GNU/Linux Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 21, 2025

• Applications

  • Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Apps Updates Round-up #1: Xournal++ 1.2.6, qBittorrent 5.0.4 & More

    Many free open-source apps/projects got updates in past week. They include KDE Plasma 6.3 features panel clone and pixel perfect KWin zoom, GNOME 48 Beta with screen time and HDR settings support.

  • Paul Tagliamonte: boot2kier

    I can’t remember exactly the joke I was making at the time in my work’s slack instance (I’m sure it wasn’t particularly funny, though; and not even worth re-reading the thread to work out), but it wound up with me writing a UEFI binary for the punchline. Not to spoil the ending but it worked - no pesky kernel, no messing around with “userland”. I guess the only part of this you really need to know for the setup here is that it was a Severance joke, which is some fantastic TV. If you haven’t seen it, this post will seem perhaps weirder than it actually is. I promise I haven’t joined any new cults. For those who have seen it, the payoff to my joke is that I wanted my machine to boot directly to an image of Kier Eagan.

  • Mike Blumenkrantz: Againicl

    Busy.

    I didn’t forget to blog. I know you don’t believe me, but I’ve been accumulating items to blog about for the past month. Powering up. Preparing. And now, finally, it’s time to begin opening the valves.

• Games

  • Boiling Steam ☛ New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, including Stories from Sol, and Dawnfolk - 2025-02-19 Edition

    Between 2025-02-12 and 2025-02-19 there were 12 New Steam games released with Native GNU/Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 72 games released for backdoored Windows on Steam, so the GNU/Linux versions represent about 16.7 % of total released titles. This week there’s a few good picks, such as the excellent looking Visual Novel / Adventure game called Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog. And there’s Dawnfolk, minimal city-builder, too.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • BSD

    • The BSD Now Podcast ☛ BSD Now 599: Core Infrastructure Control

      Controlling Your Core Infrastructure: DNS, Laptop Support and Usability Project Update, FreeBSD at FOSDEM 2025, Uploading a message to an IMAP server using curl, The Death of Email Forwarding, Cruising a VPS at OpenBSD Amsterdam, and more

  • Gentoo Family

    • Gentoo ☛ Bootable Gentoo QCOW2 disk images - ready for the cloud! – Gentoo Linux

      Larry the Qcow2 We are very happy to announce new official downloads on our website and our mirrors: Gentoo for amd64 (x86-64) and arm64 (aarch64), as immediately bootable disk images in qemu’s QCOW2 format! The images, updated weekly, include an EFI boot partition and a fully functional Gentoo installation; either with no network activated but a password-less root login on the console (“no root pw”), or with network activated, all accounts initially locked, but cloud-init running on boot (“cloud-init”). Enjoy, and read on for more!