An awesome year for Bluefin. #flathub growth at 20% YoY is great for everyone. Looking forward to experimenting with #gnome OS and all the goodies it will bring in 2026!

#linux

https://docs.projectbluefin.io/blog/bluefin-2025/

The great programming transformation: How AI and Rust are quietly dethroning C in Linux - and Windows https://www.zdnet.com/article/programming-transformation-ai-rust-c-linux-windows/ via @ZDNet & @sjvn

Both #Linux and #Windows are embracing #AI and #Rust for their code.

Okay. Got a new server put together. Now to figure out all the software bits. I would like to run MicroOS and manage it with Cockpit. The question is whether I can do a decent RAID on it.

Btrfs, MicroOS's default filesystem, only has experimental RAID 5 support. I'm not sure yet how well ZFS would run on it. Which leaves me with traditional RAID. Which I hope works well enough, but I haven't used it in forever.

#linux #NAS #OpenSUSE #MicroOS #RAID

#TIL `ack` is way faster when `grep --recursive`:

```$ time bash -c 'ack dbw32.a | wc -l'
21
bash -c 'ack dbw32.a | wc -l' 0.25s user 0.49s system 98% cpu 0.750 total
```

vs

```
$ time bash -c 'grep --recursive dbw32.a . | wc -l'
22
bash -c 'grep --recursive dbw32.a . | wc -l' 2.39s user 0.62s system 99% cpu 3.023 total```

... because `ack` does not `grep` (!!!) binary files:

```$ grep --recursive dbw32.a .
[...]
Binary file ./.git/index matches```

#Linux

loss32: let’s build a Win32/Linux

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, Win32/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, loss32 Win32 plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning system made useful by WINE, the ReactOS userland, and other vital system components comprising a full OS

https://www.osnews.com/story/144091/loss32-lets-build-a-win32-linux/

#Linux

Time to update my poor little neglected Panasonic Let's Note.

Memory prices got you down? Install Linux on old hardware, you'll need less than half the memory!

#linux

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A Lunux screenshot showing a software update running over a desktop displaying a neon landscape.

Re: GOG news

Alright alright I am willing to go back to GOG if I am offered a competitive salary and given free reign to create the first actual viable alternative to Steam for Linux gamers.

#linuxgaming #linux #gaming

Anyone searching for a paramount way of accessing #AppleMusic on #Linux without distraction or alienation should have a look at #Cider, an app that is simply outstanding and enables you to to bring all your beloved stuff onto the Linux-distro of your choice!

$3,29 is an absolute bargain here: https://cider.sh!

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A view of the Cider-app showing my Apple Music-start screen and much of my beloved music

Renewed my @lwn subscription for another year 😤 as always, such a great value news source! #LWN #Linux

Time for a new #introduction!

I live on the border, where #Arizona, #Mexico and #NewMexico all come together.

I mostly post about #cooking, #gardening, #hiking and #publiclands

I'm interested in #music, #art, #anime, #manga, #comics, #math, #videogames, #retrogaming and #retrocomputing

I switched from #Amiga to #linux and #bsd so I actually know very little about MS Windows.

Well, go on, add it in the comments below! 😀

#linux

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Which distro officially became your 'daily driver' in 2025?

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟭𝟮/𝟮𝟵 (Valuable News - 2025/12/29) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/valuable-news-2025-12-29/

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

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

TIL that HP-UX reaches end of life in 3 days on 2025-12-31.

When I worked as a contractor for a U.S. government department back in 2010/2011, the team I was on had all HP-UX on PA-RISC, with a few on Itanium.

We had speculated whether or not HP was pulling development on HP-UX given that 11i v3 was released in 2007 and there didn't seem to by any movement towards 11i v4 or 12.0.

This in addition to Tru64 on Alpha that HP ended earlier.

How the mighty have fallen.

