I was trying to figure out how to get notifications when a job finishes in a VM which I found out the Foot terminal by @dnkl supports receiving notifications through the terminal and turning them into desktop notifications, creating a channel for remote SSH apps that support this generate desktop notifications!

These are known as OSC 99 desktop notifications.

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/desktop-notifications/

#Linux

Alpine Linux and OpenSSH patch flaw that’s as bad as it can get https://www.zdnet.com/tech/alpine-linux-openssh-patch-flaw/ via @ZDNet & @sjvn

This dangerous #Linux #security hole must be patched as soon as possible.

Octal is weird ✍

I always found it strange how octal seemed to be the default way of writting character escape sequences in most common Unix commands and on C. I always preferred hexadecimal, but for some reason it was always octal first and hexadecimal second.

Octal feels off to use, mostly because 1 octal digit represents 3 bits, 2 octal digits 6, 3 is 9...
This means that the number 777 in octal is 9 bits, all ones. This feels strange on a world where everything is based around 8bit bytes.

I used to think: "Maybe it exists because 7bit computers existed before and it just stuck".
I was not correct but I was not off by a lot.
The PDP-7 for example, the computer where Unix was first developed, was not a 7bit computer, but a 18bit one. That means a word fits nicely on 6 octal digits.

The PDP-11 however was a 16bit machine, so it feels a bit odd to think that decisions made while developing Unix for the PDP-7 solidified so fast (Unix was only 1 year on a PDP-7 until it was moved to a PDP-11).

So, yeah, why octal?
Comment if you know something about it.
#Unix #Linux #bsd

Zaterdag 14-11 hervat Linux voor Iedereen hun dienst om je te helpen met het vervangen van Windows 10/11 met Linux. Ze zijn aanwezig vanaf 13:00 in Wijkcentrum d' Oude Stadt in de Kerkstraat 123, Amsterdam-C! Zie https://linux-voor-iedereen.nl/

#Linux voor iedereen biedt:
– Experts die je alles vertellen over wat je over Linux moet weten
– Kant-en-klare Linux-laptops om uit te proberen
– Installatie van Linux op jouw eigen laptop / pc

Bon, je dis ça je dis rien, mais demain samedi 14, install party à #Tours pour mettre #linux sur vos bécane.
C'est à al'espace jacques villeret des fontaines.

Pour les intéressés, y'aura un serveur #iventoy sur un nuc géré en ssh, contrôlé par un #script en #bash.

(En attendant les install #netbsd ou #freebsd)

#install_party
#installparty

Now that the ProBook is updated to #Fedora45, it's time to take care of these #Fedora PCs here at work. Got a ThinkCentre and a HP Stream 14 that need to move to F45. ​ #linux

Alt...

A Lenovo ThinkCentre PC with an external optical drive and floppy drive stacked to the right of it, which also has a couple of spinning hard drives and an optical disc on top of that. The screen is showing the upgrade process from Fedora 44 to Fedora 45.

Alt...

The HP Stream 14 laptop running MATE Desktop with MATE Terminal maximized and downloading all of the packages to upgrade to Fedora 45.

Be kind.
Happy World Kindness Day! 🧡🙏
#WorldKindnessDay #NetBSD #runbsd #linux

After months with the good old cwm, I'm giving bspwm a try. I love configuring my desktop with shell scripts, and tiling is a nice bonus.

My workflow stays simple:
I: Firefox
II: xterm + tmux
III: IRC
Also enjoying the tiny sxbar!

Light enough for my ThinkPad T60 and X220, yet running on my T14 (i7, 40GB RAM).

Don't worry, those 40GB get some exercise when compiling SlackBuilds and Linux kernels.

And don't be fooled by the minimalist desktop... Firefox alone is eating 1.5GB of RAM! 😂

#Slackware #bspwm #Linux #bob

I've always appreciated the simplicity of the BSDs. Power, yes, but without unnecessary complexity.

BastilleBSD and vm-bhyve have been my trusted companions for many years. But whenever I used Linux, I missed them.

That's why, years ago, I started putting together a collection of shell scripts (and some Python, although to a much lesser extent) to create something somewhere in between.

A bit of Bastille, a bit of vm-bhyve, a bit of Proxmox: unprivileged Linux system containers and virtual machines, managed from the command line.

Live backups. And live restore: bringing a workload back online before all its data has finished copying from the backup. Multiple storage backends. Encryption at the storage or individual workload level. Different networks. Isolation of each workload (a bit like illumos zones), with additional layers of protection.

Each container has its own UID/GID mapping. VMs run under separate unprivileged identities, with namespaces, seccomp and resource limits adding further layers of protection.

Pull-based backups from external hosts, with different levels and types of encryption. With raw encrypted ZFS replication, the backup server doesn’t even need the decryption keys. Backups are pulled over SSH by an external server. The workload host holds no credentials to log in to that server.

It also runs on a 1 GB Orange Pi PC 2, where I’ve tested both containers and native ARM64 KVM guests. And on a Orange PI One, armv7 and 512MB, it can run some lxc containers without problems, from the SD, using f2fs.

