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

This afternoon I tried to boot a KDE Linux image on my mini PC. Plasma kept crashing, so I couldn't try it out.
I'll wait for the next snapshot.

#KDE #Plasma #Linux

People associate Gentoo Linux with technical knowledge, patience and skill. But our interest in Gentoo isn't intellectual, it's about erotic love. Gentoo is a fetish. The kinkiest of Linux distributions.

#Gentoo #Linux

I have something else to be thankful for today. At this moment in time I am busy restoring functionality on systems so that I will be able to resume important remote tasks, which shall enable me to restore the level that I am used to, when it comes down to actual value of goods

This work is highly specialized and needs a set of computing systems, communication systems which use GSM messaging systems and other means of signalling, in order to properly Act, monitor react and deploy the remote systems, of which a set of those are managed deployed monitored and configured through Proxmox.

@gyptazy has made incredibly wonderful contributions to the community of Open Source and I'm specifically highlighting his work in for example the great Proxmox load balancer.

Through the Work Of Him and other hundreds to thousands nameless Open Source coders, programmers en hackers am I able to do this work.

I am fortunate enough to have virtually met him here on the FediVerse through a beautiful forward that @stefano has made, who also makes great contributions in Open Source

Without the work of these incredible people none of this would have been possible. I would be sitting watching this beautiful scenery that I would have made myself with props

There would not be any Open Source Operating Systems, plural, driving the displays.

Being Grateful is important. Giving Thanks sends a beautifully Modulated Pulse of Energy, through the Universe to everyone.

I am thankful to you all

#OpenSource #programming #GNU #GPL #license #BSD #freeBSD #Linux #POSIX #Proxmox #thankful #thanks #FediVerse #Love #UniversalLove

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The photograph shot in total absolute darkness shows a collage of four IPS LED panels, each displaying different content. The top screen features a blue background with a flower image and a text editor window Bash shells tabbed, with code. The middle screen displays a vinyl record label of Kraftwerk Autobahn, with a colorful design and a digital audio workstation interface. The bottom screen shows a blue-toned image with abstract patterns, possibly a visualizer or a live performance. The screens are arranged vertically, with the top screen at the top, the middle screen in the center, and the bottom screen at the bottom. The background is dark, emphasizing the screens' content. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.156 Wh

#Linux people, help me, I'm trapped on a 800MHz computer.

Since yesterday (but it's not the first time) my system has decided to go 800-1100MHz instead of the 3.8GHz it can do, even when I'm using all 8 cores to compile something. I asked in #linux@libera.chat and even subscribed and sent an email to linux-pm@kernel.org, and tried several things, but still stuck here.

More info on the linux-pm thread: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/aI8xnBiOEKsUewMQ@ioniq/T/#u

Short write-up on running Hashcat 7 (or older) with OpenCL on CPUs and/or using the Nouveau FOSS driver for NVIDIA cards.

www.infosecworrier.dk/blog/2025/08/opencl/

All the good stuff is from @tychotithonus original post. The rest is just me standing on his shoulders.

#Hashcat #OpenCL #Nouveau #Linux #ABC #AlwaysBeCracking #NVIDIA #Legacy

Question for the Fediverse: If you wanted a new web browser that wasn't chrome or ff or any of their forks what features would you LOVE to have in a browser that either currently don't exist or are lacking

I just want to get some ideas. I know what I personally want but I'd love to hear what others would love to see.

Thanks.

#FOSS #Dev #Linux #Web

Wow, after 25 years of #Unix / #linux experience, I learned that you can filter output in #less.

Press ampersand (&) and enter a regex to show only lines matching the regex.

Press ampersand (&) and then exclamation mark (!) to apply an inverse filter.

Become a Firmware Developer for Coreboot and Help Shape the Future of Open Hardware

Do you have experience with Coreboot, U-Boot, or LinuxBoot and a passion for low-level software development? Then become part of our team.

