More games added to our anti-cheat compatibility page today: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/anticheat/

#Linux #SteamDeck #SteamOS

Today is Plasma 6.5 Beta test day (1)!

KDE is Looking for daring testers willing to try out the upcoming version of Plasma.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.90/

If you like hunting down bugs, install it from your distro's unstable repos (or grab a KDE Linux image and install that — https://kde.org/linux/), give it a spin and report bugs 🪲 to:

https://bugs.kde.org

WARNING: Plasma 6.5 is BETA software and not ready to be used in production. Testers only!

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

#Plasma6 #FreeSoftware #Linux #desktop

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Konq, KDE's pet dragon, chases a bug across the Plasma 6.5 desktop.

Vivaldi 7.6 has been released and – *rubs eyes, blinks* – not a single shoehorned "AI" gimmick in sight.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/vivaldi-7-6-released-with-editable-tab-bar-address-bar-actions-more

#vivaldi #linux #tech

What would you think about a new API endpoint that lets you run unattended upgrades with a simple call like:

/nodes/{node_name}/apt/upgrade

#Linux #OpenSource #PatchManagement #Security #DevOps #Automation #Ansible #PVE #PVE8 #PVE9

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A Proxmox Node running apt-get -y dist-upgrade command via API in a non interactive and unattended way by a patched and extended API from gyptazy

New Guide: How to install Hollow Knight: Silksong mods on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck https://www.gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/how-to-install-hollow-knight-silksong-mods-on-linux-steamos-and-steam-deck/

#HollowKnight #Silksong #Modding #Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck

I hate to say. The Signal Desktop app is unusable on my debian since reinstall.

And if you look on the net there's a shitton of complains of people over #Signal on #linux over all distros.

At least its very picky and its not clear on where and why its picky

#secondclasscitizen

Awesome grassroots effort for #Linux on the desktop, rather than Windows 10 forced obsolescence: https://endof10.org/

Thank you to everyone who helped make GNOME 49 a reality—especially every Friend of GNOME whose financial support sustains the GNOME Foundation!

If you'd like to join us on the road to GNOME 50, consider donating to become a Friend of GNOME today. With your help, we can continue to build a diverse and sustainable free software personal computing ecosystem to realize a world where everyone is empowered by technology they can trust.

https://donate.gnome.org/

#GNOME #OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS #Linux

GNOME 49 released with new video player, document viewer, improved app store and disabled X11 session https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/gnome-49-released-with-new-video-player-document-viewer-improved-app-store-and-disabled-x11-session/

#GNOME49 #GNOME #Linux #OpenSource

If you scrobble your music habits, or you just want a fancy desktop music controller, Turntable is ideal – and it just got a big update.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/turntable-offline-scrobbling-resizable-update?v1

#gnome #linux #lastfm

GNOME 49 has been officially released! Head over to the release notes to discover all the new features and enhancements:

https://release.gnome.org/49

Many thanks to our community for your work over the past 6 months. You're amazing!

#GNOME #OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS #Linux

I 💝 OpenZFS

Working on research for a HPC storage cluster, one of my architecture doc sections quote this information from the wonderful group at Klara:

> OpenZFS In the Wild
>
> .. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) undertook porting ZFS to Linux, to form the backbone of their Lustre distributed filesystem. They noted that OpenZFS facilitated building a storage system that could support 1 terabyte per second of data transfer at less than half the cost of any alternative filesystem.
>
> Based on the success seen at LLNL, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) started using ZFS as well.
>
> In the latest example, just a few months ago the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced it had built Frontier, the world’s first exascale supercomputing system and currently the fastest computer in the world, backed by Orion, the massive 700 Petabyte ZFS based file system that supports it. This impressive system contains nearly 48,000 hard drives and 5,400 NVMe devices for primary storage, and another 480 NVMe just for metadata.

https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs-openzfs-for-hpc-clusters/#:~:text=built%C2%A0Frontier%2C%20the%20world%E2%80%99s%20first%20exascale,480%20NVMe%20just%20for%20metadata

#openzfs #zfs #freebsd #linux #engineering #supercomputing #hpc

Soldat dev releases demo for Jackal, a brutal new top-down action game inspired by Hotline Miami https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/soldat-dev-releases-demo-for-jackal-a-brutal-new-top-down-action-game-inspired-by-hotline-miami/

#Jackal #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck

Some people I know have given in to the Microsoft propaganda, and replacing a perfectly good machine 😭

Does anyone know of any effort to donate/re-own such machines, and perhaps give them away to people who need them?

