Various #FOSS OS communities' reactions to joining them:

#Linux: "Hey, welcome to the fam! Here's a stack of CDs I burned, see which one boots for you."
#FreeBSD: "Hey, we're glad you're here! Here's an amazing handbook to get you started, holler if you need a hand!"
#NetBSD: "Of course it runs NetBSD! Welcome! :D"
#OpenBSD: "Don't expect a lot of hand-holding, but we're all having fun with it, and hopefully you will enjoy the process, too."
#9front: "Are... you... sure you want to do this?"

😆

(For the record, I love them all. I only regret I haven't had much of a chance to play with #Haiku, or interact with that community, yet!)

We are able to follow up last year's success of financing important audio improvements in postmarketOS and the wider Linux Mobile ecosystem with another project this year, this time tackling q6voice(d).

Thanks to everybody who has been donating to postmarketOS, you made this possible!

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/05/08/q6voice-project/

#linuxmobile #postmarketos #linux

EDIT: it's not the virtio driver. This VM has 1G ram. If increased to 2G, it will boot. It seems it's the intramfs unable to decompress. And it's strange.

I've just upgraded my Proxmox Backup Server, running inside a bhyve VM on FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE, and it now kernel panics as soon as it boots.

Setup:
- Host: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE
- Guest Kernel: Linux 7.0
- NIC: virtio-net

Workarounds tested:
- Removing the network device: boots successfully
- Changing the NIC to e1000: boots successfully

This seems to point to a virtio-net issue with this kernel under bhyve.

Has anyone else noticed this?

#FreeBSD #bhyve #Linux #KernelPanic

I tried a bit more Linux distro investigation, and I think I just should have listened to @hipsterelectron in the first place.

TL;DR: If you want to run Linux without systemd, with something other than GNOME as a desktop (which is implied if you don't want systemd), and if you're comfortable with using the command line for installation, Alpine Linux is a great choice. The default install has zero systemd.

Yes, it's a command-line install, but it's far easier to install than Gentoo. The core OS install was so fast that I thought it had failed. Once I had that sorted and had installed a few support items, the setup-desktop script installed the whole of KDE and Wayland in a couple of minutes. I rebooted and everything worked. It even got the high DPI screen's resolution right for both KDE and sddm, which literally no other distro I've tried has managed.

A lack of bloat doesn't just make Alpine good for containers, it's also really responsive in general use. (Which is how computers ought to be with modern hardware.)

The package manager is nice. Think APT, but much faster. It automatically keeps a separate record of what you've actually asked to install versus dependencies that were dragged in, for easy automatic bloat removal.

Downsides:

- No proprietary Nvidia driver available, you need to use nouveau, so no CUDA or high performance gaming.
- Documentation (including installation) is scattered in pieces on a wiki.
- A lot less stuff prepackaged for you than Debian. Check https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/ to see if things you need are available.
- You'll need to get used to some things being different thanks to use of busybox, no sudo, no bash by default, and so on.

My conclusion: Command line user? Try Alpine. Everyone else? Use Debian, and hope they move away from systemd.

I might revise this opinion if things break a lot during regular updates (hello Fedora), time will tell. #AlpineLinux #Linux

Another day, another #Linux security vulnerability!

Dirty Frag: https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag

For my fellow #NixOS users, here is the mitigation I applied to my systems: https://github.com/stapelberg/nix/commit/05e40d77799a8d68dc019b316cb824904a53361c

#Linux kernel exploit mitigation:

rm -rf /boot /lib/modules && reboot

Will mitigate all exploits, not just #DirtyFrag 🧐☝️

Something I've complained about when people deploy Linux kernel based OS's is so few people ever tune or customizes their kernels or their base distro's.

This used to be something old school sysadmins would do, as part of the basic security hygiene practice - "If you don't need it, don't include it", which applies to daemons , services and packages.

Kernel compilation is something that rarely seems to happen too..

Do you have hardware encryption capabilities you want things like wolfssl to use? Then sure use #AF_ALG . Anything else? Highly unlikely.