Simple disaster recovery. Because after those 142 servers went up in flames in Strasbourg, disaster recovery became something I care a lot about.

Currently supported and tested on Alpine Linux, Debian 13 and Armbian. On Debian, LXC containers also run under enforcing AppArmor profiles, adding another layer of protection.

Few commands. Lots of power. And it's called "Jail It!"

I'm not going to release it, at least not for now. I need to focus on my other projects, and Jail It! still needs some cleaning up.

But it works. And it does its job very well.

For containers, there's absolutely nothing running in the background. For VMs, just a small Python helper. No continuously running services. You connect via SSH, run your commands, and that's it.

Still, for anyone curious enough to have a look, I've put together a short demo on Asciinema:

https://asciinema.org/a/BbwGs99U9UJDLAzZ

Well, "short" might be a bit of an exaggeration. It's quite long, but I think it's worth watching all the way to the end.

#Linux #LXC #KVM #FreeBSD #Virtualization #OwnYourData #BSD #SelfHosting #Homelab #SysAdmin #DisasterRecovery

#Ubuntu just fixed the critical #kernel vulnerability in LTS (22, 24, and 26)!

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-98432#status

(I’ve been watching the status page since saturday)

#Linux

I really, really reeaaallly want to see #Sylve becoming a FreeBSD based replacement or alternative to #Linux solutions like #XCPng (#Xen) or #Proxmox (#KVM).

Also interesting for my own @BoxyBSD@bsd.cafe project utilizing this feature. So, I've been working at this for some time now.

First working draft moving a VM which has its storage on a NFS server (ZFS based send/rec. as local storage to follow), including multi CPU support. But there's a catch - I'm not sure if I want to publish this later under MIT, rather than GPLv3 or AGPLv3, so this could be a problem for upstreaming.

#RUNBSD

Alt...

bhyve VM live migration on FreeBSD 15

MyGo : un framework pour construire vos apps desktop macOS, Windows et Linux en Go, avec une UI native dessinée sur le GPU ou un frontend web dans la webview du système. ⬇️
https://mygo.egoist.dev/

#Golang #Linux #macOS #Programming #WebDev

📬 Ma veille dev, chaque vendredi par email → https://l.camilleroux.com/sig-WcF

Alt...

Un mascotte bleu chevauchant une fusée rouge et blanche symbolise MyGo, un framework pour créer des applications de bureau en Go. Le visuel accompagne la présentation des caractéristiques principales : binaire minimal (~7 MB), faible consommation mémoire (~44-62 MB), et aucune utilisation CPU au repos.

One reason why I really wish #Linux implemented SIGINFO support: masscan is gonna take over 230 hours to complete for this pentest I'm doing at ${DAYJOB}.

It would be really nice to have #masscan flush its results to the output file when SIGINFO is received.

#FreeBSD #WinWithBSD #infosec

my memory of drawterm is fading 4

#unix_surrealism #openbsd #netbsd #plan9 #9front #glenda #unix #comic #linux

Alt...

It is december 1994. theo de raadt is forced to leave the netbsd project. people around the world report seeing an apparation of a shape covered in spikes resembling a fish. it will not be seen again for another 5 years. in new jersey plan 9 replaces unix in bell labs. my memory of drawterm is fading.

A few weeks ago, we announced [1] our work, "File Notification Attacks" [https://inoti.fyi/], which will be presented at CCS'26 (Technical Session C4) between 16.00-18.00 next Monday, Nov/16, 2026. CCS'26 will be held in The Hague, Netherlands...

and yes, my advisor (@lavados) was going to send me there anyway for the occasional crimes against science I've committed and the general bad science that I perform... (/j).

Since our announcement a few weeks ago, we've found that our research extends to FreeBSD too -- now pre-mitigated [2] --, (thanks to @lattera for suggesting that!), and illumos as well -- also mitigated [3] -- (thanks @wiedi for that). It's quite interesting that multiple kernels and independent implementations over the past decades have had similar-but-vastly-different issues 🧐🤔.

Our artifacts have also been evaluated by reviewers to be Available, Evaluated (Functional), and Reproduced. Check them out at Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/22843469 or give it a 🌟 on GitHub: https://github.com/isec-tugraz/file-notification-attacks

It's pretty cool that we got such wide-spread coverage about our research (there's a new media section on our website)! If you're at CCS'26 and work on any systems security, feel free to hmu and it'd be cool to meet there :D

I'll be announcing a new (Linux defense) paper that's been accepted at NDSS'27 (Seoul, South Korea!!!) soon-ish :D

Thanks to my co-authors Xufan Zhao, Jeanette Wultsch, @hweissi, Florian Draschbacher, @notbobbytables, and @lavados!!!

[1]: https://infosec.exchange/@vmcall/117327103049106849
[2]: https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=c2ac0db7150c53d3902dbe1c507d96cbacfcadc6
[3]: https://github.com/omniosorg/illumos-omnios/pull/1726

#ccs26 #netherlands #hague #security #linux #cybersecurity #research

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SNeela » 🌐 2026-09-24 / 2026-09-24
@vmcall@infosec.exchange

ALRIGHT! I'm VERY excited to announce this research, because we've been holding onto it for close to a year now!

