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#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."

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@prism/116423008987436385

Louder so #Linux maintainers will hear

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

#RUNBSD on servers and daily drive a #Linux side piece.

The xlibre devs (or at least the people who made the website, https://x11libre.net/#about) are against DEI (see second-to-last sentence of fourth paragraph of what I linked). Do what you will with that information. Alpine and Chimera Linux have rejected XLibre for the same reason.

See also https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,9343.msg56762.html#msg56762.

#x11 #linux #xlibre #artixlinux #artix_linux #uspol #uspolitics #dei

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.

32 years ago I started working on my first browser, Opera. I left Opera in 2011, but two years later I co-founded Vivaldi. Thus I have been making browsers now for 32 years, with a short break there between 2011 and 2013.

I have always felt that this work is important and no less today than before as more and more of you see the importance of alternatives to Big Tech.

Vivaldi is a European company with headquarters in Norway, servers in Iceland and team in Norway, Iceland, across Europe, Japan and a couple in the US.

We try our best to adapt to your needs. We build powerful browsers, with a lot of flexibility.

I welcome you to try us out and share with your friends!

#Windows #Macos #Linux #Android #iOS #TEchnology #EU #Europa #Norway #Iceland #Browser #Vivaldi #BigTech

https://vivaldi.com

If you speak Portuguese and want to start contributing to the Linux kernel, Helen Koike will be giving a workshop next week to help you make your first contribution! https://campinas.mini.debconf.org/talks/13-envie-sua-primeira-contribuicao-ao-kernel-linux/

📍 Campinas, SP / Brazil
📅 Apr 23–25

#Debian #Linux #LinuxKernel #MiniDebConf

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MiniDebConf Campinas Brazil 2026 Envie sua primeira contribuição ao kernel Linux Helen Koike 23 April 13:30

OK, I'm taking a risk now.

Is anybody interested in beta-testing Gitte? I'm looking for a few people. If you are interested, send me a DM.

https://codeberg.org/ckruse/Gitte

#git #gui #gnome #linux

💻 VSCodium — a free and open-source build of VS Code, without Microsoft's telemetry and tracking.

Same editor. Same extensions. No data collection. No Microsoft branding. Just a clean, privacy-respecting code editor.

✅ Download it at:
https://vscodium.com

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

Well, #linux folks using #RedHat who don’t like AI forced into their workflow may want to start looking for other distros. The AI evangelists are full cult mode. (As Bob is my witless, I swear this is a contagion.)

#infosec

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/31/red_hat_ai_dev/

🖨️

My new printer stopped working under #LinuxMint the other day. Re-adding it resulted in a general error message.

Finally found the solution:

In the printer's "location" field, I had specified "Mein Büro" ("My office" in German). And Cups does not like umlauts in that field. 😶

After removing the "ü", the printer worked.

Maybe this information will be helpful to someone, at some point. 🙂

#printer #linux #cups #problemSolving #debugging #umlaut

New Linux Kernel Rules Put the Onus on Humans for AI Tool Usage https://hackaday.com/2026/04/14/new-linux-kernel-rules-put-the-onus-on-humans-for-ai-tool-usage/
#ArtificialIntelligence #SoftwareDevelopment #AIassistant #Curl #Linux #LLM #Mesa #Netbsd

#Linux

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The image is a humorous tech meme. In the foreground, an older man dressed in religious attire (wearing ceremonial robes and a red cap) is holding a broom and appears to be performing a blessing or exorcism ritual. He is facing a large row of black server cabinets in what looks like a data center. The servers are tall, neatly aligned, with cables and metal piping visible above them. Behind him, a cameraman is filming the scene, suggesting this is some kind of staged or documented event. At the bottom of the image, there is a caption in a Linux-style command format: /etc/init.d/daemon stop The joke is that instead of stopping a “daemon” (a background service in Unix/Linux systems) using a command, the person is literally trying to “exorcise” it like an evil spirit using a religious ritual.

Wir sind endlich soweit und freuen uns sehr, dass das Programm des 22. Augsburger Linux-Infotags online ist! Es erwarten Euch am 2. Mai vier Vortrags- und zwei Workshop-Tracks sowie viele Projekt- und Firmenstände. Alle Infos hier: https://www.
luga.de/LIT-2026/
#lit2026 #Augsburg #Linux #OSS Please Boost!

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Linux-Pinguine aus Lego als Werbung für den Linux-Infotag Augsburg

I've been running two degraded ZFS arrays for the last few weeks (Debian host).

Yeah, I know. Whatevs.

One of the pools was basically "scratch" backup space and one of the spindles died (breaking the utility of the mirror). Pulled the drive, wiped the remaining, put back in service with minimum fuss as a single drive. I'll throw another spindle at it when drive prices drop again.

