GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 25, 2025

• Make Use Of ☛ Sorry, Linux Fans: This OS Is Actually the Better Windows Replacement ][Ed: This network's tune changed after taking Microsoft money. Now a lot of anti-Linux articles.]

• Desktop/Laptop

  • Juha-Matti Santala ☛ I have found the joy of clipboard managers

    I have some regular use cases that makes clipboard managers worth their weight in gold.

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ Arch Enemies | LINUX Unplugged 629

    Arch is under fire, two weeks and counting. We'll break down the mess, and share a quick fix. Plus, the killer new apps we've just added to our homelabs.

• Kernel Space

  • Linux Kernel May Soon Support USB 3.x on Apple M1 and M2 MacBooks and Desktops

    The Asahi Linux project has been working on Linux support for Apple's Arm-based Apple Silicon Macs, and the latest success to come out of the mammoth task is support for the USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports on M1 and M2 SoCs. While this support has been available to Asahi Linux for a while, the feature may soon be merged into the Linux kernel, since the feature addition has been submitted for comments via the Linux kernel public inbox.

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

  • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

    • Three writing systems of English and localization woes

      Did you know there are three different writing systems for English? That’s right - you can write English using letters that aren’t Latin characters. If you’re using KDE Plasma version 6.4 or earlier, go to the “Region & Language” system settings page and search “en_US.” You’ll see two locales in the results, and they both say they’re “en_US.” The latter en_US doesn’t seem to be English at all.

      It turns out that the “weird” English is the “America English Desret” locale, and the “normal” en_US is called “America English Latin”.

  • GNOME Desktop/GTK

    • Top 10 Best GTK Themes For Ubuntu GNU/Linux For 2025

      You can get hundreds of beautiful themes that are available for download and use on websites such as DeviantArt. But! Have you ever tried the best GTK themes we have for Ubuntu and other GNU/Linux distributions? It is easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of choice there is on offer.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Darren Goossens ☛ FreeDOS on an iMac – DSPACE

    I slotted in a Devuan netinstall CD and partitioned the HDD with swap at the front, then a FAT32 partition for FreeDOS, then space for Devuan, and installed a skinny Devuan instance. (This is handy for getting FreeDOS up and running).

    I then ejected the Devuan disc, rebooted, put in the FreeDOS 1.4 RC2 disc and installed that. It then wrote it’s boot blocks over the GRUB instance that Devuan had installed, so I could only boot into DOS. I rebooted again. With F12 held down, the Mac ejected the CD, so I could then put Devuan CD back in and choose restore and reinstall the bootloader.

  • SUSE/OpenSUSE

    • Linuxiac ☛ openSUSE Launches Revamped Website

      openSUSE has quietly rolled out a major refresh to its website—well, to the home page, to be more exact (I’ll get into that in a moment). If you’re curious, head over to opensuse.org and see it for yourself.

  • Slackware Family

    • Anubis is now guarding the git server

      I have had it with the onslaught of Hey Hi (AI) and indexing bots that keep my web servers in a constant state of near-crashes. In particular git.slackware.nl is not handling the load well.