RE: https://sunny.garden/@bragefuglseth/116920572163082606

Because of the recent paragraphs that have surfaced from the kernel mailing list, I feel inclined to bring this 2 days old post up again.

People need to stop viewing Linus as some kind of figurehead for the Linux desktop / free software. Not because of his recent statements in particular, he's entitled to his own opinions, but because he generally just has never represented the values or mindset everyone seems to think he has.

He oversees an important technical component of the desktop stack, but that component is used in so many other places as well, and he probably couldn't care less about the success of Linux on personal devices in particular. He's not coming to save any of you from the technological apocalypse or whatever.

#Linux #FOSS

We're number two! We're number two! Wahoo!

#Radicle #HardenedBSD #Linux

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Screenshot of largest repositories on storage, sorted by size. Linux is number one and HardenedBSD is number two.

Linus Torvalds is no hero.

That was hard to learn.

#Linux

Maybe Linus Torvalds is right.

Maybe it's time to fork the kernel and clean it up.

Get rid of all the stuff that's in there because of company x shifted the burdon of maintenance to the public and all the slop.

Concentrate on systems that a normal person actually can buy and use today.

See how small a code base we can get and start from there.

Maybe do the sane thing and develop the libc with the kernel like the BSDs do.

Maybe look at all the other systems out there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_operating_systems
and implement everything in the best possible way .

Let's not do the "Not Invented Here" dance.

Keep POSIX compatibility as the baseline.

As it stands right now the only people who are kinda happy with the kernel project as is are the big iron vendors.

Oh and while we're at it let's fix the licence so it actually reflects the values of the community and not the intrrests of big tech and the egos of some cis het well-off white dudes.

#linux #future #fork #thoughts

@rl_dane

This is the second post where you'd dropped the F bomb....for good reason.

I have so much to say but not sure how to say it but I will do my best. For *years*, I've enjoyed using #Linux both as a hobbyist and professional #sysadmin. The OS is definitely not the one I started with 20+ years ago. Since at least COVID has....well, it's turned into a full blown corporate-controlled high speed sprawling mess. Not necessarily matured just grown exponentially wherever the various powers see fit. For this and other reasons, I am leaning more and more towards #FreeBSD.

Lastly, I will admit there are some #AI niche use cases which do interest me (related to my own hobbies) but shoving it into everything is not a good idea.

@patrick

The argument that "AI works therefore we should use it" is akin to "Torture works therefore we should use it."

I don't mean that as hyperbole.

The underlying purpose of AI is at least twofold:

1) It puts a layer of abstraction over information.
- Primary Source: Raw data (eg video footage of an event)
- Secondary Source: Analysis (eg Low bias news and analysis of what this event means in the context of other events)
- Tertiary Source: Meta Analysis (eg Encyclopedia entries summing up Analysis)
- Quaternary Source: News Opinion and Propaganda (eg a "News Entertainment" channel that tells you what to think regarding the event)
- Pentanary (?) Source: TLDR summations divorced from underlying sources (eg AI summations, guides, etc that describe events or provide recommendations and guidance but follow behind the scenes algorithms that control the output)

The purpose of this layer of abstraction is control of information and removing the distribution of information from the actual events. This allows for influence campaigns, tuned marketing, tuned propaganda, and therefore control.

2) Centralization of compute power
- Computers in our hands that we control allow us a lot of power.
- Moore's Law no longer applies to localized compute power so we are in an era of repair and maintenance.

That means two things for corporations. Loss of income and loss of control.
- Forcing us to use centralized compute forces us to continue to spend money
- Localized AI engines still allow for centralized algorithms. (open sourced algos and localized engines dont factor in here as use and usecases are low)

AI is being pushed so heavily because both governments and corporations need it to further their wealth and power.

They push it via both making it cheap and accessible and having a veneer of usability.

This is a similar pattern to "Underpricing competition to drive them out and then jacking up rates when you have a monopoly", "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" and similar approaches.

So.

