@TomAoki @tfb understood. And I’m not insensitive to the real deps here. As one who’s been “forced” to consider more minimal libs/deps (by virtue of choosing #OpenBSD on #PowerPC), I have appreciated adjusting my expectations. I expect that as more perfectly good tech / frameworks are deprecated, we’ll see people rethink these things — for the positive. (Like, will the #Linux #486 deprecation bring people to #NetBSD? ;) )

«Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine:
Back in March, Firefox 149 was released with many changes, like a free built-in VPN, a Split View that allows the loading of two pages side by side, and the XDG portal file picker as the new default on Linux.»

…or/and use and config the @ublockorigin plugin for more security and privacy in Firefox.

🦊 https://itsfoss.com/news/firefox-ships-brave-adblock-engine/

#firefox #AddBlock #brave #browser #vpn #web #webbrowser #internet #security #privacy #linux #filepicker #xdg

Review of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

https://darkblueproject.com/sites/articles/ubuntu-26-04-resolute-review.php

#darkblueproject #ubuntu #ubuntudesktop #lubuntu #kubuntu #ubuntubudgie #xubuntu #linux #linuxdesktop #opensource #freesoftware

You can now help spread the word that:
📣 SeaGL 2026 Call For Presentations is now OPEN!!

📄 https://seagl.org/news/2026/04/24/CfP-Open

#SeaGL2026 #cfp #linux #opensource #FLOSS #OSS #libre #open #event #seattle #tech

Where's the secret menu option to unlock extra hours in the day so I can actually try this?

Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux
https://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x/src/branch/main#readme

#windows #linux

🐧 WSL9x
Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux.

｢ WSL9x runs a modern Linux kernel (6.19 at time of writing) cooperatively inside the Windows 9x kernel, enabling users to take advantage of the full suite of capabilities of both operating systems at the same time, including paging, memory protection, and pre-emptive scheduling. Run all your favourite applications side by side - no rebooting required! ｣

https://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x

#wsl9x #linux #win9x #opensource

I can't decide whether I prefer z over regular cd.

z is "smart" it remembers what directories you've been to and will take you to what directory you want, even if you don't specify the path.

If you aren't in ~/ and type z Documents, you will go to ~/Documents, assuming either that's the only Documents, or it's the only folder with that name you frequently visit. It saves you from having to navigate up, or typing the whole absolute path.

I worry that with continued usage maybe I'd be prone to forgetting where things are though.

#tech #computers #linux #bash

(These tags are here explicitly so anyone that doesn't want to read these kinds of posts can block them)

Been playing with Solus Linux recently. I like that things like installing Blender also pulls in AMD rocm clr and friends and gets Cycles support working without any real futzing around.

The Solus installer doesn't give a lot of filesystem options, err, perhaps more fairly, options that I like. No zfs and simple btrfs. I converted the root disk into a btrfs raid1 mirror after the fact but it would be cool if that was possible in the installer. Maybe I missed it. I can live with btrfs, I guess. Ha.

Running the Plasma spin (for now?). Will take a hard look at Qt based Budgie 11 when it comes out.

Very nice, polished distro. Thinking about putting it on my main box since I've got btrfs retroactive mirroring figured out. First time using (i.e. trusting) btrfs so maybe I should let some more water go under Solus' keel before going 'all in'.

Too bad Alpine doesn't have the same level of rocm support. I get it. It is what it is.

#Linux #Solus #btrfs #RAID #KDEPlasma #Budgie #Budgie11 #AMD #ROCM

A wee gift for my friends at @tuxjam :

[dwroulette]: a web scraper (written in #POSIX #shell) for #DistroWatch that gives you one of the top 100 #Linux distros completely at random. 😅

#TuxJam @kevie @solusspider

My latest blog post: Keeping it old school, Unix style, with inetd services!

https://mikecoats.com/simple-inetd-services/

How to build quick and dirty network services, the Unixy, way with the venerable inetd approach.

