pwn.college has added a few new challenges to Linux Luminarium, and in order to keep my 100% score, I took a stab. It was fairly easy, and I liked running "rm -fr /" most 🙂

#ctf #cybersecurity #pwncollege #linux #lunacy

Good news! For the first time, #Linux desktop breaks through 5% share in USA OS market as per Statcounter https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america

Oh, absolutely, Microsoft, please, by all means, continue with your grand experiments like Recall Spyware, deleting email accounts in far-flung corners of the globe or stealing data for AI training. Rest assured, these brilliant strategies will have absolutely no bearing on Win11 desktop adoption. None whatsoever. We thank you from Linux HQ. Lmao.

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A screenshot showing various OS desktop share in the USA. For the first time, Linux desktop breaks through 5% share in USA OS market as per Statcounter https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america

Help me fedi!

In bash or fish shell, is there some way to automatically get the pull/push status compared to origin repo when opening path?

Currently i have to manually fetch and i always forget to do so.

Even nicer would be somekind of periodic fetching like vscode has but in my terminal instead.

Halp!!

#git #linux #terminal #bash #fish #shell

👨‍💻 New post! I wrote up my experience daily driving Chimera Linux during a recent two-week trip to Central Queensland. I needed to work as usual on the weekdays, so I had to set up my work environment including: #Mercury, #Rust, and #Zed.

https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2025/daily-driving-chimera-for-work/

#ChimeraLinux #Linux

Updates einspielen! sudo make me a sandwich ist kaputt. 👇

https://www.heise.de/news/chwoot-Kritische-Linux-Luecke-macht-Nutzer-auf-den-meisten-Systemen-zu-Root-10466885.html

#linux #sudo

@nina_kali_nina I've been using #XMPP for the last year or so, wondering if the halcyon ICQ days of yore are still to be had.

After testing it with several friends connecting to my own self-hosted #Prosody server, here's what I found:

- Yes it all works, on all XMPP clients. But MacOS/iPadOS/iOS clients are not all that mature at this time. The #Linux (#Gajim, despite no video or audio calls) and #Android (#Conversations) XMPP clients are the best, IMHO. Always favor those, I say, and they are confidently installable and reliable today.
- Yes, use OMEMO encryption on personal chats. But when it comes to group chats, OMEMO is not necessarily the right move.
- If you don't need privacy in an XMPP group, then don't create a private group, but rather a _public_ group (the safer choice for reliability of message delivery). No OMEMO is possible in a public group, and the messages propagating around will be reliable, even to clients who vanish and re-appear after prolonged absences.
- If you really need OMEMO encryption in a group chat, create a _private_ group, not a public group. **Clients who vanish from the group for prolonged periods may miss out on some of the messages when they return (say, a few weeks later)**.
- I kept a wiki with several more quirks noted, which came up, and felt confusing and frustrating to my (non-geek) friends using XMPP.

As to your Apple-ecosystem-confined friends, at this moment in time, maybe talk to them 1:1 in #Fluffychat/Matrix, which affords encryption, and is all #OpenSource, like everything above. (Groups in #Matrix have a track record of failing for everybody in them very badly every 2 or 3 years or so.)

@angelo
A large part of the community seems to adhere to Binary Thinking.

#Linux #mansplaining

@angelo

Stattdessen `info` zu nutzen konnte sich ja bislang auch nicht durchsetzen

#Linux #mansplaining

NEW VIDEO - Here's my thoughts on the XLibre vs. X11 thing!

#opensource #unix #linux #XLibre #x11 #garyhtech

https://youtu.be/sAjtQMVjqpw?si=SqTvu5TIB4rlnPCe via @YouTube

Stop #Linux from #mansplaining

alias woman=man

Wayback: Fork In The Road For X11 Support #Linux #YouTube https://youtu.be/Hg3j1GapNyw

I’m lining up episodes of The IT Guy Show covering X11 and Wayland — their quirks, legacy, and the future of the Linux desktop.

If you’ve worked with either (or both!), or just have strong real-world opinions on the state of display servers in Linux, I’d love to have you on.

Reach out or if you want, nominate someone awesome!

