Hey #linux question. In #cinnamon, how can I change the default browser to Chrome like this.. but in the terminal?

I've tried so many things but nothing has worked.

This is the log when I run the settings from terminal

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Cinnamon settings showing default applications

It doesn’t occur often, but when it does, it brings a smile to my face. This is my error page served from the proxy when the backend can't process the requests (or is unavailable).

#manpageblog #devops #nginx #proxy #backend #linux #freebsd #tux #beastie

I have *sincere* doubts whether SELinux truly improves security on a Linux desktop, or whether it is just a royal PITA.

Because clearly, an openvpn script wanting to drop in a dnsmasq config files & reload a systemd service should be this fun.

Just how many people do y'all think don't just swat this with "selinux=0" and move on with our lives?

(Outside the group of people developing SELinux or distribution maintainers.)

#Linux #SELinux

Two #blog posts in less than one week!

It was considered known that there is no support within GNAT (Ada) for illumos. We cross-build a complete native binutils+gcc toolchain for illumos to test out this claim.

...only to discover that illumos has full support within GNAT. Not a single test fails.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250817.html

#Ada #illumos #GNAT #GCC #GNU #freesoftware #unix #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #linux #compiler #compilers

is OpenBSD 10x faster than Linux? (tedu@) https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250817075800 #openbsd #performance #benchmarks #fork #development #freesoftware #linux #libresoftware

Just upgraded my test laptop to #Debian #Trixie. Upgrade process couldn't have been any smoother...or any more boring!

Will be upgrading the daily driver this week.

This is one of the reasons why I love Debian. Rock solid stability, predictable, and boring aren't just for servers!

#Linux

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A newly upgraded Debian Linux system running the hyfetch command line program. Hyfetch, a neofetch fork, prints the system's specs along with a Pride-colored Debian logo in a terminal.

If you missed this:

The Register: Linux is about to lose a feature – over a personality clash https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/sad_end_of_bcachefs/ @theregister @lproven #Linux

Dear #BSD / #Anti_SystemD peeps,

Please make friends with #Linux-only, #Systemd fans.

#X114EVR peeps, please make friends with #Wayland fans.

The only way the community at large moves forward is to keep conflict within the domain of friendship. That way we can hold our differences, and learn to synthesize the disagreements.

And please, please don't assume that someone is your ally just because they agree with you on one technical point. I don't have a problem with X11 being maintained until the end of time, I just don't want it to be led by someone with really horrible/destructive politics.

It's not #CancelCulture, it's mercy. I'm trying to cancel a destructive ideology; people are never my enemy.

@mozitux

Recycler un ordinateur n'est PAS possible ! La déchetterie ne fera que les brûler ou les enterrer.

En France on récupère quelque bouts de plastique et de métal, tout les circuits (carte mère) ne sont pas recyclables et finissent au milieux des bidonvilles d'autres pays. Pour rappel la France n'arrive pas à recycler son carton.

En parlant d'une option de recyclage, #Microsoft tente de promouvoir qu'il y a une part d'écologie (qui repose sur vous) au milieu de son geste d'obsolescence voulu, lucratif et égoïste.

Rémunération du PDG en 2024: 8,1 millions de $ (+71 M$ d'actions).

#ecologie #linux #greenwashing

RAPPEL

Si vous êtes dans le coin de Montréal, il y a un 2 à 5 organisé au parc Lafontaine pour le #debianday .

Mais kossé que ça mange en hiver, le Debianday? Rien du tout, car c'est l'anniversaire de l'une des plus vieilles distributions de #Linux, #debian .

Malheureusement, je ne pourrais pas y être mais si vous pouvez faire un tour, saluez @magicfab de ma part! 😉

#foss #montreal

C'est parti le compte à rebours a démarré pour dégager apple (prison dorée) et retour à #Linux (j'avais commencé en 96 ou 97 ? avec red hat 3 ? Franchement je ne sais plus, sauf que c'était pas simple, genre tu sautes au plafond de joie quand tu voix la croix noire de #xserver). Bref passage apple de 2021 à 2025 suite rachat de ma boite. Je me suis tourné vers @tuxedocomputers , je vous en dirai plus asap.

Happy Birthday!

Founded: 16.08.1993

Thank you to everyone in the community that has contributed to the project.

Website: https://www.debian.org
Mastodon: @debian

#Debian #Linux #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #Privacy #InfoSec #CyberSecurity #GNU

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Debian logo.

Debian turned 32 today! 🎉

💡 The Debian project was officially founded on August 16, 1993, by Ian Murdock. This day is also known as Debian Day.