#networking #linux #openSource #rust #rustLang #software

Veronica Explains creates fun and interesting videos about technology including FOSS, Linux, retro computing, retro gaming, self-hosting and assorted other stuff. You can follow at:

➡️ @vkc

There are already 60 videos uploaded. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://tinkerbetter.tube/a/vkc/videos

#FeaturedPeerTube #Linux #FOSS #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #SelfHosting #PeerTube

Built for a hostile internet: Canonical VP of Engineering on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS https://www.zdnet.com/article/built-for-a-hostile-internet-canonical-vp-of-engineering-on-ubuntu-26-04-lts/#ftag=COS-05-10aaa0j via @ZDNet & @sjvn

Everything you wanted to know about Ubuntu #Linux 26.04 from the Canonical executive in charge of building it.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is now available to download, with Linux 7.0, GNOME 50 and plenty of other changes.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/ubuntu-26-04-lts-released?v1

#Ubuntu #Linux #OpenSource

#Linux Do you have a portable monitor you recommend between 13" and 15.6"? Ideally better than HD resolution. Flexible on price.

105 days unemployed

Anyone have a DevOps or Sysadmin position available? PM me with anything if you can. #Linux #FreeBSD #hardware #academic #corporate

30 years experience.

I needed to link to my three year old rant about the year of desktop Linux, and because I had the link in my clipboard, you'll get it too

https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2022/goalposts/

#linux #desktop #rant

@themself @cstross

It is interesting that this is on the flavour of Windows, DOS+Windows, that was not even designed to have subsystems and personalities. That was Windows NT.

Amusingly, the screenshot is not using the correct terminal type. Yes, there is in fact a terminfo entry that should be correct for this, that has been there for 30 years, waiting.

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.ti.html#tic-nansi_sys

@hailey
#WSL #WindowsNT #terminfo #Linux

This #ThinkPad so far has been great. #OS and #firmware #updates are regularly available. Performance is snappy and smooth and it handled my long uptimes just fine.

Except I do have one peculiar issue when scrolling down on a webpage the action becomes stuck. ALL webpages just scroll on their own to the very bottom of the page. No key presses, combinations, or even the ESC key fixes or interrupts this. Clicking on a menu item like File causes the selected options to cycle infinitely. The *only* fix is to reboot the laptop.

I've never seen this on any other distro or laptop.

Has anyone else experienced this?

#ubuntu #linux #problems #tech #questions

An #Inferno VM running in a Windows 2000 VM (software i686 emulation) running in a web browser on #Linux.

What a time to be alive. XD

https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows2000 (click on "Inferno OS GUI" icon on desktop)

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A web browser window showing a wasm-based vm running Windows 2000, in which an inferno OS vm is running, showing a memory monitor, a graphical manual viewer, a shell, and a graphical about screen

Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

You can find beauty in the oddest of places.

WSL9x runs a modern Linux kernel (6.19 at time of writing) cooperatively inside the Windows 9x kernel, enabling users to take advantage of the full suite of capabilities of both operating systems at the same time, including paging, memory protection, and pre-emptive scheduling. Run all your favourite applications side by side -

https://www.osnews.com/story/144819/windows-9x-subsystem-for-linux/

#Linux

@JdeBP @rl_dane @EF @ianthetechie @tubsta @dexter

>doas(1) concatenates all supplied arguments using strlcpy(3) and strlcat(3), the maintainer replace them with strncpy(3) and strncat(3

I thought these functions are part of the #linux libbsd package, is that not the case ? I would think if you add libbsd as a dependency that would remove a lot of "OpenBSDisms". From what I have seen on #linux, many pkgs do not care if they have lots of dependencies, what is one more small library :)

#bsd

The government cannot be your child's parent. You cannot protect your children from the fact that bad things exist in the world.

You'll never be able to protect your children from Sex Drugs and Rock 'n Roll, by pretending they don't exist. (banning things just forces those things to fester in the dark… where you cannot police them… enter the dark web, which is easy as pie to access).