#Linux #Wayland #X11 #OpenSource #TechPodcast #DesktopLinux #ITGuyShow #GNOME #KDE #SwayWM

Vulnerability Advisory: Sudo chroot Elevation of Privilege https://www.stratascale.com/vulnerability-alert-CVE-2025-32463-sudo-chroot

#linux #unix

Continuing our volunteer effort to make GNOME Calendar fully accessible with a keyboard (see thread for context), we fixed a major bug that was causing the focus to disappear into the abyss when the user tried to tab into the month view in merge request !576. This means, as of this commit, events should now be completely functional and accessible within the month view. Additionally, the merge request changes the keyboard and focus behavior within the month view: Events can only be cycled using arrow buttons, the focus can't escape the month view with arrow buttons, and entering/exiting the month view can only be done with tab. These improvements will be available on GNOME 49.

#GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #GNOMECalendar #Calendar #FOSS #FreeSoftware #Linux

Linux's remarkable journey from one dev's hobby to 40 million lines of code - and counting https://www.zdnet.com/article/linuxs-remarkable-journey-from-one-devs-hobby-to-40-million-lines-of-code-and-counting/ by @sjvn

An insider tells the story of the #Linux kernel's 30+ year history.

Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025.

Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer.

But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

https://endof10.org/

#Windows #Windows10 #Windows11 #EndOf10 #Linux #Climate #Environment #EJ

There used to be Linux User Groups in NYC. They seem to all have died. This is unfortunate. With Microsoft ending support for Windows 10, this seems like the perfect time for Linux User Groups to host install fests to help people migrate away from Windows.

#linux #nyc #linuxNYC #KDE #Gnome #LinuxMint

Hey! Just wanted to boost this cool shirt I bought from https://vkc.sh/merch/.

Linux is awesome & so are you! Thanks for making cool videos and shirts @vkc!

Support small businesses, your favorite creators, and the FOSS community!

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated in any way with Veronica Explains, just love the channel and merch!

#foss #linux #supportsmallbusiness #supportfoss #positivity #opensource #supportcreators

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A photo of an awesome black and green shirt from creator “Veronica Explains”. It says “Linux is awesome, & so are you”.

Does anyone know where are the #blind #linux users gathering these days? Irc seems to be dead and I met some great people there.

A nice post about switching from a Linux distribution to freeBSD.

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The interesting thing here is that both are similar and yet very different, mainly owing to their very different histories, with freeBSD being a direct derivative of the original UNIX and its BSD derivative. One of the most significant differences is probably that Linux is just a kernel, with (usually) the GNU/Hurd userland glued on top of it to create GNU/Linux. GNU and BSD userland are similar, and yet different, with varying levels of POSIX support. This effectively means that freeBSD is a singular OS with rather nice documentation (the FreeBSD handbook).

The basic summary here is that freeBSD is rather impressive and easy to set up for a desktop, especially if you use a customized version like GhostBSD.
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/29/switching-from-desktop-linux-to-freebsd/

#BSD #GNU #GPL #Linux #kernel #freeBSD #ghostBSD

^Z

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟲/𝟯𝟬 (Valuable News - 2025/06/30) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/valuable-news-2025-06-30/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟲/𝟯𝟬 (Valuable News - 2025/06/30) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/valuable-news-2025-06-30/

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

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

#WhatsMissing: an interactive tour but for like #UbuntuLTS (or any other modern #Linux #distribution) that showcases #distro, it's features and helps #beginners to get a solid foot.

From the Debian mailing list: Proposal: Debian-AI — A Free and Open-Source AI Operating System

So people think of AI before accessibility. I'm not surprised, but still, just another reminder. And I know it's just a proposal, nothing concrete, but we don't see proposals for accessibility, like, at all. So yeah foss, keep going with that End of Ten evangelism, keep showing disabled users how y'all are. I hope governments in Europe have to return to Windows due to accessibility issues in Linux, and that it hits the news hard. Maybe then you'll wake up.

#accessibility #foss #debian #linux

I can't use #Wayland with my #Linux system. Performance is terrible.

I have a 2021 Lenovo P17Gen1.
It has both an Intel P630 and NVIDIA RTX3000 Mobile GPU, running as a Prime pair.
It has a 4K eDP display, and two LG 4K displays, one connected via USB-C, and one via DP, via a TB3 Dock, all running at 60Hz.
It has 128GB of RAM, and 4TB of striped BTRFS SSD.
I am running the latest #Hyprland.

