Heyyy guys! 💖 What PDF reader do you usually use? I’m low-key loving Atril, it’s super easy and perfect for everything 😊 Let me know yours! 💕

#Linux #PDF #Atril #Love

Anyone has a recommendation for #Linux #command line reference book for a beginner? I use to have one #BSD #Unix one back in the days.

@rysiek

For awhile now i've been wanting to switch my phone OS to Linux, like Sailfish, but i wouldn't even know how to do so

my goals are #Resist #BreakTheOligarchy & become 💯 #magafree to create #MyBlueWorld , so i'm working my way thru as i learn

i'd love to see more migration from #Windows & #Apple to #Linux

no one should be using #MSOffice anymore w/ #LibreOffice

hopefully we move from #youtube to #peertube soon

i really hope to see more activity on #Mastodon & the #Fediverse

The Warp AI agent takes the guesswork out of working at the command line. We show you how to build a simple website with one prompt
https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2025/298/Warp-AI-Agent?utm_source=mlm
#WarpAI #Linux #terminal #ChatGPT #Claude #ArtificialIntelligence #toolkit #website

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The Warp terminal after installation

#Seagl2025 is happening this week!!

Check out the full schedule!
https://seagl.org/schedule

Costs no money and no registration required!

#FLOSS #linux #FOSS #opensource #openhardware #art #free #libre #open #sea #seattle

Why and how we're migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs

My BSDCan 2025 presentation, PeerTube and YouTube links:

PeerTube: https://tube.bsd.cafe/w/x4oPuHpCJK3qWFfdZtr7hd

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnVp25-6Qao

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #BSDCan #ISolveProblems #Linux

#POLL: Do you use Full-Disk Encryption, such as LUKS on #Linux or GELI on #FreeBSD?

#FullDiskEncryption #FDE #LUKS #GELI

It is really time to ditch Linux...

phoronix.com/forums/forum/phor…

When Attila joins Gengis Khan... 😖

I am desperate for having the time to ditch #Linux at least on my personal computers... 😭

#runbsd #freebsd #openbsd #nebsd #dragonflybsd

Fwupd 2.0.17, a Linux firmware update tool, introduces client-side phased updates, post-quantum signatures, and expanded hardware support, including new Framework and ASUS devices.
https://linuxiac.com/fwupd-2-0-17-brings-post-quantum-signatures-and-phased-updates/

#linux #opensource #firmware

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Fwupd 2.0.17, a Linux firmware update tool, introduces client-side phased updates, post-quantum signatures, and expanded hardware support, including new Framework and ASUS devices.

Is there any "network device" simulators out there that would allow me to host 20+ network devices on one host to troubleshoot DHCP issues?

I would like to spin up a VLAN between some infrastructure switches, a DHCP server and a host. The host will just request a bunch of DHCP operations over a few hours simulating multiple devices. I prefer using it on #FreeBSD but would accept #Linux, macOS, and if I have to Windows.

Revive 90s hacker spirit: install Linux on your junk PC.

Learn BIOS, kernel, IRQ — understand the machine's soul.

Master chmod, chown, vi, shell scripts, and regex.

Automate tasks; write robust tools.

Study syscalls, processes, signals; befriend strace.

Trace networks with tcpdump; build socket apps.

Embrace failure: debug, rebuild, iterate.
#Linux #HackerSpirit #SysAdmin

# "Using LibreOffice and other Free software for documents as a lawyer"

I was asked recently about how I get on using LibreOffice for document-related legal work, and I promised to write down some thoughts.

The short answer is that I use a mix of LibreOffice and other FOSS tools, and I’m very positive about it, with no particular concerns.

If you have questions, please do ask!

https://neilzone.co.uk/2025/11/using-libreoffice-and-other-free-software-for-documents-as-a-lawyer/

#LibreOffice #Linux #FOSS #lawfedi #vim #git #Markdown

Full filesystems crash services and corrupt data. Find resource hogs with `df -h` (filesystem usage) and `du -sh /var/log/*` (large directories). Set up alerts for 90% disk usage for peace of mind.

🔗 Learn more in my course: https://monospacementor.com/courses/linsys-1/

#Linux #SystemAdministration

We celebrate #Devuan 6 release day

Devuan 6 Excalibur Review:
https://youtu.be/k5isjbhVnaY

#Linux #systemd

Have you used, successfully, a script/tool for converting dovecot configs from 2.3 to 2.4?

