GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 27, 2025

• Kernel Space

  • Linuxiac ☛ ByteDance Engineers Propose Parker, a New Multi-Kernel Approach for Linux

    ByteDance, the company best known for owning TikTok, has floated a new idea for the Linux kernel. In a recent RFC posted to the Linux Kernel Mailing List, engineers Fam Zheng and Thom Hughes introduced Parker (short for “PARtitioned KERnel”).

  • University of Toronto ☛ The broad state of ZFS on Illumos, Linux, and FreeBSD (as I understand it)

    Well before Oracle closed Solaris, separate groups of people ported ZFS into FreeBSD and onto Linux, where the effort was known as "ZFS on Linux". Since the Linux kernel community felt that ZFS's license wasn't compatible with the kernel's license, ZoL was an entirely out of (kernel) tree effort, while FreeBSD was able to accept ZFS into their kernel tree (I believe all the way back in 2008). Both ZFS on Linux and FreeBSD took changes from OpenSolaris into their versions up until Oracle closed Solaris in 2010. After that, open source ZFS development split into three mostly separate strands.

• Applications

  • Linux Links ☛ Chameleon Ultra GUI – frontend for the Chameleon Ultra/Chameleon Lite

    Chameleon Ultra GUI is a GUI for the Chameleon Ultra/Chameleon Lite written in Flutter for cross platform operation.

  • Linux Links ☛ Sandstorm – self-hostable web productivity suite

    Sandstorm is a self-hostable web productivity suite. It's implemented as a security-hardened web app package manager.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • BSD

    • FortranBSD ☛ FortranBSD

      FortranBSD is an OS based on DragonflyBSD, including the latest GNU Fortran compiler for high-performance computing.

  • SUSE/OpenSUSE

    • Dominique Leuenberger ☛ Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2025/39

      Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

      The week of the desktop is extending from last week into this one. GNOME 49 has been checked in to Factory and is nearing completion. It still requires a bit of patience from your side to get there. While you are waiting for GNOME 49, we have delivered five snapshots (0918, 0919, 0920, 0922, and 0923) to bridge the time until then.