I tried running on #Arch, which cut the frame rate worse than half ANY time I connected an external 4K display ANYWHERE on either the laptop, or dock, DP, or USB-C. It refused to work via HDMI.

Switched to #Ubuntu and use Koolit's #Ubuntu installer for Hyprland. Performance is close to 60fps, but not quite. Stutters, and OBS runs at an average of 10fps, regardless of whether #PipeWire is in use, or not. Unusable.

I have been a #Linux user since September of 1991, and I can't even begin to know where the F**K to go to even diagnose this problem, due to the sheer number of variables.

Is it the NVIDIA drivers?
Is it Wayland?
Is it Hyprland?
Is it Pipewire?
Why is the performance better on #Ubuntu than on #Arch?
If I were to use Wayland, what COMPARABLE GPU would I use instead?
Do I just completely jettison using a laptop and build a workstation instead?
Why in the flying F**K can I not get stable vsync?!

I am posting this, because I am genuinely looking for knowledgable answers from knowlegable people, and I am _VERY_ concerned, that given the mass exodus from Xorg to Wayland, that I need to figure out something before I end up with a system configuration that is unusable.

-Thom

Instead of an #introduction post, I'm just going to put a whole bunch of tags in here:

#adhd #amiga #antifa #audhd #autistic #c64 #chiptune #civilrights #classical #classicalmusic #coding #commodore #commodore64 #debian #emulation #europe #eu #fanfiction #fiction #foss #gabber #gamer #gnulinux #linux #linuxgaming #metal #music #openbox #random #transgender #wargaming #warhammer40k #woman #writer #writing #writingcommunity #xorg

I tried tuning various parameters but after some reading came to the conclusion that lots of small files with very little RAM is about the worst case scenario for XFS.

#linux #snac #btrfs

Any #network engineers out there looking for a job? I'm looking for one or two good engineers to help me build a global network to make our company #selfhosted. Currently have PoPs in 7 countries with plans to expand.

Need to know #bgp, #mpls, #ospf and #vxlan. #linux and #automation skills are useful too.

The position is #fullyremote with occasional travel for hardware installs and maintenance.

#getfedihired #fedihire #fedijobs

@stefano I had no problem with 24.10 as a starting point. Switched to Kubuntu and upgraded to 25.04. Repeatedly (using VirtualBox for most tests).

I recently tested, repeatedly, the ability to recover after aggressively resetting the VM during an offline system update. A simple command successfully repaired things (online).

What's pictured is recommended on Linux, should not be set on FreeBSD.

#Linux #Ubuntu #Kubuntu #FreeBSD #updates #upgrades

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KDE settings for software update, recommending application of system updates after rebooting – to maximise stability.

I decided to try Ubuntu 24.04 with root on ZFS - supported by the installer.
It installed and ran fine.
I decided to upgrade ro 24.10 - it worked, but lost my display settings as it switched from XOrg to Wayland. But it was ok.
I decided to upgrade to 25.04 - I don't know what happened, but a white screen with an alarming text appeared. It says the system is broken and should be restarted.
As soon as I restart it, it reappears.
zfs rollback could help - but I gave up.

Luckily, my daily driver on that PC is openSUSE Tumbleweed

#Linux #Ubuntu #openSUSE

To #Blind and #LowVision Linux users:

Which #Linux or #BSD distributions are you able to install without assistance? Are there any that work better with screenreaders and other assistive technologies out of the box?

I'm trying to understand how much of the problem is specific to distributions, their installers or differences in windowing system such as Wayland breaking screenreaders vs X11.

#accessibility

How come most people (governments?) don't use Softmaker's FreeOffice? It's also available on Linux, and it's a German company...

#office #linux #msoffice

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freeoffice planmaker

Comment 😀

#linux

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Wayland or X11: What are you using, and how's it treating you?

Headsup - if you use the Raspberry Pi Kernel fork packages in Slackware, they've been renamed -- so be aware and only download the correct version.

