GNU/Linux Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 08, 2025

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ Offline By Default | LINUX Unplugged 631

    Chris managed to turn low bandwidth into a lifestyle, and curated a batch of self-hosted apps that make near-offline living possible.

• Games

  • Boiling Steam ☛ New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Silk Song - 2025-09-06 Edition

    Between 2025-08-30 and 2025-09-06 we selected 8 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. The obvious highlight of the past week is the release of Hollow Knight: Silksong, the sequel to Hollow Knight, which crashed all the online stores when it came out. It is rated as Verified, as you would expect. There’s quite a few more titles that are worth considering in case Silksong is not for you.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Arch Family

    • Rlang ☛ Installing RStudio and Positron on Manjaro Linux

      I switched from Ubuntu to Manjaro after using Ubuntu for over ten years. I did this because I wanted something that “just works” but that provides a nicer terminal experience.

      Provided that Posit (formerly RStudio) does not provide official packages for Manjaro, I created my own packages. Here is how to install these: [...]

  • Canonical/Ubuntu Family

    • OMG Ubuntu ☛ New Icons, Theme Tweaks Land in Ubuntu 25.10

      Yaru, the default theme in Ubuntu, has received an update ahead of October's Ubuntu 25.10 release. It adds new app icons, and improve theme consistency.

    • Andreas ☛ Renaming your Ubuntu machine can cause problems

      But there’s a catch. Both the GUI and hostnamectl update the static hostname (/etc/hostname), but they don’t touch the /etc/hosts file. A typical /etc/hosts entry looks like this: [...]

  • Open Hardware/Modding

    • CNX Software ☛ Beelink EQi13 Pro Review – Part 3: Ubuntu 24.04 on an defective chip maker Intel Core i5-13500H mini PC

      We’ve now taken the time to test the Beelink EQi13 Pro with Ubuntu 24.04 to find out how well (or not) it performs on Linux.

    • CNX Software ☛ KIWI 1P5 – A low-cost GOWIN GW1N industrial FPGA board with onboard USB-JTAG/UART

      The OneKiwi KIWI 1P5 is a low-cost FPGA board built around the GOWIN GW1N-UV1P5 device. Priced at $14, it is designed for prototyping, digital logic design, and educational applications. The FPGA offers 1.5K LUT4 logic elements, 72Kbit of block SRAM, 96Kbit of on-chip flash, and a single PLL. The board comes with 40 user I/O pins via dual-row 2.54 mm headers, along with an onboard USB-C port for power. Debug and communication are handled by an onboard GOWIN USB-JTAG debugger and USB-to-UART bridge, while user interaction is done through two buttons and two LEDs.