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GNU/Linux Leftovers
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Server
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Carlo Zottmann ☛ Carlo Zottmann - Moving my Discourse forum to a new managed host
Yesterday, I finally got around to moving my Discourse forum to a new hoster. The last two years I had it running at Communiteq – rock-solid, but the (reasonable!) $50/month is more than I am willing to keep spending on a very low-traffic forum.
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Applications
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Peter Czanik: The syslog-ng Insider 2025-08: HDFS; configuration; Prometheus
Dear syslog-ng users,
This is the 133rd issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.
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Games
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Boiling Steam ☛ New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, including Tiny Bookshop - 2025-08-13 Edition
Between 2025-08-06 and 2025-08-13 there were 36 New Steam games released with Native GNU/Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 418 games released for backdoored Windows on Steam, so the GNU/Linux versions represent about 8.6 % of total released titles. This time it’s worth highlighting Tiny Bookshop, an unusual game that lets you set up a small bookshop in different areas and manage it as you go. Looks very well done and relaxing. Here’s a quick pick of all the titles you ought to check:
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Debian Family
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Teejee Tech ☛ Optimizing Your Debian 13 Desktop -
Debian 13 was released last week. This article offers some tips to help you get the most out of your new Debian desktop.
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Canonical/Ubuntu Family
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Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu Blog: Canonical launches general availability of Ubuntu for Qualcomm Dragonwing Platforms
This release brings certified Ubuntu to Qualcomm Dragonwing QCS6490 and QCS5430 processors, accelerating time to market for ODMs/OEMs, unlocking optimized performance for edge Hey Hi (AI) solutions, and providing LTS support for enterprises to deploy Hey Hi (AI) at the edge confidently.
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Devices/Embedded
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Juha-Matti Santala ☛ Network stress test for my smart home
In my note for home automation, I listed three main principles I try to follow when setting up new devices and automations to my home system and the second one was
"Everything that doesn’t require [Internet] must be doable with local network only with no access to Internet."
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