It is always a good idea to explore what is out there. The sysadmin/dev crowd certainly does and you experiment with another OS that is not your “daily driver”, from time to time. For the #Linux user this often means distro hopping. For a #BSD user, this might mean to look at Linux from time to time (again): Void and Alpine Linux are probably distros that are much liked. Back in the day, I started with #SUSE Linux 8, that’s why I am drawn to sometimes take a look what the #openSUSE project has to offer nowadays. So, I was trying out #MicroOS and I have to be honest here — I like it, not systemd of course, but generally, it is really neat. Like I mean it is good to be a bit OS-agnostic.

LLM Policies: Progress At All Costs

https://diegoe.be/2026/09/25/llm-policies-progress-at-all-costs/

#gnome #kde #linux

Er is een #DigiD computer programma uitgegeven, eindelijk een smartphone-vrije mogelijkheid 😄

Helaas is het programma enkel beschikbaar voor #Microsoft #Windows en #Apple #MacOS waardoor alsnog burgers buitengesloten worden die vrije software gebruiken (zonder een afhankelijkheid van #BigTech)

@DigitaleOverheid @Logius
Hoe kunnen we ervoor zorgen dat er een versie komt die op #Linux draait/functioneert/ondersteund is? ( of een platform onafhankelijke versie )

https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2026/09/24/digid-voortaan-ook-beschikbaar-zonder-smartphone

On #Linux, watching a readable directory reports every event on a file inside it, even one the attacker cannot read directly - this is a bug that's still present on Linux today, although it's partially mitigated now. The most severe case of this was with `/dev/input`, where every keypress generates notifications on /dev/input even across users (even across SSH users). While the key itself isn't leaked, the timing between it has been studied for over two decades.

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Bypassing read permissions on Linux by mounting a watch on the file's parent directory.

ALRIGHT! I'm VERY excited to announce this research, because we've been holding onto it for close to a year now!

Announcing File Notification Attacks! Side-Channel Leakage from the File-Notification System on #Linux, #Android, #Windows, and #macOS

We've found decades-old bugs on Linux, Android, and Windows... well technically Microsoft considers what we found an ✨ undocumented feature ✨ (got Microsoft nominated for the lamest vendor response #pwnie award haha).

There's SO much to talk about, so please expand this thread below, but you can also check it out yourself at:

https://inoti.fyi/

There's a #noAI logo that my sister drew there. Our work was accepted at #CCS 2026, and I'll be presenting it this November at The Hague, Netherlands! If you're there, we should totally meet up :D

Thanks to my AWESOME co-authors: Xufan Zhao, Jeanette Angelika Wultsch, @hweissi, Florian Draschbacher, @notbobbytables, and @lavados 🙏, all of us from @isec_tugraz, TU Graz

#security #cybersecurity #research #systems

@midtsveen I'd try *BSD's once steam and proton are good there. I play Elden Ring and recently DS2 seamless coop with my li'l bro..

I'm just hopin' the "ai" stuff make some people on linux move to bsd and make it awesum, or stuff.

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Unix #Linux #BSD

does anyone use the Orion browser produced by Kagi?

its a novel idea, to buy a browser that's "...100% funded by its users; no ads and no third party deals ever. Get Orion Plus and own your browser".

its US$ 50 a year or $150 for a lifetime licence (the word "licence" sits a little uneasily with "own your browser"...)

they do a paid-for search engine too, i heard people on the Linux After Dark or Late Night Linux podcasts talking about that but i haven't tried it.

#browser #linux

So we now have, aside from the #FreeBSD system on a portable drive, our PC's main drive split in two: there's Void #Linux on one partition, #Slackware current on another, sharing a 1T home partition. (Separate swap partitions though...I tried a shared one. Bad idea)

Everything is fresh and new just waiting to go wrong again for some inexplicable reason or rash decision. "The mistakes are there," as Savielly Tartakower said, "waiting to be made."

Qualcomm announce Snapdragon X2 Series will support Linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/qualcomm-announce-snapdragon-x2-series-will-support-linux/

#Linux #Snapdragon #Qualcomm #Arm

9 feet deep

( https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/184177604 )

#9front #glenda #music #unix_surrealism #comic #cirno #linux

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9 feet deep album cover ft glenda, glenda with a knife, glenda with ears, and cirno

When you say ‘I use Linux’ and accidentally summon the entire BSD family.

