When you have workflows like mine it's unreasonable to have dozens of slow usb sticks ready to dd distributions on. It's cumbersome to index / manage so many slow devices. USB sticks also live much shorter than 2.5" SSD's here. I've had some working for years (mostly reads) And some fail in weeks after many writes, for me unreliable storage devices

Ventoy has become a vital tool ISO mangagement and booting for me, since I can dump bootable ISO''s of most OS's on SATA SSD's, structure the ISO's in logical directory flows and have a librarian oversight of them

I can mount the SSD via an USB3 tray and thus move hundreds of ISO's around without a fuzz. I use 2.5" SATA SSD's because they are large enough in physical dimensions to be handled easily and I can write and ID on them with a marker. They can also live for years of R/W operations without failing.

Ventoy can easily boot a variety ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI of OS's which are of various origin.
>> Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files

When a ISO++ fails to boot, you need to make the coder(s) of Ventoy aware of it, and chances are that in the next update, scripts have been finetuned so Ventoy can handle that family of files also.

Ventoy is easy to use update run & maintain for the end user.

Try Ventoy

https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

#Ventoy #ISO #Linux #BSD #VHD #IMG #EFI #Linux #OpenSource #BOOT #POST

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A massive list of 1352 tested images is displayed!

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I miss when buying technology meant you actually owned it. Now...

❌ Your car needs a subscription for heated seats.
❌ Your printer won't print black text because you're out of Cyan.
❌ Your OS serves you ads in the start menu.
❌ Your "Smart" home stops working if the company goes bankrupt.

I don't need more AI features. I need "dumb" tech that just does what it’s told and lasts for 10 years. But where's the share holder value in that right?

#RightToRepair #techbros #enshittification #privacy #technology #noai #electronics #linux #capitalism #windows #Firefox #writing #books #art

While many linux distros are agnostic on LLM generated code; unsure they ought to be dictating the dev tools contributors use; or even developing policies on how to incorporate it into their projects responsibly.

Gentoo and ElementaryOS have banned LLM code from their project code entirely. (Though they can do nothing about upstream projects they consume.)

NetBSD has instituted a policy barring any LLM generated code from the entirety of its base system.

AND FreeBSD's draft policy appears to be similar.

The bans on LLM generated code...

#linux #bsd #netbsd #freebsd #gentoo #elementaryOS #floss #stochasticparrots #llm #ai #eliza

＂… Nearly two dozen different Windows-like UIs represents a titanic waste of programmer effort, skill, and time. Hundreds, maybe thousands of people, working hard for decades… but all on different projects, meaning that none of them achieve greatness. …＂

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/deduplicating_the_desktops/ @lproven

(I thought I boosted this seven weeks ago. Mind playing tricks on me. It's one of a few things on my ridiculously long reading list that I actually do keep revisiting. I don't know what to think. I'm reading it in overlapping chunks.)

#desktop #Lumina #Windows #KDE #Plasma #Trinity #GNOME #MATE #Xfce #LXDE #Cinnamon #Budgie #LXQt #Deepin #Enlightenment #Equinox #IceWM #JWM #GNU #FOSS #Linux

While many linux distros are agnostic on LLM generated code; unsure they ought to be dictating the dev tools contributors use; or even developing policies on how to incorporate it into their projects responsibly.

Gentoo and ElementaryOS have banned LLM code from their project code entirely. (Though they can do nothing about upstream projects they consume.)

NetBSD has instituted a policy barring any LLM generated code from the entirety of its base system.

AND FreeBSD's draft policy appears to be similar.

#linux #bsd #netbsd #freebsd #gentoo #elementaryOS #floss #stochasticparrots #llm #ai #eliza

The bans on LLM generated code...

While many linux distros are agnostic on LLM generated code; unsure they ought to be dictating the dev code contributors use; or even developing policies on how to incorporate it into their projects responsibly.

Gentoo and ElementaryOS have banned LLM code from their project code entirely. (Though they can do nothing about upstream projects they consume.)