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-arm-108/headsup-raspberry-pi-kernel-fork-packages-renamed-4175751838/

#slackware #linux

To restate an earlier point. Read the rational wiki article on #PewDiePie and see if he is the type of guy you want promoting your subculture and co-opting your values? #linux https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/PewDiePie

Are you in the Dandenong Ranges or surrounds?

Interested in helping to run a Linux InstallFest helping people whose machines would otherwise go to eWaste with the end of Windows 10?

#DandenongRanges #Linux #Windows10 #InstallFest

Ahh yes, the self appointed GNU police, never a good time when they show up.

I have one machine to go, and then I'll no longer be running anything that's GNU/Linux—they'll all be musl + some other coreutils. In the case of the Chimera Linux systems, LLVM toolchain too. This will be quite satisfying.

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you-dont-own-the-word-freedom-a-full-burn-response-to-the-gnulinux-comment-that-tried-to-gatekeep-me-off-my-own-machine/

#Linux #GNU

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A line-by-line teardown of the most smug, exclusionary comment I’ve gotten since starting this blog—and why the so-called “freedom” they preach looks a lot more like a wall. I woke up this morning to a comment on the first post in the 'I Want to Love Linux' series. Congratulations, random internet user: you earned a full-length blog post in response. Not because you're special, but because your comment is the perfect storm of everything that’s wrong with the self-righteous, gatekeeping corner of this ecosystem—the part that cloaks cruelty in the language of freedom, then acts shocked when people stop showing up. Here’s their full comment. Nothing redacted. No paraphrasing. Just the original smug sermon. > 'Okay, first of all, it’s GNU/Linux, not “Linux.”'

#Microsoft "accidentally" blocked every browser but Edge launching on my kid's #windows device. Chrome, Opera and Firefox don't launch anymore.

While you would think they could rollback the change, Microsoft hasn't got a fix out about one week later and doesn't have much to say about it either.

https://windowsreport.com/microsoft-family-safety-is-blocking-chrome-after-recent-update-heres-how-to-fix/

I don't even remember opting into Microsoft Family Security. Seems like Microsoft detected the age and turned it on.

Maybe time to explore #Linux gaming?

Any computer-touchers looking for a job? The Cambridge Computer Lab is looking for a mostly Linux sysadmin. Great place to work, I still pop in sometimes, but don’t let that put you off!

EDIT: I believe this requires the ability to be physically in Cambridge (UK) at least some of the time. I am not sure if they can sponsor visas for this job, but they often can.

Second edit: Apparently I was tired when I posted this and completely failed to include the link to the job. Ooops!

Third edit: I am not involved in hiring for this job. My current affiliation with the institution in question is 'Visiting Researcher'. This means that they keep a desk that I can use (when no one else is using it) and I periodically turn up and hang out with people there. I cannot answer questions related to the job other than to say that it's working with a group of people I choose to visit when I can. There is an email address in the job ad for questions.

#Linux #Jobs #GetFediHired #sysadmin

I embloggenated about getting mad at your audio stack

https://arunraghavan.net/2025/06/the-unbearable-anger-of-broken-audio/

#linux #linuxaudio #pipewire #pulseaudio #gnome

I woke up to a comment so smug, so perfectly soaked in gatekeeping and faux-righteous posturing, it earned its own blog post.
You want freedom? You want GNU/Linux to mean something?
Then maybe start by not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves with a smile.
This commenter thought they were defending "software freedom." What they were really doing was kicking people out of the room. Dismissing accessibility. Mocking effort. Pretending that cruelty is some kind of rite of passage. They quoted Stallman like it was scripture, ignored real-world experience like it was noise, and wrapped it all in condescension dressed as virtue.
I’ve spent over a decade in this ecosystem. Writing patches. Rebuilding broken stacks. Helping blind users boot systems upstream doesn’t even test. I didn’t "just install Arch and whine about the terminal." I lived in it. I survived it. I held it together when maintainers disappeared and no one else gave a damn.
But apparently, because I didn’t call it GNU/Linux™ and because I dared to talk about how this OS chews people up and spits them out, I’m lazy. I’m weak. I should "get a dog."
So I wrote a response. Line by line. No mercy. No euphemisms.
This isn’t just about one comment. This is about every time someone’s been told they don’t belong because they couldn’t learn fast enough, code well enough, or survive long enough. It’s about everyone who was pushed out while the gatekeepers patted themselves on the back for "preserving the spirit of free software."
You want a free system? Start by making it livable. Because freedom that demands you crawl bleeding through a broken bootloader isn’t freedom. It’s abandonment dressed in ideology.
And if this kind of gatekeeping is your idea of community?
You can keep it.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you-dont-own-the-word-freedom-a-full-burn-response-to-the-gnulinux-comment-that-tried-to-gatekeep-me-off-my-own-machine/
#Linux #GNU #FOSS #Accessibility #BlindTech #FreeSoftware #Gatekeeping #DisabilityInTech #OpenSource #Orca #ScreenReaders #ArchLinux #BurnItDown #blogpost