#linux #debian

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Happy Birthday, Debian, August 16, 1993. There are two numerical balloons over the Debian logo on the left that say 32. Below, there are many balloons and confetti.

This came up on #HackerNews, too. And *of course* it spawned a rush of comments from people who had not read beyond the headline.

I was going to aim @ianb at it, but then dang the moderator changed the title. (-:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44916685

#OpenBSD #Linux #Concurrency #MultiProcessing

is OpenBSD 10x faster than Linux? via @RunxiYu https://lobste.rs/s/q4t1wi #linux #openbsd #performance
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/is-OpenBSD-10x-faster-than-Linux

☕ Good Morning Homelabs ☕

Freitagsgrußküsse von dem 💤 verschlafenen 🌞 annnyway, new place, new in-wall panel of cat6 terms and a 5GbE symmetric fiber line. I cleaned up the initial mess in June, second iteration this past week/ish. Generally, most of this hardware should be in one of the office racks (1U switch + 2x 0.5U patches + 1U UPS), specifically NOT in my walk-in closet. It's a work in progress.

#homelab #linux #freebsd #engineering #networking

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first iteration of the telco panel rebuild, just a bit messy

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in-between iterations, the OnQ parts arrived so mostly everything was removed. the two fiber boxes (shitty Comcast, and decent ATT) have to stay put.

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iteration number two, not horrible, needs more ethernet cable management and etc etc

On August 15, 1997, @Migueldeicaza announced the start of GNOME on the GTK mailing list¹. Twenty-eight years later a lot has changed, but we continue to develop and iterate on “a free and complete set of user friendly applications and desktop tools… based entirely on free software.”

To help us continue this work far into the future, we hope you join us in celebrating our birthday by becoming a Friend of GNOME today! 🎂

https://donate.gnome.org

¹https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/1997-August/msg00123.html

#GNOME #OpenSource #Linux

The state of #Linux packaging seems to be a perpetual mess. There is no standard packaging format among distros (something that I don't think will be resolved any time soon) and I've always viewed third party packaging tools like #snap and #flatpak with skepticism, mainly from a #security perspective.

After reading this, I'd rather deal with the perpetual mess of different package managers than the unraveling security headache that is Flatpak.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/when-flatpaks-sandbox-cracks-real-life-security-issues-beyond-ideal

#tech #technews

@nigelharpur @OrionKidder … this is what it was like getting Kubuntu to work:

I need water in the kitchen.
25 steps. "Easy!"

But after each step I must stop & search the web for how to take the next step. I read 10 different opinions on how to do it, b/c the first 9 are unintelligible, sound too risky, or just don't work.

Eventually, a "solution" makes everything unstable. I have to stop and research to figure out if/how I can go back to zero.

Start over.

I fear I may die of thirst. #linux

#Linux #Hilfe #VM #Virtualbox

Moin.
Ich bräuchte bitte dringend Hilfe von Menschen mit Wissen zu Linux und Virtualbox:

Habe gerade entdeckt, dass meine VM (Virtualbox) nicht mehr läuft. Ich vermute, es wurde beim letzten Linux-Update im Kernel etwas geändert, weil ich bekomme folgende Fehlermeldung hier unten. (System: KDE Neon, Laptop Framework 13 mit AMD)

Nun hab ich schon gesucht im Netz dazu. Es gibt ein Konsolen-Befehl: sudo rmmod kvm_amd. Der bewirkt aber rein garnichts.
Möchte ich über systemctl kvm_amd disablen, sagt er mir, dass es kvm_amd nicht gibt.

Hat jemand eine Ahnung, wie ich das Problem behebe?
Ich brauche die VM dringend leider... 😓

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Foto der Fehlermeldung.

Hey, Linux people: a LOT of folks are screaming off Windows right now.

Be. Kind. To. Them.

They don't know much yet, so they are going to ask really basic questions. If you're KIND, you might get some to give it a try and stick to it bc they know they can ask for help. If you're unkind, you're showing them using Linux will be *worse* than Windows. If you can't bring yourself to be kind, then SAY NOTHING. Let others pick up that slack.

#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Linux #Ubuntu #Debian #LinuxMint

This is AMIga Window Manager (amiwm) is a stacking window manager for the X Window System
https://www.lysator.liu.se/~marcus/amiwm.html Sadly it is not updated any more (last update was in 2010).

#unix #linux #history

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A screeshot of amiwm is an X window manager for Linux and Unix.

There's a new #Linux distro in development, #omarchy headed by DHH of Ruby on Rails fame.

He feels good enough about it to make the default OS for his employees at 37 Signals.