I am not arguing whether AI is useful. I am arguing that its use is detrimental to us. In fact, the more it becomes useful the worse it becomes BECAUSE more people adopt it. It hurts us as we use it. It hurts us more as we use it more.

Tying it back, I don't care if torture is useful and gets your desired results. Torture is bad and it hurts us.

#Linus #AI #Linux #solarPunk

Damn. This quote from Linus Torvalds is... well... damning.

In response to a discussion around use of generative AI as it relates to contributions to the Linux code base, Linus (creator and lead contributor to Linux) firmly states that AI contributions are welcome.

But then he goes on and concludes with this:

"The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology.

Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the _point_ of the project.

This is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be.

In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons.

And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools.

Linus"

A lot of us are on Linux specifically because of the social and political positives. Closed source is control. Open source is democracy.

Linus doing the typical tech-bro "i don't think of politics, I only think of tech" harkens back to any number of "science without ethics" atrocities.

Linus is and has always been a tech-bro (or proto tech bro). He has his throne of power and is happy where he is. Other tech-bros want money and influence. They're all the same.

But Linus is wrong.

Tech is politics.

And his stance and guiding influence with Linux is wrong.

Linus just made a political statement and has shifted the politics and societal approach of Linux.

Source: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CAHk-=wi4zC+Ze8e+p3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg@mail.gmail.com/

#linux #solarPunk #Linus #AI #openSource

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screenshot of Linus' remarks stating: The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology. Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the _point_ of the project. This is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be. In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons. And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools. Linus"

Gods, I've had my head down these last few months with family and life stuff, so I've not been kept fully abreast.

But Canonical doing the most Canonical thing and fully embracing AI just plain hurts.

I'm such a (classic) Luddite. It feels like the world is collapsing around me.

And its not just "new tech bad".

I love the advances we're having in balcony solar, and cutting edge hydroponics, and non-LLM automation, and machine learning as it relates to medicine and accessibility, and meshnet communication standards and tech.

I hate surveillance tech like Palantir and Flock, just like I hated blockchain and NFTs, and Generative AI LLMs, etc.

I'm just going to core out a space in my life and find folks who do the same and try to strengthen them.

Looks like I'm going to move to OpenBSD soon though, so that's nice.

https://www.neowin.net/news/ubuntu-is-going-all-in-on-generative-ai-and-other-linux-distros-might-follow/

#solarPunk #AI #OpenBSD #Linux #Ubuntu #Canonical

@rl_dane Does this come as a surprise to you?

#Linux is more corporate than ever but it didn't happen overnight. The OS drives #BigTech and companies around the world, and now it's pretty much the de facto OS for #AI.

Linus is a millionaire not because of the community but because of Big Tech and massive corporate contributions.

If one say wanted to move a ZFS root pool from a Linux host and re-install as a root pool on a FreeBSD host, is there anything "special" that needs to be done beyond the standard export/import type tutorials out there?

I mean, beyond mounting the rpool initially from the install media and deleting everything outside of /root and /home I mean?

Backups are verified; just trying to save the time involved for rebuilding ZFS under FreeBSD (vs import) and restoring TBs of data.

Anything special or considerations about the Linux -> FreeBSD movement of the pool?

#Linux #RunBSD #ZFS #OpenZFS

If I can't trust that the #Linux kernel won't be slop-free, looks like it's time to consider #BSD for the first time in three decades or so.
Therefore, I'm going to need some input.
Advice on which BSD for desktop use.
Will I be screwed in terms of gaming (my laptop has a 5070) via Steam/wine/Proton?

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #UNIX #LazyWeb #LazyFedi

It's 2026 -- DOES YOUR HARDWARE ACCELERATED WINDOW MANAGER CAST SHADOWS ACCURATELY?? 1996 for comparison.