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Unic #Linux #BSD #Meme #Memes #Humor #SpongeBob

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Six-panel cartoon featuring SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward. Patrick says, “I use Linux.” Squidward asks, “What is Linux?” SpongeBob replies, “It means he is afraid of BSD.” Squidward responds, “No it does not.” The next panel lists “FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD,” while Patrick looks funny. In the final panel, SpongeBob raises his hands in panic as Patrick says, “Stop it Patrick! You’re scaring him.”

If your timeline is full of man pages, kernel panic stories, ports trees, daemons, and unnecessarily opinionated discussions about which BSD is best… 👀

I’ll probably follow you. ❤️

Bonus points for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and other niche UNIX wizardry. 🐡🖥️

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #BSD #UNIX #Linux

We’ve been here before: Qualcomm promises Linux support for Snapdragon X2

Qualcomm, yesterday, promising Linux support for the new Snapdragon X2 processors:

Linux on Snapdragon X2 Series is moving from early bring-up toward a more complete upstream developer experience. Core support is landing, Hexagon NPU and Adreno GPU work is progressing, and real laptops wi

https://www.osnews.com/story/146022/weve-been-here-before-qualcomm-promises-linux-support-for-snapdragon-x2/

#Linux

I guess I hadn't looked at photos since migrating to Alpine Linux lately.

Does anyone have HEIC (i.e. Apple) formatted images working correctly under Alpine?

I've installed libheif, kimageformats and anything remotely libheif related in the repo but Gwenview still doesn't display HEIC images. Neither does Shotwell.

I installed Ristretto to compare and it also doesn't display HEIC images.

GIMP works as does Darktable.

Dolphin displays the thumbnails properly but the preview pane doesn't work.

Ideas? Kinda pulling my hair out and out of options.

#Linux #AlpineLinux #AlpineLinuxEdge #KDE #Plasma #Gwenview #libheif #HEIC #Apple #Ristretto #GIMP

I am intrigued by #NetBSD and I think I'll try dual booting when I have some free time. My big question is, how do you fill gaps when there isn't an application available in pkgsrc? Say for instance I wanted to run Vivaldi, am I SOL until they decide to port over, if ever? Or, do you run a virtualized application instead and if so, is that performant?

I see that #FreeBSD has the larger following but I don't like their fence sitting on LLM contributions and don't want to get into only for them to make a decision I disagree with.

I spent all this time migrating to #Arch only for Linus to give me the ick. Which, of course really sucks because I tend to like Arch. But, I think history repeats itself in a way here and it's time to start looking elsewhere and seeing if the jump is realistic.

#BSD #linux

Just discovered a free open alternative to SketchUp and i'm in amaze! It does all I need and it works thousands of time faster, on #linux, windows and MacOs. Never heard of it before but I tested it and I'm impressed. It even opens .skp files directly!. Developed in Peru, it is in Spanish and English. Amaze amaze amaze!

https://ingetrazo.com/

"A proposal to make KDE an 'AI-native' desktop has gone down like a house on fire: screams, flames, people running for safety. There may be no survivors."

The Register: Talk of AI in KDE sets the community ablaze https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/09/24/talk-of-ai-in-kde-sets-the-community-ablaze/5298854 @theregister @lproven #Linux #KDE

This is how you install a binary in #Unix

doas install ./halqe $(which halqe)

#Linux #BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #Unixlike #techtip #techtips

This new device, #ESP32S31, if it can run an Application OS, I would run something simple and small like #NetBSD or #RedoxOS on it not #Linux.

I don't know why people want to use Linux for everything. One tool doesn't fit ALL USECASES in the world.

#ESP32 #Embedded

#Linux support is coming to #Snapdragon X2 Series

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2026/09/snapdragon-summit-agentic-ai-pcs-linux

""We're upstreaming core drivers for Snapdragon X2 Series — including the Hexagon NPU and Adreno GPU — to open the door to developers and partners.

