GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 01, 2025

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • mintCast Podcast ☛ mintCast 467 – Line Of Sight

    First up in the Mint news: Another birthday for Mint!, Mint 22.2 final ISOs now being tested In security and privacy: Arch is Ddossed and malware abounds Then in our Wanderings: Joe does a lot, Majid achieves very little, Charles, Bill falls off the ARC and Jim is a photographic genius

• Audio

  • Peter 'CzP' Czanik ☛ A pair of no-name speakers for (almost) everything

    Those who follow my blog are already aware that I love and listen to “Made in Hungary” high-end audio gear: https://peter.czanik.hu/posts/zsolt-audio-turns-40-this-year/. This weekend I visited Zsolt Audio again. He showed us his latest creation, a pair of speakers, which he called “no-name” and “anti-marketing”.

    The Zsolt Audio listening room

    However, when I arrived at today’s event, music was still playing on another pair of loudspeakers. Last time I wrote about a pair of classical floor-standing speakers, a reincarnation of the StandArt line of loudspeakers. It is now turned into a proper product and should be available soon. No more beautiful code names, instead it’s called C35, where C refers to classical design, and 35 to the years of his experience in loudspeaker production. After a few songs Zsolt changed to the main attraction: a completely boring looking, bookshelf loudspeaker. A slightly larger 12 liter brick. Spoiler alert: “No-name” and “anti-marketing” only describes the look, not the sound…

• Distributions and Operating Systems

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

    [...] We also talk about KDE testing out a first-run setup wizard for the Plasma desktop, a tool which will be helpful for people buying computers with their distribution pre-installed. [...]

  • BSD

    • DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ Lazy Reading for 2025/08/31

      Done early! The Anti-Subscription Catalogue.  Listings of software that doesn’t require perpetual payment.  You will find useful tools there.  (via) The Interim Computer Museum current exhibits.  I wish I was closer. The Origins of Dwarf Fortress, A 4-part Youtube series.  (via) Non-AI images for your website.

  • Fedora Family / IBM

    • Unicorn Media ☛ What We Learned Building Enterprise GNU/Linux Optimized for AI

      Is your Hey Hi (AI) infrastructure built for the future? Guest writer Brian Dawson, product manager at CIQ, reveals surprising lessons learned while creating an OS designed for Hey Hi (AI) workloads.