GNU/Linux and More

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 25, 2025

• Graphics Stack

  • Sebastian Wick: XDG Intents Updates

    Andy Holmes wrote an excellent overview of XDG Intents in his “Best Intentions” blog post, covering the foundational concepts and early proposals. Unfortunately, due to GNOME Foundation issues, this work never fully materialized. As I have been running into more and more cases where this would provide a useful primitive for other features, I tried to continue the work.

    The specifications have evolved as I worked on implementing them in glib, desktop-file-utils and ptyxis. Here’s what’s changed: [...]

  • Events

    • Collabora ☛ From Vienna, with Open Source: XDC 2025

      Next week, Collabora will be taking part in the 2025 edition X.Org Developer's Conference! Taking place in Vienna, our engineers will be presenting 6 talks and a workshop to help local students discover the embedded graphics stack! Join us!

• Instructionals/Technical

  • Linux Handbook ☛ Module 1: Timers and Automated Task Scheduling in Systemd

    Welcome to the first module of our micro course on advance automation with systemd. Here, we focus on systemd timers, the building blocks of reliable, scheduled task execution on modern GNU/Linux systems.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • SUSE/OpenSUSE

    • Introducing Release Monitoring in OBS

      Over the last few days, we’ve been focused on bringing release monitoring to OBS to help you keep track of the local and upstream releases. These updates are part of the Foster Collaboration beta program. You can find more information about the beta program here. Our efforts to foster collaboration started in August 2024, when we introduced labels and bug report links. Next, we improved labels to foster collaboration.

  • Debian Family

    • Philipp Kern: PSA: APT::Default-Release might be holding back updates from you

      If you are like me that you are installing machines with testing and then go and flip them over to the current stable for a while using APT::Default-Release, you might not be receiving all relevant updates. In fact this setting is kind of discouraged in favor of more extensive pinning configuration.

      However, the field does support regexps, so instead of just specifying, say, "trixie", you can put this in place: [...]

• Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

  • Web Browsers/Web Servers

    • Eliseo Martelli ☛ Safari, don't move my fucking content

      Safari in macOS 26 has broken something fundamental: the stability of the interface.

  • Education

    • TecMint ☛ 3 Highest-Rated Udemy Python Courses for Beginners

    • TecMint ☛ 8 Best Computer Science Courses for Beginners in 2025