🐇https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Infos/Jobs/Firmware-Developer-Coreboot.tuxedo

#linux #jobs #coreboot

A weird thing about #Slack on #Linux #X11: whenever it gains keyboard focus, it immediately reads the X11 clipboard, even if you didn't try to paste anything. I see no evidence that it _does_ anything with what it reads, but I know it reads it.

I found this out by accident, because I wrote a stunt X11 client which owns the clipboard for just long enough to paste _once_, and then terminates. The idea was to queue up three different pastes on the command line, and paste them in quick succession into fields of a form. Works very well, _unless_ I accidentally mouse over Slack on the way to the form I want to paste into – then my focus-follows-mouse activates it, and it consumes one of my clipboard strings!

I have no idea why, or whether it's on purpose. I'm prepared to give it the benefit of the doubt, by assuming until further evidence that it's some unforeseen emergent consequence of the huge wobbly tower of libraries and wrappers and browsers that the desktop Slack app is built on top of. But it's not great. Some password managers will put passwords in the clipboard!

NetworkManager 1.54 released with support for per-device IPv4 forwarding, updated nm-cloud-setup for OCI baremetal setups, loopback configuration support in nmtui, and NVMe Boot Firmware Table support in the builtin initrd-generator

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/blob/1.54.0/NEWS

#networkmanager #linuxnetworking #linux #freedesktop

KDE released their own immutable distribution KDE Linux that is based on Arch Linux (without Pacman) and uses Flatpak/Snap as the primary package managers. It comes with Distrobox and Toolbox pre-installed

https://kde.org/linux

#kdelinux #kdeplasma #linux

How to trigger a command on Linux when disconnected from power

In this blog post, you will learn how to trigger a command when a laptop is disconnected from power supply

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2025-05-31-linux-killswitch-on-power-disconnect.html

gemini://perso.pw/blog/articles/linux-killswitch-on-power-disconnect.gmi
#security #linux

@solene

From this week's Linux Update newsletter, Marcin Gąstół shows you how to set up your Linux system to support Rust programming
https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2025/295/Rust-in-the-Kernel?utm_source=mlm
#Linux #programming #Rust #kernel #language #security

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screenshot: Installing rustup

Free and open source 2D graphics editor PixiEditor 2.0 out now with Linux support https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/free-and-open-source-2d-graphics-editor-pixieditor-2-0-out-now-with-linux-support/

#PixiEditor #OpenSource #GameDev #Art #Linux

Many of you probably learned the cp command early on in Linux, but if you haven’t explored its full set of options and are too lazy to read its man page, you might be missing out on its true power

Let’s review some useful examples of the command 😎👇 #sysadmin #devops

Find high-res pdf books with all my #Linux related infographics at https://study-notes.org

Anyone tried one of the Waveshare 7.5inch E-Paper HAT Display units?

I'm planning to DIY an eBook reader with the kids - think 3D printed case, eink display, RPi running Linux & booting straight into an open source reader.

Not sure what these displays are like to use though, & given their low price I'm suspicious.

#linux #ebook #diy #hardware

Today is the final day of our Summer Clearance Sale! Save 50% on select Linux Magazine and @adminmagazine back issues, special editions, and archive DVDs. Follow the link to the shop for your region/currency.

Customers in Europe and Switzerland (EUR/CH):
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Customers in the United Kingdom (GBP):
https://shop.sparkhausmedia.com/shop/category/summer-clearance-80

Customers in all other countries (USD):
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#Linux #OpenSource #security #LibreOffice #hacks #RaspberryPi

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Summer SALE from ADMIN and Linux Magazine

For a #homelab/#selfhosted project, would there be any reason to pick one of #freebsd or #openbsd ? (Just because #netbsd seems amazingly portable it also interests me).
So far I mostly run #Linux containers with #podman and VMs with #proxmox, the only *BSD VM running is #opnsense. And so far #btrfs seems pretty good alternative to #zfs.
I hear the network stack is supposed to be better and the system overall more “unified” but I fail to see what to try or do with it.