NetBSD has instituted a policy barring any LLM generated code from the entirety of its base system.

AND FreeBSD's draft policy appears to be similar.

#linux #bsd #netbsd #freebsd #gentoo #elementaryOS #floss #stochasticparrots #llm #ai #eliza

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#TIL `ack` is way faster when `grep --recursive`:

```$ time bash -c 'ack dbw32.a | wc -l'
21
bash -c 'ack dbw32.a | wc -l' 0.25s user 0.49s system 98% cpu 0.750 total
```

vs

```
$ time bash -c 'grep --recursive dbw32.a . | wc -l'
22
bash -c 'grep --recursive dbw32.a . | wc -l' 2.39s user 0.62s system 99% cpu 3.023 total```

... because `ack` does not `grep` (!!!) binary files:

```$ grep --recursive dbw32.a .
[...]
Binary file ./.git/index matches```

#Linux

The current draft linux kernel policy allows LLM generated code into the linux kernel as long as the commit is documented as such.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-AI-Guidelines-v3

#linux #floss #stochasticparrots #llm #ai #eliza

If finalized and llm generated code is regularly introduced into the kernel....

#NetBSD 10.1 toimi #RaspberryPi2B:ssä kuin täi tervassa. Pelkästään asetustiedoston muokkaamiseen meinasivat mennä hermot, kun kohdistin laahaa sekuntikaupalla näppäinpainallusten perässä. Seuraavaksi kokeiluun #AlpineLinux 3.23.2. #floss #bsd #linux #atkjuttuja

Suuri kokeilupäivä! Kaksi #RaspberryPi'ta, 2B+ (#armv7) ja 4 (#aarch64). Kolme kokeiltavaa järjestelmää, #AlpineLinux 3.23, #FreeBSD 15.0 ja #NetBSD 10.0 (vain uudempaan RasPiin). Tästä tulee hauskaa. #floss #linux #bsd #atkjuttuja

dirty dozen

#japanese_jesus #unix_surrealism #linux #gentoo #openbsd #fish #mnt #thinkpad #ibm #darts #pool

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the twelve apostles and japanese jesus in a milkbar

Hab mir überlegt, das Problem nicht-Windows-11-kompatibler PC dadurch anzugehen, auf einem alten Laptop mal #Linux zu installieren, um zu schauen, ob ich damit klarkommen könnte. Kennt jemand Hashtags oder Accounts, denen ich als Linux-Lernende (zum Lernen, basale Infos,...) folgen könnte?

I need RHEL+Podman for something. But I also really really like ZFS, that I use on my #FreeBSD systems ...

RHEL 9.7 on a ZFS root 😀

Note: This is ENTIRELY unsupported and shouldn't be done in a production environment (seriously!) 🤡 😆

#linux #rhel #redhat #zfs #openzfs #unsupported #sysadmin

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Screenshot showing neofetch and a RHEL 9.7 system, that is running on a ZFS root

Dit you spot it? @vermaden has released a LVN. It could be the last one of 2025, so go read learn

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/valuable-news-2025-12-29/

#Technology #news #BSD #freeBSD #OpenBSD #netBSD #linux #unix #ZFS #opnSense #ghostBSD #solaris #vermadenday

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟭𝟮/𝟮𝟵 (Valuable News - 2025/12/29) available.

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟭𝟮/𝟮𝟵 (Valuable News - 2025/12/29) available.

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

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

Great update

Bash Static Site Generator

Stefano coded an important update

#Programming #OpenSource #HTML #site #generator #BSD #freeBSD #Linux #ghostBSD

https://blog.bssg.dragas.net/2025/12/28/announcing-bssd-0-33-0-full-content-homepage/

Content, j'étais coincé par #Wine 10 qui ne voulait plus faire marcher #twonotes #genome sur ma bécane. Bon j'ai un copain (claude) qui m'a recrée un plugin qui marche :)
https://pablopernot.fr/renard-audio/index.html

pour ceux qui veulent : #linux #wine #twonotes #genome

New 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘀 [Scripts Stats] article on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/scripts-stats/

#verblog #freebsd #linux #scripts #shell #stats #unix

@rl_dane I empathize completely. #Documentation is one area where #Linux falls behind #FreeBSD by several orders of magnitude.