Rather than attempt to copy Mac or Windows, it leans into a distinct aesthetic with tiling window management and no toolbars on terminal apps and some web apps.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/all-in-on-omarchy-at-37signals-68162450

Right now Omarchy is #ArchLinux + #hyprland plus some scripts and customizations.

TIL that software (especially #scripting runtimes like #Python, #Perl, and #NodeJS) running in #Alpine #Linux containers is often slower than in other distros like #Ubuntu. This is despite Alpine being faster on startup and often vastly more efficient with CPU, memory, and storage.

It mostly comes down to Alpine’s use of musl libc rather than #GNU’s glibc. musl is optimized for minimalism, not raw performance. Also, the Alpine packages are often not compiled with as many optimizations.

@deborahh On Mastodon we have some very kind #Linux specialists who can help laypeople with such problems. This problem with #canon interests me, too, because I am still unsure to change to Linux (and have a Canon printer).

#fedihelp #linuxhelp

There's been a flood of Debian 13 users sending bug reports to upstream(s) again.

A lot of them are closed as "fixed in newer version."

The bug reports are appreciated, but they're going to wrong place! Please report them to Debian directly!

#Debian #Linux

@Lydie

#Linux is much user-friendlier than it was even a few years ago, and there are lots of other benefits in having a computer that isn't constantly trying to get one over on you. But I agree that it isn't yet ready for the average person to install and use without help.

I look at it like this: #Windows will boot up and appear to work on your machine, but you're at risk of viruses, fraud, spyware, vendor lock-in, advertisements, dark patterns, and generally being treated like a cash cow. In contrast, Linux will occasionally not support all your hardware and you may encounter problems that take time and research to solve, but the OS and the apps you run are working for you rather than against you. No one is spying on you, advertising at you, trying to lock you in, or demanding expensive subscriptions.

It's annoying and unjust that the bulk of the market has gone to the extractive OS and ecosystem, but every person who uses and advocates for Linux helps to break Microsoft's hegemony.

@CppGuy @Lydie I'm going to be honest because it's Mastodon; as soon as I saw 'display driver' I was like, "Yeah, except for that.' I've only been using #Linux for a few years. I still get too excited.

Suche ein #Job wo ich Linux administrieren darf. Habe den #LPIC1. Will als nächsten den #LPIC2 machen. Tue Ding mit #Debian, #nixOS und andern #Linux Distros. Bin im Layer1-4 zu Hause und würde mich gern zum #DevOp weiter entwickeln. Container und Virtualisierung sind kein Problem. Habe jahrelang mit #Proxmox und #vmware rumgespielt. Auch #Podman und #Docker sind nicht unbekannt für mich.
Hat jemand ne Idee oder ein Vorschlag?

A new #blog post appears!

I discovered that the GNU D compiler has been broken on FreeBSD 14 for over a year and it seems no one noticed. Let's discover the issue and brainstorm some solutions to it.

A great case study for why operating system package maintainers matter.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250813.html

#dlang #dlanguage #freebsd #bsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #unix #gcc #gdc #gnu #compiler #compilers #d #linux #opensource #freesoftware

I got a start in upgrading 7 donated laptops. 4 are done. GNU/Linux Mint with Xfce desktop installed in about 30 minutes per computer. Another 10-15 minutes to run updates. Specs: 4 to 8GB of memory, hard drives (rather than SSDs). Instead of being recycled they are ready for continued use. Totally usable for day-to-day general use. Anyone can do this kind of direct action, community mutual aid that conserves energy and resources.

#GNU #Linux #Endof10 #MutualAid #Computing #Tech #Climate

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Four computers running GNU/Linux Mint on a circular table. Three are laptops and are in various states of installation and/or software updates. The room has grayish/maroon carpeting, a dark green couch and a rocking chair is a comfortable waiting/recreation room at a non-profit that supports adults in recovery.

#meme #cat #pc #computer #hardware #software #terminal #command #commandline #cpu #linux #nerd #humor #just4fun #caturday #help

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With a little help of your cat ... 😹😼🐈

Ceci n'est pas Linux.

#illumos #SmartOS #Debian #Linux

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The default Apache Debian index.html - but actually running inside a LX zone on SmartOS

I've never hidden my admiration for #illumos-based systems. I have a few setups based on #OmniOS and #SmartOS, and they're solid as a rock. I like them both: OmniOS is more "malleable", while SmartOS is more of a hypervisor like #xcp-ng or #xen - meaning you install it on the host and delegate everything else to the zones.

I also love #FreeBSD jails, but zones sometimes cover use cases that jails can't (and vice versa). For example, imposing RAM limits in jails works, but it effectively "denies more ram" to a process when it requests more memory. The end user doesn't see this directly. On illumos, the user sees everything. I have some `lx` zones with Debian and Virtualmin, and users have never noticed that they aren't really on #Linux. A free or top will show only the assigned RAM.

