ARCH LINUX BOOTC WORKS. I DECLARE THE LINUX ATOMIC AGE IS UPON US!

https://github.com/tulilirockz/arch-bootc

#arch #linux #bootc #cncf #podman #ostree #composefs

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Screenshot of the GNOME desktop installed on Arch Linux, a terminal opened to the left of the screen demonstrating `bootc status` working, to the right there are descriptions about a virtualized environment on the GNOME settings panel

FREEDOM AT LAST! Wolfi next let's burn it all down!

https://github.com/bootc-dev/bootc/issues/865

#linux #arch

I need some #Linux help!
I used
$ systemd-run --scope -p MemoryMax=100M --user tuba
in attempts to limit tuba's memory usage on my linux phone, and now, even without tuba running, the phone locks up if I open much of anything! How do I reverse what I did?!

I finally finished my Aeon Desktop review. I think it needs a better ending. I'll let it marinate a few days and see what I come up with https://zola.passthejoe.net/blog/hello-aeon/

#Aeon #openSUSE #atomic #immutable #Linux

Apparently, Windows antivirus marking Linux ISOs as malware is a common issue

DistroWatch's Jesse Smith is bringing some attention to an issue I have never encountered and had never heard of, and it has to do with antivirus software on Windows. It seems it's not uncommon for antivirus software on Windows to mark Linux ISOs as malware or otherwise dangerous, and

https://www.osnews.com/story/143238/apparently-windows-antivirus-marking-linux-isos-as-malware-is-a-common-issue/

#Linux

What happens to Linux after Linus, what a German legal case might mean for blocking ads on the web, Graham tell us about his new foldable phone which Joe has also had for about 7 months, and a quick KDE Korner.

https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-349/

#podcast #linux #opensource #Pixel9ProFold

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Late Night Linux artwork

Thanks to @osnews for highlighting this 2023 LWN post by Lars Wirzenius on his experiences during the very earliest days of Linux and the time leading up to it. #linux #history #ComputerHistory

lwn.net/Articles/928581/

Heya folks! Today we have our 10th Contributor Roundup! Come check out what our fantastic contributors have been up to lately! Read all about it on our forum: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/11918-contributor-roundup-10-end-of-august-2025

#Solus #Linux #Contributor #Roundup

- Evan

The excellent auto-battler Halls of Torment is getting a big DLC and free update https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/the-excellent-auto-battler-halls-of-torment-is-getting-a-big-dlc-and-free-update/

#HallsofTorment #Gaming #Linux #SteamDeck

Itching to install Debian 13, but don't have time to do so just yet. Hopefully soon :)

Looking forward to test the new mxlinux and antix releases too. #debian #mxlinux #antix #linux

I never gelled with terminal file managers – powerful and much-loved as many are – until I tried SuperFile.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/superfile-terminal-file-manager-linux-ubuntu

#opensource #linux #go

ScummVM gets support for the survival horror Penumbra Overture from the Amnesia developers https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/scummvm-gets-support-for-the-survival-horror-penumbra-overture-from-the-amnesia-developers/

#PenumbraOverture #Gaming #PCGaming #OpenSource #Linux #HorrorGames

A little oddity in the way curl deals with old dates

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/a-little-oddity-in-the-way-curl-deals-with-old-dates/

For boring technical reasons, computers think the world began on 1st of January 1970

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. To keep track of the future, they count the number of seconds since that momentous date. So zero seconds represents midnight on that day

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So how do computers deal with dates before The Beatles' Abbey Road was top of the UK album

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charts?

Negative numbers! Most modern computers can deal with dates far in the past and, hopefully, far into the future. Again, for boring technical reasons, lots of computers can only save files with a date no earlier than 13th December 1901

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When you download a file from the Internet, the sending server can tell you when that file was last modified. That's useful if you only want to download the file if it has changed since you last got it.

It presents the date using RFC 1123 format for reasons which are lost to the ages.

< Last-Modified: Wed, 09 Oct 1940 16:45:49 +0100

Great!

If you use the venerable wget utility, it will happily save the file on your disk and tell you that is when it was created.

But what if you use curl -OR to download the file? The -R option says:

Make curl attempt to figure out the timestamp of the remote file that is getting downloaded, and if that is available make the local file get that same timestamp.

