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GNU/Linux and FOSS Leftovers
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Applications
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HowTo Geek ☛ 3 Useful Linux Apps to Try This Weekend (Aug 22-24)
One of my favorite experiences is coming across free and open source Linux software that fulfill a computing need I had. Other times, the software gives me a way to do something I was already doing, only more efficiently. That's what these apps are: Linux software that can come in useful in ways you might not expect.
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Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)
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K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt
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GSoC 2025 Final Project Blog: Developing Karton, the KDE Virtual Machine Manager!
Hello again everyone!
I’m Derek Lin also known as kenoi, a second-year Math student and the University of Waterloo.
Through Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code (GSoC), mentored by Harald Sitter, Tobias Fella, and Nicolas Fella, I have been developing Karton, a KDE-native Virtual Machine Manager.
As the program wraps up, I thought it would be a good idea to put together what I’ve been able to accomplish as well as my plans going forward.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Linuxiac ☛ Yet Another Init System? Meet Nitro, a Fresh Take on Process Supervision
A new init system called Nitro has reached its first public release, adding another option to the already diverse ecosystem of process supervisors for Linux, currently dominated by systemd. The main driving force behind it is Leah Neukirchen, maintainer of the systemd-free Void Linux, a distro betting on runit as its init system.She designed Nitro to be tiny, flexible, and easy to configure, focusing on the basics of what an init system should do: bring up services, keep them running, and restart them if they fail. Unlike larger alternatives such as systemd, Nitro sticks to a simple process supervision model while staying small enough to build and run as a static binary.
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Open Hardware/Modding
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Hackaday ☛ Dealing With The 1970s EPROM Chaos In 2025
It could be argued that erasable programmable ROMs (EPROMs) with their quaint UV-transparent windows are firmly obsolete today in an era of various flavors of EEPROMs. Yet many of these EPROMs are still around, and people want to program them. Unfortunately, the earliest EPROMs were made during a time when JEDEC standardization hadn’t taken root yet, leading to unique pinouts, programming voltages, and programming sequences, as [Anders Nielsen] explains in a recent video.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Commodore raked in over $2 million during the new C64 Ultimate's debut week — roadmap will include three major releases a year
The new Commodore is already thriving with $2m in sales in the first week of the C64 Ultimate's debut.
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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
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Web Browsers/Web Servers
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Mozilla
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Don Marti ☛ Goddammit, Mr. Noodle!
Basically now that’s me when a new version of Firefox comes out. So much useful stuff gone that you have to get an extension for, so many opportunities missed, so many fads chased. I’m surprised that Firefox didn’t have a feature to get you to eat Tide Pods back when that was a thing.
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Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)
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Joel Chrono ☛ Webmentions but manual (for Jekyll)
Webmentions have been around for a while now, they are a very interesting protocol that allows websites to interact and call each other as if they were their own sort of social media. It’s very extensive and not too difficult to implement in something like Wordpress, and there are drop-in solutions available as well. However, while very cool, I didn’t want to bother setting them up even if it’s not too difficult. They are also pretty prone to spam and other maintenance issues, from what I’ve seen.
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