"We are starting with support for two operating systems based on Linux, also known as “distros”: #Debian […] #Ubuntu […]""

See also: Announcing Linux on Snapdragon X2 Series Early Developer Preview

https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2026/09/announcing-linux-on-snapdragon-x2-series-early-developer-preview

""This Early Developer Preview for Linux on Snapdragon X2 Series is a significant step forward in our commitment to the open-source community and a developer-first approach. […]

This article will give you two things: a snapshot of where upstream Linux stands today, and a practical starting point for trying it yourself. […]""

#qualcomm

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Screenshot of the "Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series" from the linked page

Anthropic a rendu claude.ai 3x plus rapide en deux semaines de sprint, tout piloté depuis un seul channel Slack avec Claude dans chaque thread. Chargement à froid passé de 3,1s à 0,55s au p75, 3000 changements déployés avec des garde-fous automatisés. ⬇️
https://claude.dev/blog/how-we-made-claude-ai-faster/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Une capture d'écran de titre présentant un article d'ingénierie sur l'optimisation de claude.ai, indiquant comment l'équipe a augmenté sa vitesse de 3x en deux semaines. Le design minimaliste affiche un petit icône pixelisée orangée en haut à gauche.

I've been getting into #Incus lately as a replacement for #Proxmox and I have to say it is incredibly impressive.

Super fast, super-low resources, has a mature OCI container support, and works on any major #Linux distro.

Very cool piece of software!

Can you believe it? #SeaGL2026 is happening a month from today!!!

October 23rd and 24th @ UW in Seattle, WA

See you all there, tell your friends!
Free to attend, Registration is optional https://seagl.org/register

#linux #opensource #seattle #FLOSS #FOSS #OSS #oshw #security #privacy #tech #free #libre #open

@overeducatedredneck @chadmccullough @admin @netbsd It's pretty easy setting up a #NetBSD Xen dom0 with just two packages needing adding (plus the auto-installed dependencies). You can then add as many domUs as you want if you want full privilege separation. PVH is probably best. You can use a ZFS dataset per VM. It's also easy enough to add #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD and #Linux domUs

Quite a few of us have worked on improving the How-To
http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/xen/howto/

🐧 Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake

｢ Not because Scientific Linux was technically superior to CentOS, or because maintaining another Linux distribution was free. And not because CERN or Fermilab could somehow have controlled what Red Hat or IBM later chose to do.
The mistake was treating Scientific Linux mainly as duplicated engineering work. It was infrastructure ｣

https://blog.melashri.net/posts/scientific-linux-mistake/

#CERN #science #rhel #linux

I've been fussing around with Labwc a bit. The out of the box Labwc config on Alpine is very minimal. Labwc uses Openbox themes, but before I go down that rabbit hole I want to explore CoW.

Following the build instructions "bouncing ball" on both the river and CoW Codeberg pages resulted in success with CoW selectable and launch-able in sddm with zero dramas.

Clicking on the empty desktop and getting the minimalist CoW (fvwm!) menu to appear for the first time was a bit of a comfy old shoe moment. Ha.

Thanks River and @thomasadam !

Now the fun, hard, and time consuming part: making CoW look the way I want it to look and selecting tools to flesh out the rest of the desktop.

I did go looking for some of my old fvwm configs in my code repo but I guess I never saved my desktop configs - just my carputer stuff. 2008 was a long time ago. Oh well.

Fun!

#CoW #CompositorOnWayland #RiverWM #River #Labwc #Linux #AlpineLinux #RunBSD #fvwm #sddm

Over the past few months, I have found myself under the spotlight on kernel mailing lists. What started as targeted discussions quickly turned into advocating for the kernel community to respect the mostly silent crowd of developers and maintainers who do not want to fully embrace AI usage. It appears this didn't go unnoticed, as shown by Jon Corbet's talk at Kernel Recipes. (1/5)

#Linux #kernel #AI

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Jon Corbet showing a quote about empathy and AI during his talk at Kernel Recipes 2026

Un outil pour concevoir, simuler et chaos-tester des architectures de systèmes distribués, directement dans le navigateur ⬇️
https://paperdraw.dev/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Luminous 2.0 is live! 🎧✨
Built for anyone with a #music collection who wants the convenience of a modern streaming app without giving up local ownership.

