So I've been using Shotwell as my photo organizer for many years. But it's old, creaky and only barely supported.

What should I use instead? What do you use? I need:

* Photo management (sorting, ranking, deleting)

* Handles 10k+ images fine

* edit with external editor (gimp)

* RAW support

* Runs locally on Linux

* Ideally, import from camera

* Ideally, export to Flickr

* Ideally, a way to export from shotwell/import to the new organizer

Any ideas?

#fedihelp #photography #linux

@paul

There's also the part where you discover the Linux Documentation Project and the joy of doco that is convincing but a quarter century or more out of date when you check all of the version numbers of the stuff that it tells you about. (-:

@rl_dane
#Linux #LinuxDocumentationProject

sh
rlwrap ed

Arrow keys, command history, Ctrl-R search, and readline editing for programs that never had those features.

One of those small Unix tools that's easy to overlook.

#unix #linux #ed #commandline

xterm.vt100.translations: #override \
    Ctrl Shift <Key> equal: larger-vt-font() \n\
    Ctrl <Key> minus: smaller-vt-font() \n\
    Ctrl <Key> 0: set-vt-font(d) \n\
    Ctrl Shift <Key> C: copy-selection(CLIPBOARD) \n\
    Ctrl Shift <Key> V: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD)

xterm(1) on #Linux or #BSD doesn’t support easy font resize and CUA copy-paste? uhh.

Unix is a long-standing family of stable, multiuser, multitasking operating systems known for its command-line power and clean design. “Unix-based” means an OS directly descends from Unix code or certified Unix lineage

Here are known Unix-based OS 😎👇 Some are discontinued, while others are still active, especially in the BSD family

Find high-res pdf ebooks with all my #technology related infographics from https://study-notes.org

#linux #unix #freebsd #operatingsystem #computerscience

Hello Fediverse,

I'm happy to announce our very own Mastodon instance called "FediBlue", a new friendly place in the Fediverse for all people that are interested in free and open source software, especially Linux, BSD and illumos.

FediBlue is part of our ongoing effort to strengthen the FOSS community by publishing content about it and help projects gaining visibility in a time where many companies try to force their services on users, train AIs with people's data and collect as many data as they could.

Alongside the wonderful BSD Cafe community, where I'm also at, FediBlue should provide another very friendly and welcoming place in the Fediverse. In the next days, the Dark Blue Project presence will move completely to FediBlue.

https://mastodon.fediblue.de

#mastodon #opensource #freesoftware #linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #illumos #darkblueproject #fediblue

How to add things such as wget and apt to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS in Linuxulator on FreeBSD?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1tz7dln/how_to_add_things_such_as_wget_and_apt_to_ubuntu/

What's the easiest way to install apt, in the absence of wget?

Alternatively: what's the easiest way to install wget, in the absence of apt?

#FreeBSD #apt #Linux #Linuxulator #Ubuntu

The NetBSD 🚩 Foundation wrapped up its 2026 AGM! 🚀 Quick recap of milestones & future plans:
📦 NetBSD-11 (RC4) is on the horizon.
🌳 The massive migration from CVS to Git/Mercurial is officially complete!
🎓 #GSoC2026: 5 students onboarded (working on Wi-Fi stack upgrades, porting the #Enlightenment desktop @E , and more).
🛡️ Security: Onboarding as a MITRE CNA, preparing for the EU CRA, and enforcing "Anti-Slop" (no unreviewed AI code) protocols.
🔬 Long-term: Long-term plans to use formal verification tools, with Core open to funding active code audits.

Full log: https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/annual_general_meeting_2026

#NetBSD #OpenSource #RunBSD #GSoC #Security #Linux #antiaislop #FormalVerifcation

I'ts been a fairly long time since i've used this acc but one of my friends told me I should promote a project i've been working on, so... yeah!

I wrote a 3ds homebrew that boots a full linux environment in a risc v emulator in a few c files and only aboout ~170kb of code including all of the builtin nonessential example stuff like a js environment, fizzbuzz, cli doom, and more.

it's called 3DS-CLI, and it can be installed from universal updater or built from source and manually installed, and it's all open source cause free software is awesome!

https://github.com/cmdada/3ds-cli

please interact with the github repo if you like it!

#RISCV #3ds #Homebrew #Linux #Emulation

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3ds-cli running on a red new nintendo 3ds xl listing files and having booted linux

Don't tell me you think #Linux #Documentation is adequate.

