@thomasfuchs Aaaand AMD already has unified memory for x86.
Could be a good chip to run #linux though

On #Linux, I had been using Sway, but moved on to try Swayfx, Scroll, Niri, Hyprland and even a couple tiling solutions for Gnome and now I'm back on Swaywm.

I'll give some quick thoughts on each:

- Swayx: Great incremental improvement to Sway with rounded corners and drop shadows. If better supported on Ubuntu (work requirement), maybe I'll return.
- Niri. Nice scroller. Missing left/right alignment. 🧵

I know it's not FreeDOS but I wanted to share a cool project from an intern I mentored.

This book is an introduction to Linux for readers who are just getting started with Linux. 🐧 It has lots of info about #Linux commands, apps, and desktops.

Download a free PDF of the book, or buy a print version:

https://www.both.org/?p=14228

You don’t love systemd timers enough

My favorite metonymic technology term is "cron job": even though cron may not literally be the daemon that executes actions on a schedule, we apply the term to anything that walks like a cron and quacks like a cron. As Patrick McKenzie likes to point out, cron jobs are one of the most eminently useful computing primitives. They offer utility that's almost immediat

https://www.osnews.com/story/145175/you-dont-love-systemd-timers-enough/

#Linux

Dreißig Jahre KDE

...und alles begann mit einem genervten Studenten.

1996 hatte Matthias Ettrich genug von der Zerklüftung der Unix-Desktops, auf denen jedes Programm anders aussah und sich anders bedienen ließ. Seine Idee war eine einheitliche, freundliche Oberfläche für ganz normale Menschen, nicht nur für Profis. Er nannte sie Kool Desktop Environment, kurz KDE, ein kleiner Seitenhieb auf das damals verbreitete kommerzielle CDE. Gebaut wurde das Ganze mit C++ und dem ein Jahr zuvor von der norwegischen Firma Troll Tech entwickelten Framework Qt, das bis heute das technische Fundament von KDE bildet.

Auffällig viel davon ist in Deutschland passiert. 1997 trafen sich rund fünfzehn Entwickler in Arnsberg zur allerersten KDE-Konferenz, die später als KDE One in die Geschichte einging. Im selben Jahr wurde in Tübingen der KDE e.V. gegründet, der das Projekt bis heute rechtlich und finanziell trägt. Schon 1998 erschien die erste stabile Version, und 1999 zog ein kleiner Drache namens Konqi als Maskottchen ein, der uns bis heute erhalten geblieben ist.

Von da an ging es Schlag auf Schlag. KDE 2 brachte im Jahr 2000 den Browser und Dateimanager Konqueror, KDE 3 folgte 2002, und KDE 4 baute 2008 mit Plasma, Dolphin und Okular eine ganz neue Welt. 2014 kam Plasma 5, 2024 dann die große MegaRelease mit Plasma 6 und dem Umstieg auf Wayland. 2025 hat das Projekt sogar eine eigene Distribution namens KDE Linux aus der Taufe gehoben.

Zwei Dinge mag ich an dieser Geschichte besonders. Erstens: KDEs Web-Engine KHTML wurde Ende der Neunziger zur Grundlage von Apples WebKit und später Googles Blink. Heute laufen Chrome, Edge, Safari, Opera, Vivaldi und Brave im Kern auf KDE-Erbe, und in fast jeder Zeile deiner Server-Logs steht bis heute KHTML. Zweitens: KDE hat es bis in die Raumfahrt geschafft. In der Doku Good Night Oppy sieht man einen NASA-Ingenieur, der während des Flugs zum Mars an einer KDE-3-Workstation arbeitet.

Und ganz nebenbei steckt KDE Plasma seit 2021 auch im Steam Deck von Valve, also in einem der meistverkauften Handhelds der letzten Jahre.

Dreißig Jahre freie Software, getragen von einer Gemeinschaft, die Kontrolle, Datenschutz und digitale Selbstbestimmung in den Mittelpunkt stellt. Herzlichen Glückwunsch, KDE.

https://kde.org/de/anniversaries/30/

#KDE #KDE30 #FreieSoftware #OpenSource #freesoftware #Linux #Plasma #gnu #linux #gnulinux

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

#fedihelp
Gibt es eine (sinnvolle) Möglichkeit den USB-Videograbber "VGB300" von August unter Linux zum laufen zu kriegen? lsusb zeigt mir den nicht an.
Wenn nicht, was ist da sinnvoll? Ich habe eine Composite/BAS Videoquelle die ich gerne einbinden möchte.
#linux #video #c3voc

After being hosed by #btrfs on #linux 7.0.1, the #atomdrift postgresql master database is on #OmniOS & #ZFS

It's good to be back, even if I'm rusty in Solaris-based environments.