#psion #wayland #linux #retrocomputing

Linux creator Linus Torvalds puts foot down on anti-AI comments https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/linux-creator-linus-torvalds-puts-foot-down-on-anti-ai-comments/

#Linux #AI #OpenSource

#password and #passphrase generators are a staple in our modern world. there's many implementations in different #frameworks that will generate complex output with #entropy calculation.

i decided to build my own. i call it #gopass it's built on #golang and will have build targets for #freebsd #openbsd #linux and maybe #macos (not sure i care enough yet).

this took about 20 minutes to wire up initially with a base implementation. what's taken a couple of weeks to nail down is the ui and more so the entropy calculation which has too many deltas to be super-realistic.

anyways, like the #unix #philosophy of doing one thing very well, this tool follows that tried and true pattern.

#hack everything.

🧱 BSD PF versus Linux nftables for firewalls for us // cks

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/PFvsNftablesForUs

#nftables #pffirewall #bsd #freebsd #linux

Linus once more states that AI is just a tool:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-%3Dwi4zC%2BZe8e%2Bp3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg@mail.gmail.com/

"" #Linux [the #kernel] is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.

Or just walk away.

AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.

It may not have been that "clearly" even just a year ago, but it's no longer in question today.

There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of those questions. […]""

#LinuxKernel

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Screenshot of the linked post

Measuring input latency on Linux: X11 vs Wayland, VRR, and DXVK

https://marco-nett.de/blog/measuring-input-latency-on-linux-x11-vs-wayland-vrr-dxvk/

#linux #gaming

Apparently the Alex Jones of Linux is making his own distro.

Totally not a cult.

#Linux

I sold my daily driver linux laptop because it was getting a little long in the teeth.

I have since been using windows 11 pro laptop.

With Linux, the idea of using WIndows isn't so bad knowing I can go back to Linux as soon as I want.

Now that I have been using Windows 11 for one full week, I am really starting to get tired of it.

The reason why I have a windows laptop is because one of my clients sends me inDesign assets that I need for website work.

dual boot? #linux #windows

CIQ Ascender Pro Gives Enterprise Linux the Power to Proactively Fix the Underlying Infrastructure https://techstrong.it/featured/ciq-ascender-pro-gives-enterprise-linux-the-power-to-proactively-fix-the-underlying-infrastructure/ by @sjvn

Ascender Pro can detect issues across #Linux servers, decide what to do, & automatically apply fixes.

New #blog post arrives!

I discovered that, unlike what the documentation says, you in fact do not need GDC to bootstrap GDC.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20260713.html

#Unix #compiler #compilers #gcc #llvm #clang #gdc #d #dlang #linux #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #illumos #dmd

Debian 12.5 is the final Debian release with full 32-bit (i386) support. It will continue receiving LTS security updates until June 30, 2028.

Full details here: https://ostechnix.com/debian-12-last-full-32-bit-release/

#Debian12 #i386 #32bit #Debian13 #Trixie #Bookworm #Linux

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟳/𝟭𝟯 (Valuable News - 2026/07/13) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/07/13/valuable-news-2026-07-13/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟳/𝟭𝟯 (Valuable News - 2026/07/13) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/07/13/valuable-news-2026-07-13/

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

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

ngIRCd 28 was just released, a lightweight Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server software. Note that this release includes a *security-related* bugfix, *all* instances should upgrade! More information on our homepage (https://ngircd.barton.de), the mailing list post (https://lists.barton.de/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/ngircd@lists.barton.de/thread/GWTPFPE6UJIAGRGA7UAEKMENGWOHJ5V6/) and on the GitHub release page (https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/releases/tag/rel-28) – have fun! #ngircd #ircd #irc #unix #linux #bsd

🐧 'I'm not a programmer' anymore: Linus Torvalds on the only two tools he uses now

"I'm not very sentimental when it comes to technology," Torvalds added. "We're slightly more active in trying to drop support for hardware that literally nobody uses anymore, except in museum environments."

https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-summit-linus-torvalds/

#linux #kernel #ai #vibecoding #retrocomputing

Seems like it's been a busy week for the Alpine devs.

This weekend the repo upgrades linux-stable from 7.0.10 > 7.1.3; Plasma from 6.6.5 > 6.6.6. I'll be keeping an eye on the later. Ha.

