GNU/Linux Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 31, 2025

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • The Ask Noah Show ☛ Ask Noah Show: Ask Noah Show 353

    1 hr 5 mins 58 secs

• Kernel Space

  • Lars Wikman ☛ 500 virtual Linux devices on ARM 64

    You will note that this post claims 500 virtual devices and you might think “that is not a lot” and you’d be right. Each device being single-core it shakes out to every device getting about 1.2GHz to play with. They should not need that much. I very much hope that a later post about this project will have a much higher number. But we are getting ahead of ourselves, we are not there yet.

• Applications

  • Sparky GNU/Linux ☛ Forkgram

    There is a new application available for Sparkers: Forkgram What is Forkgram? Forkgram is the fork of the official Telegram Desktop application. This fork does not fundamentally change the official client and adds only some useful small features.

  • Unicorn Media ☛ Don’t Struggle with Flatpaks—Warehouse Gives Easy Control on Any Distro

    If you're not using one of the many GNU/Linux distro's that come with Flatpak management already built in, Warehouse is here to help.

• Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)

  • Undeadly ☛ Classic CDE (Common Desktop Environment) coming to OpenBSD

    Much longed for by some, remembered as a quaint memory by other greybeards, the classic Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is being added to the ports collection.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Barry Kauler ☛ Easy Excalibur 6.119 V7-beta6

    Another one! Download:
    

    https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/excalibur/2025/6.119/
    

    Feedback welcome: [...]
    

  • Debian Family

    • Debian ☛ Bits from Debian: New Debian Developers and Maintainers (May and June 2025)

      The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts [...]