Announcing File Notification Attacks! Side-Channel Leakage from the File-Notification System on #Linux, #Android, #Windows, and #macOS

We've found decades-old bugs on Linux, Android, and Windows... well technically Microsoft considers what we found an ✨ undocumented feature ✨ (got Microsoft nominated for the lamest vendor response #pwnie award haha).

There's SO much to talk about, so please expand this thread below, but you can also check it out yourself at:

https://inoti.fyi/

There's a #noAI logo that my sister drew there. Our work was accepted at #CCS 2026, and I'll be presenting it this November at The Hague, Netherlands! If you're there, we should totally meet up :D

Thanks to my AWESOME co-authors: Xufan Zhao, Jeanette Angelika Wultsch, @hweissi, Florian Draschbacher, @notbobbytables, and @lavados 🙏, all of us from @isec_tugraz, TU Graz

#security #cybersecurity #research #systems

ZapFast : un client WhatsApp natif en Rust et egui pour Linux, macOS et Windows, sans moteur de navigateur.

Il s'ouvre en moins d'une seconde et consomme environ 200 Mo de RAM au repos, contre 1,13 Go pour WhatsApp Web (test sous Linux).

Open source sous licence MIT. ⬇️
https://github.com/crmne/zapfast

#Rust #Linux #macOS #OpenSource #Apps

📬 Ma veille dev, chaque vendredi par email → https://l.camilleroux.com/sig-mzf

What if any process could handle SIGKILL?

An interesting question, and a detailed technical rundown of how to make this happen, which involved building a custom Linux kernel, of course.

I really, really enjoy the conclusion.

And you know? It turned out fine. Nothing exploded on my system. As I could predict, because this was otherwise impossible, nobody did it. The signal system was setup i

https://www.osnews.com/story/146346/what-if-any-process-could-handle-sigkill/

#Linux

Using #NetBSD feels a lot like using #Linux in 2001. There's almost no hand-holding, things don't always work the way you expect them to, and it's easy to screw up.

En ole vuosiin seurannut kun joku muu asentaa Linuxia PChen. Mutta jos se pelastaa toimivia koneita jätteeseen joutumiselta, voisin osallistua Linuxin asentamistalkoisiin tai opettaa asentamista, jos joku järjestää tilaisuuden.

En kuitenkaan aellaisen Linuxin, joka tekee riippuvaiseksi Googlen palveluista, jota Ylen jutissa haastateltu firma puffaa.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20256050

#Linux #Windows11 #SER

Over the past few days, I've been working on some Linux-based setups, bringing back some of my old solutions (with a few adaptations) to make them work the way I like. Mostly inspired by some of the ideas of simplicity that come from the BSD world.

I'm using Alpine Linux as a base, and I've been testing these setups on both proper servers and SBCs, for various reasons.

And, all things considered, some distributions (like Alpine, for example) have remained fairly true to the original ideas of simplicity and predictability. I still enjoy using Linux when it’s logical and predictable.

And this got me thinking: some distributions have gone from:

"Hey, we're a solid, simple, and reliable alternative to Windows. Give us a try!"

to:

"Hey, we support practically all your hardware, just like Windows" (which, to be fair, was a real achievement)

to:

"Hey, Windows! I’ve become just like you!"

As if complexity automatically meant "enterprise-grade", and being "enterprise-grade" were something everyone should aspire to - even on a laptop or a small SBC.

There's nothing wrong with solving complex problems. Some complexity is unavoidable, and sometimes even necessary. But complexity should be the price we sometimes have to pay to solve problems, not something we proudly advertise as a feature.

Otherwise, we end up exactly where we started: just like Windows. Or perhaps even worse.

#Linux

@TheEvilSkeleton For transparency, this is what I received. Both the Board and the Code of Conduct Committee passed the tests of being ignorant of struggles queer people face every single day. Calling someone a bigot is now apparently a "personal accusation" as well as "misrepresenting other community members", and punishable under GNOME's CoC.

Both the GNOME Foundation and CoCC decided to protect bigots that were ruining the community for a long time now. Ladies and gentlemen and they/them, this is how you cause active contributors to leave the project.

#Linux #GNOME

Alt...