Maybe I'll take a swipe at trying the 7800 XT (RDNA3) card in my main machine again to see if things have improved. It's too nice out to be screwing around in the lab today.

#Linux #AlpineLinux #AMDGPU

I've been running Linux since 1993 and to this day, I'm still learning. It's what I love so much about running Linux and FOSS. I can't even imagine what it would be like to be stuck running only a proprietary OS or apps.

I've also been running FreeBSD on and off for years, but that's about to change to running FreeBSD daily. Not replacing Linux, but running it along with Linux.

Sorry, just a simple appreciation post for FOSS, all the projects, and most importantly, all of the folks who devote their time to developing this wonderful software.

#foss #linux #freesoftware #bsd #freebsd

I will talk it in Taian #COSCUP 2020, 8/2 15:30〜16:00 online.
Let's enjoy to install Linux for Beginner, in English
https://coscup.org/2020/zh-TW/agenda/AL73DQ

Beginner for install Linux and *BSD in the inexpensive ARM and Intel based mobile devices in #COSCUP 2020 by @kapper1224
#linux #NetBSD #postmarketOS #Android #macbook

https://www.slideshare.net/kapper1224/beginner-for-install-linux-and-bsd-in-the-inexpensive-arm-and-intel-based-mobile-devices-in-coscup-2020

#Podman v6 is out! Particularly interesting to me: Modernised #networking (easier rootless #containers), a #REST API for #Quadlets (easier fleet management), enhanced podman machine (#applehv support, hopefully incl. #inotify support).

Make sure you're using #sqlite as a #database backend before upgrading. Upgrade to 5.8 first to migrate from #boltdb. 6.0 has dropped boltdb support, so everything will be gone if you don't migrate first.

https://blog.podman.io/2026/07/introducing-podman-v6-0-0/

https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html

#linux

Update below -

I'm looking for a #Linux replacement for #Clipy on #MacOS. It's a clipboard extension and the particular feature I'm after is the ability to save snippets of text that you can recall via keyboard shortcut and navigating your categories to find the snippet you want. Selecting the snippet inserts it where the cursor has focus.

I may be using the wrong search terms, but everything I find is just a clipboard history manager, or just does text expansion - and I can't remember a bunch of text strings to trigger my snippets.

Update: I've had better luck searching and have found three that might work:

• CopyQ
• Snyp
• Clipboard Indicator (Gnome-extension)

On to testing!

#AskFedi

@dnkl's Fuzzel launcher for #Linux has a couple video reviews on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4am_n25wOuI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXmzrarN2jk

If there's a summary from both, if might be that if you want a simple and blazing fast launcher and dmenu tool, choose Fuzzel. If you want advanced theming, stick with Rofi.

https://mark.stosberg.com/fuzzel/

As an upcycler and hardware liberator, I don't "unbox" computers; I salvage them, pick them, clean them and unwrap them. And save them with #freesoftware.

#plannedobsolescence #linux #bsd #RepairReuseRecycle

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used small form factor desktop being taken away from the bubble wrap I used to transport it safely.

Announcing ios-linuxkit: Linux on iPad, the Hard Way

I’m done waiting for Apple to fix things. And one of the things I think should exist is a decent way to run Linux binaries on my iPad.(...)

#arm64 #development #ios #ipad #ish #linux #runtime

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/05/16/1130?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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Announcing ios-linuxkit: Linux on iPad, the Hard Way

🐧 Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years

｢ Linux, meanwhile, continues its gradual rise. StatCounter’s June 2026 data puts Linux at 4.39% worldwide, one of its strongest recent showings in the company’s desktop OS statistics. While still far behind Windows, the figure keeps Linux firmly above the symbolic 4% line, which only a few years ago would have looked highly optimistic for the desktop ｣

https://linuxiac.com/windows-drops-under-60-in-global-desktop-os-share-for-the-first-time-in-years/

#windows #linux #opensource

Updated Debian Linux version 13: 13.6 has been released. If you regularly update your system using the APT you will get these updates but you may have to schedule system reboots.

https://www.debian.org/News/2026/20260711

#linux #debian #sysadmin

Btw if anyone's interested in declaratively configuring their Linux phones with Nix to avoid having to redo everything manually after flashing, system-manager works fine on postmarketOS!