THIS IS A LIE!

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If curl sees a date with a negative time, it pretends that the past doesn't exist and that what you really wanted was to save the file with today's date and time.

Why does it do this?

I think it is because this code only checks for times ≥ 0. Which, I guess, is pretty reasonable. There weren't many computers around before the 1970s

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so the chances of finding a file which predates disco are slim.

Should we storm the barricades and demand this temporal anomaly be rectified?

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Nah. I've raised it as a discussion item on curl's GitHub.

If you have strong opinions about this - please join in the discussion

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1. Although, who is to say it didn't? Were you there? Do you have proof? Maybe the Young Earth Creationists aren't ambitious enough?! ↩︎

2. Except! Psych! It doesn't! The UK was experimenting with year-round BST so there's actually an hour's difference. Time is hard™. ↩︎

3. Do not search for the number 1 single on that date. You'll give yourself a sad. ↩︎

4. The music charts were less well-developed in 1901. But you could have read "The Purple Cloud" which is a brilliant early sci-fi novel. ↩︎

5. Everything you know is false! How deep does this conspiracy go!?!? ↩︎

6. Although, there were some. Not just the secret ones used to control the weather - but actual proper computers you could use to do maths! ↩︎

7. Preferably by firing photon torpedoes. Or maybe ejecting the warp core. I'm not an engineer. ↩︎

8. Or seek help from a mental health professional. ↩︎

#bug #curl #linux #time

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The curl logo.

🆕 blog! “A little oddity in the way curl deals with old dates”

For boring technical reasons, computers think the world began on 1st of January 1970. To keep track of the future, they count the number of seconds since that momentous date. So zero seconds represents midnight on that day.

So how do computers deal with dates before The Beatles' Abbey Road was …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/a-little-oddity-in-the-way-curl-deals-with-old-dates/
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#bug #curl #linux #time

ChimeraOS dev announced Kazeta, a new Linux OS aimed at recreating a classic console experience https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/chimeraos-dev-announced-kazeta-a-new-linux-os-aimed-at-recreating-a-classic-console-experience/

#Kazeta #Linux #OpenSource #RetroGaming #Gaming #PCGaming #LinuxGaming

Classic Marathon trilogy on Steam now has Linux support https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/classic-marathon-trilogy-on-steam-now-has-linux-support/

#Marathon #FPS #RetroGaming #PCGaming #Linux

Wine 10.14 brings updates for vkd3d and Mono plus more fixes https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/wine-10-14-brings-updates-for-vkd3d-and-mono-plus-more-fixes/

#Wine #Linux #LinuxGaming #OpenSource

DXVK 2.7.1 brings performance improvements for some Direct3D 9 games on Linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/dxvk-2-7-1-brings-performance-improvements-for-some-direct3d-9-games-on-linux/

#DXVK #Linux #OpenSource #Proton #LinuxGaming

The Linux version of the original Splitgate has been removed https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/the-linux-version-of-the-original-splitgate-has-been-removed/

#Splitgate #Linux #LinuxGaming #PCGaming

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟵/𝟬𝟭 (Valuable News - 2025/09/01) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/valuable-news-2025-09-01/

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

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

Heya folks! I wanted to share some of the work I've been doing on ypkg, our package building tool. Today's achievement was re-writing the entry point of the program into a proper CLI using Typer. Doing this was necessary for the work I've done making ypkg #PEP517 compatible. It's not glamorous, but it is necessary.

You can follow along with the PR if you want: https://github.com/getsolus/ypkg/pull/114

#Solus #Linux #Packaging

- Evan

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Terminal output showing the help text output of the "ypkg build", "ypkg gen-history", and "ypkg install-deps" commands. The output is nicely formatted, showing each command's usage, arguments, and options. The output is colored. Option long names are in teal, along with subcommands to "ypkg", short names are in green, and the expected type of each argument is in yellow. Each command, argument, and option has help text describing what the option or command is or does.

#AerynOS 2025.08 Released with #GNOME 48.4, Mesa 25.2, #KDE Plasma Support, and More https://9to5linux.com/aerynos-2025-08-released-with-gnome-48-4-and-mesa-25-2-kde-plasma-support

@AerynOS #OpenSource #Linux

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Screenshot of AerynOS 2025.08 with the GNOME desktop environment showing the Settings app.

