GNU/Linux, GNOME, and Red Hat Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 15, 2025

• Applications

  • Peter 'CzP' Czanik ☛ The syslog-ng Insider 2025-08: HDFS; configuration; Prometheus

    The August syslog-ng newsletter is now on-line:

    Deprecating Java-based drivers from syslog-ng: Is HDFS next?

    Your first steps configuring syslog-ng

    Prometheus exporter in syslog-ng

• Instructionals/Technical

  • Virtualization ☛ Running Android and Linux Applications on an Intel Laptop

    In a previous article, I examined FydeOS, an OS derived from the open-source Chromium OS project. I was interested in this system because it is compatible with X64 systems, similar to ChromeOS Flex, which is also based on Chromium OS. FydeOS appears to address several limitations of ChromeOS, including support for running Linux and Android applications, as well as enabling users without Google accounts.

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

  • GNOME Desktop/GTK

    • OMG Ubuntu ☛ Fuzzy Application Search Extension for GNOME Shell

      GNOME Shell search asks for perfect spelling, but fuzzy search extensions let you find apps even with typos – and a new one has just appeared to help.

    • Gedit Technology blog: Mid-August News

      Misc news about the gedit text editor, mid-August edition! (Some sections are a bit technical).

      Code Comment plugin rewritten

      I forgot to talk about it in the mid-July news, but the Code Comment plugin has been rewritten in C (it was previously implemented in Python) and the bulk of it is implemented as re-usable code in libgedit-tepl. The implementation is now shared between Enter TeX and gedit.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Fedora Family / IBM

    • Red Hat ☛ Enhancing system resilience with Krkn chaos dashboard

      In today's digital-first world, system resilience is not just a luxury, it's a necessity. Resiliency is a key differentiator in an era where downtime is expensive, and competition is fierce. It equips unexpected downtime, providing reliability and confidence to businesses and their users. A chaos dashboard is pivotal to chaos engineering by enabling teams to build, test, and improve overall system resilience.

      Krkn is an open-source chaos engineering tool designed to enhance the resilience and performance of Kubernetes environments. By intentionally injecting failures into Kubernetes clusters, Krkn enables teams to identify vulnerabilities and ensure systems can withstand unexpected disruptions.