Dear Victoria, I am writing to you on behalf of the GNOME Foundation in my capacity as Interim Executive Director. The Foundation’s Code of Conduct Committee received a report about comments you made in a Mastodon thread [1] in September. It has considered your comments in that thread, in particular the following posts: https://mastodon.com.pl/@tragivictoria/117337378449476600 https://mastodon.com.pl/@tragivictoria/117395557262542397 https://mastodon.com.pl/@tragivictoria/117342879218467707 https://mastodon.com.pl/@tragivictoria/117337458845253721 While the committee agreed that Nirbheek’s comment on Charlie Kirk was in extremely bad taste, and a bad way to make an argument, it also felt that the repeated misquoting of those comments was wrong and inflammatory, and against the principles of the Code of Conduct. The Committee additionally concluded that your comments misrepresented the project and were unnecessarily divisive. The comments contributed to a situation which caused upset to individuals and harm to the community as a whole. As a result, the Committee has voted to suspend your participation in the GNOME project for a period of 10 days, and to remove your moderator rights on GNOME platforms. We understand that you have removed yourself from the GNOME project already, and that this decision therefore may not impact you. However, you should be aware that you will be unable to access our platforms between 10 and 19 November. We want to emphasize that the Code of Conduct prioritizes the safety marginalized groups in GNOME, and allows those whose safety is threatened to speak out in opposition to oppressive behavior. This is something that we take very seriously. Should you return to the GNOME project, you can communicate your boundaries and need for safety when you feel that they are threatened. You can also oppose discriminatory and oppressive behaviors by others. However, if you do, we recommend that you avoid misrepresenting other community members, stick to the issues when disagreements do arise, and avoid making personal accusations. Other members of the community are also receiving Code of Conduct decisions today, as part of our response to reports that we received about the Mastodon thread. In each case, the Committee has endeavored to make decisions in a fair and impartial manner, and to follow the intent of the Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct Committee is only able to respond to incidents that it receives reports about, so if you are aware of incidents that have not been responded to in the past, it is likely that the Committee did not receive a report about them. Often incidents go unreported, so we strongly encourage people to report incidents if they experience or observe them. However, we have also unfortunately experienced a technical issue that meant that some incoming reports have been lost this year [2] (this issue has now been resolved). Please let us know if you have any questions or uncertainty about this decision or its consequences. Regards, Allan [1] https://hachyderm.io/@nirbheek/117336879990076586 [2] https://blogs.gnome.org/conduct/2026/09/29/announcement-missed-coc-reports/ -- Interim Executive Director, GNOME Foundation

Hi! Available for (Fractional) DevOps / Linux / Open Source projects!

40+ years in IT, still passionate about building, fixing and improving systems.

Skillz: Linux, Python, Ansible, Docker, CI/CD, Forgejo, PostgreSQL, infrastructure automation.

Open Source contributor, maintainer, author and trainer.

Based in France, working remotely across Europe.

Freelance contracts, ideally 10 or more hours/week.

I enjoy solving technical challenges, modernising infrastructure and helping small teams get things done. Hands-on engineering is where I'm happiest.

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Boosts appreciated!

#GetFediHired #FediHire #DevOps #Linux #OpenSource #RemoteWork

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟭𝟭/𝟬𝟵 (Valuable News - 2026/11/09) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/11/09/valuable-news-2026-11-09/

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

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

I think more people should know about #reflinks, which I learned about from @leah years ago.

(100% human-written prose. I use em dashes and bulleted lists because they make the prose clearer. Also, I like them.)

Immutable copy-on-write snapshots of things are kind of a superpower for computer systems design. (FP folks call this "persistence.") An awfully large fraction of computers' time is spent copying things from one place to another to keep them from changing. In a lot of cases, this is unnecessary, because they weren't actually going to change in the first place, but it can be hard to be sure in advance. If you have some kind of system that will copy *only* the things that get modified — or the *parts* of those things that get modified — it will often be much more efficient. So, in Linux, we use this a lot in copy-on-write memory mappings of files, process memory following a fork(), and things like that. rsync has a --link-dest option that allows multiple backups to share space while being just as convenient to use as regular non-incremental backups. There are many other examples.

Some OSes and some filesystems support making a copy-on-write "copy" of a file, sharing the space between the original file and the "copy" until and unless one of them change. This feature is usually called "reflinks" after the Solaris system call that supports it.

In particular:

On #Linux:
- Bcachefs,
- btrfs,
- XFS, and
- OCFS2.

But *not* OpenZFS.

On #FreeBSD, neither OpenZFS nor #ZFS.

On Solaris, ZFS (with `cp -z`).

On MacOS, APFS (which Apple is switching to; with `cp -c` or the `clonefile` system call)

And, on Microsoft Windows, NTFS and its DUPLICATE_EXTENTS_TO_FILE.

These are from Daniel Aleksandersen's 02020 blog post https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/file-cloning/. I don't think anything has changed on that front since then, which is sad, if true.

Wow, #Swift on #Linux needs a lot of processing power to compile 😱

On my workstation at home, I don't even notice it. But here on my old laptop... it's noticable 😅

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟭𝟭/𝟬𝟵 (Valuable News - 2026/11/09) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/11/09/valuable-news-2026-11-09/

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

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

What have I done without a TV.

I have learned, to watercolour, to play guitar, to make jewelry, to make sourdough and learn linux.

I have my own VPN running on a Raspberry pi. I use deluge to download films and TV shows that are of interest.

I write my own bash scripts for downloading and upgrading packages from git and codeberg and created an l2ping bluetooth dos script to kill my neighbours 900W bluetooth speaker at 2am.

not bad for a 69 year old script kiddie

#linux #art #RaspberryPi

I gave three talks at the Cambridge minidebconf this weekend.

1. Ambient CI.
2. Obnam.
3. Early days od Linux.

Also two lightning talks:

A. Clothing.
B. v-i, my Debian installer.

Giving the Early Linux one tomorrow, for two London Linux groups.

Would love to give any of them to other interested parties. Ask me privately.