Go install CachyOS and somehow manage to change both the console font in Limine, and upon bootup, and then tell me the documentation is adequate.

I give up. I'll just squint while logging in. You'd think stuff would be smart enough to say "Gee, the screen is 1080p, maybe let's not use an 8x16 console font. 🤦‍♂️

California lawmakers are considering exempting Linux and other open-source operating systems from the Digital Age Assurance Act after backlash over OS-level age verification requirements 🏛️
Amendment could exempt major Linux distros, while proprietary platforms like SteamOS may still be covered 🐧

🔗 https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-moves-to-exempt-linux-from-its-upcoming-age-verification-law-after-backlash-over-forcing-operating-systems-to-collect-users-ages-amendment-proposed-by-the-same-lawmaker-who-wrote-the-original-law

#TechNews #Linux #OpenSource #Privacy #AgeVerification #California #SteamOS #Debian #Ubuntu #Fedora #ArchLinux #DigitalRights #FOSS #OperatingSystems #California #Bill #Law

Did you know - you can also grab free #Linux based VPS now!

We took your feedback seriously and instead of breaking the philosophy at #BoxyBSD, @gyptazy crafted the @BoxedTux project with the same spirit and philosophy.

Free Linux based instances for learning, testing and educational content. Supporting #Debian, #Ubuntu, #Fedora, #RockyLinux, #Devuan, #Suse and many more ones!

#BoxedTux is also powered by @gyptazy to support the community and beginners just focussing more on Linux based systems. No worries, #BoxyBSD remains as it is!

Website: https://boxedtux.com
Demo (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FEv3ANz5hc

#virtualization #community #education #learning #freevps #support #devops #bgp #dn42

Have you already enrolled on the Chat Mail service of BSD Café?

## No?

Go read enroll, have fun!

I've already enrolled / applied

Compliments of @stefano who did a massive amount of work to make this a full BSD experience from the server side.

This Café also runs in a BSD Jail

https://chatmail.bsd.cafe/index.html

#BSD #Café #Chat #Mail #service #programming #Linux #no #OpenSource #POSIX #fun #UniversalLove

@stefano
@jana

Thank you Jana for this great talk and introduction to FreeBSD.

#GPN24

#Linux #BSD #FreeBSD #RunBSD #Linux #OpenSOurce

Hello, BSD and Linux friends!

Don't miss @jana 's great presentation later today: "How is FreeBSD different from Linux, what does it do well and why should I care?"

The live stream can be found here: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/gpn24/vortragssaal

The recording will be available afterwards in: https://media.ccc.de/c/gpn24

https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn24/talk/ZSNZ89/

#Linux #BSD #FreeBSD #RunBSD #Linux #OpenSOurce

@david_chisnall

2025 Schleswig-Holstein switched to Open Xchange, Thunderbird, LibreOffice and Nextcloud

2026 Schleswig-Holstein started to switch from windows to Linux 💪

#SchleswigHolstein #openxchange #Thunderbird #LibreOffice #linux

OK ... #Linux help needed.

I'm trying to update my 20.04 machine to 22.04, thence to 24.04. I've run:

$ apt update
$ apt upgrade

But I'm getting :

E: The repository 'https://repo.skype.com/deb stable Release' no longer has a Release file.

N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.

Then when I try:

$ do-release-upgrade

I get:

Checking for a new Ubuntu release

Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading.

Help?

Should I somehow work to expunge all knowledge of skype (and I'd be more than happy to do that) or should I somehow force the upgrade?

TIA

Wondering if anyone knows of any good active virtual tech meetups? Like zoom calls, or maybe discord voice etc.. Anything related to #programming, #linux, etc. etc. I'm open to hearing about any and all. They seem hard to find..

🍁 Linux Association of Canada launches a national open-source library to support digital sovereignty. Read more: https://betakit.com/linux-association-of-canada-launches-national-open-source-library/ via @sarahcrgr
https://betakit.com/linux-association-of-canada-launches-national-open-source-library/ #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #Canada #Linux

This World Environment Day, combat e-waste by recycling your old tech with #NetBSD. Don't let planned obsolescence dictate your hardware's lifespan. Give that old machine a second life as a rock-solid firewall, file server, or lightweight workstation. 🖥️🌱
#WorldEnvironmentDay #NetBSD #RunBSD #RetroComputing #EcoFriendly #FOSS #Linux

Is there any good Linux (no Android) tablet out there? Sadly Fairphone doesn't offer one.