If so, could you share a link, please?

I've done one, reasonably simple, config by hand, but I am looking for a tool for a more complicated one.

(I have searched, but found nothing; I'm looking only for first-hand experiences, please.)

#dovecot #FOSS #Linux

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟭𝟭/𝟬𝟯 (Valuable News - 2025/11/03) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/valuable-news-2025-11-03/

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

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

What do you use to securely store and manage private #SSH keys?

#Linux #BSD #FOSS #security

Hello, decided to log back into Mastodon as the bus to my town seems to have stopped a minute away from here for 20 minutes now. I have a few status updates regarding my tech adventures to share.

Firstly, I installed postmarketOS on a Samsung Galaxy S9 a few months ago, and with it, I moved to Alpine Linux on my laptop and desktop. The experience has been wonderful, but bumpy. It works really well on my laptop, but my desktop has faced some issues which I am happy to post on their mailing list once I am back home.

I also installed Arch Linux alongside my Alpine Linux installation as a redundant backup option in case one ends up broken by an update, or a mistake of my own. This has proven handy twice now, the second time ending up with my main system still under maintenance as of today. I also have a reserve Linux Mint USB, if it gets really bad, but I remain hopeful that it won't get that bad. Just for assurance, my ego has not inflated after installing it.

I still love using OpenBSD and FreeBSD when I can, but I deemed it more logical to use the operating system based off the kernel I want to develop for in the future. I plan on using OpenBSD on systems that I find to be not essential to use all the time, such as my brothers desktop, but I'm kind of bringing myself to use Alpine Linux on my daily drivers.

Sorry for disappearing for a while, this is a new phone which I forgot to install Mastodon on. My old phone drowned after my water bottle leaked during a walk, which meant I had to start over from scratch. I'm still addicted to Pixel phones however. Thanks for making a great operating system, #grapheneos team.

#OpenBSD #freebsd #alpinelinux #archlinux #BSD #Linux #technology #postmarketos

To everyone who says ‘install Linux’ as a solution to Windows problems (or ‘install LibreOffice’ as a solution to MS Office problems), imagine how you would react if you posted about Linux problems and all of the responses were ‘install Haiku’. Would it work? Maybe, but the person saying it has no idea what you do on Linux, whether the apps that you use run on Haiku (or have alternatives that you could switch to). Neither of you have a clear understanding of how much time and effort the switch would take, or what the network effects are that make switching hard.

If you have actually engaged with them, understood their requirements fully, and have a migration path outlined for them, great. If you’re just being a dick, think about how that makes people perceive Linux users: Maybe that isn’t a great way of driving adoption.

#Linux #Haiku #Windows

dating culture clash

#9front #openbsd #gnu #linux #plan9 #dating #comic #unix

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plan9bunny-person meets with a fish-daemon-person. Daemon: "So, how was the date?" Bunny: "He talked about docker for 35 minutes and then asked, if I have wine." Daemon: "Did you tell him you're not Unix?" Bunny: "Yeah, he said: 'oh, like GNU?'"

frightening tales to tell when the sun is about to go down

#openbsd #technomage #linux #ai #unix_surrealism

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Girl, Puffy and Penguin are resting and eating PBJ sandwiches in the middle of nowhere. Sun is about to set. Puffy tells a spooky story. Puffy: "...so she submits a chatgpt generated patch... and it gets accepted."

Run Linux containers on FreeBSD!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV-wUUzRCMo

https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/oci-containers-on-freebsd/ ― an introduction | @FreeBSDFoundation

https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/115450533582783930 |@david_chisnall

#FreeBSD #containers #Linux #OCI

I'm running some tests on my old and trusted Raspberry Pi A+.
I've installed Raspbian - latest release, lite version. At the prompt, it's using 92 MB of RAM, mainly due to systemd and NetworkManager. As soon as you use it (even just for apt), it starts swapping and becomes almost unusable. It took 5 minutes just to install Python.

I tried NetBSD (on the same memory card): 35 MB of RAM used (including Postfix!) and it's totally usable.