And that's one of the biggest problems with open-source operating systems: they all have something good, and I always feel the urge to use them all! 🙂

#OpenSource #IT #SysAdmin

#KDE fans, rejoice! July updates include #Plasma 6.4.3, #Frameworks 6.16.0 and Gear 25.04.3, with UI improvements, accessibility tweaks, bug fixes in Dolphin/KAlarm, and support for new travel confirmations in Kitinerary. #KDE #Tumbleweed #openSUSE #Linux https://news.opensuse.org/2025/08/01/tw-monthly-update-july/

@nixCraft My system log files are an ongoing crime scene. I'm not sure I want the evidence to be more prominent. 🤣

#Linux #KDE #openSUSE #ICanDoItMyself #Troubleshooting #IntelArc

Dear #Linux Distributions,

Please switch to #BSDTar by default. It's the archive Swiss Army Knife, able to read many, many additional file formats thanks to #libarchive.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk,

#WinningWithBSD

If you're running Nextcloud on top of Apache2 on Debian 12 server and after upgrading to Debian 13 server it refuses to start up again, do the following:

a2dismod php8.2
a2enmod php8.4
systemctl restart apache2

At least that was what I needed to do.

#Nextcloud #Apache2 #Debian #Linux

A new Debian release has landed! 🐧🔥

https://news.itsfoss.com/debian-13-release/

#linux #debian

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A screenshot of Debian 13 is in the middle, with a Fastfetch output being shown, Debian 13 is written below with its logo on left, and a green illustration is on the top left that says "new".

I cannot say what a relief it is to work with a computer for hours and not see a single, intrusive, "Try This AI Feature Now!!!"
#linux #ubuntu

#RunBSD #dragonflybsd #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Linux

#Linux #btrfs
OH LE BOULET.
Je viens de me rendre compte que j'avais oublié de mettre le répertoire de torrents de mon NAS en NOCOW. Duh.

Correction:
- fermer le client torrent.
- créer un répertoire vide, le mettre en NOCOW (chattr +C nouveau)
- copier l'ancien répertoire dedans (cp -r -v --reflink=never ancien nouveau) (sinon ça gardera les blocs de données qui sont déjà en mode CoW)

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟴/𝟭𝟭 (Valuable News - 2025/08/11) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/valuable-news-2025-08-11/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟴/𝟭𝟭 (Valuable News - 2025/08/11) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/valuable-news-2025-08-11/

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

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

Think Linux desktop market share isn't over 6%? This 15 million-system scan says otherwise
https://www.zdnet.com/article/think-linux-desktop-market-share-isnt-over-6-this-15-million-system-scan-says-otherwise/ by @sjvn

The #Linux desktop has finally taken off.

When I reboot my laptop's cell modem by running /reset, /remove, and rescan, the CPU becomes blocked from entering C-states deeper than 3, resulting in an appreciable increase in power consumption. #Linux #lang_en

I think I've gotten further with this #FreeBSD #wine issue, knowledge-wise. The program I run for it does some live patching in memory (basically reads in a .dll and binary patches it in memory)

This all runs just fine in #Linux but fails in FreeBSD.

The system call I could find for it in WINE debugging was: KERNEL32.ReadProcessMemory

I also get this dreaded message:
wineserver: file_set_error() can't map error: Cannot allocate memory

This is FreeBSD 14.3, wine-devel 10.12.
Have tried disabling ASLR, enabling W^X (which I know is bad), have tried both 64-bit and 32-bit (WINEARCH=win32) prefixes. Same problem happens.

Is FreeBSD preventing WINE programs from reading each others' memory? I don't even know if it even got to the write part, it couldn't read it at all.

Please boost far and wide and many thanks in advance to anyone in the FreeBSD gaming community who might know the answer here (or a friendly FreeBSD dev?)

@nixCraft

80 to 90% of the web is served on linux computers, Microsoft owned servers, serving Windows products, are linux.

If Intel can't provide linux kernel code for their hardware, they will stop selling hardware.

#linux #kernel #intel

Dream come true yesterday!

I got to talk to a packed room of normal (non technical people) at the local library about how important it is to upcycle computers, and how Linux can save the world in this respect.

Thanks to all the people who showed up, supported, donated laptops and listened. We even gave away 9 free laptops at the event.

Library said it was the most well attended event they've had! So will be many more of these in the future. :)

#nixos #Linux #Cosmic #system76

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Nerd in a cosmic shirt with NixOS on display behind me giving a talk