"Linux terminal for beginners"

#gnu #linux #gnulinux #cat #head #tail #humor

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So far for June's carnival, I got only ... @rl_dane 😔

Any #vim #neovim user that would like to write about it?

#opensource #linux #CLI #Shell #editors #mastodon #fediverse #bsd #programming #terminal

5 Easy Steps To Crop An Image in Inkscape

Step-by-step instructions on how to use Inkscape to crop an image whether you are a beginner or advanced user.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/inkscape-crop-image/

#blog #inkscape #linux #windows #macOS #100DaysToOffload

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Sure everyone knows you can compile a .c file into a .so library

TIL you can compile a .so library back into a .c file

🤯

#programming #Linux

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Two gcc commands, one compiling autofile/_move.c into autofile/_move.so, immediately followed by one compiling autofile/_move.so into autofile/_move.c. The second command is shown to complete successfully (with code 0).

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟲/𝟭𝟱 (Valuable News - 2026/06/15) available.

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

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

The periodic between 1960s and 1990s was the Cambrian Explosion of #CPU architecture and #OS.

A single manufacturer, DEC, alone, had RSTS, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, RSX-11, VMS, Ultrix, OSF/1, and several other OSs I no longer recall. And DEC had a slew of different CPU architectures, and they each ran many other OSs made by various software companies. Also, there were loads of other hardware makers, large and small, each with a flock of different CPUs and a gaggle of different OSs.

In those days, we bitterly protested against this excess of “diversity”, on the grounds of software incompatibility, development impedance, and investment cost.

Finally, we now have that much-vaunted “uniformity” we always desired: Slackware Linux, Debian Linux, Fedora Linux, SUSE Linux, Gentoo Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Arch Linux, NixOS Linux, SELinux, …, @$&*#Linux, and they all run on the #x86.

😞 #progress 😖

The security situation with the Arch Linux AUR got a lot worse https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/the-security-situation-with-the-arch-linux-aur-got-a-lot-worse/

#Linux #ArchLinux #Security

Yep well, it's as I thought. Checking the source code I found that acpi_ibm only accepts a small subset of thinkpad events, and MICMUTE isn't one of them, contrary to Linux's thinkpad_acpi which accepts a far larger set (All?) including MICMUTE.

FYI, acpi_ibm accepts just these keyboard events:

LCD_BACKLIGHT
SUSPEND_TO_RAM
BLUETOOTH
SCREEN_EXPAND
SUSPEND_TO_DISK
BRIGHTNESS_UP
BRIGHTNESS_DOWN
THINKLIGHT
ZOOM
VOLUME_UP
VOLUME_DOWN
MUTE
ACCESS_IBM_BUTTON

Just finished a PoC if i could bootstrap pkgsrc on my self-assembled minimal docker container.

Ingredients: skarnet-musl-toolchain. busybox-static, toybox-static, gawk, gsed, gtar, gmake, libz, libexpat, libxcrypt, libbsd, libmd, musl-{bsdcompat,fts,obstack,rpmatch}, and finally pkgsrc from netbsd.

after a few ins and outs, and learning the ropes, bootstrapping worked flawlessly.

shout out for the developers for their good work!

#docker #toybox #busybox #LFS #LFN #pkgsrc #linux #musl

Got my hands on an old Mac Mini 6,1 from 2012. First time ever attempted to install #Linux on #Apple hardware… Vanilla #Debian, everything, including wifi when selecting proprietary firmware… #Xfce just being so much faster than the latest MacOS update that machine received. Blown away.

🚀 #Gitte 0.7.0 is out!

- Visual commit graph with color-coded per-branch colors
- Greatly overhauled layout
- Rename detection in diffs
- Drop multiple commits at once
- Show word-based diffs more often
- Toggle recursing into untracked directories
- Shortcut (Ctrl+D) to switch between staged & unstaged

Plus many performance improvements & lots of fixes.

Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/de.wwwtech.gitte
macOS: https://gitlab.com/dehesselle/gitte_macos/-/releases/v0.7.0+36
Repo: https://codeberg.org/ckruse/Gitte

#git #gnome #linux #macos

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Idle power usage of my desktop on linux is significantly lower than on windows

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1u4lnm4/idle_power_usage_of_my_desktop_on_linux_is/

Is anyone surprised by this? #linux

RE: https://floss.social/@VolkerKrause/116741489331797800

"… Regardless of how this will eventually materialize, the direction is clear, Android isn’t going to be a viable long-term platform for FOSS software, not even in its Google-free form. I have mostly considered it a stop-gap solution until Linux on the phone is ready anyway, so this is another reason to increase the effort into that direction."

https://volkerkrause.eu/2026/06/13/kde-android-news-june-2026.html#outlook

#Linux #Google #Android #KDE #FOSS

cc @lproven

I distro-hopped to openSUSE Tumbleweed and I'm liking it so far.

