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

🎙️ Meet Myna! Local, privacy-friendly speech-to-text is coming to #Ubuntu #Linux Desktop. Try the tech preview and let us know what you think! 🐧 ⤵️

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/try-myna-speech-to-text-on-ubuntu-desktop/89292?u=popey

[$] The 2026 Maintainers Summit

The Maintainers Summit is a one-day, invitation-only gathering of about 30 kernel developers; it is held once each year to discuss policy-related issues that are not always amenabl [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1099594/

#LWN #Linux #kernel #Rust #Git #LPC

LineageOS 24 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1099950/

#LWN #Linux #Android

TFW you discover that the #Linux distro with "Secure" in its tagline ships with integrity policy enforcement (CONFIG_SECURITY_IPE) disabled. IPE is a royal PITA, but naively, this feels like finding a secure variant of macOS shipping with Gatekeeper not just disabled, but impossible to enable.

Security updates for Monday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1099949/

#LWN #Linux #security

Kernel prepatch 7.3-rc7

https://lwn.net/Articles/1099798/

#LWN #Linux #kernel #Git

So, #Fedora puts extensions into its "Fedora Flatpak" version of #GnomeTweaks that can't be removed.

This is enclosure shit. I got off corporate software to avoid this.

I need to figure out how to install #Debian on a T2 MacBook.

#Linux #Gnome #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Computers #tech #technology

Not paying for a Windows 11 license: -$139.00
Not paying for Office 2024 Home: -$179.00
Not having to deal with fucking Copilot: PRICELESS

#linux

Stable kernels 7.2.10 and 6.18.56

https://lwn.net/Articles/1099764/

#LWN #Linux #kernel

Holy hell is boot signing enforcement complicated to handle in #Linux. That is all.

Doing a #debian #linux install on an older #Macbook (2015) and I went with the easy option of encryption on LVM on root. Performance was unbearable. I'm now following @dwarmstrong 's instructions on how to do encrypted ZFS on root. The performance impact of the encryption isn't even noticeable.

Running the live debian off the USB with the encrypted ZFS mounted during the install runs faster than encrypted LVM running native on the laptop.

With my existing love for tinkering, handhelds, and Linux -- plus a growing fascination with emulation -- I'm struggling to avoid ordering an AYN Thor right now!

True, DroidDeck is technically an Android app, but there are a number of exciting standalone Linux distros (like Armada) for these devices too.

Also, I want to see FEX in action.

Also also, DroidDeck can be set as your FRONTEND?! ohhhhhh damnit I just hit "order."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqJ-iM_fTdQ

#Gaming #handheld #Linux #Steam

New 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝘂𝗰𝗸𝘂𝗽 [FreeBSD Cope with Signal Fuckup] article on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/10/10/freebsd-cope-with-signal-fuckup/

#verblog #freebsd #laptop #linux #signal #ubuntu #x11 #apt #chrome #debian #debootstrap #desktop

I was in my Dad’s garage looking for a tool and found this old stack of CDs that he now uses to deter birds from his garden.

Ubuntu 9.10 server edition. Blast from the past!

#Ubuntu #retro #OldSchool #Linux

Here's a wacky Linux factoid--

If you look at the RAID UUID in the superblock on disk it's in little-endian byte order:

Linux Software RAID version 1.2 (1) UUID=cccdcc9b:f86a0b98:98df7949:8f2f7bb8 name=localhost:boot level=1 disks=2

But if you look at the metadata for active volumes in the /run/mdadm/map file, the UUIDs are in big-endian (network byte order) format:

md126 1.2 9bcccdcc:980b6af8:4979df98:b87b2f8f /dev/md/localhost:boot

I spent some time today being confused by why the UUIDs weren't matching before I realized what was going on.

#Linux #RAID #DFIR

Been working on this recently. The currently supported vendors are at https://linuxmachines.popey.com/vendors . Still got more to add.
#linux

https://linuxmachines.popey.com

Here is this week's #Linux and #OpenSource news video, bright and early (for me at least), in which we now have 2 different ways of getting the full Adobe suite on Linux:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAeT63x338Y

I'm sure I'll get bored with it eventually, but for now, #DesktopCube for #Gnome is a delight.

#Linux #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Computers #tech #technology

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A screncap of Desktop Cube for Gnome. The "overview" is open, and the virtual desktops are arranged in a cube shape rather than a scroll, as if you were looking at an open-topped box made of your own computer.

