@nixCraft I started off in the world of Gentoo because I wanted to run a 64 bit OS on my operating system when that wasn't an option using windows. Since then, I've moved off of Gentoo and now I use a variety of Distros like Mint, Ubuntu, Bazzite, etc on my different PCs.

I think the majority of #Linux users probably don't feel that strongly about their distro, but there's a vocal minority out there that make it look like we all do.

Why is #Linux like a religion? Everyone thinks their distro is the one true path, and they’ll die on that hill usually mid `apt upgrade`

Okay, hi everyone

This weekend, after a random toot from @alice in my TL, I found myself in a rabbit hole to enhance and create an iOS 6 theme for GTK4. It's not much, it has some rough edges, but damn it looks so cool, and I'm so proud of this!!

If you wanna help with design or add icons, please feel free to do so!

The code and install instructions lives here : https://gitlab.com/Krafting/igtk-theme

#gnome #gtk #libadwaita #ios #apple #gnomemobile #mobilelinux #retrocomputing #ios6 #linux #postmarketos

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Homescreen of GNOME mobile with ios6 styled icons and wallpaper

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Settings app with ios6 styled design

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Text Editor app with ios6 styled design

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Homescreen of GNOME mobile with ios6 styled icons and wallpaper

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Hello Fediverse,

I'm happy to announce our very own Mastodon instance called "FediBlue", a new friendly place in the Fediverse for all people that are interested in free and open source software, especially Linux, BSD and illumos.

FediBlue is part of our ongoing effort to strengthen the FOSS community by publishing content about it and help projects gaining visibility in a time where many companies try to force their services on users, train AIs with people's data and collect as many data as they could.

Alongside the wonderful BSD Cafe community, where I'm also at, FediBlue should provide another very friendly and welcoming place in the Fediverse. In the next days, the Dark Blue Project presence will move completely to FediBlue.

https://mastodon.fediblue.de

#mastodon #opensource #freesoftware #linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #illumos #darkblueproject #fediblue

Euro-Office, a fork of OnlyOffice backed by European vendors including Nextcloud and IONOS, is set to launch June 9 as a sovereignty-focused office suite. 🇪🇺
The project aims to provide an open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs while supporting EU digital sovereignty efforts. 📄

🔗 https://fossforce.com/2026/05/euro-office-sets-june-9-launch-in-bid-for-eu-digital-sovereignty/

#TechNews #EuroOffice #Nextcloud #OnlyOffice #LibreOffice #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #EU #Europe #Cloud #Productivity #Privacy #Technology #Software #Linux #FOSS #ODF

Shoutout to the unpaid open source devs holding everything together.
You know who you are. We owe you more than a GitHub star.

#OpenSource #Linux #SysAdmin #MemeMonday

Last week I installed Linux onto a new laptop. Nothing special about that, but it got me thinking how with all the negative sides of technology we also have plenty of positive ones.

I downloaded a close to 5 gigabyte .iso from the distro's site, wrote it onto an USB drive with dd and booted off it. In less than 10 minutes later a working desktop installation was done.

The first computer I've ever installed Linux on was a 486. My modem was 2400bps so I did not download an .iso. Instead I went to bank, got US dollars, stuffed those and a order form I had clipped off a computer magazine into an envelope and mailed that. As fast as 3 weeks I was holding a CD box of Slackware, with two CDs and a booklet that was to become the source of frustration for months to come.

I recently installed Alpine onto an old Thinkpad I have at the arcade and that got me thinking if I still had it to build a system from scratch to that old Slackware level. I may have to find a period accurate PC and see how it all looked like back then. #linux

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟲/𝟬𝟴 (Valuable News - 2026/06/08) available.

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟲/𝟬𝟴 (Valuable News - 2026/06/08) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/valuable-news-2026-06-08/

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

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

22 Uhr Abends, und mir fällt auf: `tldr` statt `man` ist wie der Unterschied zwischen "ich erkläre dir die ganze Philosophie des Befehls" und "hier sind die 5 Beispiele, die du wirklich brauchst".