Here's my Fairphone's configuration if you want something for reference: https://github.com/LuNeder/nixos-config/blob/strawberry/Luana-Fairphone6

The ensureAlpinePackages module is available in my Flake: https://github.com/LuNeder/merpkgs

#postmarketOS #Nix #Fairphone #LinuxMobile #Linux #NixOS

Does someone in the #Fedora Workstation packaging community know how to make the #Firefox updates release notes / changelogs / news show up in the appdata metainfo (or some other way for GNOME Software to show the news), like Chromium's updates?

The Firefox #Linux maintainer would welcome help on this front: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2486696

Hey people,

I recently graduated from my #SysAdmin apprenticeship and I am looking for an entry position in the field of #Linux/ #Networking Administration/Engineering or #DevOps in #NRW, #Germany (ideally around #Düsseldorf), or Remote.

As part of the apprenticeship I conducted an internship at a Neuroscience Institute of Research Centre Juelich, where I accomplished my project of automating #OpenBSD routers using #pyinfra #GitOps.

1/2

Boosts appreciated 🙏🏻

#FediJobs #FediHire #GetFediHired

```
find / -name "*FOO*txt" -ls

# match is case insensitive
find / -iname "*FOO*txt" -ls
```

will search '/', and all subdirectories, for files with 'FOO' and ending with 'txt' in the name. You don't need AI Terminal Wrapper or AI agents for this on your desktop. Stop sending data to big tech.

#linux #unix #macos

@glyph @glen_malley Maybe you are talking about this video of a trio discussing their experiment of trying Linux for a month as Windows user.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KQFgWdiudo

In the end, they were all leaning towards maximizing #Linux and minimizing Windows, and it seems part of that success was that they could use LLMs to quickly solve problems they ran into.

To me, it was a positive story making of tools making easier to switch to Linux.

I've been messing around with #Ansible again. My old #HAProxy setup was way too clunky when it came to managing #TLS certificates. With my new playbook, all domain names in my inventory file get TLS certs automatically provisioned and primed for automatic renewal.
https://oxcrag.net/blog/2026/07/08/New-reverse-proxy.html

Repo: https://git.oxcrag.net/blog-repos/haproxy-with-acme

#HomeLab #Ubuntu #Linux #GitOps #ConfigAsCode

I finally published the CWM configuration I use on Slackware-current as a practical example of that approach.

The repository keeps CWM focused on window management, while sxhkd, small shell scripts, and shared .xinitrc components provide a portable desktop workflow that can be reused across different WMs.

Repository:
https://git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/cwm-config

Background:
https://r1w1s1.srht.site/posts/window-manager-agnostic-workflows/

#OpenBSD #Slackware #Linux #X11 #cwm #Unix

Some of our #OpenBSD anti-ROP #research ended up on lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/xclcel/final_return_for_openbsd_anti_return

#BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #Linux #Unix #Illumos #compiler #compilers #GCC #LLVM #Clang

Sharing for lulz 🤣 #linux #vim #unix

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In this meme we see an elderly veteran in a dress uniform looking emotional and on the verge of tears, with the text that reads: "Me, having fought in the Vim–Emacs wars, seeing juniors vibe-code in Cursor”.

Linux ported to the Atari Jaguar

Only a few days ago we had Linux on the Mega Drive, and someone took that as a challenge, so now we have Linux on the Atari Jaguar. The Jaguar has a very different architecture than the Mega Drive, but does happen to use a processor from the same 68000-family.

Interestingly enough, to this day, Linux has architecture code for the 68000-family of processors. 68040, 6803

https://www.osnews.com/story/145467/linux-ported-to-the-atari-jaguar/

#Linux

#Linux Kernel 7.1.x line finally landed in #Debian #Sid \,,/