#linux #openSUSE

❄️ Nix Flakes and their Guix Equivalents

https://coopi.neocities.org/posts/nix-flakes-vs-guix

#guix #gnuguix #linux #opensource

TuxJam 130 – Office Therapy is out. @mralc, @mcnalu, @thelovebug and @kevie take a look at the Collabora Office Suite and RawTherapee. They also talk about their recent trip to #Oggcamp in Manchester. Along with the usual mix of #ccmusic https://tuxjam.otherside.network/tuxjam-130-office-therapy/

#TuxJam #podcast #Linux

Active AUR malicious packages incident

https://archlinux.org/news/active-aur-malicious-packages-incident/

#ArchLinux #Linux

Is it a good thing or a bad thing that I haven neither pacman -Syu nor yay -Syu my Arch (btw) setup since... checks notes... 2021? (Yes, it's this out-of-date; actually, I did update specific packages such as librewolf using makepkg -si twice this year, but I didn't update anything else, let alone updating the repositories).

Thinking on the bright side, I wasn't affected by the xz thing, for example.

When... If... I get a new machine, and/or a new spinning HDD for my laptop, I'll likely ditch Linux altogether and go with illumos, OpenIndianna, or whatever niche OS esoteric and unknown enough not to be a target of AI-assisted exploits (even BSD-based OSes don't seem like an alternative, as I recall seeing something linking some SomethingsomethingBSD to newly-discovered exploits; luckily, illumos is overly obscure).

Or, to quote the meme, "I'm going to build my own, with..."

#linux #arch #archlinux #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #illumos #openindianna

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Screenshot of a very recent (today's) Discourse thread "400+ AUR packages compromised with infostealer and rootkit".

I was able to make my Pixel 3a Linux Phone with postmarketOS GNOME look like my first iPhone.

Ich habe es geschafft mein Linux-Handy mit postmarketOS GNOME so aussehen zu lassen, wie mein allererstes iPhone.

Thanks to the help of @krafting who is making all this possible!

#Linux #postmarketOS #iOS

Nehmt Arch haben sie gesagt! Das wird toll, haben sie gesagt! 🙄

Scheiß npm. Wer das erfunden hat, sollte sowieso ewig in die supply chain und dependency hell.

#arch #linux #aur #npm #supplychain #alvr

@sodiboo https://gaysex.cloud/notes/andaxow7itfn05x9

Anyone know why using sftp with Dolphin in Plasma is so slow in Alpine Linux?

Using Debian, doing the same thing is like greased lightning.

It's not network, ssh/scp/rsync/sftp command line works wicked fast between hosts with Alpine.

Something about Alpine and Plasma it seems. This has been an on-going thing.

Anyone know a workaround, beside using a different protocol I mean? This should "just work" like on other distros.

#Linux #AlpineLinux #Alpine #Plasma #KDE #KDEPlasma #Dolphin #sftp

We need a #slop-free #Linux #distro.

We really do.

We're happy to announce we have our first fellows — Sophie Herold and Peter Eisenmann!

Thank you to all the donators who helped make this happen🩷 It wouldn't be possible without your financial contributions.

Read the announcement here👉 https://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2026/06/11/announcing-our-first-fellows/

#GNOME #Fellowship #linux

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CLI tools can be faster for commonly-used commands .

My favorite dotfile manager to sync personal config files between machines is YADM... because there's so little to learn. It's basically `git` for dotfiles, where the files are edited in place. There's no extra symlinking or deploy step, just yadm commit/push/pull. Easy!

For edge cases of different settings on different machines, it supports templates and alternates.

https://yadm.io/

#CLI #Linux

GeoSphere Austria (Vienna) is looking for head of SysAdmin (Win+Linux), head of IT Security, head of HPC, Linux SysAdmin and Full Stack Dev (Flask, FastAPI and PHP)

https://geosphere.at/de/ueber-uns/karriere

#FediHire #Linux #Flask #FastAPI #HPC #FullStack #Wien

An unsupervised agentic AI system working through compromised devs credentials (account) successfully altered bugs & pushed unverified code into multiple open source projects, including Fedora #Linux Anaconda installer. This rogue AI agent appears to have used a trusted open source contributor account over to submit bugs with backdoor & overwhelming maintainers & increasing the risk of deliberate supply chain compromises on FLOSS

AI agent runs amok in Fedora & elsewhere https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1077035/c7e7c14fbd60fae9/