Are you running OpenSwan, or some other VPN or tunneling software that uses encapsulating tunnel options? No? Probably don't need ESP4/ESP6 modules.

Easy for me to call out sure, and i'm taking myself to task as well, since really at work, they don't want people deep diving and compiling kernels in many places. "Trust the vendor" where many mgmt types don't get it or care. "Apt/DNF update and carry on".

Funny because this the antithesis of their "resist patches, and updates" attitude towards software.

The number of mongodb 3.x db's out there because the dev hasn't updated the driver, or the number of npm warnings "this is vulnerable, don't use this" that are ignored are high.

#infosec #linux #copyfail #dirtyFrag #opinion

There's another fresh Local Privilege Escalation bug in #Linux, published some hours ago: https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag

No patch is available yet, but there are mitigation instructions available.

#dirtyFrag #security

Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8

This is a report on "Dirty Frag", a universal LPE that allows obtaining root privileges on all major distributions. This vulnerability has a similar impact to the previous Copy Fail.

#linux #security

Oh good, another high-severity #Linux #security vulnerability that somebody botched the disclosure of, turning it into a high-severity zero-day.

Because #CopyFail wasn't bad enough. Now we've got #DirtyFrag too.

Can #cybersecurity people please stop botching vulnerability disclosure? Thanks.

https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag/blob/master/README.md

#security

Another #Linux LPE:
https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag/

#DirtyFrag

run

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

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metacity busy busy busy mage finds deb's antiques enters MATABOT COPS at the counter deb mouths: r u n matabot scans mage JANE DOE, OUTSTANDING WARRANT RUNNING through the streets of metacity BANG, a shot rings out one of the cops is dead, the other freaks out cirno and glenda reload

“My favorite device is a Chromebook, without ChromeOS”

If you're sick of Chrome OS on your Chromebook, or can find a Chromebook for cheap somewhere but don't actually want to use Chrome OS, have you considered postmarketOS?

Since I was kind frustrated with ChromeOS, I decided to take a look at something that I knew supported my Lenovo Duet 3 for some time: postmarketOS. For thos

https://www.osnews.com/story/144897/my-favorite-device-is-a-chromebook-without-chromeos/

#Linux

🎉 Gitte 0.2.0 is out!

Highlights:
- Interactive rebasing from the log: reorder via drag&drop, drop, reword, edit, squash/fixup
- Remote ops (push/pull/fetch/clone) now use the git CLI for better credentials & protocol support
- Configurable diff font
- CLI args: gitte ~/repo
- Ahead/behind indicator, merge markers, double-click to switch branches

Plus: Ukrainian & German translations, AUR package, lots of bugfixes and a few easter eggs.

https://flathub.org/apps/de.wwwtech.gitte

#GNOME #git #gui #linux #rust

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Git GUI showing a commit context menu with options to check out a commit, copy hashes, create tags or archives, and perform history editing actions like reword, squash, fixup, or drop

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Git GUI preferences dialog showing auto-fetch settings, working copy layout options, and diff view font configuration

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Git GUI sidebar showing workspace status, current branch with ahead and behind indicators, and an empty changed files panel

Ok, so super strange thing has been happening with #Firefox and this computer.

Already in two different OSes (#AlpineLinux and #Devuan Linux), Firefox crashes (that "Gah your tab crashed!" message, or downright segfaults to death) less than 50 seconds after opening. And it's *any* firefox I can pull off - standalone Linux version, AppImage, Distro Repo, Mozilla Repo, you name it. They *all* crash randomly between 5 to 50 or so seconds after opening.

Other browsers seem to be working correctly, as is every other application installed here. Why TF is only the browser doing this?!

This is super frustrating, and makes me feel that there must be some hardware problem with this PC. Faulty RAM, perhaps? Wonder if there's anything I can do to save it (the PC, that is)

#question #linux

Just need to copy the data from the customer's old Windows computer and then it will be ready.