`tldr tar` hat mir mehr Lebenszeit gerettet als jeder Energy-Drink. Endlich entpacke ich Archive ohne im Kopf nach der richtigen Buchstabensuppe zu kramen. 🗜️

Installiert via Paketmanager, gibt's für fast alles.

#Linux #CLI #FOSS

So I've been using Shotwell as my photo organizer for many years. But it's old, creaky and only barely supported.

What should I use instead? What do you use? I need:

* Photo management (sorting, ranking, deleting)

* Handles 10k+ images fine

* edit with external editor (gimp)

* RAW support

* Runs locally on Linux

* Ideally, import from camera

* Ideally, export to Flickr

* Ideally, a way to export from shotwell/import to the new organizer

Any ideas?

#fedihelp #photography #linux

@paul

There's also the part where you discover the Linux Documentation Project and the joy of doco that is convincing but a quarter century or more out of date when you check all of the version numbers of the stuff that it tells you about. (-:

@rl_dane
#Linux #LinuxDocumentationProject

sh
rlwrap ed

Arrow keys, command history, Ctrl-R search, and readline editing for programs that never had those features.

One of those small Unix tools that's easy to overlook.

#unix #linux #ed #commandline

xterm.vt100.translations: #override \
    Ctrl Shift <Key> equal: larger-vt-font() \n\
    Ctrl <Key> minus: smaller-vt-font() \n\
    Ctrl <Key> 0: set-vt-font(d) \n\
    Ctrl Shift <Key> C: copy-selection(CLIPBOARD) \n\
    Ctrl Shift <Key> V: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD)

xterm(1) on #Linux or #BSD doesn’t support easy font resize and CUA copy-paste? uhh.

Unix is a long-standing family of stable, multiuser, multitasking operating systems known for its command-line power and clean design. “Unix-based” means an OS directly descends from Unix code or certified Unix lineage

Here are known Unix-based OS 😎👇 Some are discontinued, while others are still active, especially in the BSD family

Find high-res pdf ebooks with all my #technology related infographics from https://study-notes.org

#linux #unix #freebsd #operatingsystem #computerscience

Hello Fediverse,

I'm happy to announce our very own Mastodon instance called "FediBlue", a new friendly place in the Fediverse for all people that are interested in free and open source software, especially Linux, BSD and illumos.

FediBlue is part of our ongoing effort to strengthen the FOSS community by publishing content about it and help projects gaining visibility in a time where many companies try to force their services on users, train AIs with people's data and collect as many data as they could.

Alongside the wonderful BSD Cafe community, where I'm also at, FediBlue should provide another very friendly and welcoming place in the Fediverse. In the next days, the Dark Blue Project presence will move completely to FediBlue.

https://mastodon.fediblue.de

#mastodon #opensource #freesoftware #linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #illumos #darkblueproject #fediblue

How to add things such as wget and apt to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS in Linuxulator on FreeBSD?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1tz7dln/how_to_add_things_such_as_wget_and_apt_to_ubuntu/

What's the easiest way to install apt, in the absence of wget?

Alternatively: what's the easiest way to install wget, in the absence of apt?

#FreeBSD #apt #Linux #Linuxulator #Ubuntu

The NetBSD 🚩 Foundation wrapped up its 2026 AGM! 🚀 Quick recap of milestones & future plans:
📦 NetBSD-11 (RC4) is on the horizon.
🌳 The massive migration from CVS to Git/Mercurial is officially complete!
🎓 #GSoC2026: 5 students onboarded (working on Wi-Fi stack upgrades, porting the #Enlightenment desktop @E , and more).
🛡️ Security: Onboarding as a MITRE CNA, preparing for the EU CRA, and enforcing "Anti-Slop" (no unreviewed AI code) protocols.
🔬 Long-term: Long-term plans to use formal verification tools, with Core open to funding active code audits.

Full log: https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/annual_general_meeting_2026

#NetBSD #OpenSource #RunBSD #GSoC #Security #Linux #antiaislop #FormalVerifcation

I'ts been a fairly long time since i've used this acc but one of my friends told me I should promote a project i've been working on, so... yeah!