#unix #linux

Great update

Bash Static Site Generator

Stefano coded an important update

#Programming #OpenSource #HTML #site #generator #BSD #freeBSD #Linux #ghostBSD

https://blog.bssg.dragas.net/2025/12/28/announcing-bssd-0-33-0-full-content-homepage/

Curious if any one around has sorted out getting hibernation to work on a System76 Galaga Pro 5 running Arch Linux. I am struggling to get it to resume properly and starting to wonder if maybe it has something to do with coreboot? Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

#Linux #ArchLinux #System76 #CoreBoot

🆕 blog! “Extracting Video from Motion Photos on Linux”

Modern Android cameras can take "Motion Photos". They capture a few seconds of video from before and after you hit the shutter button. You can then either select the bit of the photo where no-one is blinking, or you can send the whole thing as a little movie.

Some apps (like WhatsApp) will play the motion photo…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/extracting-video-from-motion-photos-on-linux/
⸻
#exif #linux #photos

Why do so many people who refuse to learn #systemd somehow feel smarter than people who do learn it.

Make it make sense.

#Linux

New 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘀 [Scripts Stats] article on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/scripts-stats/

#verblog #freebsd #linux #scripts #shell #stats #unix

@rl_dane I empathize completely. #Documentation is one area where #Linux falls behind #FreeBSD by several orders of magnitude.

I love #Debian. It's my favorite OS but oh my gods the documentation is, at best, an afterthought. And yes, other distros are not that much better.

It's actually *the* reason why I've been using FreeBSD more and taking the time to learn it.

Troubleshooting on #Linux:

You try something new, and it probably works without having to do anything.
If it doesn't work, you enter into an eldritch horror of complexity and incomplete/conflicting documentation. You give up and just hope that the next version of Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora handles "X" automatically, because you just can't be arsed anymore.

Troubleshooting on #FreeBSD:

You try something new, and it probably doesn't work out of the box.
You fire up the handbook PDF, read through the two pages of pertinent documentation, install a pkg or two, tweak a config file, and bob's your uncle.

Linux bretheren, it need not be like this. It didn't use to be like this. We used to have documentation. HOWTOs. Now they're all obsolete because of needless drastic changes, politics, and empire-building.

*sigh*

The #Linux and #OpenSource News train doesn't stop just because I'm on vacation, so here is this week's News video, the last video for 2025! Happy New Year to everyone, and see you next year!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlz6xAk85hY

MattKC got some shit done for Wii U gamepad on a Linux machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlbcKuDEBw8

#gaming #wii #wiiu #linux

@YaLTeR Congratulations on the #Linux Wayland compositor #Niri surpassing Sway in Github stars.

Sway is great and continues a steady growth trend, while Niri is a welcome alternative!

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/blob/main/README.md

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Screenshot of Github Star counts showing Niri surpassing Sway. Hyperland has about double of either one.

Distracted by a #Linux magazine.

#Linux #Partitions #Partitioning #Parted

I keep reading over the arch wiki page for parted and one thing that doesn't seem clear to me where it says you can only move the end of a partition... If I have 3 partitions;

1. EFI
2. SWAP
3. Root

I already shrunk the root parition down to make room to expand the swap paritition, but if I can only move the end of a partition, don't I need to move the root partition to make room, or does parted automatically take care of shifting that?

Linux tip: `lsof -i :8080` shows which process is using port 8080. Essential when you get "port already in use" errors during development or when troubleshooting service conflicts. #Linux #SystemAdministration

Lazy day today, being weighed down by #cats. But I guess it’s time to get up and play family #SysAdmin. At least one person might get an unexpected dual boot Windows/ #Linux just in case…

Ghostty, the open source terminal emulator, is moving to non-profit funding.