Fastfetch was not in the repositories, probably due to Zorin being based on a slightly older Ubuntu LTS version.

Neofetch was there and helped me accomplish on screen what you are supposed to have in screenshots.

#Linux #ZorinOS #NeoFetch #gNome

RT: https://social.retroedge.tech/objects/27811c52-8fd2-49bc-8e28-e73a5a01a685

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screenshot of Zorin OS on an HP mini computer

“Works on my laptop” is a configuration problem, not bad luck.

Execution Environments make your Ansible control node a versioned, reproducible container image. Same artifact locally, in CI, and in AAP/AWX.

I wrote a practical walkthrough of ansible-builder + ansible-navigator, with real-world gotchas:

https://blog.hofstede.it/reproducible-ansible-with-execution-environments/

#ansible #automation #devops #linux

Hello #BSDCafe !
I have recently launched a website: https://fionescu.princeps-poesis.xyz/ - Here I posted what may be the only text in Romanian about #OpenBSD that isn't a news announcement or a recent AI slop translation!
Tl;dr: I have celebrated one year since having switched from #Windows to #Linux by... switching from Linux to OpenBSD my daily driver OS. Why? OpenBSD's "proactive security by default" stance is the best for me - and it runs on my somewhat legacy hardware. Most of the essential software I used on Linux is also here, so for most purposes OpenBSD is fine for me.

sh games

cp -prva ~/gate/secret/files* /media/my_user_id/gate/public/deep/dive

works in the following sh:

• bash
• ksh
• csh
• zsh
• tcsh
• dash
• ash
• psh

#Programming #Bash #zsh #OpenSource #BSD #freeBSD #openBSD #netBSD #ghostBSD #Linux #Debian #mxLinux #MX #RPM #POSIX #ash

Command:

echo hello,there |sed 's/,/\n/g'

Result:

#Linux:
hello
there

#FreeBSD:
hello
there

#NetBSD:
hello
there

#OpenBSD:
hellonthere

OpenBSD.... brah. 😓

hey so. looking for a job (NZ or fully remote willing to hire a kiwi) in SRE, security, or linux/Unix system administration. 15 years experience administering Linux and Unix boxes, intermediate level of experience working with docker compose and containerisation and container security. No prior job experience unfortunately, all those 15 years were mostly personal projects and small-scale stuff for friends. I'm also 26, so I started when I was 11, explaining the no jobs so far. Currently running an entire multi-machine personal cloud infrastructure with a demonstration of all the services I have running at https://status.highenergymagic.net. Three machines, 72 docker containers. One running most of them, one running Mastodon+glitchsocial, one running the uptime monitor. encrypted root on ZFS, alpine linux, gVisor on supported containers, plan to move to Kata. Entirely willing to accept entry-level job placements, no expectation of being paid a lot or anything, just want to be doing something and move the needle a little on my current "being broke" status. Currently using gVisor, docker compose, and kata containers in production, experience with Linux, docker, Net/Open/FreeBSD, Cisco IOS, Juniper Junos, Mikrotik and UniFi, configuring and administering Asterisk, plus extensive experience with IBM AIX and Sun Solaris. #fedihired #infosec #cybersecurity #linux #unix #docker #sre #DevOps #GetFediHired

Please boost for reach, any job offers please DM me.

I"m leaning towards #dnsmasq

#Linux

what do you #Linux folks use as a stupid simple DHCP server daemon? #Kea seems a bit overkill for what I need, and isc-dhcpd is effectively unmaintained.

$ sudo resolvctl status is taking forever.

I really, really, really wish #Linux would implement SIGINFO.

Today I came across a weird #printer problem. From #Debian #Linux I could print to the #Canon PIXMA printer in simplex or #duplex.

BUT, in duplex mode it would print a side, eject the paper, re-load the paper, then eject it again without printing anything on it, and then start the second page on a separate sheet of paper.

This happened from my PC and a separate one using the stock #IPP driver in #CUPS

Annoyingly it works perfectly in Windows...

Your nightly reminder that the bugs are Long Term Stable too and the maintainers of those projects can't fix your distro.