I wrote a 3ds homebrew that boots a full linux environment in a risc v emulator in a few c files and only aboout ~170kb of code including all of the builtin nonessential example stuff like a js environment, fizzbuzz, cli doom, and more.

it's called 3DS-CLI, and it can be installed from universal updater or built from source and manually installed, and it's all open source cause free software is awesome!

https://github.com/cmdada/3ds-cli

please interact with the github repo if you like it!

#RISCV #3ds #Homebrew #Linux #Emulation

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3ds-cli running on a red new nintendo 3ds xl listing files and having booted linux

Don't tell me you think #Linux #Documentation is adequate.

Go install CachyOS and somehow manage to change both the console font in Limine, and upon bootup, and then tell me the documentation is adequate.

I give up. I'll just squint while logging in. You'd think stuff would be smart enough to say "Gee, the screen is 1080p, maybe let's not use an 8x16 console font. 🤦‍♂️

California lawmakers are considering exempting Linux and other open-source operating systems from the Digital Age Assurance Act after backlash over OS-level age verification requirements 🏛️
Amendment could exempt major Linux distros, while proprietary platforms like SteamOS may still be covered 🐧

🔗 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

#TechNews #Linux #OpenSource #Privacy #AgeVerification #California #SteamOS #Debian #Ubuntu #Fedora #ArchLinux #DigitalRights #FOSS #OperatingSystems #California #Bill #Law

Did you know - you can also grab free #Linux based VPS now!

We took your feedback seriously and instead of breaking the philosophy at #BoxyBSD, @gyptazy crafted the @BoxedTux project with the same spirit and philosophy.

Free Linux based instances for learning, testing and educational content. Supporting #Debian, #Ubuntu, #Fedora, #RockyLinux, #Devuan, #Suse and many more ones!

#BoxedTux is also powered by @gyptazy to support the community and beginners just focussing more on Linux based systems. No worries, #BoxyBSD remains as it is!

Website: https://boxedtux.com
Demo (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FEv3ANz5hc

#virtualization #community #education #learning #freevps #support #devops #bgp #dn42

Have you already enrolled on the Chat Mail service of BSD Café?

## No?

Go read enroll, have fun!

I've already enrolled / applied

Compliments of @stefano who did a massive amount of work to make this a full BSD experience from the server side.

This Café also runs in a BSD Jail

https://chatmail.bsd.cafe/index.html

#BSD #Café #Chat #Mail #service #programming #Linux #no #OpenSource #POSIX #fun #UniversalLove

@stefano
@jana

Thank you Jana for this great talk and introduction to FreeBSD.

#GPN24

#Linux #BSD #FreeBSD #RunBSD #Linux #OpenSOurce

Hello, BSD and Linux friends!

Don't miss @jana 's great presentation later today: "How is FreeBSD different from Linux, what does it do well and why should I care?"

The live stream can be found here: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/gpn24/vortragssaal

The recording will be available afterwards in: https://media.ccc.de/c/gpn24

https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn24/talk/ZSNZ89/

#Linux #BSD #FreeBSD #RunBSD #Linux #OpenSOurce

@david_chisnall

2025 Schleswig-Holstein switched to Open Xchange, Thunderbird, LibreOffice and Nextcloud

2026 Schleswig-Holstein started to switch from windows to Linux 💪

#SchleswigHolstein #openxchange #Thunderbird #LibreOffice #linux

OK ... #Linux help needed.

I'm trying to update my 20.04 machine to 22.04, thence to 24.04. I've run:

$ apt update
$ apt upgrade

But I'm getting :

E: The repository 'https://repo.skype.com/deb stable Release' no longer has a Release file.

N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.

Then when I try:

$ do-release-upgrade

I get:

Checking for a new Ubuntu release

Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading.

Help?

Should I somehow work to expunge all knowledge of skype (and I'd be more than happy to do that) or should I somehow force the upgrade?

TIA

Wondering if anyone knows of any good active virtual tech meetups? Like zoom calls, or maybe discord voice etc.. Anything related to #programming, #linux, etc. etc. I'm open to hearing about any and all. They seem hard to find..