#RunBSD #NetBSD #Raspbian #Linux #Debian

25 Years of Linux Magazine: This week, we don't have to go back far to one of our most popular reads. In this article from the March 2025 issue, Marcin Gąstół gives you a deep dive into advanced shell scripting
https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2025/292/Advanced-Shell-Scripting?utm_source=mlm
#shell #scripting #Linux #automation #ITInfrastructure #FOSS #debugging #code #ErrorHandling #OpenSource

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Fractal shell (© Lead Image © Alexandra, 123RF.com)

Plus:
• Fedora KDE pkg mgmt
• Debian vs systemd
• raconn — a smart tool for parallel SSH connections to multiple hostnames/IPs in one ProxyCommand. (https://blog.izissise.net/posts/raconn/)
• UBIOS (China’s UEFI-alt)

Read it 👉 https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php#311

“There are no life hacks, only trade-offs.” — James Clear

#Unix #Linux #FreeBSD #FOSS #SysAdmin #ReproducibleBuilds #SSH #Nixers

🎤 Upcoming at SeaGL 2025:
📍 04:00 PM on November 08
🗣️ "pkgconf: 15 years later"
👥 Speaker(s): Ariadne Conill
📍 Room: Room 334
🏷️ Track: Languages and Tools
📝 In April 2011, I started writing a new implementation of the venerable pkg-config utility to improve...

#SeaGL2025 #programming #performance #FLOSS #opensource #linux
🔗 https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/T7Q7QN/

🚨LIVE NOW!🚨 DevOps/SRE Instructor Livestream

On this lovely Thursday, let's chat about #Linux #SystemAdministration, #SelfHosting, or any other topic in the #DevOps and #SRE space you're interested in!

Owncast: https://live.monospacementor.com/

We've published 300 magazines during the last 25 years, and we couldn't have done it without our loyal readers. To thank you, we are offering a special discount: 25% off print and digital subscriptions! Enter code LM25YRS to get our lowest price. Please use the shop for your currency. #Linux #OpenSource #magazine #FOSS #25Years #discount

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https://shop.sparkhausmedia.com/shop/category/linux-magazine-22

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https://shop.linuxnewmedia.com/shop/category/linux-magazine-15

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CELEBRATING 25 YEARS: LINUX MAGAZINE | Thank you for your support!

With the end of Daylight Saving Time in Ireland, I've rescheduled my livestream course Basic Linux System Administration to 6 pm UTC on Thursdays. Today's lesson on archiving and compression is going to start in less than 2 hours. Join us live and improve your #Linux sysadmin skills!

https://monospacementor.com/courses/linsys-1/free-livestream/

The @kde development team has released the Plasma 6.5 desktop environment with new features, improvements, and the usual bug fixes
https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/KDE-Unleashes-Plasma-6.5?utm_source=mlm
#KDE #Plasma #Linux #desktop #OpenSource #KISS #FOSS

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CELEBRATING 25 YEARS: Linux Magazine News

Is 2025 the year of #Linux desktop? Is it time for everyone to switch? I think 2025 is a really good year

https://youtu.be/dvJsqfLdpsg?si=iwzdHQPvPUnz5ama

I was trying to show off my darling little Raspi to my extended family but nobody was impressed. So my #GratefulForYou nod today goes out to all my Fedi friends who enjoy and delight in this kind of stuff. And thank you for always teaching me new things 🥹

#Linux #SmallTech #RaspberryPi

Fedora Linux 43 released with Anaconda WebUI installer for all spins, wayland-only GNOME 49, RPM 6.0, automatic updates on Fedora Kinoite, zstd-compressed initrd, confidental virtual machines with Intel TDX, Stratis 3.8.5, Python 3.14

https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-43/

#fedora #fedoralinux #fedora43 #gnome49 #linux #linuxdesktop #opensource #freesoftware

I made a couple of points where #Linux excels over #Windows
https://youtu.be/pkvTIrKRLas

Yesterday evening just before going to sleep I installed #pihole on #raspberrypi 5. The process was straight forward and it works like a charm. It neatly blocks advertisements for all devices in my local network. It also blocked #youtube adds to my surprise.

I am actually considering donating to support #pihole.

https://pi-hole.net

#pihole #raspberrypi #SelfHosting #Linux

Use `ps aux --forest` for a neat process tree view. The parent-child relationships make it easier to find root causes of system load issues or zombie processes.

🔗 Learn more in my course: https://monospacementor.com/courses/linsys-1/

#Linux #SystemAdministration

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟭𝟬/𝟮𝟳 (Valuable News - 2025/10/27) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/valuable-news-2025-10-27/

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

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

The Man of MATA pt1

next: https://merveilles.town/@prahou/115271822786360293

pls consider supporting my work: https://analognowhere.com/support

#unix_surrealism #comic #technomage #openbsd #linux #penguin #mata

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Somewhere in a desert... Girl and Penguin are eating breakfast. Penguin: "Morning, slept well?" Girl: "mhmhmhm" Penguin: "What's today?" Girl checks her school schedule. It's Monday, morning class - history. Girl: "History. Penguin, unenthusiased: "Sounds exciting."

