No Man's Sky Cosmos preps for Steam Frame plus - orbital construction, alliances, colossal shipwrecks and tons more https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/no-mans-sky-cosmos-preps-for-steam-frame-plus-orbital-construction-alliances-colossal-shipwrecks-and-tons-more/

#NoMansSky #Gaming #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck

Julia 1.13 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1093567/

#LWN #Linux

Security updates for Thursday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1093566/

#LWN #Linux #security

I keep seeing big amounts of criticism in my own little #Linux bubble, so I decided to talk about the projects that seem to receive most of it, and why this criticism is valid in some cases, and way overblown in others:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6dLIKBeuNo

#KDE Gear 26.08.1 Is Out with More Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps https://9to5linux.com/kde-gear-26-08-1-is-out-with-more-improvements-for-your-favorite-kde-apps

@kde #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

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Has anyone got any software (computer or phone) that isn’t actively getting worse and that isn’t being used to finance fascists? Software you don’t hate using? #Software #Linux #iphone #android #Enshittification #Fascism #technofascism

Linux is exempt from age verification requirement of California users as long as it is distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses
https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Linux-Exempt-from-California-s-Age-Verification-Law?utm_source=mlm
#Linux #OS #AgeVerification #GPL #BSD #MIT #Apache

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I wanted another computer as a sandbox, I don't really trust VMs, and fucking chip shortages, so to the boneyard it is. I have a disused ASRock Rack J1900D2Y with 8GB of RAM and a PicoPSU that used to be my mail server. Somehow, at some point, I modded the 1U case to mount the rack ears on the back. Annoying. So I dig up the original rack ears which I apparently still have, and try to flip things around, except the drive tray doesn't work the other way around somehow. What. Fine. I have a drill and a file. Sorted. While I'm at it, I splice an INA219 current sensor into the power connection for funzies and hook it up to the BMC's I2C bus. I then root the BMC so I can access it. So then I set about setting up Debian on it on a mirrored pair of Intel enterprise SSDs with encrypted ZFS. The board claims to support UEFI booting. This was determined to be a lie. Whatever. A problem for later. I put GRML (which is my new favorite rescue "CD" since it also has aarch64 builds available) on a flash drive, remove the case from the false drive, solder it to a motherboard header cable, and plug it into the internal USB hub I at some point added to the case. Boots fine, but only as a BIOS drive. I do a manual ZFS setup and debootstrap install, then I fuck around with GRUB for... a while... and eventually get it working on a system partition I've set up mirrored with mdadm (metadata v1.0 - at the end of the partition). Then comes the part where I get ZFSBootMenu working with SSH unlock. ZFSBootMenu is intended to boot via UEFI, but as I said, that doesn't work, but that's what GRUB is - I can chainload. Eventually that works, but I cannot manage to type the passphrase via the janky BMC's Java IPKVM. Fine. I have a file server I already set up SSH unlock with, but that means I'll have to build my own ZFSBootMenu files. After a while, I finally get that working, only to be immediately prompted for the passphrase a second time (on the screen, via the IPKVM, where I keep failing to type it, and it takes abour 90 seconds to check because I cranked up pbkdf2 iterations) when Debian starts. Right, need to bake the key into the encrypted initramfs that ZFSBootMenu loads. More chroot bullshit. I get that working, and Debian shits a brick and drops into a root shell because it can't find /sbin/init. Apparently I needed to install systemd-sysv for that. So I sigh, boot back into the GRML environment, mount the chroot for the fifteenth time, run the apt install, and rebuild the initramfs. I unmount everything, cross my fingers, and type reboot. The janky Java IPKVM refreshes. BIOS POSTs. GRUB chainloads ZFSBootMenu. The SSH unlock actually works perfectly. The boot process finally gets past the init stage, and a beautiful flood of green [ OK ] messages starts cascading down the screen. The login prompt finally appears. I go to type my username, but the BMC drops the connection again. I frantically reload the applet, but instead of the console, the screen glitches out, showing a live camera feed of my street just as a yellow car pulls up outside. I whistled for a cab and when it came near, the license plate said 'Fresh' and it had dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare, but I thought 'Nah, forget it, yo, holmes, to Bel-Air!' I pulled up to the house about seven or eight, and I yelled to the cabbie, 'Yo holmes, smell ya later!' I looked at my domain, I was finally there, to sit on my throne as the Heir of Bel-Air.

#linux #homelab

@gausby #Linux runs just fine on Apple hardware. ^^
[tested and approved] by me

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 10, 2026

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 10, 2026 is available.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1092273/

#LWN #Linux

OpenLUNIC logo/mascot

#openbsd #linux #nomarchy

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Ikey Doherty, the creator of Solus and AerynOS, is back with Barney, a Rust tool that builds Linux distros from source. So that you can easily create your own Omarchy.

In a video posted on YouTube, the creator of Solus and AerynOS called the money behind DHH’s distro absurd and promised to do it better with nothing. His answer is Barney, a Rust-based tool for building Linux distros from source.