Episode 19 of Dark Blue Weekly released

https://darkblueproject.com/sites/news/dbw-e19.php

#darkblueweekly #darkblueproject #nixos #sway #labwc #cosmicdesktop #system76 #linux #opensource #freesoftware #linuxdesktop

I sometimes wonder if the difference between #Linux users and other computer users is simply that linux people are more fascinated with the OS and less concerned about actually doing anything useful with an app/program…

The store was all out of Debian KDE but they did have this…

#linux #dadjokes

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“Red Hat Gnome”

I don't know how I hadn't discovered this sooner, but the Gardenhouse project (https://gardenhouse.pinkro.se/) is everything I've ever wanted. The novel systemd utilities reimplemented in a distro (and kernel!) agnostic way and fully stand-alone. Their tmpfiles.d implementation is particularly impressive.

#GardenHouse #Linux

Anyone had success running Distrobox (Debian/Ubuntu vm) under Alpine Linux to get Blender with Cycles/HIP support working on an Alpine host? Something I gotta try...

#Linux #Alpine #AlpineLinux #Blender #ROCm #AMD #HIP #Distrobox #Podman #Docker

On the one hand, this feels like a Firefox problem, because that's where I'm seeing it.

On the other hand, it's probably only Firefox (web pages) where an emoji font is ever set as the first font 😐

#Linux #FontConfig

Flathub disallows LLM-based submissions https://lobste.rs/s/l4qeud #linux #vibecoding
https://social.treehouse.systems/@barthalion/116657011366876079

Flathub moves to ban nearly all apps and submissions made with generative AI https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/flathub-moves-to-ban-nearly-all-apps-and-submissions-made-with-generative-ai/

#Linux #OpenSource #Flathub #AI #GenAI

I've been experimenting with #Linux VMs on #macOS using #UTM. Two #Debian VMs, both on Apple's hypervisor, one with QEMU, the other with Apple's #Virtualization backend. Both are running Apache with PHP stack, boot with less than 200MB RAM in use, running Debian's cloud kernel.

The VM with QEMU boots in about 4 seconds, the full Apple stack VM boots in about 2 seconds. A full blown Linux environment with a container-like startup time.
https://docs.getutm.app/settings-apple/settings-apple/

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Screenshot of 'fastfetch' running on a Debian 13 Trixie VM running on Apple Silicon, using QEMU.

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Screenshot of 'fastfetch' running on a Debian 13 Trixie VM running on Apple Silicon, using Apple Virtualization backend.

owo whats this

#KDE #Plasma #KDEPlasma #Linux

To be crystal clear, the QtQuick side is now in rather good shape, we just need people to test it out and hunt down all the bugs, especially the weird edge cases! QtWidget side is still very much work in progress, though some buttons have some Union compatibility.

Anyway, hope people will have fun testing things out. I will likely write a blogpost about how to tinker with it when I'm not so swamped with beta bug hunting.

KDE Linux in a virtual machine (or bare metal if you're adventurous) is good way to test out the beta.

See also: https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.91/

edit:

And if things fail, you can change back to Breeze. Changing between Breeze and Union will need you to restart the app and/or even whole PC. Depends. Uh. Beta software!! :)

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Screenshot of application style selection with Union (In Development) version enabled.

One wonderful thing about migrating from #GitLab to #Radicle is that we got rid of our one and only #Linux VM. The #HardenedBSD dev/build infrastructure now runs 100% on HardenedBSD (rather than 99% 🙂).

Edit[0]: Clarified that it's the dev/build infrastructure that's 100% HardenedBSD. We do have one off-site backup system (maintained by a trusted third party) running OpenBSD.

Flatpak’s future sandboxing design may rely more heavily on systemd services, raising questions about compatibility with non-systemd systems.
https://linuxiac.com/flatpaks-future-may-leave-non-systemd-distros-behind/

#linux #opensource

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Flatpak’s future sandboxing design may rely more heavily on systemd services, raising questions about compatibility with non-systemd systems.

🚀 #Gitte 0.5.0 is out!

