GNU/Linux, BSD, and Windows Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 07, 2025

• Linuxiac ☛ Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 14 (Mar 31 – Apr 6, 2025)

  Catch up on the latest GNU/Linux news: APT 3.0, Plasma 6.3.4, Nitrux 3.9.1, GNU/Linux Lite 7.4, Firefox 137, Thunderbird 137, Fedora 43 ushers in RPM 6, and more.

• Applications

  • Kubernetes Blog ☛ Introducing kube-scheduler-simulator

    The Kubernetes Scheduler is a crucial control plane component that determines which node a Pod will run on. Thus, anyone utilizing Kubernetes relies on a scheduler.

    kube-scheduler-simulator is a simulator for the Kubernetes scheduler, that started as a Google Summer of Code 2021 project developed by me (Kensei Nakada) and later received a lot of contributions. This tool allows users to closely examine the scheduler’s behavior and decisions.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • BSD

    • Rafael Sadowski ☛ Shut Up and Hack: November 2024 to March 2025 newsletter recap

      November marked the beginning of a focused effort to enhance OpenBSD’s desktop environment. Thanks to your generous support, I was able to secure a dedicated root server (RS 2000 G11 at NetCup), facilitating continuous amd64 bulk builds for OpenBSD ports. This infrastructure investment significantly improved the stability and reproducibility of our development processes.

  • Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

    • Computers Are Bad ☛ 2025-04-06 Airfone

      That theory has never had much to back it up, but with the benefit of hindsight we can soundly rule it out: not only has the rule persisted well past the decline and disappearance of in-flight telephones, in-flight telephones were never commercially successful to begin with.

    • Wouter Groeneveld ☛ Your Phone Should Be Distributed, Not Centralized

      But we’re not here to diss on one particular app, but on the very dangerous services centralization movement. That same software as a (centralized cloud) service movement that we as privacy-aware tech nerds do identify as a real threat. As a response, we search and find alternative software that doesn’t rely on just one Silicon Valley tech giant, we self-host software, we turn to distributed social media services backed by ActivityPub. And by “we” I mean the 1% that is technically capable to do so and that cares enough to do it.

• Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ WinRAR security flaw ignores backdoored Windows Mark of the Web security warnings

    WinRAR users not running the latest version are subject to a security flaw that's capable of ignoring the backdoored Windows Mark of the Web security warnings.