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/age-verification-coming-internet-we-built-you-resource-hub-fight-back

#linux #privacy #security

LINUX NERDS. ASSEMBLE.
I am at my inlaws.
My dadinlaw is trying linux mint and wants to change the cursor colour - is it possible? If so, how?

#Linux #LinuxMint

Hat jemand eine Empfehlung bzw. Erfahrungen mit einer Open Source App für Android, mit der man seine Bücher (am besten über den Barcode) katalogisieren kann? Bei >2000 Büchern 📚 verliere ich langsam den Überblick über meinen Bestand.
Evtl. sogar eine, die man auch in Linux abrufen/nutzen/einsehen kann?

#Android #Linux #Bookstodon #unplugBigTech #Fdroid #opensource #empfehlung

TIL about #jemalloc, a scalable concurrent malloc(3) implementation for #FreeBSD and #Linux, only to find out it had its 20th birthday a few days ago! 🎂

Check out the original paper on https://papers.freebsd.org/2006/bsdcan/evans-jemalloc/

I was recently in a study skills workshop where speech to text software was discussed as helpful if you can say words more easily than you can type them.

Obviously being mainstream education, there were recommendations for Windows and macOS, but nothing else.

I want to go back to the accessibility team with suggestions, because if I complain they didn't have any they'll most likely say something insincere and then never do anything about that.

So, if you have #recommendations for free or low cost Speech to Text software for #Linux users, please could you share them with me?

@jon_bon ok we have the news. DINUM is developing two distros based on #NixOS: Sécurix and Bureautix (they aren't Asterix characters even though their names might give you that impression 😆)

https://www.tech2geek.net/france-moves-to-linux-inside-securix-and-bureautix-the-governments-open-source-strategy/

#Linux #FOSS #France #EUPol #DigitalSovereignty

Heute wieder mal einen alten Laptop mit Linux wiederbelebt. 🐧

Das Ding wäre sonst im Elektroschrott gelandet – jetzt läuft es schneller als vorher mit Windows.

Manchmal ist die beste Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie einfach: frische Software drauf, neues Leben drin.

Danke an alle, die freie Software bauen, damit wir Hardware nicht wegwerfen müssen. 💚

#Linux #OpenSource #Nachhaltigkeit #RightToRepair #FOSS

Never mind just Linux; this would seem to raise serious issues for any group producing their own kernel without an army of lawyers on staff e.g. *BSD, RedoxOS, Graphene, ReactOS, Haiku, illumos and perhaps even plan9 and operating system textbooks and learning frameworks like FluxOSKit. There is furthermore some significant scariness about packets crossing borders rendering ppl liable for violations of all this when passing through spaces wherein USA agents may apprehend them.

https://youtu.be/SVGw0uY1dsQ

#telix #Linux #BSD #NetBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #RedoxOS #GrapheneOS #ReactOS #HaikuOS #illumos #plan9 #Hurd #FluxOSKit

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟰/𝟮𝟬 (Valuable News - 2026/04/20) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/valuable-news-2026-04-20/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟰/𝟮𝟬 (Valuable News - 2026/04/20) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/valuable-news-2026-04-20/

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

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

OK, I have a very important question about #Linux desktops: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ISO SIZES???

Seriously, I remembered when 1GB live desktop would the considered enormous and 2GB was unthinkable.

I do understand that because #Gentoo leaves a lot of developer tools and libs on the system our "unstripped" images are fairly larger - so for example out desktop download is 4.5 GB.

Ok, but wait a second, why is then the #Solus ISO size 4.1 GB? Theoretically this would mean that only <1GB is taken by development libs.

Allright, but why is then the #Ubuntu desktop ISO 5.9 GB?! I would guess that for Ubuntu it has a problem of redundant libs for SNAP pkgs and it makes all this bloat up so much.

This needs to be studied in-depth.

As I continue my journey for a better desktop environment, I found some new apps for music and reading RSS.