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/gb/2026/MiniDebConfCambridge

#debian #linux #talks

The Rust OpenPGP card stack is now on Fedora 🎉 oct, oct-git and openpgp-card-ssh-agent are in my COPR for F44, F45 and Rawhide (x86_64 + aarch64). Card admin, Git signing and SSH with your Nitrokey/YubiKey, no GnuPG needed.

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/larvitz/openpgp-card/

sudo dnf copr enable larvitz/openpgp-card

sudo dnf install openpgp-card-tools openpgp-card-tools-git openpgp-card-ssh-agent

All credit to @hko and @wiktor. Sorry for flooding your notifications lately, I promise I'll run out of operating systems eventually 😅

#Fedora #OpenPGP #Rust #Crypto #Linux

#AlpineBSD announced – an #AI-free #FOSS OS

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/30/alpinebsd-announced-an-ai-free-foss-os/5306589

#BSD #privacy #NetBSD #AlpineLinux #Linux

Making musl and proprietary NVIDIA drivers work together

Creator and lead developer of Chimera Linux, Nina "q66", write about their efforts to get NVIDIA drivers to work properly on musl-based distributions.

As you may be aware, one of the limitations of musl-based distributions is that they will not function to their proper extent when used in computers with various NVIDIA gra

https://www.osnews.com/story/146335/making-musl-and-proprietary-nvidia-drivers-work-together/

#Linux

Hi Mastodon! I'm Denys, a Ukrainian developer living in Spain. I'm building Vilna OS, a GNOME-based Linux for people who want privacy without the setup, and Gloxi, an open-source assistant that runs on your own computer. The cloud is optional, and text is masked and sent to EU servers only. Building in the open: github.com/StDenis1980/VilnaOS
#introduction #linux #gnome #opensource #privacy

When friendships are ended unilaterally:

"When #Asahi #Linux was first started, it was with the intent that we develop a Free Software ecosystem for the Apple Silicon platform. To facilitate and encourage the participation of our friends at the BSDs and other Free Software operating systems, we endeavoured to licence as much of our code as possible under the permissive MIT licence."

-- https://github.com/AsahiLinux/m1n1/commit/ce2b8a4

Wording matters.

"Alternative Betriebssysteme" klingt nach kompliziert, speziell und irgendwie nur etwas für Techies ...

Wer kein technisches Wissen hat, bekommt da doch kaum Lust, es auszuprobieren 🤷‍♂️

Dabei sind es keine "alternativen Betriebssysteme". Es sind ganz normale Betriebssysteme. Sie sind nur weniger bekannt und weniger verbreitet als die paar grossen Player.

Vielleicht sollten wir anfangen, sie auch so zu nennen. Denn Sprache prägt Wahrnehmung!

#OpenSource #Linux #Betriebssysteme #DigitaleSouveränität #SpracheSchafftRealität

This week's Linux and FOSS news

LINUX NEWS

Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives hit by APT flaw that could give attackers root access:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/debian-ubuntu-and-derivatives-hit-by-apt-flaw-that-could-give-attackers-root-access/

Ubuntu users blast Canonical for slow kernel security fix:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/11/ubuntu-fix-tcp-bug-criticism
(Well, what else to expect from a company, which makes a mistake basically every week)

What's New in Fedora 45:
https://itsfoss.com/news/fedora-45-features/

Fedora Asahi Remix 45 Released for Apple Silicon Macs with KDE Plasma 6.8:
https://9to5linux.com/fedora-asahi-remix-45-released-for-apple-silicon-macs-with-kde-plasma-6-8

Asahi Linux Makes Progress On Gaming, More Apple Silicon Upstreaming:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-7.3-Report

Ubuntu refreshes time zone data for Canadian clock changes:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/11/ubuntu-canada-timezone-changes-2026

Ubuntu Moving Ahead With Plans For Splitting Up Linux-Firmware, HWE Option:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Going-With-Firmware-HWE

openSUSE Leap 16.1 Officially Released with Immutable Mode, Based on SLES 16.1:
https://9to5linux.com/opensuse-leap-16-1-officially-released-with-immutable-mode-based-on-sles-16-1

Arch Linux 2026.11.01 Released With Linux 7.2.11 Kernel:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/arch-linux-20261101-released-with-linux-7211-kernel/

Omarchy 4.5 adds floating desktop mode, Apple Silicon support, and major AI agent upgrades:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/11/omarchy-4-5-adds-floating-desktop-mode-apple-silicon-support-and-major-ai-agent-upgrades/

"AMD Loves Omarchy" Linux With More Collaboration Coming:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Loves-Omarchy

Alpine Linux 3.21.10, 3.22.8, 3.23.8 and 3.24.4 Patches Critical SSH Password Bypass:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/alpine-linux-32110-3228-3238-and-3244-patches-critical-ssh-password-bypass/

KDE Linux Nearing Its Beta Milestone, Now Ships With NTSYNC By Default:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Linux-October-2026

PorteuX 2.9 Released with Linux 7.3, KDE Plasma 6.8, GNOME 51, and COSMIC 1.11:
https://9to5linux.com/porteux-2-9-released-with-linux-7-3-kde-plasma-6-8-gnome-51-and-cosmic-1-11