I love #Debian. It's my favorite OS but oh my gods the documentation is, at best, an afterthought. And yes, other distros are not that much better.

It's actually *the* reason why I've been using FreeBSD more and taking the time to learn it.

Troubleshooting on #Linux:

You try something new, and it probably works without having to do anything.
If it doesn't work, you enter into an eldritch horror of complexity and incomplete/conflicting documentation. You give up and just hope that the next version of Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora handles "X" automatically, because you just can't be arsed anymore.

Troubleshooting on #FreeBSD:

You try something new, and it probably doesn't work out of the box.
You fire up the handbook PDF, read through the two pages of pertinent documentation, install a pkg or two, tweak a config file, and bob's your uncle.

Linux bretheren, it need not be like this. It didn't use to be like this. We used to have documentation. HOWTOs. Now they're all obsolete because of needless drastic changes, politics, and empire-building.

*sigh*

I love using Debian. I think it is so interesting that so many distros have been or currently are based on Debian. While I prefer vanillia Debian, I wanted to list all of the Debian based distros (non-Ubuntu) I know of and categorize them based on what makes them unique.

Ease of use:

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) - Default for Windows refugees.
MX Linux - MXTools is cool.
Deepin - Beautiful, preconfigured DE.
Peppermint_OS – Lightweight, cloud integrated
Neptune - Polished KDE Plasma on stable Debian w/newer kernels.

Modern/Atomic (New Technologies):

Vanilla OS - Immutable, atomic updates, ability to run apps from Fedora/Arch via Apx. Friendly to new users.
blendOS - Atomic like Vanilla, lets you choose KDE or XFCE
Nitrux - Immutable, no systemd (OpenRC), heavy reliance on AppImage

Performance and/or Old Hardware:

Siduction - Based on Debian Sid. Rolling release, newest kernels.
CrunchBang++ (#!++) - Minimalist, Debian + Openbox, continuation of original Crunchbang.
antiX - No systemd, runs on a toaster (256MB RAM)
Sparky Linux - Debian testing w/better support for drivers/gaming.
BunsenLabs - minimalist OpenBox
Elive - Enlightenment desktop, high-end looks for 20 year old hardware.
Window Maker Live - NeXTSTEP look, fast, polished, and based on Debian 13.
Puppy LInux - Debian based Puppy runs entirely in RAM for speed.
PikaOS - Based on Sid, high performances kernel and gaming optimizations.

Multimedia/Creative:

AV Linux (MX Edition) – Preconfigured w/low-latency kernel for audio production.
Neptune OS – Polished KDE with excellent media support.

Toolbox Distros:

Kali Linux / Parrot OS - Penetration tools preloaded, think hackerman.
Tails - Anonymity, amnesic, no trace
Whonix – Highly secure via dual-VM setup.
Proxmox VE - Server, machine host for VMs
TrueNAS SCALE - NAS, built for ZFS storage and applications.
OpenMediaVault – Turn old hardware into a NAS
Grml/Finnix/Knoppix - The "oh shit" buttons
Raspberry Pi OS - built for Pi's
VyOS – Router OS
BashCore - Ultra minimalist, stealth, CLI focused, live environment, zero branding.
Slax - Modular, tiny, runs from a USB stick.

Mobile Distros:

Mobian - Debian for mobile phones and tablets.
Droidian - Designed to runon standard Android hardware.
FuriOS - Another mobile Debian, by FuriLabs
LuneOS - Spiritual successor to webOS, for people nostalgic for card-based multitasking.

Protest Distros:

Devuan - dislike for systemd
PureOS – FSF endorsed, 100% free software, privacy-focused

Global & Educational:

Endless OS – Designed for developing world for offline content.
Emmabuntüs – Reviving donated PCs for schools in Africa.