🍁 Linux Association of Canada launches a national open-source library to support digital sovereignty. Read more: https://betakit.com/linux-association-of-canada-launches-national-open-source-library/ via @sarahcrgr
https://betakit.com/linux-association-of-canada-launches-national-open-source-library/ #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #Canada #Linux

This World Environment Day, combat e-waste by recycling your old tech with #NetBSD. Don't let planned obsolescence dictate your hardware's lifespan. Give that old machine a second life as a rock-solid firewall, file server, or lightweight workstation. 🖥️🌱
#WorldEnvironmentDay #NetBSD #RunBSD #RetroComputing #EcoFriendly #FOSS #Linux

Is there any good Linux (no Android) tablet out there? Sadly Fairphone doesn't offer one.

#linux #tablet

A hard line "I don't use anything with LLM generated code" stance will be difficult to maintain if you are a Linux user.

#Linux #LLM #AI

@rl_dane @ianthetechie and *raw* mobile #linux is nowhere near ready for primetime

J'ai #besoindevous dans le cadre du DU de Médiation de Lyon 2, je souhaiterais faire mon mémoire sur l’intérêt (ou pas) de la médiation pour favoriser le règlement des conflits dans le monde des logiciels libres

Je cherche une communauté francophone (de préférence)

1/ pour observer le fonctionnement et l’éventuelle existence de personnes jouant le rôle de médiateurices (rust conseillé sans le côté francophone 😅)

OU

2/ qui fait face à la prédation de sa production et qui a ou envisage de mettre en place une médiation pour faire évoluer la situation

Le rend les gens responsables et libres 🙃

#opensource #linux

Just...no

root@debhost:~# mount -o remount /
mount: (hint) your fstab has been modified, but systemd still uses
the old version; use 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload.
root@debhost:~# systemctl daemon-reload
root@debhost:~# mount -o remount /
root@debhost:~#

#Linux #systemd #IT #SysAdmin

I should actually force myself to remember that

inotifywait --event modify --monitor ~/.config/ --recursive

Lets me catch exactly what config file is changed when I toggle anything in the settings...

#Linux

#linux #gcc #clang #c #cpp #poll 1) do you have a program called "a.out" in your home folder, and if so 2) do you remember what it was

#Vim carnival this month: "The motion that changed everything".

Write about it on your #blog, and send me a link that I will add to this post

#editor #neovim #terminal #shell #opensource #linux #BSD #mastodon #fediverse
https://lazybea.rs/vim-carnival-202606

Which Linux distros have officially taken a stand against AI in their OS?

#Linux #NoAI

The most annoying part of systemd?

"A start/stop job is running.... blah.. blah..." and wait for who knows how long in spite of what is on the screen.

I can _tolerate_ a lot but this type of thing getting in my way really pisses me off.

#Linux #systemd

War, climate among high priority topics at Davos meeting

#comic #unix_surrealism #linux #art #mastoart #computers #bash #dillo #lgbt

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FUNHOLE CONTENT REVIEW CUM PUBLISHING YOU WILL FUCK COMPUTERS AND YOU WILL LIKE IT --- LINUX --- 'How girls take it when they are alone' sudo rm -rofl am i rite xd actually, ai in the kernel is natural and prevents prostate cancer gay? 6 desktop environments you must try! people exist :-( colorado support group one free session is dillo fatphobic? [deep dive]

Poor man's calc (more like bc wrapper):
```
calc ()
{
echo "$@" | tr -d ',₹' | bc -l
}
```

The `tr -d ',₹'` used to remove unwanted stuff that i often copy from emails or pdf and then pass everything to the bc for actual calculations.

#unix #linux #tips #tricks

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My bash terminal window displaying a Linux or Unix CLI. The command `type -a calc` to display the definition of a bash function named calc, which removes commas and the other symbol from input before passing it to the bc calculator tool. Finally, I demonstrates the function by running calc '10,000.5+₹5000', resulting in the output 15000.5.

@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. 🧵

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟲/𝟬𝟭 (Valuable News - 2026/06/01) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/valuable-news-2026-06-01/

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

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