#Linux

Une très bonne synthèse sur la faille CopyFail impactant le noyau Linux : historique de la faille, mécanisme d'exploitation, gestion érratique de la divulgation, mitigation - par Linuxtricks #Infosec #Linux https://www.linuxtricks.fr/news/10-logiciels-libres/600-copy-fail-cve-2026-31431-synthese-technique-sur-cette-faille-linux/

#copyfail also affects #wsl. #linux #windows #infosec

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A WSL terminal window. The user has run the proof-of-concept copyfail exploit script and immediately got a root prompt.

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟱/𝟬𝟰 (Valuable News - 2026/05/04) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/valuable-news-2026-05-04/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟱/𝟬𝟰 (Valuable News - 2026/05/04) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/valuable-news-2026-05-04/

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

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

Recently I got asked about my @BoxyBSD@bsd.cafe project, which offers free VPS instances of vary #BSD based systems for learning and educational purposes and I'm happy to share that this projects remains available. Several things could finally be clarified to continue this service to make sure people can learn and practice on real #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD systems to #RUNBSD. Also, BoxyBSD starts moving over to #Sylve on #bhyve.

But not only that! We could also get some more new resources and locations to scale and this also brings up another new project for #free Linux #VPS instances at https://boxedtux.com (Fedi: @BoxedTux@mastodon.social) where people will be able to learn and practice on different #Linux based distributions (e.g., #Debian, #Ubuntu, #Rocky,...). BoxedTux utilizes #Proxmox clusters as a foundation.

Hope you like this small update... Over & out!

#freeVPS #VPS #VM #Hosting #education #learning #learningplatform #service #opensource #BoxedTux

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BoxyBSD Logo - a free BSD based VPS Service by gyptazy

Installing #windows11 on this #thinkpad x13s is just about the weirdest install I've ever seen.

Over an hour and still going. "Doing work"

I'm only doing all this so I can update the bios and get #linux on it.

Wenn ihr mal ein richtig abgefahrenens #Linux erleben wollt, dann schaut euch

#commodore OS Vision

https://commodore.net/downloads/

an!

#dit #dut #dutgemacht #retrocomputing

Episode 15 of Dark Blue Weekly released

https://darkblueproject.com/sites/news/dbw-e15.php

#darkblueproject #darkblueweekly #fedora #bazziteos #cachyos #proxmox #gcc #archlinux #linux #linuxdesktop #opensource #freesoftware

@sam@cablespaghetti.dev @BoxyBSD@mastodon.bsd.cafe @BoxyBSD@bsd.cafe

#BoxyBSD #BoxedTUX #freeVPS #education #learning

Anyone have recent experience with the PineTab2?

Usability when running pmos or some other distro?

#pine64 #pinetab #pinetab2 #linux #tablet #rk3566 #rockchip #pmos #postmarket #postmarketos

I spent the last couple of days examining the source code and understanding the Copy.Fail vulnerability in detail. This vulnerability happens on the shoulders of 4 key components:

- Page cache
- AF_ALG
- algif_aead
- splice()

In this video, I talk about these components and demonstrate how the CVE-2026-31431 vulnerability allows attackers to gain root access by modifying the “su” entry in the page cache.

https://youtu.be/OftLQ1uPh4M

#copyfail #linux #video

Heute ist #diday !

Meine digitale Unabhängigkeit:

• #Linux seit 30 Jahren statt Windows oder Mac OSX
• #Fairphone Gen. 6 statt Samsung Galaxy, Apple iPhone, Google Pixel, ...
• die eigenen Server bei Hetzner
• regionale Anbieter statt Amazon
• Signal statt Whatsapp
• mailbox.org statt gmail, ...
• #startpage statt #google
• #nextcloud statt dropbox, icloud oder amazon cloud
• nextcloud statt google calendar
• nextcloud office und libreoffice statt Microsoft Office oder Microsoft 365
• #homeassistant statt amazon alexa, google home, apple homekit
• #mastodon statt X (Twitter)
• #friendica statt facebook
• #pixelfed statt instagram
• #peertube statt youtube
• #selfhosted #Vaultwarden statt Google Passwords
• #ollama mit lokalem model statt ChatGPT, Gemini, Groq oder Claude

Und du? Wie digital unabhängig bist du?

systemd-boot: wtf is this dreck?