Luminous is free and #OpenSource Made in Canada. 🍁 Available in English and French for #Windows and #Linux

https://esoltys.dev/luminous/

Union-busting is a thing.

"We are not implying any sort of cause or effect here, but a month after learning about the union from one former colleague, this writer heard about the separation program from another. Multiple sources confirmed that SUSE had approached long-serving employees, particularly some with more than ten years at the company, about voluntary separation."

The Register: Longtime SUSE staff asked if they'd opt for 'voluntary separation' https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/09/22/longtime-suse-staff-asked-if-theyd-opt-for-voluntary-separation/5297457 @theregister @lproven #Linux

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/117313610321642907

gawd dammit and I installed Alpine #Linux literally LAST NIGHT and was liking it

Ariadne, bunyote friend [she/her or they/them] » 🌐 2026-09-22
@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems

anyway, here are the results from the questionnaire: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/council/-/blob/master/minutes/2026-08-09-ai-developer-poll.md

a large question I have: the report was authored on 2026-08-09, but was just published yesterday. why did it take so long? why did I have to ask about the report in order for it to be published?

my guess is that alpine will allow AI, despite the position that it should be banned being strongest (but not strong enough to meet a plurality).

same outcome as Debian, basically.

Well I've already caved to using #FreeBSD instead of #NetBSD because it better supports my hardware and I was really hoping I could take refuge with NetBSD's clear stance against LLM sludge. I feel like I've spent so many days just installing operating systems so I might just give up on trying to have a relatively clean #Linux.

#Debian is lost.
The #Linux kernel is lost.
#KDE doesn't have to be.

#RESIST.

#NoSlop #Antifascist

📢 New Blog Post: "Keynote Announcement"

https://seagl.org/news/2026/09/22/keynote-announcements

#Seagl2026 #linux #opensource #FLOSS #FOSS #policy #hackerspace #python #TempleOS #keynote #cfp #seattle #conference

Eh, fuck homelab, fuck selfhosting, fuck Linux, fuck *BSD, fuck computers

FUCK THIS HOBBY.

I'm off doing something else more fun and that I can actually afford

Fortunately li-ion batteries are cheap. I just wish there were more lithium battery factories out there other than China...

Idk. For all the bullshit China's doing, I'll admit they're doing better stuffs. Alternative RAM, SSD's, making batteries and battery related stuff, and eugh.. open weight models that can be ran locally. Still unethically sourced datasets though.

Come on other countries. Fucking do something. Stop with the powertripping like discord/reddit mods and do some useful shit

https://youtu.be/78y-N8URhqM

#batteries #electronics #lfp #linux #homelab #selfhosted #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #mastodon

Eh, fuck homelab, fuck selfhosting, fuck Linux, fuck *BSD, fuck computers

FUCK THIS HOBBY.

I'm off doing something else more fun and that I can actually afford

Fortunately li-ion batteries are cheap. I just wish there were more lithium battery factories out there other than China...

Idk. For all the bullshit China's doing, I'll admit they're doing better stuffs. Alternative RAM, SSD's, making batteries and battery related stuff, and eugh.. open weight models that can be ran locally. Still unethically sourced datasets though.

Come on other countries. Fucking do something. Stop with the powertripping like discord/reddit mods and do some useful shit

https://youtu.be/78y-N8URhqM

#batteries #electronics #lfp #linux #homelab #selfhosted #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd

Advanced Programming in the #UNIX Environment

Week 3: stat(2) intro

In this video lecture, we meet our new best friend, the 'struct stat'. We'll cover the stat(2) system calls and begin discussing each of the fields in the struct, often by example of the ls(1) and stat(1) commands. In this way, we begin learning more about how the Unix File System is implemented.

(Note that the output of stat(1) on #NetBSD is different from that on #Linux.)

https://youtu.be/veFwXrEHPsk

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$ ls -l file -rw-r--r-- 1 jschauma wheel 1048576 Sep 10 20:04 file "-rw-r-r-" from st_mode 1 st_nlink "jschauma" from st_uid "wheel" from st_gid 1048576 st_size Sep 10 20:04 from st_mtime file not from stat at all

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The stat(1) utility displays information about the file pointed to by file. $ stat -r file 16 3 0100644 1 1000 0 -1 1048576 1599768274 1599768274 1599768274 0 4096 2056 0 file The default format displays the st_dev, st_ino, st_mode, st_nlink, st_uid, st_gid, st_rdev, st_size, st_atime, st_mtime, st_ctime, st_birthtime, st_blksize, st_blocks, and st_flags fields, in that order.