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Source: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1077035/c7e7c14fbd60fae9/ Title: AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere [LWN subscriber-only content] Author and Date of publishing: Joe Brockmeier | June 10, 2026 Description: Agentic AI systems can be used to do a variety of things autonomously on behalf of a human user: open or manage bugs, generate code, submit pull-requests, and (apparently) even complain about rejection. In May, a Fedora developer discovered that an allegedly rogue agent had been pestering the project in a number of ways: reassigning bugs, fabricating unhelpful replies to bugs, and even persuading maintainers to merge questionable code into the Anaconda installer. It also submitted a number of pull requests (PRs), some accepted, to several upstream projects. The Fedora account associated with the agent has had its group privileges revoked and the messes have been mopped up, but the motive behind the agent's actions is still a mystery. Go here https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1077035/c7e7c14fbd60fae9/ to read full story.

It's a bit scary talking to some people these days, who's first (and sometimes only) significant computing experience is a smartphone or closed-ecosystem PC, and not a general purpose PC.

Real Stockholm syndrome stuff: "I'm so impressed by Apple, my 2019 macbook still gets updates! most android phones only get 3-4 years"

Well a general purpose PC gets practically unlimited updates if you install the right thing on it.

#foss #linux #openSource #PC #tech

I might have brain space to install linux on that spare laptop 🥰 What’s your favourite? I am going to use it to play movies and music on my tv - so not for work #linux

Change Default Linux/Unix Image Viewer Application

Use this complete guide to change the default image viewer application for a graphical desktop environment on a GNU/Linux or Unix operating system.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/change-default-linux-unix-image-viewer/

#blog #KDE #XFCE #GNOME #linux #unix #tech

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I think we're only a few decades away:

"First rewrite Xlib, Xft, and all the Linux kernel dependencies." :)

#suckless #dwm #linux

By the way, our first two publications on evaluating #OpenBSD mitigations are out. Both of these papers evaluate some amd64 anti-ROP mitigations: specifically changing the register selection order and semantically equivalent rewriting of instructions that may produce a potential polymorphic gadget instruction. This tracks a paper by mortimer@ back in 2019 at AsiaBSDCon.

The TL;DR is "OpenBSD can shrink binaries a little and gain a little performance without any security loss simply by reverting these mitigations." The mitigations did not hold up to independent evaluation.

The first paper did an exact 1:1 port of these mitigations to FreeBSD and found that register reallocation eliminates only about 0.3% of unique gadgets, for a 0.5% increase in binary size (mortimer@ claimed 6% reduction and "entirely free"). It is useless at best but more likely actively detrimental, as it produces a false sense of security. It also found the instruction rewriting reduces unique gadgets by about 3.5% with a binary size increase of about 1.8% (mortimer@ claimed 5% reduction with 0.15% binary size increase).

We then did a separate implementation of the instruction rewriting mitigation to GCC in the second paper. Our GCC implementation does the older <xchg; op; xchg> dance, as that's what mortimer@'s paper described. This is way worse; producing about a 3% performance hit for no security benefit at all.

The only part of both mitigations worth saving is for basic arithmetic, OpenBSD LLVM now takes advantage of the fact that basic arithmetic has two forms. For example, the newer instruction rewriting mitigation turns
addq %rax, %rbx (48 01 c3)
into
{load} addq %rax, %rbx (48 03 d8)

The new instruction rewriting mitigation is genuinely free in terms of binary size and execution speed, but doesn't move the security needle, so this one can stay as it is harmless. Other rewritings still have the flaw of increasing binary size and reducing performance for no security benefit.

Anyhow feel free to read the papers:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11458911
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/405728967_A_Final_Return_for_OpenBSD_Anti-Return-Oriented_Programming_Mitigations

#BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #Linux #Unix #security #cybersecurity

Series of publications on GPAC:
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/30/2
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/06/01/8
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/06/01/9
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/06/01/10
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/06/01/11
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/06/01/12
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/06/01/13

#fuzzing #infosec #security #afl #revers #cybersecurity #bugbounty #vulnerability #opensource #linux #cve #advisory #media #filesystem

We're hiring! Several open roles for open source engineers:

🔲 GPU Consultant Engineer
🐧 Linux Kernel Consultant
🔊 Linux Audio Consultant Engineer
⚙️ Platform Engineering Consultant

Remote/anywhere · Full-time · Upstream-first culture since 2005 🐧

→ https://www.collabora.com/careers

#Hiring #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux #GPU #LinuxKernel #RemoteWork #EmbeddedLinux

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After being locked away for 10+ years in the Cloud; it's so refreshing, and frustrating to deal with all of the little things; like filesystems, database replication and locks, replacing fans and NICs, debugging OOMs, and crashing daemons on #FreeBSD, #OmniOS, and #Linux;

I feel like everything moves a little more slowly and sustainably this way; but most of all - I really missed getting lost in the details.