Systemd-Free Artix Linux 2026.11 Is Out with Wayland-Only KDE Plasma Desktop:
https://9to5linux.com/systemd-free-artix-linux-2026-11-is-out-with-wayland-only-kde-plasma-desktop

aerynOS 2026.11 Is Out with GNOME 51, KDE Plasma 6.8, COSMIC 1.11, and Budgie 10.10:
https://9to5linux.com/aerynos-2026-11-is-out-with-gnome-51-kde-plasma-6-8-cosmic-1-11-and-budgie-10-10

IPFire Core Update 205 Patches Critical Linux Kernel TCP Flaw:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/ipfire-core-update-205-patches-critical-linux-kernel-tcp-flaw/

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 206 Opens to Testing with WIO Command-Injection Fixes:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/ipfire-229-core-update-206-opens-to-testing-with-wio-commandinjection-fixes/

Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0.2022 Ships With More Than 470 Security Fixes:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Azure-Linux-3.0.2022

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#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #Ubuntu #Debian #Fedora #FosseryTech

System76 Teases COSMIC Theme Constellations for Its COSMIC Desktop:
https://9to5linux.com/system76-teases-cosmic-theme-constellations-for-its-cosmic-desktop

KDE Plasma 6.7.6 Desktop Environment Is Now Available with More Improvements:
https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-7-6-desktop-environment-is-now-available-with-more-improvements

KDE Plasma 6.9 Will Stop Leaking Memory When Right Clicking Files/Folders On Desktop:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.9-Leak-Desktop

KDE Gear 26.08.3 Released as the Last Update in the KDE Gear 26.08 Series:
https://9to5linux.com/kde-gear-26-08-3-released-as-the-last-update-in-the-kde-gear-26-08-series

Cinnamon 6.8 Desktop Environment Released with Hibernation Support:
https://9to5linux.com/cinnamon-6-8-desktop-environment-released-with-hibernation-support

Global menu extension puts app menus in GNOME’s top panel:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/11/global-menu-gnome-extension

Simple Taskbar 7.2.0 Adds Settings Search and Panel Fixes to GNOME:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/simple-taskbar-720-adds-settings-search-and-panel-fixes-to-gnome/

Budgie 10.10.4 Desktop Environment Released with More Improvements:
https://9to5linux.com/budgie-10-10-4-desktop-environment-released-with-more-improvements

LXQt 2.5 Desktop Environment Released, Drops Its Last LXDE Dependency:
https://9to5linux.com/lxqt-2-5-desktop-environment-released-drops-its-last-lxde-dependency

Enlightenment desktop 0.28 released with better networking:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/11/enlightenment-0-28-features

Trinity Desktop Environment R14.1.7 Is Out with Support for Ubuntu 26.10:
https://9to5linux.com/trinity-desktop-environment-r14-1-7-is-out-with-support-for-ubuntu-26-10

Mir 2.28.1 Release Candidate Announced:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/mir-2281-release-candidate-announced/

Canonical Ships Mir 2.31.0 in a Stability-Focused Release:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/canonical-ships-mir-2310-in-a-stabilityfocused-release/

MangoWC 0.18.5 Release: dwl-Based Wayland Compositor Ships Patches Under a Bare Version Bump:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/mangowc-0185-release-dwlbased-wayland-compositor-ships-patches-under-a-bare-version-bump/

Hyprland 0.57.1 Releases Stability Patch Fixing NVIDIA Black Screens and Keybindings:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/hyprland-0571-releases-stability-patch-fixing-nvidia-black-screens-and-keybindings/

ML4W OS 2.17 Adds macOS-Style App Switcher and Wallpaper Carousel to Hyprland:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/ml4w-os-217-adds-macosstyle-app-switcher-and-wallpaper-carousel-to-hyprland/

Weston 15.0.2 Releases, Fixing the YUV Video Regression from 15.0.1 and Unblocking lua-shell:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/weston-1502-releases-fixing-the-yuv-video-regression-from-1501-and-unblocking-luashell/

Hate Chromium? Well, There’s a Linux Desktop Based on it Now:
https://itsfoss.com/news/domicile-desktop-overview/

AM 10.7 AppImage Package Manager Surpasses 9,000 Apps Amid Developer Rift with Upstream:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/am-107-appimage-package-manager-surpasses-9000-apps-amid-developer-rift-with-upstream/

Shelly 3.2 Brings Multi-Package Downgrades, Flatpak and AppImage Improvements:
https://9to5linux.com/shelly-3-2-brings-multi-package-downgrades-flatpak-and-appimage-improvements

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#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #KDE #COSMIC #Cinnamon #LXQt #FosseryTech

Valve Releases SteamOS 0.5.7 Beta for the Steam Frame: Tracking Fix, WebXR, and a Surprising Removal:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/valve-releases-steamos-057-beta-for-the-steam-frame-tracking-fix-webxr-and-a-surprising-removal/

Valve Ships SteamOS 0.5.8 and SteamVR 2.19.2 Betas for Steam Frame, Adds Room View:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/valve-ships-steamos-058-and-steamvr-2192-betas-for-steam-frame-adds-room-view/