KDE developers' attempts at creating LLM guidelines are not going well https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/kde-developers-attempts-at-creating-llm-guidelines-are-not-going-well/

#KDE #AI #OpenSource #Linux

Address:

Lecture Theatre G12,
1-19 Torrington Place (University College London),
London,
WC1E 7HN

OpenStreetMap

Time: 6 pm - 7:30 pm on Tuesday 10 November

Please arrive on time (6pm), so we can let you in easily.

Blog post

Thank you to Lars, Arun Isaac, UCL LUG and UCL itself for calling, organising and hosting this event!

sound working yay, Alpine #Linux and twm my beloved https://youtu.be/mLdhYKzyn6M?is=duax9TlO9Q53ufoW

ServerKit : panneau de contrôle serveur léger pour gérer applications web, bases de données et containers Docker sur un VPS. Backend Python/Flask, frontend React. Open source, 1500 étoiles sur GitHub. ⬇️
https://github.com/jhd3197/ServerKit

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Capture d'écran du panneau de contrôle ServerKit montrant son interface de gestion de serveurs avec tableaux de bord, graphiques de monitoring et statistiques en temps réel. Le projet open-source propose une alternative légère à Kubernetes pour gérer des applications web, bases de données et services sur serveurs VPS.

Btw: what resource you could suggest to customize TWM? The basic installation is very bare bone, and with a quick search I have impression that documentation and tweaking became scattered to the four corners of Internet in the past three decades.
It seems deceptively powerful. There are some modern options like i3, but TWM keeps some genuine appeal for how much is lightweight, but I need to add some other basic functionalities.

#foss #twm #desktop #linux #freebsd #bsd #x11 #netbsd #openbsd

The Politics I Never Noticed Were There

I went looking for a Linux distro. I came back with a headache and a much longer reading list.

https://blog.0x32.co.uk/posts/the-politics-i-never-noticed-were-there/

#linux #foss #hyprland #reflection

Cool, looks like my #EuroBSDCon2026 #NetBSD and #Linux talk made it to LWN!

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1094310/651feb9f2faaa0b8/

Vous écrivez votre algo, la plateforme l'anime en direct, étape par étape. Algorithm Visualizer transforme un tri ou un parcours de graphe en animation lisible. ⬇️
https://algorithm-visualizer.org/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Excalidraw : whiteboard virtuel pour esquisser diagrammes, wireframes et schémas d'architecture façon dessin à main levée. Collaboratif en temps réel, chiffré de bout en bout. Open source, plus de 130 000 étoiles sur GitHub, adopté par Google Cloud, Meta et Notion. ⬇️
https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw

#SelfHosted #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux

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Page d'accueil du projet Excalidraw, un tableau blanc virtuel open source permettant de créer des diagrammes et wireframes au style dessiné à main levée, avec des fonctionnalités collaboratives et chiffrées de bout en bout. La capture d'écran montre l'interface de l'éditeur affichant un exemple de diagramme architectural annoté.

Overview of AOOSTAR WTR Pro on *BSD https://lobste.rs/s/sp4dnk #freebsd #hardware #linux #netbsd #openbsd
https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/overview-of-aoostar-wtr-pro-on-bsd/

Which is your favourite Linux phone,
and why do you like it?

#Linux #Phone #AskFedi

PGTerm : terminal Postgres natif en Rust, open source, pour connecter et surveiller toutes ses bases depuis un seul endroit. PgBot intégré diagnostique requêtes lentes, index, locks et vacuum, avec diagnostics déterministes d'abord, explication IA ensuite. ⬇️
https://pgterm.dev/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Capture d'écran de la page d'accueil de pgterm, un terminal Postgres open-source écrit en Rust, présentant ses fonctionnalités principales et la commande d'installation.