GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 18, 2025

• Linux Format Magazine ☛ Linux Format Archives

  For 25-years GNU/Linux Format was proud to bring its readers all the latest and greatest news, reviews, tutorials, opinion and open source freedom that it could cram into 100 pages or so.

• Kernel Space

  • Barry Kauler ☛ Kernel compiling now in woofQ2

    We still have a problem with Easy Excalibur sometimes hanging at bootup. On my Lenovo Ideacentre desktop PC, it did that twice yesterday, necessitating hard-poweroff, then reboot and it came good. This morning, powered-on and no problem.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Distro Watch ☛ DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.

    The Debian project is one of oldest, largest, and most widely used distributions in the world. Debian (and projects based on it) make up a huge portion of the Linux ecosystem - both in terms of the number of child distributions and the number of people using them. Last weekly the project published Debian 13 "Trixie" and this week we talk about this latest addition to the Debian family in our Feature Story. Do you run Debian or a child distribution based on Debian? Let us know in this week's Opinion Poll. Debian's Linux distribution wasn't alone in receiving an update, Debian also has a lesser-known Hurd port which runs most of the same software, but on top of the GNU Hurd kernel instead of the Linux kernel. We report on the new Debian GNU/Hurd release in our News section. [...]

  • BSD

    • DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ Lazy Reading for 2025/08/17

      I’ve had a surplus of links, so this is almost all stuff I’ve collected over the last few weeks, pre-scheduled. microm8, an Apple][ emulator that adds new features.  (via last week’s theme) Why are you (still) using OpenBSD? Installing *BSD in 2025 part 5.

  • Arch Family

    • Jasper Tandy ☛ Jasper is blogging: ArchBook

      I now have Hyprland installed and running, and a web browser. I'm not sure if the plan is to make it so that this could be a work laptop, or if I'm just doing it for fun. It does currently feel like I've achieved something, which is nice. Bonus side-effect of spending ages wanting to get round to doing something, then actually getting on with it, I guess.

  • Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

    • [Old] Tomi Ahonen ☛ Communities Dominate Brands: Nokia Final Q4 Smartphones As Expected: 6.6M Total means Market Share now 3% (from 29% exactly 2 years ago)

      So, Nokia smartphones? Profitable? Not a chance. The smartphone unit still deeply in the red, produces 22% loss per smartphone sold. How is the Quarter? 6.6 million total smartphones is 5% up from Q3 (while the industry grew 30% in the same 90 day period), so Nokia is again regressing further behind. Nokia's market share in free-fall, from 4% in Q3 to 3% now. And yes, for those who might be new to this story - Nokia had 29% market share only 24 months ago, it is BY FAR the biggest collapse of any market leader, ever, in any industry! From 29% to 3% in 24 months. This is a world record in management failure.