- Signed commits & tags (GPG, SSH & X.509)
- Signature validation in the commit log
- Signing status helper
- Collapse-all / expand-all in stash view and commit log view
- New Cornish (kw) translation, thanks to @pigeon_

Also included:
- Overhauled dialogs
- Refresh handling based on IO activity
- Fixes & dependency updates

Flathub: https://flathub.org/en/apps/de.wwwtech.gitte
macOS: https://gitlab.com/dehesselle/gitte_macos/-/releases/v0.5.0+24
Repo: https://codeberg.org/ckruse/Gitte

#git #gnome #rustlang #linux #macos

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Git GUI dialog reporting unavailable SSH commit and tag signing due to a missing SSH signing key file, with configuration details and troubleshooting guidance

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Git GUI showing commit history with verified SSH-signed commits, branch indicators, commit details, and a diff view for changes in a README file

Guten Morgen! ☕

Erinnerung an mich selbst: `man <befehl>` ist immer noch schneller als ChatGPT zu fragen, was `tar -xzvf` macht. Und nebenbei lernt man, dass `tar` über 80 Optionen hat – wovon man genau drei jemals benutzt.

Die anderen 77? Existieren wahrscheinlich nur, um in Quizfragen aufzutauchen.

#Linux #OpenSource #CLI

Used #LibreOffice for a decade on #Ubuntu #Linux but never really liked the teeny GUI fonts & icons. #TIL that in addition to:

sudo apt install libreoffice-writer

installing:

sudo apt install libreoffice-gtk3

makes wonders! It also respects your dark-mode settings.

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Screenshot of LibreOffice Writer window, which shows a GUI with teeny font-sizes in the menu and small icons.

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Screenshot of LibreOffice Writer window, which shows a GUI with large font-sizes in the menu and small icons. The font-sizes and light mode in the OS settings are respected.

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Screenshot of LibreOffice Writer window, which shows a GUI with large font-sizes in the menu and small icons. The font-sizes and dark mode in the OS settings are respected.

just had to remind another person that framework supports facist projects

#framework #linux #omarchy #dhh #fascism

If you run your own local DNS servers at home, do you: (select all that apply)

Comment with your preferred DNS stack and privacy friendly DNS providers.

#FreeBSD #Linux #selfHosting #DNS

@cwebber After cringing hard, seeing early #Unix Window Managers like twm and fvwm, it was such a breath of fresh air to see #WindowMaker. I rocked a WindowMaker desktop from about 1998 to about 2002, in #Debian #linux

Canonical has announced a new tool that lets developers quickly create reproducible isolated dev environments made from SDKs and defined by a YAML.

Using unprivileged LXD system containers with their own kernel and a host resource access system inspired by snapd, they company say they'll even allow agentic tools to run in a 'harmless' way.

More details ⤵
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/canonical-workshop-dev-environments

#ubuntu #linux #opensource

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Workshop CLI.

California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages — amendment proposed by the same lawmaker who wrote the original law

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-moves-to-exempt-linux-from-its-upcoming-age-verification-law-after-backlash-over-forcing-operating-systems-to-collect-users-ages-amendment-proposed-by-the-same-lawmaker-who-wrote-the-original-law

#AgeVerification #IDverification #dystopia #surveillance #privacy #Linux #opensource #technology

Still thinking about it? The due date is soon for #SeaGL2026 #cfp

You can submit more than one talk, we also accept remote speakers.

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#linux #opensource #FLOSS FOSS #OSS #oshw #free #libre #open #tech #seattle

Those of you with terminal and plain text first workflows, how did you handle academia? I'm imagining a mix of git, pandoc, and vimwiki or org-mode.

Is there a good article on how to setup such a workflow? Any pitfalls?

#linux #freebsd #cli #terminal #vim #emacs #college #university #acadamia

This #FreeBSD bug highlights a strength of one of the features that makes #HardenedBSD attractive: optional blocking of loading of kernel modules.

HardenedBSD provides a sysctl node: hardening.pax.kmod_load_disable. By default, it is set to 0, permitting loading of kernel modules. When set to 1, loading kernel modules is prohibited. When set to 2, loading kernel modules is prohibited and a reboot is required to permit loading kernel modules once again.

HardenedBSD also has a notion of "insecure/untrusted" kernel modules. Some kernel modules in base, most notably the #Linux syscall emulation layer known as the linuxulator, are explicitly marked as untrustworthy. Users wishing to use those kernel modules must explicitly tag them as trusted (hbsdcontrol pax disable insecure_kmod /path/to/kernel/module.ko). Only then will the kernel module be permitted to load (the hardening.pax.kmod_load_disable sysctl node does need to be set to 0).