You could also consider Debian Pureblends, like Debian Med and Debian Edu.

Did I miss any? Please let me know, I will edit the list. Thank you!

#Debian #GNULinux #GNU #Linux #Privacy #SysAdmin #Tech #OpenSource #LMDE #LinuxMint #Mint #MXLinux #Deepin #PeppermintOS #antiX #SparkyLinux #BunsenLabs #Elive #AVLinux #NeptuneOS #KaliLinux #Kali #Tails #Whonix #Proxmox #OpenMediaVault #GRML #FINNIX #Knoppix #RaspberryPi #Pi #VyOS #Devuan #PureOS #Nitrux #EndlessOS #Emmabuntüs #Siduction #Bashcore #VanillaOS #TrueNAS #TrueNASScale #WindowMakerLive #Neptune #blendOS #crunchbang #Mobian #Droidian #FuriOS #LuneOS #Slax

The #Linux and #OpenSource News train doesn't stop just because I'm on vacation, so here is this week's News video, the last video for 2025! Happy New Year to everyone, and see you next year!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlz6xAk85hY

Recently GNOME decided to move away from supporting non-systemd distros for a number of reasons and today we have the developer who wanted to see if they could bring it back in a more maintainable way. #Linux

Video: https://youtu.be/mxhAfN_d01I

Audio: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/tech-over-tea/episodes/Bringing-GNOME-Back-To-Non-Systemd-Distros--Swagtoy-e3cq0l3

@YaLTeR Congratulations on the #Linux Wayland compositor #Niri surpassing Sway in Github stars.

Sway is great and continues a steady growth trend, while Niri is a welcome alternative!

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/blob/main/README.md

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Screenshot of Github Star counts showing Niri surpassing Sway. Hyperland has about double of either one.

Had a genuinely uplifting moment today. A friend’s 10 year old lit up when I mentioned Raspberry Pi. She explained Linux, hosting, and coding because they learn it at school.

We spent an hour talking self hosting and projects. She now wants a Pi for her birthday so we can learn together. Moments like this give me real hope for the future.

#Linux #RaspberryPi #SelfHosting #DigitalSkills #Hope

Distracted by a #Linux magazine.

Linux tip: `lsof -i :8080` shows which process is using port 8080. Essential when you get "port already in use" errors during development or when troubleshooting service conflicts. #Linux #SystemAdministration

Hi all! To anyone within reach who has citizenship in either #Netherlands or #Belgium, Red Hat is hiring a consulting architect to work in the #BeNeLux team: https://redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/jobs/job/Amsterdam---MSO/Cloud-Architect_R-051782-2?a=9696868b09c64d52a62ee13b052383cc&a=a04ea128f43a42e59b1e6a19e8f0b374

#FediHire #GetFediHired #Kubernetes #Linux #OpenSource #Job #Jobs

Reach out to me before applying and I can see about making a referral which will improve your chances!

My 92 year old aunt: You do the Leenux thing, right? You need to come over sometime and install it for me, because f#ck all I ain't gonna update to Windows 11.

Me: .... ?!#!?

I explain what the change-over entails and that I generally don't recommend it just because...

Aunt: No, f#ck that, f#ck capitalism, my laptop is still fine, so come over and set me up with that Leenux thing.

#Linux #christmas

After 2 months and ~300 builds, I've finally packaged CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) for Debian - resolving a 7-year-old ITP (#915400).

This also enabled packaging stremio-gtk, the new GTK4 Stremio client.