It works, but like lilo back in the '90s. Actually, that's probably not fair to lilo.

Now I understand why most distros configure it to not display and make you press/hold space to access the menu at boot time. The less we see it the better.

#Linux #systemdboot

"Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone"

https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/01/buy_a_foss_fondleslab/

I use a #Librem5 #Linux #phone. With the default #PureOS operating system.

Enjoy your #freedom, break free from #Google and #Apple.

Have a full Linux computer in your pocket that you can also use for calling.

Questions? Ask me.

#opensource #digitalsovereignty #FOSS #MobileLinux #privacy

🍷 #Linux #Wine
ALLEZ ZOU ! WinePortable est disponible 🎉
Il vous permet de jouer aux jeux Windows sous Linux sans avoir à vous emmerder à installer Wine.
1️⃣Décompressez WinePortable
2️⃣Copiez vos jeux Windows dedans
3️⃣Lancez "explorer.sh" et jouez à vos jeux

C'est un Wine portable packagé avec tout le nécessaire pour faire tourner plus de 90% des jeux Windows (dxvk, vkd3d, vcrun2003 à 2026, physx, OpenAL et des tas de runtimes et codecs).

https://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=wineportable

Canonical confirms Ubuntu web infrastructure is facing a sustained cross-border DDoS attack, causing service disruption.
https://linuxiac.com/canonical-says-ubuntu-infrastructure-is-facing-cross-border-ddos-attack/

#ubuntu #linux #opensource

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Canonical confirms Ubuntu web infrastructure is facing a sustained cross-border DDoS attack, causing service disruption.

I can't speak to the accuracy or "correctness" of the guy's instructions, but the way he opens the video is freaking hilarious.

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=uTrOIPIx7pY

How to Install OpenBSD (2027 Edition)

#OpenBSD #Linux #Install #MemeVideo

Just about every consumer facing operating system, search engine and service is using AI now to some extent. I’ve seen folks switching to #openbsd from Linux/Mac/Windows…but what about other services? Proton has AI, and damn near every internet search engine has AI, even the ones that claim to be private and secure. I’d be interested in hearing some realistic tech stacks and workflows that don’t involve tools with AI in them or created with the help of AI. If you are willing to share please comment.

#ai #noai #linux #macos #windows

I've been working on Guestlet for a few years now. It is a #hypervisor platform built on #opensource technologies. This is the first #blog post in a series that lays out the early decisions that were made.

https://nwcs.sh/blog/guestlet/a-hypervisor-platform-built-with-open-source-technologies

#linux #postgresql #selfhosted #homelab #golang

Can someone give me the tl;Dr version of why folks don't like systemd? I don't know what it does or doesn't do compared to whatever the options are. #linux #fedora #homelab

Put #CachyOS #Linux on my daughters old and slow laptop yesterday. I've never used Linux before so it was a bit daunting at first but ended up being really easy to install and set up, and she loves it :) Its suddenly nice and fast and gaming is 'good enough'. Laptop is like new! My gaming desktop is next 🥳

Gkrellm is one of the lightest system monitoring tools that I use, only top and htop are lighter. Of course it's a Natural Choice on not only the SBC Pi5 but on all machines here

@rl_dane

#Raspberry #Pi5 #SBC #hardware #programming #gkrellm #top #htop #Linux

Mine...Mine...Mine...

Now THAT will be a nerdy weekend §8-)

Buy here:
https://vivianvoss.net/print/integrated-by-design

#freebsd #book #bsd #nerd #linux #unix #openbsd #netbsd #ghostbsd #learn

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FreeBSD Book - Integrated by design. https://vivianvoss.net/print/integrated-by-design