Told someone I'd rip their book of music CDs for them... and discovered my ripper software is unusable. It rips a track or two and crashes. Fan-fucking-tastic. Alright, with Audex out of comission, I'm open to suggestions. I'd prefer something that fits nicely in to KDE, but getting this project done is higher priority.
I have k3b, but I can't find where to change the format and location of the ripper.
#Linux

A decade of Rustls

https://lwn.net/Articles/1093391/

#LWN #Linux #security

#KDE Frameworks 6.30 Improves Baloo File Indexer, KWallet, Plasma System Monitor, and More https://9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-6-30-improves-baloo-file-indexer-kwallet-and-system-monitor

@kde #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

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LibreOffice Base survey results

https://lwn.net/Articles/1093388/

#LWN #Linux

NVIDIA driver 615.71.09 released for Linux with Vulkan / Proton improvements with NVIDIA Reflex https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/nvidia-driver-615-71-09-released-for-linux-with-vulkan-proton-improvements-with-nvidia-reflex/

#NVIDIA #Drivers #Linux #LinuxGaming

[$] Typst makes big strides

Typst is a system for typesetting documents into various formats: PDF, SVG, PNG, and, in progress, HTML. It is adept at handling technical material, and is often considered to be a [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1092993/

#LWN #Linux #Rust

#OpenVPN 2.7.7 Released with Various Improvements, Bug and Security Fixes https://9to5linux.com/openvpn-2-7-7-released-with-various-improvements-bug-and-security-fixes

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux

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https://fedoramagazine.org/framework-laptop-12-arrives-with-fedora-pre-installed/ @fedora #Linux

Linux Is Not An Operating System

https://silentarchitect.org/articles/2026/09/what-is-linux.html

#linux #gnu #kernel #opensource #freesoftware

Security updates for Wednesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1093342/

#LWN #Linux #security

Two and a half years after filing an issue, I finally sat down over the last several evenings and attempted to fix it.

I’m neither a data scientist nor a Flathub expert, so I would treat this as a proposal/starting point. I *have* spent a lot of time thinking about this over the past three years or so, and can try to help explain the really weird problem space to anyone who wants to help.

https://cassidyjames.com/flathub-active-users/

#Flatpak #Flathub #OpenSource #Linux #LinuxApps

Surprised how difficult it is to add a network tap to a #Linux host. Searched for documentation and got help from someone on IRC and we still couldn't make it work. This was much easier on #NetBSD.

Windows laptops (esp. ThinkPads) often have DSP that improves the audio for crappy laptop speakers. Unfortunately these Dolby tweaks are not available on Linux. You can however rip the xml from the Windows driver and have it translate to either EasyEffects outputs or Pipewire filters. I did the latter yesterday and it's a noticeable improvement.

https://github.com/antoinecellerier/speaker-tuning-to-easyeffects

Note the repo contains AI contributions so be warned. The documentation here is excellent so decide for yourself.

#linux

@omgubuntu #Mint is green, #Fedora is blue, #Ubuntu is purple, #Linux for you❤️.

RE: https://ieji.de/@parchlinux/117235093021008906

HI!
I'm one of the developers behind Parch Immutable. Been building this for months and today it finally hit public alpha.

Built on bootc, so the whole system ships as a bootable OCI container image. Read-only root, atomic updates, instant rollbacks if anything breaks. No more praying an update doesn't nuke your system. Podman and Distrobox handle anything that's not on Flatpak, so you're never locked out of an app just because the base is immutable.

Native Plasma login replacing SDDM, atomic bootloader updates through bootupd, and the whole image is already trimmed down by several GB. This is early, it's alpha, things will break, but it's real and it's usable today.

If you write about Linux or FOSS, I'd genuinely appreciate a look. And if you just think this is cool, a boost goes a long way for a project like this trying to get in front of the right people.

#ParchLinux #Linux #ImmutableLinux #FOSS #OpenSource #bootc #KDE

Ubuntu 26.10 artwork, including the new 'Stonking Stingray' wallpaper, is out.

Pleasant? Sure. Purple? Ofc. Thing in the middle? You bet – same template for almost a decade.

Is it getting stale?

People can name macOS releases by their wallpaper. Each feels distinct – which is important for more than "looks nice'. Ubuntu ships BIG improvements every 6 months, but shirks the user-facing branding opportunity to communicate "hey, new one" to casuals.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu-2610-wallpaper?v1

#ubuntu #art #linux

Addendum: I overlooked this, above, but Big Tech allying with American fascism, with MAGA, *is* an element of enshittification. It drastically reduces the quality of the product when you know that the Mad Orange King can "brick" your government.