#linux #tablet

A hard line "I don't use anything with LLM generated code" stance will be difficult to maintain if you are a Linux user.

#Linux #LLM #AI

@rl_dane @ianthetechie and *raw* mobile #linux is nowhere near ready for primetime

J'ai #besoindevous dans le cadre du DU de Médiation de Lyon 2, je souhaiterais faire mon mémoire sur l’intérêt (ou pas) de la médiation pour favoriser le règlement des conflits dans le monde des logiciels libres

Je cherche une communauté francophone (de préférence)

1/ pour observer le fonctionnement et l’éventuelle existence de personnes jouant le rôle de médiateurices (rust conseillé sans le côté francophone 😅)

OU

2/ qui fait face à la prédation de sa production et qui a ou envisage de mettre en place une médiation pour faire évoluer la situation

Le rend les gens responsables et libres 🙃

#opensource #linux

Just...no

root@debhost:~# mount -o remount /
mount: (hint) your fstab has been modified, but systemd still uses
the old version; use 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload.
root@debhost:~# systemctl daemon-reload
root@debhost:~# mount -o remount /
root@debhost:~#

#Linux #systemd #IT #SysAdmin

I should actually force myself to remember that

inotifywait --event modify --monitor ~/.config/ --recursive

Lets me catch exactly what config file is changed when I toggle anything in the settings...

#Linux

#linux #gcc #clang #c #cpp #poll 1) do you have a program called "a.out" in your home folder, and if so 2) do you remember what it was

#Vim carnival this month: "The motion that changed everything".

Write about it on your #blog, and send me a link that I will add to this post

#editor #neovim #terminal #shell #opensource #linux #BSD #mastodon #fediverse
https://lazybea.rs/vim-carnival-202606

Which Linux distros have officially taken a stand against AI in their OS?

#Linux #NoAI

The most annoying part of systemd?

"A start/stop job is running.... blah.. blah..." and wait for who knows how long in spite of what is on the screen.

I can _tolerate_ a lot but this type of thing getting in my way really pisses me off.

#Linux #systemd

War, climate among high priority topics at Davos meeting

#comic #unix_surrealism #linux #art #mastoart #computers #bash #dillo #lgbt

Alt...

FUNHOLE CONTENT REVIEW CUM PUBLISHING YOU WILL FUCK COMPUTERS AND YOU WILL LIKE IT --- LINUX --- 'How girls take it when they are alone' sudo rm -rofl am i rite xd actually, ai in the kernel is natural and prevents prostate cancer gay? 6 desktop environments you must try! people exist :-( colorado support group one free session is dillo fatphobic? [deep dive]

Poor man's calc (more like bc wrapper):
```
calc ()
{
echo "$@" | tr -d ',₹' | bc -l
}
```

The `tr -d ',₹'` used to remove unwanted stuff that i often copy from emails or pdf and then pass everything to the bc for actual calculations.

#unix #linux #tips #tricks

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My bash terminal window displaying a Linux or Unix CLI. The command `type -a calc` to display the definition of a bash function named calc, which removes commas and the other symbol from input before passing it to the bc calculator tool. Finally, I demonstrates the function by running calc '10,000.5+₹5000', resulting in the output 15000.5.

@thomasfuchs Aaaand AMD already has unified memory for x86.
Could be a good chip to run #linux though

On #Linux, I had been using Sway, but moved on to try Swayfx, Scroll, Niri, Hyprland and even a couple tiling solutions for Gnome and now I'm back on Swaywm.

I'll give some quick thoughts on each:

- Swayx: Great incremental improvement to Sway with rounded corners and drop shadows. If better supported on Ubuntu (work requirement), maybe I'll return.
- Niri. Nice scroller. Missing left/right alignment. 🧵

I know it's not FreeDOS but I wanted to share a cool project from an intern I mentored.

This book is an introduction to Linux for readers who are just getting started with Linux. 🐧 It has lots of info about #Linux commands, apps, and desktops.

Download a free PDF of the book, or buy a print version:

https://www.both.org/?p=14228

You don’t love systemd timers enough

My favorite metonymic technology term is "cron job": even though cron may not literally be the daemon that executes actions on a schedule, we apply the term to anything that walks like a cron and quacks like a cron. As Patrick McKenzie likes to point out, cron jobs are one of the most eminently useful computing primitives. They offer utility that's almost immediat

https://www.osnews.com/story/145175/you-dont-love-systemd-timers-enough/

#Linux

Dreißig Jahre KDE

...und alles begann mit einem genervten Studenten.

