Heya folks, we've decided to defer sync until Monday while we work on an eopkg bug causing failed updates in unusual cases. The bug was introduced inadvertently with a change made to eopkg this week. Users on the stable repository (Shannon) are not affected.

#Solus #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource

- Evan

Had a gentle podcast chat on the Atypical Doctor Podcast.
We talked about #Linux Podcasting, a bit of #AI and Cognitive bandwidth. https://atypicaldoctor.com/2025/08/15/season-2-episode-4-the-joy-of-pope-with-popey/
https://atypicaldoctor.com/2025/08/15/season-2-episode-4-the-joy-of-pope-with-popey/

On August 15, 1997, @Migueldeicaza announced the start of GNOME on the GTK mailing list¹. Twenty-eight years later a lot has changed, but we continue to develop and iterate on “a free and complete set of user friendly applications and desktop tools… based entirely on free software.”

To help us continue this work far into the future, we hope you join us in celebrating our birthday by becoming a Friend of GNOME today! 🎂

https://donate.gnome.org

¹https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/1997-August/msg00123.html

#GNOME #OpenSource #Linux

The Mini Floating Panel GNOME Shell extension has been updated to add a 'drawer' for accessing applet and other indicator icons - nice!

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/mini-floating-panel-gnome-extension-update-indicators-scrolling

#gnome #linux #coolthings

One thing I appreciate about the upcoming #SUSE 16 is they're doing away with the SP vs minor versions thing between SLES and Leap.

I'm surprised there's no mention of "ALP" at all in this announcement.

Full SELinux support out of box (and I assume NetworkManager will be default) makes this a very welcome upgrade, IMO.

https://www.suse.com/c/suse-linux-16-release-candidate/

#OpenSUSE #Linux

It’s our annual episode where we need to talk about Ubuntu. This time most of us are broadly indifferent about the distro itself, so we end up mostly discussing our concerns about Canonical.

https://linuxafterdark.net/linux-after-dark-episode-102/

#linux #podcast #opensource #Ubuntu #canonical

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Linux After Dark artwork

☕ Good Morning Homelabs ☕

Freitagsgrußküsse von dem 💤 verschlafenen 🌞 annnyway, new place, new in-wall panel of cat6 terms and a 5GbE symmetric fiber line. I cleaned up the initial mess in June, second iteration this past week/ish. Generally, most of this hardware should be in one of the office racks (1U switch + 2x 0.5U patches + 1U UPS), specifically NOT in my walk-in closet. It's a work in progress.

#homelab #linux #freebsd #engineering #networking

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first iteration of the telco panel rebuild, just a bit messy

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in-between iterations, the OnQ parts arrived so mostly everything was removed. the two fiber boxes (shitty Comcast, and decent ATT) have to stay put.

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iteration number two, not horrible, needs more ethernet cable management and etc etc

Rally Arcade Classics to expand with the Precision & Chase update on September 9 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/rally-arcade-classics-to-expand-with-the-precision-chase-update-on-september-9/

#RallyArcadeClassics #Rally #Gaming #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck

The state of #Linux packaging seems to be a perpetual mess. There is no standard packaging format among distros (something that I don't think will be resolved any time soon) and I've always viewed third party packaging tools like #snap and #flatpak with skepticism, mainly from a #security perspective.

After reading this, I'd rather deal with the perpetual mess of different package managers than the unraveling security headache that is Flatpak.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/when-flatpaks-sandbox-cracks-real-life-security-issues-beyond-ideal

#tech #technews

Happy Birthday, GNOME! 🥳

💡 GNOME was started on 15 August 1997 by Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena as a free software project.

#linux #gnome

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Happy Birthday, GNOME, 15 August 1997. There are balloons in the corners of this image.