#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Linux #LibreOffice #fascism #politics #USPol #BigTech #Trump #MAGA

RE: https://mastodon.social/@yaqubpk/117236347361702799

I keep thinking what a wonderful coincidence it is that people are running away from big tech and towards open-source, but it actually makes perfect sense. (1/4)

#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Linux #LibreOffice

Yaqub. M » 🌐 2026-09-08
@yaqubpk@mastodon.social

Love it, love it and simply love it
#LibreOffice

https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai/

So as big tech further and further enshittifies, this is just what's going to happen: people will leave, and open-source is there for them. It's not coincidence. (4/4)

#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Linux #LibreOffice

And #enshittification is defined, in part, as degrading the product and the experience of buying it just enough that the customers *don't* give up and walk away. It's a very fine line that corporations have no idea how to not blunder across. (3/4)

#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Linux #LibreOffice

Open-source is consciously and deliberately the alternative to corporate software, to "big tech," so that's what it's here for: to be an escape hatch from MS, Apple, Amazon, etc. (2/4)

#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Linux #LibreOffice

[$] Stabilizing Rust's never type

A function's return type is supposed to indicate the kind of data that it produces. Rust's "never" type, which is denoted by an exclamation mark ("!"), is the type the language u [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1091015/

#LWN #Linux #Rust #Python

Jellyfin 12.0 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1093145/

#LWN #Linux

Security updates for Tuesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1093144/

#LWN #Linux #security

#KDE Plasma 6.7.5 Desktop Environment Is Out with Many Improvements and Fixes https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-7-5-desktop-environment-is-out-with-many-improvements-and-fixes

@kde #Linux #OpenSource

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Ever fancied a Framework laptop but you bought a MacBook instead?

Asahi Linux now officially supports Macs with the M3 series SoC

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/asahi-linux-now-officially-supports-macs-with-the-m3-series-soc/

#AsahiLinux #Macs #Apple #AppleSilicon #Linux #OperatingSystem #OpenSource #Hardware #Tech

For a while there, I'd forgotten that you don't have to restart after an upgrade if you do it in #Terminal. I've started doing that again, and I'm reminded how much easier it often is to type in one command than navigate a GUI. I mean love GUI! But "sudo apt upgrade" is F'ing magical.

#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Linux #Debian #Gnome

Audacity’s new major release makes it more like a proper digital workstation, Debian finally gets off the genAI fence and disappoints some of us, California exempts Linux from terrible age verification laws, and Asahi boots on M3 Macs. With guest host @randoming from Hybrid Cloud Show.

https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-402/

#podcast #linux #opensource

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Check out frp—a lightning-fast reverse proxy that securely tunnels internet traffic straight to your local machine using a public server you already control.

Whether you need secure SSH access or want to expose a local web app on a live domain, this guide breaks it down step-by-step using systemd and TOML configs.

https://bit.ly/3SQaZAs

#Linux #SelfHosted #WebDev #SysAdmin #Networking #CGNAT #DevOps #Tech #PortForwarding

#penguins #linux #humor

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🚨 FREE GAME

Come on an adventure in this action sci-fi to uncover a conspiracy and discover what remains of humanity.

🎮️ Claim your free copy for a limited time via GOG DRM free for GNU/Linux, macOS and Windows.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/state_of_mind

#games #gaming #free #DRMFree #Linux #Windows #macOS

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟵/𝟬𝟳 (Valuable News - 2026/09/07) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/09/07/valuable-news-2026-09-07/

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

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

I used to think that the year of Linux on the Desktop was never going to happen, but I feel increasingly like I want to try moving off Windows for all but a few software packages I need that require it. So what Linux do people recommend as a daily driver. I would want it to be able to read my NTFS HDDs, and I am familiar with apt package management so would prefer that was supported. Also NVIDIA RTX GPU support. How best to set up for dual boot on my main Windows PC? #Linux #fediHelp

Hey #FreeBSD folks! 🐡

I recently, as of yesterday, installed FreeBSD on my ThinkPad E14 Gen 4, and will document my journey coming from Debian GNU/Linux over to something that is BSD.

I’ve had some knowledge of FreeBSD from past interactions here on Mastodon, as well as from YouTube and other social media platforms. My ThinkPad also has two ssd drives, so I decided to wipe one of them and install FreeBSD, and using it as my daily driver.

I used to be on kolektiva.social a while back. Not sure how long I’ll stick around on this one either, but I came across bsd.cafe while reading through some FreeBSD documentation and figured I’d join.

Feel free to boost me if you remember me, or not, no worries!

Also, here are some relevant and useful links to check out:

https://www.freebsd.org/
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/

#BSD #OpenBSD #GhostBSD #Unix #Linux #Midtsveen

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Hi #FreeBSD, how’s development going on the MediaTek MT7921 Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) driver? Is there currently any progress toward getting it supported?

#Wifi #Unix #BSD #OpenBSD #Linux #MediaTek #MT7921

[$] CERN's migration path from CentOS Linux to Debian

The European Laboratory for Particle Physics, usually just called CERN, is not only the birthplace of the World Wide Web, it is home to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1092512/

#LWN #Linux #Debian #RedHat #AlmaLinux #GCC #Python

Three stable kernels for Monday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1092984/

#LWN #Linux #kernel