58 patches to build Chromium without Google infrastructure. Technical deep-dive: https://vejeta.com/packaging-stremios-gtk4-shell-cef-integration-adventures/

Packages available for testing at https://debian.vejeta.com

#Debian #Linux #FreeSoftware #Packaging #CEF #Chromium #FOSS

OpenMediaVault 8 "Synchrony" released, based on Debian 13, with WPA3 authentication support for wireless networks, linux-cpupower instead of cpufrequtils, and several improvements

https://www.openmediavault.org/?p=4002

#openmediavault #debian #debiantrixie #linux

PSA: Wenn ihr Tiptoi Stifte von Ravensburger geschenkt bekommt: Man braucht den Software Manager nicht installieren. Man kann die Audiofiles auch manuell von der Website laden und die einfach via USB auf den Stift schieben:

https://service.ravensburger.de/tiptoi%C2%AE/tiptoi%C2%AE_Audiodateien

Das wird in der mitgelieferten Anleitung nicht beschrieben, aber die Website bietet das direkt als Option an! Ist vorallem gut zu wissen für alle Linux Nutzenden.

#spielzeug #tiptoi #software #manuell #download #audio #geschenk #weihnachten #linux

#linux #meme

@thomasfricke @hateaid

Get
Off
American
Software.

Install linux on everything. Hire thousands to help transition.

No google, no Microsoft, no apple, no Photoshop, no adobe, no Windows, no 365, no AWS, no cloud.

#eu #linux

Eine Frage an die „Linux-Super-User“:

Wie macht ihr das mit all den Terminal-Befehlen, die ihr immer wieder mal braucht? Schreibt ihr euch die Finger wund oder habt ihr eine Art „Befehls-Datenbank/-Ablage“ für alles was mehr zu schreiben gibt?
Oder seid ihr die ganze Zeit am copy-pasten?

Danke für eure Antworten.

#Linux #Terminal #Commands #fedihelp #AskFedi

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all the #Linux #BSD and #FOSS folks out there! 🎄 🎅

Eh, pls #boost my request to #getfedihired, if you could spare two clicks? 🥺

I've been humming and hawing about posting this, it feels strange, something about generational guilt & working class shame & ... but it's either this or start putting my CV through LLMs to include every buzzword on the listing I'm applying to. I haven't been able to stomach that, even though I presume that's a lot of my competition.

I simply can't get to an interview. Historically, I've done three interviews and got the job each time, because I'm a real human being who is friendly and chatty and presents himself sincerely (or, that's my guess, anyway).

#Christmas miracles appreciated!

In #Ireland with my partner, but we've lived in different places and would move happily. I've a year experience doing an IT support role the last year, but have transitioned to this stuff later than usual.

Before I've done: bartender; bicycle courier for Deliveroo in #Berlin for two years (best job ever); private tutor for five years in #Lyon (mostly piano but also maths, Irish, English, flute, tin whistle); bookies clerk for a short period; a few other odd bits - one highlight was writing reviews for a theatre company.

Oh, very comfortably fluent in #French, pretty fluent in #Irish (my first love), and intermediate #German (which I would love to have a chance to go back speaking and learning).

Tech-wise, it's been mostly on the #Linux / #Emacs / #Lisp side of things. I would happily work on anything that is one or more of challenging, interesting, useful, or moral.

Money doesn't rule me. I want to live with a humane level of comfort, that's all.

CVs and references available, DMs open. Thanks so much for any and all help!

SysVinit vs systemd on #Debian #Linux 13 Trixie. #ThinkPad T480. It's a default install with KDE Plasma.

Massive respect to his efforts so far. 🙏

#linux #linustorvalds

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115767245843883385

this is going to destroy so many systems built on MSWindows that if you are a CTO and not making contingencies to freeze further development on that OS & chart a path to migrate out to #Linux, then why are you even in that job.

Microsoft is gonna use an autocorrect on amphetamines to rewrite their O/S? this is absolute madness.

may they go down in flames but not before y’all moved out of their poisoned ecosystem.

Any tips for improving color fidelity when #printing using #cups on #Linux? I use a #Brother printer (of course), and usually only print B&W, but I have a need to print color flyers and my greens look blue. I don't expect perfect output on this (my model isn't made for that), but I expect better than this.
Yes, my Yellow ink is on the low side, but it hasn't run out.

Please #boost !