1996 hatte Matthias Ettrich genug von der Zerklüftung der Unix-Desktops, auf denen jedes Programm anders aussah und sich anders bedienen ließ. Seine Idee war eine einheitliche, freundliche Oberfläche für ganz normale Menschen, nicht nur für Profis. Er nannte sie Kool Desktop Environment, kurz KDE, ein kleiner Seitenhieb auf das damals verbreitete kommerzielle CDE. Gebaut wurde das Ganze mit C++ und dem ein Jahr zuvor von der norwegischen Firma Troll Tech entwickelten Framework Qt, das bis heute das technische Fundament von KDE bildet.

Auffällig viel davon ist in Deutschland passiert. 1997 trafen sich rund fünfzehn Entwickler in Arnsberg zur allerersten KDE-Konferenz, die später als KDE One in die Geschichte einging. Im selben Jahr wurde in Tübingen der KDE e.V. gegründet, der das Projekt bis heute rechtlich und finanziell trägt. Schon 1998 erschien die erste stabile Version, und 1999 zog ein kleiner Drache namens Konqi als Maskottchen ein, der uns bis heute erhalten geblieben ist.

Von da an ging es Schlag auf Schlag. KDE 2 brachte im Jahr 2000 den Browser und Dateimanager Konqueror, KDE 3 folgte 2002, und KDE 4 baute 2008 mit Plasma, Dolphin und Okular eine ganz neue Welt. 2014 kam Plasma 5, 2024 dann die große MegaRelease mit Plasma 6 und dem Umstieg auf Wayland. 2025 hat das Projekt sogar eine eigene Distribution namens KDE Linux aus der Taufe gehoben.

Zwei Dinge mag ich an dieser Geschichte besonders. Erstens: KDEs Web-Engine KHTML wurde Ende der Neunziger zur Grundlage von Apples WebKit und später Googles Blink. Heute laufen Chrome, Edge, Safari, Opera, Vivaldi und Brave im Kern auf KDE-Erbe, und in fast jeder Zeile deiner Server-Logs steht bis heute KHTML. Zweitens: KDE hat es bis in die Raumfahrt geschafft. In der Doku Good Night Oppy sieht man einen NASA-Ingenieur, der während des Flugs zum Mars an einer KDE-3-Workstation arbeitet.

Und ganz nebenbei steckt KDE Plasma seit 2021 auch im Steam Deck von Valve, also in einem der meistverkauften Handhelds der letzten Jahre.

Dreißig Jahre freie Software, getragen von einer Gemeinschaft, die Kontrolle, Datenschutz und digitale Selbstbestimmung in den Mittelpunkt stellt. Herzlichen Glückwunsch, KDE.

https://kde.org/de/anniversaries/30/

#KDE #KDE30 #FreieSoftware #OpenSource #freesoftware #Linux #Plasma #gnu #linux #gnulinux

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟲/𝟬𝟭 (Valuable News - 2026/06/01) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/valuable-news-2026-06-01/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟲/𝟬𝟭 (Valuable News - 2026/06/01) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/valuable-news-2026-06-01/

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

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

#fedihelp
Gibt es eine (sinnvolle) Möglichkeit den USB-Videograbber "VGB300" von August unter Linux zum laufen zu kriegen? lsusb zeigt mir den nicht an.
Wenn nicht, was ist da sinnvoll? Ich habe eine Composite/BAS Videoquelle die ich gerne einbinden möchte.
#linux #video #c3voc

After being hosed by #btrfs on #linux 7.0.1, the #atomdrift postgresql master database is on #OmniOS & #ZFS

It's good to be back, even if I'm rusty in Solaris-based environments.

Episode 19 of Dark Blue Weekly released

https://darkblueproject.com/sites/news/dbw-e19.php

#darkblueweekly #darkblueproject #nixos #sway #labwc #cosmicdesktop #system76 #linux #opensource #freesoftware #linuxdesktop

I sometimes wonder if the difference between #Linux users and other computer users is simply that linux people are more fascinated with the OS and less concerned about actually doing anything useful with an app/program…

The store was all out of Debian KDE but they did have this…

#linux #dadjokes

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“Red Hat Gnome”

Anyone had success running Distrobox (Debian/Ubuntu vm) under Alpine Linux to get Blender with Cycles/HIP support working on an Alpine host? Something I gotta try...

#Linux #Alpine #AlpineLinux #Blender #ROCm #AMD #HIP #Distrobox #Podman #Docker