Ideally in France (south), but I'll take anything that doesn't land the machine in the bin as I'm unfortunately not on site to do it myself.

cc:@Endof10

#endOf10 #upcycling #linux #plannedObsolescence

Fucking people! STOP! If you do a #tutorial for #Linux or any #FOSS app on fucking #YOUTUBE, just to subject me as a captive audience to whatever fucking fadish content creator get rich scheme there is today...I'm not fucking watching your video! I'm not going to sit there just to find the ONE fucking thing I'm looking for. Just do a goddamned #blog

Ok so our next mission is to prove that @homebrew casks can be useful on #linux

So we're dogfooding it. We've been slowly moving away from the need to have dedicated dx images. Another good candidate would be the jetbrains toolbox.

Useful for IDEs that don't work well in #flatpak and a ton of people use these on Macs so it's a common pattern. Nice.

https://github.com/ublue-os/bluefin/discussions/3221

Fedora Linux 43 Beta is out now! Help the Fedora community prepare for a smooth stable release!

➡️ https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-43-beta/

#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource

I have a fanless thin client arriving in the next couple of days (snagged it for $35!). The original plan was to port over my existing OpenBSD desktop, but I’ve been eyeing elementaryOS for a while now.

I remember playing with version 6 back in the day and quite enjoying it. Might test it out first before fully committing to OpenBSD right away 😛

#openbsd #linux #elementaryos

Until EL10 has cowsay, I'm not trusting it in production.

#Linux

New Guide: Alternatives to popular games that don't work on Linux, Steam Deck and SteamOS https://www.gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/alternatives-to-popular-games-that-dont-work-on-linux-steam-deck-and-steamos/

#Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck

Reisting the urge to install the Day 0 Beta of Fedora 43 on every piece of hardware I can grab within a 300 metre radius

#fedora #linux

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Classic meme of a guy with bulging head veins

#Fedora Linux 43 Is Available for Public Beta Testing with #Linux Kernel 6.17, #GNOME 49, #KDE Plasma 6.4, and More https://9to5linux.com/fedora-linux-43-beta-released-with-linux-6-17-gnome-49-and-kde-plasma-6-4

#OpenSource

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Screenshot of Fedora Linux 43 Workstation with the GNOME 49 desktop environment showing the Activities Overview.

Full Circle / EA confirm again that skate. will not support Linux, Steam Deck or macOS https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/full-circle-ea-confirm-again-that-skate-will-not-support-linux-steam-deck-or-macos/

#skate #EA #FullCircle #AntiCheat #Linux #SteamDeck

The Fedora Docs team has done a great write up of the status of our documentation today, what it has been in the past, and the challenges and solutions to work through.

We're super grateful for the docs we have!

At the same time, consider whether you can contribute to Fedora documentation. Get in touch with the team and see how you can help!

➡️ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-docs-current-state-and-conclusions-from-our-experiences/

#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource

Cloning disks (again), Félim’s new colour e-reader, 3 ways to make a QR code, improving your typing with a TUI and a game, a quick KDE Korner, and more.
 
https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-351/

#podcast #linux #opensource

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Late Night Linux artwork

Q4OS 6.1 "Andromeda" released, based on Debian 13.1 "Trixie", with KDE Plasma 6.3.6 and Trinity desktop 14.1.5

https://q4os.org/blog.html#news250912

#q4os #debian #linux #kdeplasma #trinitydesktop #linuxdesktop #debiantrixie

AMDVLK has been discontinued as AMD are throwing their "full support" behind RADV https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/amdvlk-has-been-discontinued-as-amd-are-throwing-their-full-support-behind-radv/

#AMD #OpenSource #Linux #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck

It was a plan a few years back and now has finally happened, @vkc has visited Tech Over Tea #Linux #Podcast

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n51dw6Bb5XE

Audio: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/tech-over-tea/episodes/Finally-This-Podcast-Happened--Veronica-Explains-e384hcu

GNOME 49 launches THIS WEEK! 🥳 It brings a slew of improvements, including new default apps (Showtime & Papers), lock screen media controls, per-monitor brightness adjustment, and more.

Ubuntu users get these features in 25.10, out on October 9th.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/gnome-49-new-features?v1

#GNOME #Linux #Ubuntu

"There will be no significant kernel-oriented development conferences in the US in the foreseeable future, it's just not gonna happen there. It's gonna happen somewhere else." – Jonathan Corbet, LWN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS2LGMRzE1I&t=858s

#Linux

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟵/𝟭𝟱 (Valuable News - 2025/09/15) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/valuable-news-2025-09-15/

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

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

Wine 10.15 released bringing Unicode 17 and some initial NTSYNC work https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/wine-10-15-released-bringing-unicode-17-and-some-initial-ntsync-work/

#Wine #Linux #OpenSource

So I just rebuilt my personal #python venv in my home directory on my #linux daily driver laptop. I did pip freeze > requirements.txt to capture all the packages I had installed. Then I took away all the ==a,b.c versioning so I'd install the latest compatible version.