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Classroom. Fish begins the lesson. Fish: "I wanted to call this class mythology, but Purple said history suggests that some of it might actually be true. Nobody remembers how long ago, but as you know, the world ended. While the inheritors of the ravaged land learned to adapt to their predicament, three brothers, successors of those who brought about the end, set out into the destroyed world to ruin it some more." LAST REMAINING MATACORPBUNKER B_73; three brothers "Well, gentlemen, we ate all the women, children and uly. The water purifier is busted and the only person who could fix it was Parkinson." "We ate her last week." "We ate her last week." "Nothing to eat, nothing to drink. So now what?" "I think it's time to do what our great great great grandparents spoke of - Go outside and restart civilization." "Ugh..."

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Penguin and Fish are dressed as the MATA brothers. Penguin: "I have the best ideas." Fish: "You're going to have to help us play the third brother." Girl, ecstatic: "School trip!" analognowhere presents: techno-mage in: Girl, Fish and Penguin stand outside their cave home. Fish: "... they gathered a bunch of thumbdrives with ancient CORPO tech and went on a journey to find people and machines they could poison." Penguin: "It's a good day to fuck shit up. Come on, bros!" Girl: "He's really into it!"

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The three brothers cross the ancient desolate land. "This suuuuuuuuuuuucks." "Shut up."

I found this screenshot again and I still think it's brilliant. The best OS overview I've ever read.
#Linux #FreeBSD

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Screenshot of a Reddit comment saying this: Time for my OS opinion that's guaranteed to be unpopular with someone... Sun Solaris used to be the OS that required overpriced proprietary hardware and still couldn't compete with Linux. That OS is now MacOS. MacOS used to be the colorful and friendly walled garden OS that your non-techie parents would enjoy but was completely useless to you as a power user. That OS is now Windows. Windows used to be the OS that could run a lot of apps, but was a headache to setup and maintain correctly and would sometimes blow up for no reason. That OS is now Linux. Linux used to be the techie and developer oriented command-line OS that was lacking in desktop apps and might not support your hardware, but once you got it going, was rock solid and had no limits. That OS is now FreeBSD.

Codeberg - We stay strong against hate and hatred

https://blog.codeberg.org/we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-hatred.html

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://blog.codeberg.org/we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-hatred.html

#linux #opensource #unix

UPDATE: I haven't seen Recall in action there. I was just asking the doctor how they'll deal with it.

This morning, I went to the doctor for a scheduled appointment. While she was looking at the results of blood tests from two years ago on the screen (and suggested repeating them for a follow-up), I realized she was using Windows 11. A detail came to mind. The doctor is extremely polite and friendly, so I asked her, "How do you handle the feature called Recall?" The doctor was taken aback and had no idea what I was talking about. I was about to drop the conversation, but she, being a serious professional, immediately called the technicians who manage their PCs to ask for clarification. They downplayed it, saying it's not an issue and that it's a feature "on all PCs, so we can't do anything about it." She started to express that she didn’t like it and wanted it deactivated. No luck: they won’t proceed because, according to them, even deactivating it is "a hack that could compromise future updates." She’s furious and will talk to her colleagues and the decision-makers. She wants secure systems because "there’s patient data involved."

In reality, patient data is stored on servers (which I haven't investigated), but everything that appears on the screen is, in my opinion, at risk.

I’ve offered to help them find a solution—because, if I'm right, all they need is LibreOffice and a browser. In that case, I’ll suggest one of the *BSD or Linux systems and do it for free.

I don’t want to make money off my doctor. I just want patient data to be (sufficiently) secure.

#IT #Recall #Windows #OwnYourData #Security #Privacy #RunBSD #Linux

If you are thinking of moving from Windows to Linux and are not sure where to start, here's the software that I am using day to day:

https://decoded.legal/blog/2024/09/running-a-law-firm-on-free-software-2024-edition/

(Work-focus, as that is where I spend most of my (computing) time, but I am Linux-only for personal computing too.)

And don't forget that many Free software programs have Windows versions too, so you can test before you leap.

Good luck!

#Linux #FOSS