SteamVR Beta 2.19.1 Delivers Sharper VR Streaming for Steam Frame and Linux Users:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/steamvr-beta-2191-delivers-sharper-vr-streaming-for-steam-frame-and-linux-users/

Steam On Linux Just Under 4% For October 2026:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-October-2026

Bazzite 45 arrives powered by Fedora Linux 45 for gamers:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/bazzite-45-arrives-powered-by-fedora-linux-45-for-gamers/

Bottles 67.6 Adds Bottle Organization, UMU-Proton Controls, and Stability Fixes:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/bottles-676-adds-bottle-organization-umuproton-controls-and-stability-fixes/

Amethyst Mod Manager v2.6.1 Fixes Flatpak Launch Bug:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/amethyst-mod-manager-v261-fixes-flatpak-launch-bug/

Amethyst Mod Manager v2.6.2 Release: New Features and Fixes:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/amethyst-mod-manager-v262-release-new-features-and-fixes/

Amethyst Mod Manager v2.6.3 Releases With a Two-Line Changelog for Steam Deck Users:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/amethyst-mod-manager-v263-releases-with-a-twoline-changelog-for-steam-deck-users/

Faugus 2.5.6 Adds Discord Rich Presence to Linux Game Launcher:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/faugus-256-adds-discord-rich-presence-to-linux-game-launcher/

Faugus Launcher 2.5.7 Ships Day-Before World of Warcraft: Forever, Dev Promises Reduced Activity:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/faugus-launcher-257-ships-daybefore-world-of-warcraft-forever-dev-promises-reduced-activity/

GE-Proton 11-12 is another big release with lots of game fixes for Linux / SteamOS:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/ge-proton-11-12-is-another-big-release-with-lots-of-game-fixes-for-linux-steamos/

DWProton 11.0-16 brings fixes for NIKKE and Arknights: Endfield:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/dwproton-11-0-16-brings-fixes-for-nikke-and-arknights-endfield/

FEX-2611 Release: Valve-Funded x86-on-ARM64 Emulator Gains AVX-NE-CONVERT, Necesse Fix:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/fex2611-release-valvefunded-x86onarm64-emulator-gains-avxneconvert-necesse-fix/

Mesa Merges A Common Vulkan Layer For Working Around Cross-Driver Game Bugs:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Common-Layer-Game-Bugs

NVIDIA 620 Linux Graphics Driver Released with Wayland Improvements:
https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-620-linux-graphics-driver-released-with-wayland-improvements

DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 adds initial ARM64 support, DirectX Raytracing (DXR) upgrades:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/dxvk-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/

Affinity is coming to Linux (but there’s no ETA yet):
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/11/affinity-linux-release-confirmed

This Tool Lets You Install Linux Without a USB Key, Straight From Windows:
https://itsfoss.com/libertix/

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#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #SteamOS #SteamVR #Bazzite #Bottles #AmethystModManager #FaugusLauncher #FEX #Gaming #LinuxGaming #FosseryTech

Linux Kernel 7.2 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 7.3:
https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-7-2-reaches-end-of-life-its-time-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-7-3

Linux 7.3 Will More Than Likely Be This Year's LTS Kernel:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Likely-LTS

OpenAI Finds 948 Local Privilege Escalation Bugs In The Linux Kernel:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenAI-948-Linux-LPE-Bugs

Linux 7.4’s Merge Window is Huge, and Linus Says it Might Not Just Be AI:
https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-7-4-huge-merge-window/

GStreamer 1.28.9 Multimedia Framework Adds Support for mpph264enc Encoder:
https://9to5linux.com/gstreamer-1-28-9-multimedia-framework-adds-support-for-the-mpph264enc-encoder

Systemd Wants Rust in, But its Core Will Have to Wait:
https://itsfoss.com/news/systemd-rust-support/

Systemd 260.7 and 259.11 Release: Security Fixes for Stable Branches:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/systemd-2607-and-25911-release-security-fixes-for-stable-branches/

Systemd v261.5 Released: Stabilizes IMDS, Live-Update, and Measured-Boot Features:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/systemd-v2615-released-stabilizes-imds-liveupdate-and-measuredboot-features/

Systemd 262.2 Release: Security Fixes and Hardening Land in Latest Patch:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/systemd-2622-release-security-fixes-and-hardening-land-in-latest-patch/

Liquorix Linux Kernel 7.2-23 Released: Merges Linux 7.2.14 Into Low-Latency Kernel:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/liquorix-linux-kernel-7223-released-merges-linux-7214-into-lowlatency-kernel/

Liquorix Linux Kernel 7.2-24 Ships as the Final Linux 7.2 Kernel:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/liquorix-linux-kernel-7224-ships-as-the-final-linux-72-kernel/

Liquorix Linux Kernel 7.2-25 Drops with Scheduler Refinements:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/liquorix-linux-kernel-7225-drops-with-scheduler-refinements/

XanMod 7.2.15 Released, But It's Built on an End-of-Life Linux Kernel:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/xanmod-7215-released-but-its-built-on-an-endoflife-linux-kernel/

