schestowitz.com

Growing Up (and Growing)

Almost a decade ago

October in Numbers

he heavy traffic is mostly from bots, but the frequent blogging seems to have paid off and this month brought a lot of activity – to the point where I had to increase bandwidth thresholds.

Eyes on Liverpool v Arsenal

Not good enough for (Manchester) City

Goodbye, October

Gone by so fast

We Need to Talk More About GNU

The real aim is Software Freedom

Hard Match

Good squad though

A Year After Trial UEFI Continues to Do Serious Harm to ICT and Society

So we must all carry on talking about it

A Rather Mild Halloween

This isn’t right

Too Much Traffic

The aim is quality

Enzo Maresca is the Opposite of Michael Carrick

Haaland back

9to5Linux

Kwi Is a New Ghostty-Based GPU-Accelerated Terminal Emulator for KDE Plasma

Meet Kwi (pronounced “kwee”), a new GPU-accelerated terminal emulator that follows the latest KDE HIG and UI conventions, built on the libghostty-vt library from the Ghostty project, Kirigami, and KDE Frameworks. Compared to Konsole, KDE’s venerable terminal emulator, Kwi promises up to 35x faster performance that should reduce battery usage.

OpenShot 4.1 Video Editor Is Out with Native ARM64 Linux Builds and Text Editing

Coming two months after OpenShot 4.0, the OpenShot 4.1 release revamps the text workflow by creating text clips immediately at the playhead, adding support for editing text directly in the preview window with no external editor required, a floating style bar for the font, size, color, and alignment, and exposing typography options in the Properties dock.

Linux Mint Devs Introduce New System Monitor and Terminal Emulator Apps

Meet Superlight, a new system monitor app for Linux Mint that features graphs for CPU, RAM, swap, GPU, network, disk I/O, temperature, and fan speed. The app shows how much of the system’s resources each application uses, and the same data is available for all running processes, with a large variety of columns you can sort and reorder.

Enlightenment 0.28 Desktop Adds PipeWire Support, NetworkManager Module

Coming seven and a half months after Enlightenment 0.27, the Enlightenment 0.28 release introduces a new NetworkManager module that supports Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Bluetooth networking, and VPNs, with network signal strength, security indicators, connection details, tooltips, and saved connection management.

Linux Lite 8.2 Released with Linux Kernel 7.3, Based on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

Still based on the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) operating system series and featuring the Xfce 4.20 desktop environment, Linux Lite 8.2 is powered by the latest and greatest Linux kernel 7.3, a major update compared to the Linux 7.0 kernel shipped in Linux Lite 8.0, for better hardware support.

Shelly 3.1.10 Brings More Reliable AUR Builds and a New “Shell” Progress Bar

Coming only a week after Shelly 3.1.9, the Shelly 3.1.10 continues to improve AUR builds by discovering and installing build dependencies before the prepare() function runs, including when an AUR package needs other AUR packages to build.

LinuxGizmos.com

Tiny Linux box packs Panther Lake, Arc graphics and dual 2.5GbE

The Nano Pro Gen15 is a compact Linux mini PC powered by Intel’s Core Ultra X7 358H processor with integrated Arc B390 graphics. Developed by TUXEDO Computers, the system supports up to 128GB of DDR5 memory, dual NVMe SSDs, four 4K displays, and dual 2.5GbE connectivity. It can be used for software development, local AI workloads, and home server applications.

Tor Project blog

New Release: Tails 7.16

Tor Browser 16.0 is based on Firefox 153 and inherits its redesigned settings.