THE FINALS broken on Linux - again https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/the-finals-broken-on-linux-again/

#THEFINALS #FPS #AntiCheat #Linux #SteamDeck #SteamOS

Check out the latest games to claim from Prime Gaming for August 2025 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/check-out-the-latest-games-to-claim-from-prime-gaming-for-august-2025/

#Gaming #PrimeGaming #Linux #SteamDeck #SteamOS

Time flies! Another Friday, another `dnf update` and reboot cycle on my 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers.

(These are my private servers, that I update every Friday so that I have the weekend to fix things, if needed. So far it was never needed as updates JustWork™)

UPDATE: All machines updated, rebooted and tested. No problems found, weekend can start!

#SelfHost #RHEL #Linux

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Two terminal screens showing the dnf update process happily installing updates on ym servers

Proton Experimental updated with fixes for The Crew Motorfest, Farlight 84 and more games https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/proton-experimental-updated-with-fixes-for-the-crew-motorfest-farlight-84-and-more-games/

#TheCrewMotorfest #Gaming #Proton #SteamDeck #SteamOS #Linux

This is AMIga Window Manager (amiwm) is a stacking window manager for the X Window System
https://www.lysator.liu.se/~marcus/amiwm.html Sadly it is not updated any more (last update was in 2010).

#unix #linux #history

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A screeshot of amiwm is an X window manager for Linux and Unix.

Hey, Linux people: a LOT of folks are screaming off Windows right now.

Be. Kind. To. Them.

They don't know much yet, so they are going to ask really basic questions. If you're KIND, you might get some to give it a try and stick to it bc they know they can ask for help. If you're unkind, you're showing them using Linux will be *worse* than Windows. If you can't bring yourself to be kind, then SAY NOTHING. Let others pick up that slack.

#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Linux #Ubuntu #Debian #LinuxMint

Just finished up working on the Bazaar metadata! We should be close to a flathub release if everything goes well!

#bazaar #linux #flathub #flatpak

VirtualBox 7.2.0 is out — and it's a big one. Rejigged UI, support for running Windows ARM VMs, and (at last) hardware video decoding support in VMs on Linux hosts.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/virtualbox-7-2-0-brings-more-ui-changes-windows-on-arm-support

#VirtualBox #OpenSource #Linux

There's a new #Linux distro in development, #omarchy headed by DHH of Ruby on Rails fame.

He feels good enough about it to make the default OS for his employees at 37 Signals.

Rather than attempt to copy Mac or Windows, it leans into a distinct aesthetic with tiling window management and no toolbars on terminal apps and some web apps.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/all-in-on-omarchy-at-37signals-68162450

Right now Omarchy is #ArchLinux + #hyprland plus some scripts and customizations.

TIL that #OpenSUSE dropped Transactional Server from the 15.6 Leap installer, so I guess we're gonna install 15.5 and upgrade for the time being for new provisions of it.

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1222797

#Linux #SUSE

Now I'm legit curious how much less studder this would have on an RT #Linux kernel.

Did you know that ^G historically makes a "bell" sound?

Want to relive that glory on #Linux now?

watch -n.1 echo -e '\\a'

My son likes when I sneak a sticker into his lunchbox when he goes to camp.

But most of the stickers I have are tech #developer #linux swag.

Sooo now he's walking around like a Linux nerd haha.

#PostgreSQL #Framework

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Lunchbox with postgrea and framework sticker

Make the biggest mess possible in the local multiplayer game Splatterbot - releasing September 4 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/make-the-biggest-mess-possible-in-the-local-multiplayer-game-splatterbot-releasing-september-4/

#Splatterbot #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck #Gaming

Hardware companies making heavy use of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service to push firmware updates out to users are being asked to contribute back – with cash, in order to firm up a certain future for this vital service. 💸

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/lvfs-sustainability-plan-vendor-funding?v1

#linux #foss #opensource

Old PC which had Win10, core I3 CPU and only 4GB RAM was (unsurprisingly) slow and laggy, as an experiment I installed #LinuxMint on it with lightweight #XFCE desktop.

