[$] Flexible metaprogramming with Rhombus

Lisp-like languages have historically led the world in metaprogramming and flexibility. While many modern languages have adopted the idea of macros, Lisp-like languages such as Ra [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1079001/ #LWN #Linux #Rust #Python

Security updates for Tuesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1080439/ #LWN #Linux #security

Of course the only thing I could do while on my way to Alte Hölle was to flash @postmarketOS on my Fairphone 5, so that I can use it as a Reticulum and/or MeshCore node at DWeb Camp ihihi eheheh

#DWebCamp #pmOS #postmarketOS #AlteHölle #Berlin #Linux #LinuxMobile #MeshCore #MeshNetworks #Reticulum #Fairphone #Fairphone5 #FP5

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Photo of my Framework laptop on a RE7 train table. Plugged to the laptop, my Fairphone 5 in fastboot mode. The laptop has an Ungoogled Chromium tab open on https://flash.postmarketos.org, postmarketOS’ Web Flasher. Next to the laptop, my water bottle with “Pimpa Antifascista e Transfemminista” pink round sticker, the DWeb logo, and the Mastodon logo.

So I wanted to share with you this little project of mine. I delved into "retro-necromancy" and reanimated one very old UNIX utility called ile written by Robert Pendleton in 1988. I found it on one of the Walnut Creek source code CDs from 1994.
What it does is simply works like an input line editor (hence ile) for shells and programs that do not support interactive line editing. To put it simply, it adds Emacs-style keybindings like ^A, ^E, ^K, ^U and so on and command history that you can easily navigate.
Of course, these days it's hard to find a shell that doesn't support line editing.
But this little tool can still be usable, for example, with ed. It's nice to have Emacs-style editing in ed.
It can work like shell replacement or just run like a "middleman" between any given program. It respects terminal settings and doesn't get in a way. Keybindings are configurable.
Needless to say, the code from 1988 wouldn't run on any modern system. It was written in K&R style because there was no ANSI C standard yet! And #UNIX was quite a different beast back then.
So I ported it to modern systems, rewrote outdated bits (like sgttyb ioctls and brutal utmp handling).
Currently it builds and runs on #Linux, #OpenBSD, #FreeBSD and #NetBSD. Hopefully without too much bugs.
You can find it on Codeberg:
https://codeberg.org/chesheer/ile

Great news! My presentation for #EuroBSDCon has been accepted!

Expect a mix of disasters, horror stories, recoveries, BSDs, and one very, very long day.

Stay tuned!

#EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD #RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Linux

Wine 11.12 released bringing new features like Wayland fractional scaling https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/wine-11-12-released-bringing-new-features-like-wayland-fractional-scaling/

#Wine #Linux #OpenSource #Wayland

ANOTHER #Linux LPE: CVE-2026-43503

If only Linus wasn't so obsessed with calling #OpenBSD developers "masturbating monkeys" 18 years ago and actually took security seriously. 🤔

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/torvalds-attacks-it-industry-security-circus-1/

We finally have pricing for the Steam Machine, but they are very hard to actually buy, and very expensive. SteamOS is now supported on your own hardware now though, and Joe gives it a go. Plus Ubuntu makes moves to tighten up the flavours situation and announces speech to text on the desktop, and a quick KDE Korner.

https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-392/

#podcast #linux #opensource #steammachine #steamos

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Late Night Linux artwork

Git 2.55.0 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1080188/ #LWN #Linux #Git

Kernel prepatch 7.2-rc1

https://lwn.net/Articles/1079891/ #LWN #Linux #kernel

Dinosaurs have arrived in the latest Dwarf Fortress update https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/dinosaurs-have-arrived-in-the-latest-dwarf-fortress-update/

#DwarfFortress #Gaming #Linux #PCGaming

It's been zero days since I fixed something by hand in a decades old perl codebase John Henry style - reading code and man pages and using vim/cpan/make and no AI agents. I still feel very dirty, though.

#programming #Linux

[$] Xsnow "protestware" in Debian

The xsnow application, which generates an animated snowfall effect (and other pleasant diversions) for X11 desktops, does not seem like an obvious channel for political statements. [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1079385/ #LWN #Linux #Debian #systemd

Security updates for Monday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1080075/ #LWN #Linux #security

[$] The rest of the 7.2 merge window

Linus Torvalds released 7.2-rc1 and closed the 7.2 merge window on June 28; by that time, 13,412 non-merge commits had found their way into the mainline. That makes this the busie [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1078539/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #BPF

Mageia 10 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1080143/ #LWN #Linux

Open source maintainership in the age of AI (Kubernetes blog)

https://lwn.net/Articles/1080144/ #LWN #Linux

I tried to SSH into my #Linux server but kept getting “Permission denied (publickey)”.
Story of my life. even my own machine doesn’t trust me 😒

I am experiencing this with #OpenZFS

➜  ~ sudo zpool status -x
  pool: ughetto
 state: DEGRADED
status: One or more devices could not be used because the label is missing or
        invalid.  Sufficient replicas exist for the pool to continue
        functioning in a degraded state.
action: Replace the device using 'zpool replace'.
   see: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/msg/ZFS-8000-4J
  scan: scrub in progress since Sat Jun 27 18:44:31 2026
        141G / 141G scanned, 11.8G / 141G issued at 184M/s
        0B repaired, 8.39% done, 00:12:00 to go
config:
        NAME                    STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        ughetto                 DEGRADED     0     0     0
          mirror-0              DEGRADED     0     0     0
            653332104939013944  UNAVAIL      0     0     0  was /dev/sdb1
            sdc                 ONLINE       0     0     0
        cache
          sda                   FAULTED      0     0     0  corrupted data
errors: No known data errors

This has already happened, but at a point where I didn’t mind losing the data, so I destroyed the pool and I recreated it from scratch, with no errors. Now, I would like to try to repair the corrupted data… Any tips? I would hate it if I have to throw away the hard disk, it’s less than one year old and I have been using it only for a couple of months… Is replacing the disk my only option?