#blogging #blog #smallweb #indieweb #linux

https://basic.bearblog.dev/sayonara-player-and-liferea-happiness/

Episode 13 of Dark Blue Weekly released

https://darkblueproject.com/sites/news/dbw-e13.php

#darkblueweekly #darkblueproject #linux #bsd #freebsd #ghostbsd #solusos #linuxkernel #openssl #opensource #freesoftware

"France Is Ditching Windows for Linux"
Video by Mental Outlaw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThTJAlYGqkE

Could this be an early sign of an emerging "Post-American Internet" like the one envisioned by @pluralistic ?
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition

#France #Linux #digitalsovereignty

NetBSD turns 33 this Sunday! 🚩

To celebrate 33 years of clean code, portability, and zero bloat, Challenging the rest of the fediverse to help hit this year's funding goals.

Also do drop a screenshot of your uptime, uname -a, or a pic of the weirdest hardware you've got running NetBSD right now. (RockPro64 NPF routers or Pi's hooked up to retro CRTs highly encouraged).

Throw some money at the developers keeping the real UNIX alive:

https://www.netbsd.org/donations/

#NetBSD #UNIX #RetroComputing #OpenSource #runbsd #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Linux

mini-rant

I guess I'd be less annoyed if a reboot-to-apply-changes cycle didn't mean that I'd have to enter my LUKS password twice.

#Linux #LossyPNG

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"Lisa Simpson Presentation" meme Presentation text: "Non-Immutable Linux distros shouldn't ask the user to reboot after applying updates if the kernel or core services weren't changed." Comment underneath: "This isn't Windows, y'all."

Rhythmbox is a multimedia application that supports ripping a audio CD to FLAC, Opus, and Vorbis formats.

FLAC: https://mastodon.online/@blueghost/112290839593673304
Opus: https://mastodon.online/@blueghost/115298082186792263
Vorbis: https://mastodon.online/@blueghost/115298106978513801

Rhythmbox is included in Debian and Fedora software package repositories, a convenient and secure method of installation.

Website: https://github.com/GNOME/rhythmbox

#Rhythmbox #Linux #Multimedia #Audio #AudioCD #FLAC #CD #Music #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #GNOME #Opus #MP3 #Vorbis #Debian #Fedora

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Rhythmbox logo.

@raster @darth

The thing with Linux is that it's neither a democracy nor a meritocracy, but actually, functionally, an oligarchy. :(

Whoever has the money to dedicate programming resources gets to determine what the #Linux user space will look like, and more often than not, they resort to REALLY FORKING UNDERHANDED tactics to get their way when there's pushback and meritocratic resistance.

The BSDs are more like somewhat democratic (to varying degrees) monarchies. A limited number of people get to make the decisions, like it or lump it. But there isn't so much cloak & dagger crap.

Not debating whether the law is wrong or not.

- Projects that will refuse any age verification/attestation.

- Projects that'll preemptively comply using some simplistic age bracket eval.

- Projects that are still deciding what to do.

#ageverification #privacy #regulation #linux #opensource

This is why Linux is superior to Windows. 🐧

#linux #windows

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There is a picture of a thread message on the Linux kernel mailing list with the following written: As Linux recently remarked: I really get the feeling that it's time to leave i486 support behind. There's zero real reason for anybody to waste one second of development effort on this kind of issue. Below that is an image that shows a penguin aiming a gun at the Windows Vista logo. The penguin is: Linux kernel supporting a 1989 CPU for no reason until 2026 The Windows Vista logo is: Microsoft making 2014's TPM 2 mandatory on Windows 11.

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Also available on Flathub, Homebrew, and most package managers.

#VSCodium #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #VSCode #Linux #Developer

In case you needed more reasons to love Niri: custom shaders!

Niri lets you define the animation you want for several events, and most notably when you open or close a window.

I can add completely unnecessary glitchy artifacts and look cool in the eyes of my inner 14 year old.

https://ergaster.org/thoughts/niri-gorgeous-animation/

#linux #niri #freedesktop