Favorite distro : "I just open a terminal"

Best answer.

#Linux #Android #Unix

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another question asked, with Mac/iPhone/iPhone users using its descendants without even knowing it — and “deviating so far from the original free, open source philosophy.” “I think you hit the nail on the head,” Kernighan replied, “when you said that most people don’t know it…” He noted that iPhones are running a “fairly long-path-of-evolution version of Unix,” while Android phones “are running a different flavor there of Linux underneath all of that…. I think from my side, as just — you know, somebody who was involved loosely in the early days — and has a phone — I find it intriguing. “And I also find it kind of irritating that underneath there is a system that I could do things with — but I can’t get at it!” And his audience laughed and applauded again…

I remember a time on #linux when I had to use #wine to run #acdsee because everything I tried blew donkey balls. It's a been along road, getting from there to here...

I stumbled across this article while searching for informations about the future of some X11 window managers. probonopd created a good article about the differences between Wayland and X11 and the problems with Wayland (which perhaps could be fixed in the future)

Good to see that XLibre forked the X11 server so projects depending on X11 can go on further.

https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277

@probono

#wayland #xorgserver #x11libre #xorg #linux #bsd #linuxdesktop #windowmanager #freedesktop

New post: https://akselmo.dev/posts/netsurf-on-remarkable-2/

#reMarkable #Netsurf #Linux

Computer troubles are no fun.

If you're ever having trouble with Fedora Linux, reach out to the community through the Ask Fedora section of our forum!

Not making promises, but the contributors who answer here want you to get back to a smooth experience. 🙏

➡️ https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/ask/6

#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource

It's the time of year when one starts to think about #distrohopping again.

I've been using #Manjaro for years as my #Linux distro of choice and I'm toying with the idea of moving to #CachyOS.

This is for desktop use only, my servers are all running #BSD anyway.

My home directories are on a separate partition anyway, so it's not like it's a ton of effort to change distros as long as I remember to re-create the cron jobs.

Has anyone made that jump and was it an (unspecified) improvement?

@thelinuxlighthouse
That's comparing apples with pears. And where is Zed?

#opensuseleap #opensusetumbleweed #leap #microos #slowroll #aeon #leapmicro #suse #sysadmin #linux #Rust #TextEditor #Helix #Lapce #Amp #Linux #openSUSE #Tumbleweed #Programming #OpenSource

Here is today's #Linux and #OpenSource News, with a re-recorded intro and first segment, because apparently, the #GNOME FOundation lost their Executive Director. Again.

We also have AI being tested in the Linux kernel, Android blocking sideloading from unverified devs, and a lot more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR_Uzf2B-YA

"This week in Plasma" tells us how drawing tablets with touch rings get native support under Plasma, how the modest clipboard has become the coolest thanks to "favorites", and how KRunner knows what you mean even if you mistype stuff.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/08/30/this-week-in-plasma-saved-clipboard-items-and-tablet-touch-rings/

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Linux #desktop #Plasma6

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

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A screenshot showing KDE's clipboard. The items have stars on the right of them, indicating they have been favorited. These items will stick around until you un-favorite them.

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A screenshot of the KRunner dialogue box showing how the user has mispelt "thunderbird" as "t-h-u-n-d-e-r-b-i-r-b", but KRunner still manages to find the correct application to run despite their fat fingers.

@GaymerGeek

I have #Debian #Linux running on my 15-year-old laptop, with the full #KDE Plasma 6 bells-and-whistles setup.

With the exception of web browsers and programming tools, this system's performance is about the same as #KDEPlasma 4 on similar hardware 15 years ago. All the fancy new features since then have had a performance cost of basically zero.

This platform is amazing. It is successfully defying the laws of software engineering. https://itlaw.fandom.com/wiki/Laws_of_Software

I heard you guys like #Linux, so today we have a developer from the Plasma Mobile project who was involved in reviving Plasma Bigscreen. #KDE #Podcast

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW7HbFDiybQ

Audio: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/tech-over-tea/episodes/From-Plasma-Mobile-To-Plasma-Bigscreen--Devin-Lin-e37fpo0