It is a fair bit more usable now (still slightly laggy probably due to me transferring my entire camera roll from Dropbox which is currently hammering all the resources) - definitely has potential as a backup PC in the office for light admin tasks, it could handle MS365 web apps (which alas, get used a lot here as well as Sharepoint) - (even the network printer worked "out of the box" via CUPS!)

[This toot is direct from the PC via #firefox

#LinuxDesktop #Linux

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neofetch screen of old Dell PC now running Linux Mint

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Dell Optiplex 990 with I3 core duo and only 4GB of RAM running Linux Mint XFCE

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CUPS test page

Hey, what the actual F is this?

If I'm understanding this correctly, Dolphin is trying to make connections to ad servers? And it's doing it through the thumbnail process. I caught a whole bunch of attempts, including to ad.pubmatic.com and other questionable ones besides doubleclick and etc. What is going on? It shouldn't be making any such connections one way or the other from a file manager.. (I normally don't use Dolphin, but Spectacle is ignoring my default file manager setting and manually opening Dolphin instead.)

EDIT: Figured it out. It was generating previews of .html files with such references. A file manager still should not do this though... Only Dolphin does. @kde I don't think it should do this.

#Linux #KDE #KDEPlasma #Dolphin

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A screenshot from OpenSnitch showing that a kioworker tagged "dolphin" and then random letters is attempting to resolve the IP address for a doubleclick.net server from the thumbnail.so plugin.

GE-Proton 10-12 hotfix adds a few more needed tweaks for video playback https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/ge-proton-10-12-hotfix-adds-a-few-more-needed-tweaks-for-video-playback/

#Linux #Proton #SteamOS #SteamDeck #GEProton

@Lydie

#Linux is much user-friendlier than it was even a few years ago, and there are lots of other benefits in having a computer that isn't constantly trying to get one over on you. But I agree that it isn't yet ready for the average person to install and use without help.

I look at it like this: #Windows will boot up and appear to work on your machine, but you're at risk of viruses, fraud, spyware, vendor lock-in, advertisements, dark patterns, and generally being treated like a cash cow. In contrast, Linux will occasionally not support all your hardware and you may encounter problems that take time and research to solve, but the OS and the apps you run are working for you rather than against you. No one is spying on you, advertising at you, trying to lock you in, or demanding expensive subscriptions.

It's annoying and unjust that the bulk of the market has gone to the extractive OS and ecosystem, but every person who uses and advocates for Linux helps to break Microsoft's hegemony.

Rogue-lite slot machine nightmare CloverPit launches September 3 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/rogue-lite-slot-machine-nightmare-cloverpit-launches-september-3/

#CloverPit #IndieGames #Gaming #PCGaming #Linux

man pages

There is a wealth of resources out there about Fedora, especially from the last few years, but sometimes you have to check the man pages.

How do you do that? Here is a helpful guide!
https://fedoramagazine.org/tips-and-tricks-man-command/

#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource

Ok.. one final question for the #linux and #nixos folks..

Users of #nixbook (including myself) have had issues with printers working with nixbook.

I feel like i'm missing something here. Does anyone have experience getting network and usb printers working in NixOS?

https://github.com/mkellyxp/nixbook/issues/38

Super Farming Boy is a bizarre farming sim about chain reactions with a Cuphead inspired style https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/super-farming-boy-is-a-bizarre-farming-sim-about-chain-reactions-with-a-cuphead-inspired-style/

#SuperFarmingBoy #Gaming #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck

I finally got the time to look at #Debian 13, what's new in there, and why I think it is highly suitable for a non-nonsense, solid desktop #Linux distro.

I started of thinking "I could never use that daily", and in the end, what I currently use isn't newer than Debian 13, so... yeah. Debian 13 is good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScSOMRqS5FE

Oh cool! Another #linux using @homebrew ootb!

Welcome to the club, hell yeah!

https://caligra.com/workbench/