#ZFS #systemAdministration #help #sysAd #techSupport #dataLoss #storage #partition #hardDisk #HDD #Linux #filesystem #data #storage

How Mastodon are you? (Poll #3)
Pick ALL that apply to you!

BTW There 50 choices ... So make sure you click on 'Read more >' to see all of them!

Please BOOST ... Polls work best if more people see them.

#food #biking #autism #LGBTQ #Linux #photography #bloomscrolling #writing

Three stable kernel updates

https://lwn.net/Articles/1079852/ #LWN #Linux #kernel

Now running #Linux #kernel 7.0.13.

Here is this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News show, in which we talk about the Steam machine (looks disappointing to me), about Epic's very own GIT, about some stuff happening at Wikipedia, plus some cool stuff for XFCE, Cosmic, Linux Gaming, and more!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5aE1FpFmtY

One of the special functions we have in @Vivaldi is single key keyboard shortcuts. Off by default, this allows you to bind just about any key to a function. My personal favorites are Z and X for going back and forth in history and 9 and 0 to zoom.

Why we have it? It is all about speed of operation and accessibility.

We had this in Opera as well. I think I even implemented the first version myself.

We got great feedback from users that used this extensively, including users using this for accessibility.

#Windows #Macos #Linux #Computer #Technology

https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/shortcuts/single-key-shortcuts/

Heya folks! It's sync day, and that means it's time for the weekly Solus roundup! Read all about it on our forums: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12814-week-26-2026

#FOSS #Linux #Solus #OpenSource

- Evan

[$] Reports from OSPM 2026, day three

The Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel Summit, which still goes by the historical acronym OSPM, was held in Cambridge, UK, in mid-April. As has become traditional [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1078697/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Rust #BPF

I also bought a new Elgato Stream Deck but didn't have the chance to install it yet, because it's too hot to turn on the PC 😅

Dang it.

#PC #Linux #StreamDeck

[$] Initiating writeback earlier

Writeback is the process of ensuring that dirty pages or folios in the page cache are flushed to the disk, so that changes to those files are made persistent. In a filesystem-trac [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1078767/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #systemd #BPF

Lots of stories about systemd v261

https://lwn.net/Articles/1079806/ #LWN #Linux #systemd

[$] What's coming in Git 2.55

The Git v2.55.0-rc2 testing release appeared on June 23, suggesting that the final Git 2.55 release can be expected in the near future. While this Git update lacks radical new fea [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1079596/ #LWN #Linux #Git

Security updates for Friday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1079769/ #LWN #Linux #security

The "Akrites" vulnerability-mitigation project launches

https://lwn.net/Articles/1079657/ #LWN #Linux #security

Supernatural horror adventure ASYLUM gets upgraded with Linux support https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/supernatural-horror-adventure-asylum-gets-upgraded-with-linux-support/

#ASYLUM #Linux #PCGaming #Gaming #SteamOS

This morning I am installing #ALinux on an 11 year old Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 via Termux.

Why?

Because fuck you, that's why.

#Linux #LinuxFingering

DXVK 3.0 brings lots of improvements for Windows games on Linux / SteamOS https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/dxvk-3-0-brings-lots-of-improvements-for-windows-games-on-linux-steamos/

#Linux #OpenSource #Vulkan #Direct3D #DXVK #Proton #LinuxGaming

Valve quietly tweaked the Steam Machine details removing "4K gaming at 60 FPS" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/valve-quietly-tweaked-the-steam-machine-details-removing-4k-gaming-at-60-fps/

#SteamMachine #SteamOS #Linux #Gaming

NVIDIA 580.173.02 released for Linux for those on older GPUs https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/nvidia-580-173-02-released-for-linux-for-those-on-older-gpus/

#NVIDIA #Drivers #Linux

[$] A look at MinIO alternatives: Ceph and Garage

MinIO is a popular object-storage server that offered compatibility with the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) API. In December 2025, the company behind the project (also named M [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1077739/ #LWN #Linux #Rust #Git

Podman 6.0 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1079600/ #LWN #Linux

[$] Hardening the kernel with allocation tokens and bootpatch-SLR

There is a lot of work going into eliminating exploitable bugs from the kernel and preventing the addition of new ones. Even if this work is maximally successful, though, there is [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1078699/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #GCC #LLVM #Clang #Git

Security updates for Thursday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1079551/ #LWN #Linux #security

Another great shout out to @vermaden for this thorough introduction to #FreeBSD, especially if one is coming from #Linux. It may be several years old but much of the info is still relevant today.

The FreeBSD Handbook is great but the additional details and context for the topics covered are where this document really shines.

This needs to be required reading for anyone curious about the OS.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2020/09/07/quare-freebsd/