Then I ran uv pip install -r requirements.txt. This blew me way:

$ time uv pip install -r requirements.txt 
Resolved 250 packages in 2.38s
      Built python-ldap==3.4.4
      Built py-cui==0.1.6
      Built docopt==0.6.2
      Built email-normalize==2.0.0
      Built ecos==2.0.14
... bunch of lines...
real    0m14.028s
user    0m11.605s
sys     0m4.131s

Wow. 250 packages in 14 seconds.

Interesting article from The Register on Friday about alternative kernels. As per the article, the topic of other kernels surface again after #Linux developers continue to clash over certain tech like Rust, SystemD, and bcachefs.

The three kernels discussed are Managarm, Asterinas, and Xous. Until stumbling across this article today, I've not heard of any of them. I guess I have some reading ahead of me. The article also mentioned the idea of disgruntled devs possibly forking the Linux kernel - a fascinating and probably confusing experience for a lot of people.

Would certainly be an interesting thought experiment, now giving a valid reason to explicitly list the userland and kernel with which OS you happen to be using, ie Debian GNU/Fork-this, openSUSE GNU/Linux, Gentoo GNU/Asterinas, or whatever.

It also might just be easier and more straightfoward to use #FreeBSD instead. 🤷‍♂️

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/three_new_microkernels/?td=rt-3a

#tech #technews

The touchpad on my #Framework responds poorly at first, then over a few minutes seems to self-calibrate.

Claude recommends this 10-second "touchpad yoga" sequence to force more rapid calibration after booting. What do you think?

* Full-palm touch (2 seconds)
* Five-finger spread (2 seconds)
* Edge-to-edge swipes (3 seconds)
* Left click, right click, two-finger click (3 seconds)

Sort of makes sense, but this is the first laptop where it feels like the touchpad needs a warm-up routine.
#LInux

Where are we at with the new version of the Anaconda Fedora Linux installer? Things are going well, though there is more to come over the next few releases.

If you are interested in making the new installer better or supporting this important piece of Fedora distribution, join the Anaconda team!

➡️ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/anaconda-webui-progress-update-and-roadmap/

#Fedora #Anaconda #Linux #OpenSource

Question: what are the best simple #linux games for toddlers?

Like real basic ones like bubble popping, animals running around, just simple controls, no dying etc

On #Flathub would be even better!

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Kid in pajamas playing extreme tux racer on an old imac

Just submitted the Apple Silicon Type-C PD controller changes separate from the PHY and DWC3 work for USB3: https://lore.kernel.org/asahi/20250914-apple-usb3-tipd-v1-0-4e99c8649024@kernel.org/

The PD controller on these machines negotiates the correct mode (usb, displayport, thunderbolt) with the other end and then is responsible for propagating this to other subsystems. On Apple Silicon the entire type-c stack is a bit cursed and requires tearing down dwc3 for each mode change. We thus added debouncing here and made sure to call the usb-role-switch and typec-mux functions in just the right order.

Like last time this does NOT enable DisplayPort or Thunderbolt, it's just the very first step towards that.

#linux #asahilinux

🙅 Goodbye Forever OPNsense 🙅

It displeases me to finally and heartily say GTFO to OPNsense; to abandon a solid decade of use.

I've had it on everything from embedded arm64 experiments to baremetal with ranges of 10, 25, 40, and 100GbE NICs. I've used all of the core features, built complex global service meshes, H/A systems, etc. I used to love it. I used to pay for it.

OPNsense was great, until it wasn't (starting around the time they axed their use of HardenedBSD), and with each release it gets more convoluted, out of date, tedious to debug, and generally a source of disappointment. The command line controls are anemic, inconsistent, and the lack of unified and useful system state tracking is a source of sailor level obscenities. Also, dear gods get rid of XML configs, no one can parse it without going blind! What is this, SOAP and XML-RPC era nonsense, really? 😠

I do not have time to waste, and I do not say that lightly.

I am never debugging OPNsense ever again, especially not for four hours on a (yesterday) Saturday, and especially not putting off updates in a colo for TWO YEARS because their team decided to break admin group SSH controls, hamper CARP flapping controls, breaking IPMI fencing, and the list goes on. I am done.

What now? Three realistic options.

1) BSD Router Project: I've built custom BSD-RP releases with Poudriere, loved just about everything it offers.
2) VyOS: configurable via CLI in a fraction of the time that was wasted on debugging OPNsense. Solid product, enjoying it more every day.
3) OpenWRT: I build custom releases for NanoPi and Meraki rooted WAPs and SOHO boxes, it's fun, though it's not running my 100G infra.

#opnsense #bsd #freebsd #linux #networking #engineering #homelab

ICYMI: The big Call to Arms update for Valheim is out now https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/the-big-call-to-arms-update-for-valheim-is-out-now/

#Valheim #Linux #SteamDeck #PCGaming #Gaming

Wayland: The Future is Now.

#Wayland #Linux #FreeSoftware