#RUNBSD! But BoxyBSD now also starts to support #Linux! We're starting soon with the Linux support for already present users, offering free boxes:

* #AlmaLinux
* #Alpine
* #Debian
* #Devuan
* #CentOS
* #Fedora
* #Gentoo
* #OpenSuse
* #OpenEuler
* #RockyLinux

Just next to our core OS like #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, #MidnightBSD and #DragonflyBSD (and #illumos). This should also make the step easier to compare and test different scenarios where BSD provides a different behavior compared to Linux systems.

Thanks to @gyptazy for the implementation!

#VPS #VM #VirtualMachine #OpenSource #Hosting #IPv6 #BGP #FreeHosting #Community

OK, riddle me this, #Linux (specifically #ArchLinux) fans.

You can use #ZFS and #btrfs on root to create snapshots before updating the OS. But you can't snapshot EFI, because that's on a separate FAT32 partition.

So what happens if you run an update (pacman -Syu in this case) that includes a kernel update, and something goes wrong? The version of the kernel in the EFI partition will be newer than the modules in the snapshotted /usr/lib/modules. That's surely going to cause an issue, right?

From memory (it's been over 15 years), Gentoo can have multiple versions of the same kernel installed at once. But Arch only allows one version of any package at one time.

As a Barista at BSD Cafe, I'm also an admirer of tea – a metaphor for my appreciation of the good features of other operating systems. And the fact that I like and support BSDs doesn't mean I don't appreciate those other solutions.
For example, #SmartOS, #OmniOS, and #Tribblix are superb examples of well-crafted operating systems.

Similarly, #Linux - #openSUSE Tumbleweed-based desktops give me a lot of satisfaction every day.

The foundation of my passion for Open Source also stems from the ability to study, explore, and choose without constraints or restrictions. It's that sense of freedom that drives me to appreciate the good in every solution.

If and when I feel caged or forced, all of that vanishes.

#Freedom #OS #IT

The long version of why you need key authentication for your SSH servers - "The Hail Mary Cloud and the lessons learned" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/hailmary_lessons_learned.html #ssh #passwordgroping #unix #linux #openbsd #freebsd #pf #packetfilter

Also The 4th edition of the Book of PF is coming soon: https://nxdomain.no/~peter/yes_the_book_of_pf_4th_ed_is_coming.html

Linux Kernel 6.16 released with XFS support for large atomic writes, USB audio offload support, support for Intel Trusted Domain Extensions and Intel Advanced Performance Extensions, ext4 performance improvements

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel-announce/20250728042036.release-6.16@kdist.linux.kernel.org/T/#u

#linux #linuxkernel

✨ Wayland Will Never Be Ready ✨

The full article titled, "Wayland Will Never Be Ready For Every X11 User" is one of my favorite writings on the topic. Well done Maya Posch, well done indeed.

https://hackaday.com/2025/07/28/wayland-will-never-be-ready-for-every-x11-user/

#linux #freebsd #wayland #xorg #x11 #foss

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

Dear #linux users. Do you use Ctrl+q or Alt+F4 to close apps?

openSUSE Tumbleweed has been powering my mini PC (my main daily driver, with KDE Plasma) since early may and I am really satisfied with it.
I'd love to run one of the BSDs there, but this setup is doing great.

#Linux #KDE #Plasma

#FOSS #Linux #Unix

Users can now choose their own shell on CachyOS
https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/CachyOS-Now-Lets-Users-Choose-Their-Shell?utm_source=mlm
#CachyOS #Linux #FOSS #shell #fish #Zsh #Bash #OpenSource #distro

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Linux Magazine News

How many #Linux distros do actually use on a daily basis?
Kinda curious to see what the results will be.

Bonus points:
Commenting which ones you use! 😎

The release of Debian 13 "Trixie" is near as the Full Freeze starts on July 27th. The final release it set for August 9th.

Debian 13 will add official support for riscv64, a total amount of 11294 new packages, over 42821 packages will be updated, and it will transition to 64-bit time_t ABI

More informations in their release notes:
https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/whats-new.en.html#what-s-new-in-the-distribution

#debian #debian13 #linux

Can't really decide which game to invest some time into (or more time).
So let's make a poll 😂

All on #Linux ofc

Wan't to start to get into #gaming again - did not play anything for quite some time tbh.