Live RIGHT NOW on The IT Guy Show: Live Ops 009.

We're walking through @xcpng and @xenorchestra , the open source virtualization stack from @vates. If you're still on VMware because you don't know what else to use, this one's for you.

Full install walkthrough, running it nested on Proxmox as a PoC.

Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/live/Uz04d9Z-Itg?si=E5Ywc-rDU5cmKWON
#Linux #OpenSource #Virtualization #Homelab #XCPng #VMware #SysAdmin #ITOps

Gambonanza masterfully combines Balatro and chess and it's out now https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/gambonanza-masterfully-combines-balatro-and-chess-and-its-out-now/

#Gambonanza #IndieGames #PCGaming #Linux

Dear #Linux,

It is frustrating not having SIGINFO when troubleshooting network problems.

Annoyed,

Someone who prefers a much better networking stack

📦 BackupPilot 1.0.1 ist veröffentlicht.

Neu mit erweiterter CLI, Pre- und Post-Backup-Hooks sowie offizieller ARM64-Unterstützung. Damit können z.B. Datenbank-Dumps direkt vor einem Backup erstellt und automatisch mitgesichert werden.

Pakete und Updates gibt es neu über unser Repository: https://repos.onesystems.ch

#BackupPilot #Proxmox #PBS #ARM64 #Linux #Gnome

@nixCraft I started off in the world of Gentoo because I wanted to run a 64 bit OS on my operating system when that wasn't an option using windows. Since then, I've moved off of Gentoo and now I use a variety of Distros like Mint, Ubuntu, Bazzite, etc on my different PCs.

I think the majority of #Linux users probably don't feel that strongly about their distro, but there's a vocal minority out there that make it look like we all do.

Why is #Linux like a religion? Everyone thinks their distro is the one true path, and they’ll die on that hill usually mid `apt upgrade`

Okay, hi everyone

This weekend, after a random toot from @alice in my TL, I found myself in a rabbit hole to enhance and create an iOS 6 theme for GTK4. It's not much, it has some rough edges, but damn it looks so cool, and I'm so proud of this!!

If you wanna help with design or add icons, please feel free to do so!

The code and install instructions lives here : https://gitlab.com/Krafting/igtk-theme

#gnome #gtk #libadwaita #ios #apple #gnomemobile #mobilelinux #retrocomputing #ios6 #linux #postmarketos

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*** Repost on new instance ***

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

Euro-Office, a fork of OnlyOffice backed by European vendors including Nextcloud and IONOS, is set to launch June 9 as a sovereignty-focused office suite. 🇪🇺
The project aims to provide an open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs while supporting EU digital sovereignty efforts. 📄

🔗 https://fossforce.com/2026/05/euro-office-sets-june-9-launch-in-bid-for-eu-digital-sovereignty/

#TechNews #EuroOffice #Nextcloud #OnlyOffice #LibreOffice #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #EU #Europe #Cloud #Productivity #Privacy #Technology #Software #Linux #FOSS #ODF

Shoutout to the unpaid open source devs holding everything together.
You know who you are. We owe you more than a GitHub star.

#OpenSource #Linux #SysAdmin #MemeMonday

Last week I installed Linux onto a new laptop. Nothing special about that, but it got me thinking how with all the negative sides of technology we also have plenty of positive ones.

I downloaded a close to 5 gigabyte .iso from the distro's site, wrote it onto an USB drive with dd and booted off it. In less than 10 minutes later a working desktop installation was done.

The first computer I've ever installed Linux on was a 486. My modem was 2400bps so I did not download an .iso. Instead I went to bank, got US dollars, stuffed those and a order form I had clipped off a computer magazine into an envelope and mailed that. As fast as 3 weeks I was holding a CD box of Slackware, with two CDs and a booklet that was to become the source of frustration for months to come.

I recently installed Alpine onto an old Thinkpad I have at the arcade and that got me thinking if I still had it to build a system from scratch to that old Slackware level. I may have to find a period accurate PC and see how it all looked like back then. #linux

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟲/𝟬𝟴 (Valuable News - 2026/06/08) 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

22 Uhr Abends, und mir fällt auf: `tldr` statt `man` ist wie der Unterschied zwischen "ich erkläre dir die ganze Philosophie des Befehls" und "hier sind die 5 Beispiele, die du wirklich brauchst".

`tldr tar` hat mir mehr Lebenszeit gerettet als jeder Energy-Drink. Endlich entpacke ich Archive ohne im Kopf nach der richtigen Buchstabensuppe zu kramen. 🗜️

Installiert via Paketmanager, gibt's für fast alles.

#Linux #CLI #FOSS

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