XanMod Releases 7.3.3 and 6.18.62 Kernels with Major Security Fixes:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/xanmod-releases-733-and-61862-kernels-with-major-security-fixes/

A RISC-V Based TEE With AMD Zen 6 CPUs:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-6-TEE-RISC-V-Based

yserver 1.9.0 Adds Native Windows Support to From-Scratch Rust X11 Server:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/yserver-190-adds-native-windows-support-to-fromscratch-rust-x11-server/

Kmorph Aims To Provide Rebootless Linux Kernel Crash Recovery:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Kmorph-Linux-Crash-Recovery

Synaptics Appears To Use Legal Threats To Block Open-Source DisplayLink Driver:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Synaptics-Blocks-Vino-Driver

SUSE Laying Off 10% Of Its Workforce Due To AI & Automation:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SUSE-Layoffs-10p-AI

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#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #LinuxKernel #GStreamer #Systemd #LiquorixKernel #XanMod #yserver #Kmorph #DisplayLink #SUSE #FosseryTech

Namespace Devbox : des machines cloud isolées sous Linux, macOS et Windows pour exécuter le code généré par vos agents sans toucher à votre infra.

Les Devboxes, les runners GitHub Actions et le remote execution Bazel tournent sur les mêmes instances. ⬇️
https://namespace.so/

#Linux #macOS #Programming #WebDev

📬 Ma veille dev, chaque vendredi par email → https://l.camilleroux.com/sig-u5f

"This is the best way to install #Linux: Linus comes to your house and does it for you" ~ @liw — The Early Days of Linux at MiniDebConf Cambridge

When I'm asked why OpenBSD is good and that I want to reply honestly, I have no argument.

From a technical point of view, I can't tell any strong benefits using OpenBSD, NetBSD or FreeBSD over Linux, although this doesn't mean they are bad.

It would be easy for me to be "cargo-culting" facts, being a "fanboy" or enumerating features that are exclusive to one (and they are rare, except if you are looking for the very very same feature!).

The truth is that what one OS will do better than an other, it will also do worse in another area.

It's important that we keep the BSD systems as relevant Linux alternatives: for software diversity, innovation and freedom of choice.

#linux #openbsd #foss #opensource #netbsd #freebsd

#OpenSSH flaw lets attackers log into password-disabled #Linux accounts

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/openssh-flaw-lets-attackers-log-into-password-disabled-linux-accounts/

#sshole #SSH #cybersecurity

Nanolathe : un moteur RTS open source qui fait tourner Total Annihilation sur Windows, Mac et Linux, avec vos fichiers du jeu. Licence MIT, rendu GPU moderne ou mode Classic.

Démo de trois missions dans le navigateur. Multijoueur de 2 à 10 en skirmish ⬇️
https://nanolathe.gg/

#Linux #OpenSource #Gaming #GameDev

📬 Ma veille dev, chaque vendredi par email → https://l.camilleroux.com/sig-rPS

#getfedihired #boston #linux #debian #macos #nomicrosoft

I'm hiring.

https://www.smartleaf.com/systems-administrator-2026

(And I have to revise the wording of the job ad, because it got filtered through other fingers.)

This one: we are starting to separate our the IT function from the general-purpose-sysadmin model. Enjoy not being on-call! Work with clueful people! Be mostly remote unless you really want to sit in the office! (You must be able to come in to the office when needed, though. We're on top of the Bowdoin T.)

Questions? email me at my initials (between the dashes) at the company domain.

Node64 vereint sechs Homelab-Dienste in einem Container
https://linuxnews.de/node64-vereint-sechs-homelab-dienste-in-einem-container/ #homelab #selfhosting #linux #opensource #linuxnews

This week, I had to do some work with Linux, so I found myself working with Alpine Linux again. And, of course, one of the worst and most absurd security vulnerabilities in recent times popped up. 😆
Fortunately, none of my setups met the conditions required for exploitation.

That said, I've been running some interesting experiments on a Raspberry Pi 4, the same one that has been running FreeBSD for quite some years, hosting a Time Machine service in a jail and handling backups from other servers.

Long story short, I installed Alpine Linux on the Raspberry Pi and moved FreeBSD into a KVM virtual machine, with the disks passed through directly to it.

The result? The VM runs beautifully with 3 GB of RAM (possibly even 2 GB), and I still have the rest of the Raspberry Pi available to run OpenBSD, NetBSD, and other systems I need for different setups.

It's a sad that bhyve doesn't (yet) support virtualization on that device. Or at least, that was still the case the last time I checked.

#Linux #AlpineLinux #FreeBSD

But after reading the feedback, I thought: why not keep them all?

Minimal, Default, Classic, and Bob!

All four options will be available in the next slackfetch update. Coming soon!

Thanks everyone for the feedback!

Original poll:
https://snac.bsd.cafe/r1w1s1/p/1793800361.950633

#Slackware #Linux

Ubuntus Myna speech to text is awesome. It's still labeled experimental, but it works perfectly for me, both in English and German and mixed sentences. Spoken text is streamed and fully transcribed the moment I stop talking. And I am talking quite fast and sometimes mumbly.

#Ubuntu #Myna #Linux