`vet` is a CLI tool that acts as a safety net for the common but risky `curl | bash` command. It lets you inspect remote scripts for changes, run them through a linter, and require your explicit approval before they can execute on your developer or production machine.

Repo https://github.com/vet-run/vet

#security #unix #linux #opensource

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The Problem: We've all seen this pattern for installing software: This is convenient, but you're blindly trusting the remote script. ``` curl -sSL https://example.com/install.sh | bash ``` This is dangerous. The script could be malicious, the server could be compromised, or a transient network error could result in executing a partial script. The Solution: vet vet wraps this process in a secure, interactive workflow: Fetch: It downloads the remote script to a temporary location. Diff & Review: It shows you what, if anything, has changed since the last time you ran this script. Lint: If you have shellcheck installed, it automatically analyzes the script for potential bugs or malicious patterns. Confirm: It prompts you for explicit approval before executing anything. The new, safer way: ``` vet https://example.com/install.sh ```

all operating systems suck uniquely. find the one that sucks the least for you and use it. also, shut up about it.

#Linux #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #Windows #Illumos #plan9 #9front #MacOS #DOS

Random #Debian hint

If you want to install some package and remove another one you can leverage "+" and "-" while using apt. 😎

Example:
apt install package1 package2-

This will install package1 and remove package2

#Debian #Linux #Ubuntu

Linux tip: Use `systemctl --failed` to quickly identify which services failed to start after boot. Much faster than scrolling through journal logs when troubleshooting system issues. #Linux #SystemAdministration #SysAdmin

Linux tip: Set `HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:erasedups` in your init script to prevent duplicate commands cluttering your history. Clean history makes command recall much more efficient. #Linux #SystemAdministration #SysAdmin

FINALLY! I'm happy to announce the R1 Open Source Project, a new project where release news, articles and documentation about Linux, BSD and FOSS software will be published

The new Mastodon account of the project can be followed here: @r1os
AND the account is also hosted on the BSD Cafe. Cheers to @stefano at this point.

All future FOSS release announcements will be published on the project account.

So grab a cup of coffee and stay tuned for a new website I'm currently preparing and will hopefully announce in a few days.

#opensource #freesoftware #linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd

What to expect from the new #Debian 13 - great article about that!

https://michael-prokop.at/blog/2025/07/20/what-to-expect-from-debian-trixie-newintrixie/

#Debian #Linux

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

I'm always reminded of how much I miss #BSD and #Linux when I boot my #Windows 11 install for some gaming...
Microsoft seems to think that memory and cpu power grows on trees.

No bashing here, just crazy how heavyweight there OS has become over the years (Not even starting with AD's and backdoors etc.)

Guess I still live in the XP/98 days - resource wise.

It feels/behaves sluggish.
Quite different to my #Debian #KDE install - where everything is snappy.

Well, it is only for gaming anymore.

I think we will see quite some systems being sold on eBay in the forseeable future given the planned obsolescense of systems not being "capable" of running Windows 11....

The amount of e-waste will be insane sadly

Hopefully most systems find a new home running #Linux or #BSD

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

https://wddashboarddownloads.wdc.com/wdDashboard/config/devices/lista_devices.xml

So open up your drive model like this:
https://wddashboarddownloads.wdc.com/wdDashboard/firmware/WD_BLACK_SN770_2TB/731130WD/device_properties.xml

And change the "device_properties.xml" in the URL to the ".fluf" file given in the XML, like this:

https://wddashboarddownloads.wdc.com/wdDashboard/firmware/WD_BLACK_SN770_2TB/731130WD/731130WD.fluf

then, for FreeBSD follow the commands given in the manual:
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nvmecontrol&sektion=8&format=html

ie.

nvmecontrol identify nvme0 | grep -i 'firmware'
nvmecontrol firmware -s 1 -f 731130WD.fluf nvme0
nvmecontrol firmware -s 1 -a nvme0
nvmecontrol reset nvme0