THIS.
I gonna save this to just post it every time one of those entitled FOSS-bros crosses my path.

If the only way for people to use a computer is to either become a developer yourself or suffer through exploitation by big corporations it isn't an individual failure of those people, it's an absolute failure of the FOSS / Linux community to build good software.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you-dont-own-the-word-freedom-a-full-burn-response-to-the-gnulinux-comment-that-tried-to-gatekeep-me-off-my-own-machine/
#Linux #Accessibility

You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine https://lobste.rs/s/nwvary #a11y #linux #rant
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you-dont-own-the-word-freedom-a-full-burn-response-to-the-gnulinux-comment-that-tried-to-gatekeep-me-off-my-own-machine/

Repo: Apptainer (formerly Singularity) simplifies the creation and execution of containers, ensuring software components are encapsulated for portability and reproducibility https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer

#linux #opensource #devops

I woke up to a comment so smug, so perfectly soaked in gatekeeping and faux-righteous posturing, it earned its own blog post.
You want freedom? You want GNU/Linux to mean something?
Then maybe start by not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves with a smile.
This commenter thought they were defending "software freedom." What they were really doing was kicking people out of the room. Dismissing accessibility. Mocking effort. Pretending that cruelty is some kind of rite of passage. They quoted Stallman like it was scripture, ignored real-world experience like it was noise, and wrapped it all in condescension dressed as virtue.
I’ve spent over a decade in this ecosystem. Writing patches. Rebuilding broken stacks. Helping blind users boot systems upstream doesn’t even test. I didn’t "just install Arch and whine about the terminal." I lived in it. I survived it. I held it together when maintainers disappeared and no one else gave a damn.
But apparently, because I didn’t call it GNU/Linux™ and because I dared to talk about how this OS chews people up and spits them out, I’m lazy. I’m weak. I should "get a dog."
So I wrote a response. Line by line. No mercy. No euphemisms.
This isn’t just about one comment. This is about every time someone’s been told they don’t belong because they couldn’t learn fast enough, code well enough, or survive long enough. It’s about everyone who was pushed out while the gatekeepers patted themselves on the back for "preserving the spirit of free software."
You want a free system? Start by making it livable. Because freedom that demands you crawl bleeding through a broken bootloader isn’t freedom. It’s abandonment dressed in ideology.
And if this kind of gatekeeping is your idea of community?
You can keep it.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you-dont-own-the-word-freedom-a-full-burn-response-to-the-gnulinux-comment-that-tried-to-gatekeep-me-off-my-own-machine/
#Linux #GNU #FOSS #Accessibility #BlindTech #FreeSoftware #Gatekeeping #DisabilityInTech #OpenSource #Orca #ScreenReaders #ArchLinux #BurnItDown #blogpost

… And so it begins.

I am laying in bed rn reading deposition transcripts from SFC's lawsuit against #Vizio.

I know it's not a flattering photo & now the #DebConf 2016 team in Cape Town know I use the T-shirt they gave me as sleepwear.

We're starting a 14-week marathon to adjudicate your rights under #GPL when you go to the store and buy a #Linux based device.

Watch this space & SFC's website for the journey.

There's a reason why courtroom fiction is popular TV. Get ready for the real stuff!

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bkuhn's face is half covered by the cover sheet of a deposition transcript printout in SFC v. Vizio as he lays in a bed wearing a pink DebConf 2016 T-shirt.