The other array had the SSD cache die and it's been chugging along fine ever since. Not a big deal, but from a "experience" point of view it "feels slow" like a working md array.

New SSD arrived in the mail so that'll get sorted sometime today/tomorrow.

So, what's this post about?

Linux peeps, if you are thinking about md arrays, just stop, take the time, and throw 'yer leg over the zfs horse. It's worth it.

#Linux #RunBSD #zfs #md #mdadm #raid #homelab #SelfHosted #SelfHosting

it's getting cereal

#unix_surrealism #technomage #openbsd #linux #comic #ai #mastoart #fediart #foss

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Girl is eating cereal. There's some slop in it. Girl: "Master, my fish food is sloppy!" Fish: "Eat something else." Girl examines the pantry. It's all cereal.

Linux 7.0 released

Version 7.0 of the Linux kernel has been released, marking the arbitrary end of the 6.x series.

Significant changes in this release include the removal of the "experimental" status for Rust code, a new filtering mechanism for io_uring operations, a switch to lazy preemption by default in the CPU scheduler, support for time-slice extension, the nullfs filesystem, self-healing support for the XFS f

https://www.osnews.com/story/144785/linux-7-0-released/

#Linux

New #Linux #kernel #policy: when writing code, humans can be "assisted" by "#AI", but they have to disclose it, and take full responsibility, as contributors.

While this gets celebrated as a "pragmatic stance", it simply delegates responsibilities to individual contributors that no one in good conscience can reasonably take.

Would you be willing to guarantee, legally binding, with all consequences, that your "AI" "assistant" didn't copy-paste code that's under an incompatible license? Or even proprietary, stolen one?

This is a cop out, not a responsible policy. Basically the dirty #subcontractor pattern: Everybody knows that nobody can actually guarantee what they're promising, but hey, wink wink here's their signature, they "promised" it wink wink

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-lays-down-the-law-on-ai-generated-code-yes-to-copilot-no-to-ai-slop-and-humans-take-the-fall-for-mistakes-after-months-of-fierce-debate-torvalds-and-maintainers-come-to-an-agreement

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

Linux now allows AI slop.
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-lays-down-the-law-on-ai-generated-code-yes-to-copilot-no-to-ai-slop-and-humans-take-the-fall-for-mistakes-after-months-of-fierce-debate-torvalds-and-maintainers-come-to-an-agreement

#linux

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Épisode 2 : L'OPTIMISATION ! 🐳⚡️

On booste l'installation de Phoronix sur Alpine Linux. Au programme : config d'un volume de cache Docker pour ne plus attendre sur ce bon vieux Raspberry Pi 1. 🛠️🔥

#Docker #RPi #Linux #OpenSource

Épisode 2 : Défi Multi-arch ! 🐳

On continue les benchmarks sur Raspberry Pi 1. Objectif : build une image Docker/Podman Phoronix Test Suite compatible ARMv6, ARM64 et AMD64. 🛠️

Le vieux RPi 1 va-t-il tenir le choc ?

Direct ici : https://www.twitch.tv/ahp_nils

#Docker #RPi #Linux

Something that I'd love to be able to do, but haven't figured out how, yet:

You can run somecommand 2>&1 > log.txt to get STDOUT and STDERR together, but you won't know which is which.
You can run somecommand 2>err.txt >log.txt to get STDOUT and STDERR separate, but you won't know the timing, or which error messages happened between which STDOUT messages.
I'd like to figure out some way to combine both, so you end up with a file like this:

1: this was a STDOUT message
1: this was a STDOUT message
1: this was a STDOUT message
2: this was a STDERR message
2: this was a STDERR message
1: this was a STDOUT message
2: this was a STDERR message
1: this was a STDOUT message
1: this was a STDOUT message
1: this was a STDOUT message
1: this was a STDOUT message
1: this was a STDOUT message
2: this was a STDERR message
2: this was a STDERR message

Any ideas? @mirabilos?

#Unix #UnixShell #Linux #BSD

Ein Umstieg auf #Linux ist 100.000x wichtiger und besser als die Einführung von sowas wie #KI.

Schleswig Holstein und Frankreich gehen hier voran und machen alles richtig.

After using #OpenBSD for a while I got used to finding ALL answers in MAN pages. #Linux has them since forever, but man pages on OpenBSD are on another level.

So yesterday I installed Arch Linux to remind myself on overall feel of that OS and I noticed that it doesn't have man command (archinstall with a desktop preset).

I am aware that everything is optional on Arch Linux, but having man pages optional feels rather weird after using OpenBSD.