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/13047-week-41-2026

#FOSS #Linux #Solus #OpenSource

- Evan

My only substantive complaint about using a #MacBookAir (to run #Kait2en #Linux, to be clear) is that it lives up to its name and *constantly* blows a high-pitched fan. I'm thinking that's bc the CPU is much less powerful than the #Thinkpad #T14 I was on previously. Two steps forward, one step back.

#Gnome #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Computers #tech #technology

At this point, ever single device that I own (that has a display or can use one at all) runs Linux. It's genuinely nuts:

My laptops and desktop: plain old desktop Linux
My mobile devices: GrapheneOS, Linux at its core
My game consoles: Android on the Thor, Bazzite on the Steam Deck
My ereader: Kobo uses Linux at the core of its firmware
My camera: apparently runs Poky, which is Linux-based
My router: OpenWRT, straight up wireless router Linux
My NAS: Synology DSM is Linux!
My TVs: every HTPC in my house is running desktop Linux

#Linux

petition to bring back Keith the diseased rat but as a linux kernel mascot given the sloppy state of things. #linux #AgainstAISlop #sloperators #wakeupandsmelltheshitlinus

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Keith the three legged diseased rat, once a proud mascot of C++ before his fall from grace.

How do we recapture the passion we once had for computers and technology?

https://linuxafterdark.net/linux-after-dark-episode-132/

#podcast #linux

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Linux After Dark artwork

"Ein kleines Transportunternehmen aus der Provinz Bergamo hat es vorgemacht: Fünf Arbeitsplätze, ein Wochenende Zeit und danach keine Lizenzkosten mehr. Die Migration von proprietärer Software zu Linux und Open Source zeigt, dass der Umstieg im Mittelstand nicht nur möglich, sondern wirtschaftlich attraktiv ist."

Sehr anschauliches Beispiel:

• Kubuntu, statt Windows.
• LibreOffice, statt MS Office.
• Mattermost, statt WhatsApp!

Es zeigt auf, dass viele kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen ohne Probleme ihre Arbeitsabläufe mit Linux als "Werkzeug" bewältigen können.

Verbreitet die Kunde!

cc @b1systems@mastodon.social

https://linux-bibel.at/index.php/2026/09/18/von-windows-zu-linux-italienisches-logistikunternehmen-sorgt-fuer-digitale-souveraenitaet/

#Logistik #Transport #Unternehmen #KMU #Linux #OpenSource #Kubuntu #LibreOffice #WhatsApp #Mattermost #DigitaleSouveränität

Python 3.15 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1099602/

#LWN #Linux #Python

[$] Adding kernel control-flow-integrity checking to GCC

While many developers are struggling to keep up with the flood of vulnerability reports, others are still focused on preventing those reports from happening in the first place. Co [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1098670/

#LWN #Linux #GCC #Clang

[$] The state of systemd: 2026 edition

At the 2026 All Systems Go! conference, systemd maintainers Luca Boccassi and Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek delivered the traditional "state of the project" session with an overview [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1099024/

#LWN #Linux #Debian #RedHat #ArchLinux #glibc #Rust #systemd

Let's Encrypt moving to 64-day certificate lifetimes in 2027

https://lwn.net/Articles/1099588/

#LWN #Linux #security

Security updates for Friday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1099587/

#LWN #Linux #security

[SOLVED] Very weird. I'm copying some big files to a USB drive and second time now that systemd goes to and sticks to 100% CPU??

It was tumblerd going wild on the USB drive.

#linux #systemd

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Image shows top output. Systemd eats 100% CPU

DXVK-Sarek 1.14.0 released for gaming on older GPUs https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/dxvk-sarek-1-14-0-released-for-gaming-on-older-gpus/

#Linux #Proton #Wine #DXVK #DXVKSarek

I love #ipv6 . But some things are unworkable.

Is anyone using an IPv6 #VPN? Could you share the length of the prefix?

I'm considering submitting a patch to #Linux which would allow #ULAs to be routed automatically (set accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen to 64), and I'd like to know good reasons *not* to do that first.

Any #network subsystem maintainers on the fedi?

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/patch/20140319172210.GA29745@midget.suse.cz/

#programming #networking

SteamOS 0.4 for Steam Frame is out now with better power efficiency and battery lifetime https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/steamos-0-4-for-steam-frame-is-out-now-with-better-power-efficiency-and-battery-lifetime/

#SteamFrame #VirtualReality #VR #Steam #SteamOS #Linux