These two features can help protect users against situations where kernel modules get autoloaded, like with puppet, ifconfig, zfs, and other tools.

#infosec #FatGid

#Mozilla #Firefox 151.0.2 Is Out Now to Improve Split View, Disk Caching, and More https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-151-0-2-is-out-now-to-improve-split-view-disk-caching-and-more

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux

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A screenshot of Mozilla Firefox 151.0.2 showing the main window while browsing the 9to5linux.com website and the About Mozilla Firefox dialog.

#SteamDeck #Linux #Windows #WindowsGaming #LinuxGaming #Gaming.

#Meme #Memes #Humour #Humor

Copying Remote Command Output to Your macOS Clipboard

A small trick to copy command output from a remote ssh session directly into the local macOS clipboard, using OSC 52 and a tiny shell script.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/05/26/copying-remote-command-output-to-your-macos-clipboard/

#ITNotes #macOS #Mac #Apple #shell #ssh #Linux #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #illumos #Terminal #Clipboard

Ich suche immer noch ein "Vorlese"-Tool unter Linux, das mir eine '*.odt-Datei vorliest.

Die "Vorlesefunktion" von @libreoffice ist IMHO mehr als grottig und deshalb nicht zielführend.

Kann mir jemand von Euch helfen?

Danke! <3
#Linux #Reader

California and Colorado legislated that Linux distributions, being free and open-source, are exempt from the age verification in operating systems, unless they are proprietary like SteamOS (and Windows).

Too bad the systemd developers already complied with fascism in advance before the bills were even finalized.

Will Lennart Poettering and his followers now please remove the birthDate field from systemd?

P.S.: If you reply with any variation of "You need to calm down," I will block you.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/colorado-and-california-age-verification-bills-exempt-open-source-operating-systems/

#fascism #surveillance #AgeVerification #Linux #systemd

I guess since the whole "Flatpak creating a dependency on systemd" bullshit has surfaced this week there has been some other conversations about systemd going on throughout the Fediverse.

I've seen some oblique references to Debian making an effort to make OpenRC more viable as an alternate init system. That's about all I've gathered on my hit-n-run timeline surfing the last several days. Not sure if this is an official Debian project or just someone's wish list.

Anyone have the skinny? Links to actual discussions?

#Linux #Debian #systemd #OpenRC #Flatpak

Just updated my Fairphone 5 ArchLinux packages to the latest call audio kernel/ucm/q6voiced versions and I'm happy to confirm call audio now seems to work out of the box without major issues.

Thanks to the work done by @valpackett, the bottom speaker is no longer firing for me during calls (producing an echo). That was my last known issue.

Hopefully this can be upstreamed to #postmarketOS soon, I think people are going to enjoy this.

#linuxmobile #arch #linux #fairphone

The little Acer doesn't (totally) love OpenBSD 7.9:
- fans are always spinning fast and it's hot. I could probably try to fix it, but I have no time at the moment
- it doesn't suspend - and it's critical, for me

I haven't tried other things, except that Mate works perfectly on X and I can use the touchpad. Volume controls work, the brightness controls work. A step ahead from 7.8, but still not perfect.

I'll probably reinstall Void Linux on ZFS.

#OpenBSD #Linux #Laptop

Colorado and California age verification bills exempt open source operating systems https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/colorado-and-california-age-verification-bills-exempt-open-source-operating-systems/

#Gaming #USA #PCGaming #US #AgeVerification #Linux #OpenSource

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Weird. On FreeBSD 15.0, my new Jabra headset works perfectly with the wireless USB dongle. Plug it in, it's picked up as an audio sink and source, and everything Just Works. On Linux Mint (which I still use for gaming and DRM media), the headset reports that it's connected ... then immediately disconnects again :/ No idea why and haven't had the time to debug it.

This further confirms my general impression of FreeBSD and Linux ... Linux distros have much broader software and hardware support, but tend to be a bit jankier. Whereas FreeBSD has a smaller set of software and hardware support, but when it works, it's stable and remains so.

#freebsd #linux #audio #headsets

@kabel42

#Linux #meme

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"That Mitchell and Webb Look" "Are *we* the baddies?" Meme, but with a Tux penguin on the cap.

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