlined installer just requires a few clicks with minimal input required. In a few minutes the installer finished. Rebooted and BAM! The OS boots straight into this mess!

This is not XFCE with Wayland. Time to troubleshoot.

...sigh...

#linux #homelab

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An error message presented by openSUSE Leap 16.0 while trying to boot into the OS.

@nixCraft Drop / kick anything closed off or flaky. Only use parts that support #LINUX and the #openSource movement by >110% ! So FUCK #NVIDIA and #INTEL ! Go #AMD !

@PurpleJillybeans
Momentum.

In the #dos days (before windows95),, #linux partitioning was easier for #dos people to use. Plus you could easily mount #dos disks under Linux if you dual booted. Along with that, dos utilities were created to read/write ext2. Those did not exist to write data to ufs from dos.

By 1997/8, people mainly stuck with #linux. In that period, v3&4 of #FreeBSD was awesome, but then v5 came out and that version got nothing but bad press :( So here we are.

Oh nice, the latest #Waydroid version now has native support for forwarding #Android notifications to the host system https://github.com/waydroid/waydroid/releases/tag/1.6.0

#postmarketOS #LinuxMobile #Linux

TIL that the “unmkinitramfs” command exists.

I had long considered the #initramfs to be a difficult format because it's two or more concatenated archives, which unarchiving tools can't usually deal with. (They'll usually extract only the first archive [tar, cpio, etc] or the last archive [zip].)

Fortunately, someone made a program for extracting this peculiar concatenated-archive format.

Unfortunately, I was today years old when I found out that it exists! 🤦‍♂️

#Linux

Just switched to Linux, but miss the product key-less Windows experience? There's an app for that~

https://github.com/MrGlockenspiel/activate-linux

#linux #windows

@stefano @hyc Not only does #FreeBSD do it the proper way but they've had the technology for at least a decade before #Linux.

I am far from holding God-like status in either FreeBSD or Linux but this needs to be a major talking point.

Just sayin'.

Nehme ich jetzt #docker oder #VirtualBox für eine #Windows Umgebung unter #Linux ?

At last, all the accessibility improvements on GNOME Calendar are finally available as a stable release. Get it on Flathub while it's hot!!!

https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.gnome.Calendar

#Accessibility #GNOME #GTK #GTK4 #libadwaita #a11y #calendar #GNOMECalendar #Linux #GNU #OpenSource #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OSS

Interlisp source files embed control codes to style the code viewed in the Medley environment, which displays the proper fonts and text attributes. To view the syntax-highlighted code on modern Unix-like systems run the "lsee" shell script from a terminal.

https://github.com/Interlisp/medley/blob/master/scripts/lsee

#interlisp #lisp #linux

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Screenshot of a Linux terminal window that displays a portion of an Interlisp source file. The code is formatted with syntax highlighting and text colored in white, red, green, and yellow.

@rl_dane

> How do you scroll up in the console???

Speaking of which:

#Linux dropped the #scrollback mechanism from its kernel #VirtualTerminals entirely, in version 5.9, released in September 2020.

The "Linux keyboard and console HOWTO" in the meanwhile is dated 1998.

There are quite a number of outdated StackExchange answers that haven't been corrected for the new reality, too. So it's not solely the #LinuxDocumentationProject that was written "weeks ago". (-:

https://superuser.com/a/281876/38062

@rl_dane

You're a bit optimistic about #Linux doco, there, by the way. Weeks! (-:

Many how-tos and such from the #LinuxDocumentationProject notoriously date from the 1990s and were last updated two decades ago.

One wouldn't know from TLDP about the Bourne Again to Almquist shell switchover, for instance. And there's PalmOS and Psion as hardware platforms, but no #RaspberryPi.

Linux ist finally in unseriösen ClickBait-Anzeigen angekommen. Year of the Linux Desktop I guess...?

#YearOfTheLinuxDesktop #linux

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Anzeige: Ubuntu Vollversion gratis Zu Windows parallel installieren - keine Fehler, kein Geld verschwenden! Bebildert mit einer grauhaarigen Frau mit einem Laptop auf dem Schoß, die freudig die Fäuste in die Luft hebt und grinst.

To which platform(s) should we prioritize porting our lightweight configuration management and system automation?

Select multiple or comment below:

#FreeBSD #Linux #OpenBSD #Fedora #NetBSD #Debian #RedHat #Ubuntu

You can now run the very first versions of Unix on a modern computer thanks to some incredible restoration work https://github.com/felipenlunkes/run-ancient-unix

#linux #freebsd

We had an event last night at a low income housing community here in Olympia. We brought some Nixbooks, gave them away and showed people how to use them.

These people are NOT technical and still all said that Nixbook was far easier to use than any other computer they had used in the past.

All these laptops were headed for the scrapyard, but now thanks to Linux are out there changing peoples lives. :)

#linux #nixbook #recycling #ewaste

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80 year old woman in wheel chair getting a demo of nixbook

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Two men around an HP laptop running nixbook browsing the web

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One of our volunteers showing a woman how to use Nixbook

✨ The new Cryptomator Desktop Update 1.18.0 is here!

Want all highlights? Check out our blog post for the full release details.

➡️ https://cryptomator.org/blog/2025/11/19/desktop-1.18.0/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=desktop-1.18.0

#Cryptomator #SoftwareUpdate #Encryption #Cybersecurity #opensource #DataProtection #PrivacyTools #macOS #Windows #Linux #Infosec #SecureYourData #SecurityUpdate

Now is the time to submit a talk for the declarative and minimalistic computing room at FOSDEM

https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2025q4/003662.html

If you're into #guix or #declarative #linux then there's lots of interesting areas.

Some ideas:

* building and configuring #guix and #guile #scheme - how particular services are used.
* #guix and containerization / #docker
* deploying #guix services in the cloud / on servers
* running #guix on a hosted Linux distribution like #debian #ubuntu or #suse
* managing development work flows

And so much more ...

It's a super friendly room so submit your talk now! Or talk to @pjotrprins

The Verge: Screw it, I’m installing Linux

https://www.theverge.com/tech/823337/switching-linux-gaming-desktop-cachyos

#win11 #linux

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To be clear, my desktop works fine on Windows 11. But the general ratio of cool new features to egregious bullshit is low. I do not want to talk to my computer. I do not want to use OneDrive. I’m sure as hell not going to use Recall. I am tired of Windows trying to get me to use Edge, Edge trying to get me to use Bing, and everything trying to get me to use Copilot. I paid for an Office 365 subscription so I could edit Excel files. Then Office 365 turned into Copilot 365, and I tried to use it to open a Word document and it didn’t know how. Meanwhile, Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10, including security updates, forcing people to buy new hardware or live with the risks.

"The contrast with Docker is striking: while the Docker container required 100% CPU to reach peak for the HTTP and HTTPS throughput, the FreeBSD jail delivered the same speed with ~60% of the CPU sitting idle. In terms of performance cost per request, Jails are drastically cheaper."

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/

#ITNotes #Linux #Docker #Containers #FreeBSD #RunBSD #IT #SysAdmin

These are the things you need to fiddle with during your free time for fun (and to become a better candidate for #Linux jobs):

- Docker & K8s
- AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
- Python, Bash, Go
- CD/CD: Jinkins, GitHub Actions
- Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, …




https://www.linuxcareers.com/resources/blog/2025/11/linux-career-opportunities-in-2025-skills-in-high-demand/