Creator Mitchell Hashimoto says this will ensure the app avoids surprising its users with a "we've been acquired and need to monetise!" rug-pull.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/ghostty-terminal-non-profit-fiscal-sponsorship?1

#OpenSource #Linux #Tech

#Linux

I'm looking at enabling hibernation. Currently I only have a 4G swap partition configured and 16G of RAM. It looks like my options are to expand my swap partition, or use a swap file I guess. I've read that with compression you may be able to get away with using a smaller swap partition than the amount of RAM, particularly if your system is pretty light on RAM usage to begin with, which I think fits my situation. Any body have any tips they've learned from experience?

Anyone played with #AerynOS yet? Can't find reviews, to be expected for alpha software, but looks interesting! #linux

https://aerynos.com/

Either @quad9dns 's 9.9.9.9 & 9.9.9.11 are down or my #ISP (#Vodafone #Germany) is fucking around with my traffic to hide their #downtime...

• Given that their own shitty speedtest doesn't load and @Speedtest / speedtest-cli is unable to connect to any testing servers, I'd assume they fuck with my #traffic.

I hope @BNetzA, @netblocks, @ooni et. al. take notes, cuz my patience runs thin...

In case anyone wounders: isup is just a ,bash_aliases entry to shorten ping -a -b -c 1 -D ...

#DownForEveryoneOrJustMe #Interwebs #Interwebz #Internets #Internetz #Internet #EDGEland #TechSupport #TechnikerIstInformiert #Schland #diagnostics #Networking #Connectivity #linux #bash #aliases

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Console log Output: user@x230t:~$ isup 1.1.1.1 PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. [1766687889.748671] 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=30.8 ms --- 1.1.1.1 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 30.804/30.804/30.804/0.000 ms user@x230t:~$ isup 8.8.8.8 PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data. [1766687894.098359] 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=116 time=43.8 ms --- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 43.762/43.762/43.762/0.000 ms user@x230t:~$ isup 9.9.9.9 PING 9.9.9.9 (9.9.9.9) 56(84) bytes of data. --- 9.9.9.9 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms user@x230t:~$ isup 9.9.9.10 PING 9.9.9.10 (9.9.9.10) 56(84) bytes of data. [1766687914.085668] 64 bytes from 9.9.9.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=34.4 ms --- 9.9.9.10 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 34.366/34.366/34.366/0.000 ms user@x230t:~$ isup 9.9.9.11 PING 9.9.9.11 (9.9.9.11) 56(84) bytes of data. --- 9.9.9.11 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms user@x230t:~$

#Qemu 10.2.0 is out:

https://www.qemu.org/2025/12/24/qemu-10-2-0/ and https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg1158505.html

Some of the highlights:

* Performance improvements via switching to io_uring for QEMU’s main loop
* Live update support via new ‘cpr-exec’ migration mode, allowing reduced resource usage when updating VMs, and potential for re-using existing state/connections throughout update
* 9pfs shared filesystem support for FreeBSD hosts
* Lots of fixes/improvements for user-mode emulation
*ARM: support for CPU features FEAT_SCTLR2, FEAT_TCR2, FEAT_CSSC, FEAT_LSE128, FEAT_ATS1A, FEAT_RME_GPC2, FEAT_AIE, FEAT_MEC, and FEAT_GCS
* ARM: support for new ‘amd-versal2-virt’ board model, and improvements to existing * ‘AST2600’/’AST2700’/’AST1030’ and ‘xlnx-zynqmp’ boards
* HPPA: Emulation support for an HP 715/64 workstation
* HPPA: Emulation support for NCR 53c710 SCSI controller and HP LASI multi-I/O chip (developed by Google Summer of Code contributor Soumyajyotii Ssarkar)
* PowerPC: Support for PowerNV11 and PPE42 CPU/machines
PowerPC: FADUMP support for pSeries
* RISC-V: Numerous emulation fixes/improvements for various components
* s390x: virtio-pci performance improvements via irqfd

#virtualization #kvm #Linux

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Screenshot from the top of the first linked page

@vkc Why does #Linux raise questions? They told me it's the best.