GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 29, 2025

• Desktop/Laptop

  • Vincent Delft ☛ Vincent's blog

    Lightweight, fast, and endlessly customizable, that’s what pekwm offers for FreeBSD systems. But what really makes my setup useful for me is the easy integration of small scripts we can build around it. From session restore to dynamic menus, brightness control, and even a quirky lock screen, this desktop has grown into a personal environment that feels both minimal and complete.

    It's a window manager, like many others, but with tons of shortcut keys which facilitate the day to day use.

    At the end, the usage of the mouse is marginal, but really easy to use.

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • mintCast Podcast ☛ mintCast 469 – Bill Loves Windows

    First up in the news: LMDE 7 ‘Gigi” BETA released

    In security and privacy: Mississippi enforces Age Assurance Law, NPM suffers a security breach.

    Then in our Wanderings, Joe works with Proxmox, and Openmediavault, Jim Troubleshoots hard disks, Majid goes back to work, and Bill works on his "Immich."

• Games

  • Boiling Steam ☛ New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, including It Has My Face and Granvir - 2025-09-24 Edition

    Between 2025-09-17 and 2025-09-24 there were 60 New Steam games released with Native GNU/Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 644 games released for backdoored Windows on Steam, so the GNU/Linux versions represent about 9.3 % of total released titles. There’s quite a lot of games this time around, such as It Has My Face which is asking you to hunt your clone before it kills you (roguelite), and Granvir, a successful mecha game with roguelite elements (yes, again!).

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

  • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

    • Ubuntubuzz ☛ Elisa - An Intro to Kubuntu Default Audio Player

• Distributions and Operating Systems

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

    [...] Answers column talks about the state of Linux distributions on phones. This week we share a grateful note to people who sent us donations this month as well as talk about the releases of the past week and listing the torrents we are seeding. [...]

  • BSD

    • Distro Watch ☛ BSD Release: BSD Router Project 2.0

      Olivier Cochard-Labbé has announced the release of BSD Router Project (BSDRP) 2.0, a major update of the free and open-source software router distribution based on embedded FreeBSD. The new version brings support for UEFI boot and the AArch64 architecture: [...]

  • Open Hardware/Modding

    • CNX Software ☛ Olimex RP2350-PICO2 open hardware boards expose all 48 GPIOs for breadboard prototyping

      Olimex RP2350-PICO2-BB48 and RP2350-PICO2-BB48R open hardware development boards are built around the Raspberry Pi RP2350B MCU, and expose all 48 GPIOs in a 0.6-inch dual-inline PCB layout. Compared to the earlier PICO2-XL and PICO2-XXL boards, this new board features a breadboard-friendly design with options for PSRAM and microSD on the BB48R version.

  • Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

    • Robert Graham ☛ That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus

      What they discovered was just normal criminal enterprise, banks of thousands of cell “phones” (sic) used to send spam or forward international calls using local phone numbers. Technically, it may even be legitimate enterprise, being simply a gateway between a legitimate VoIP provider and the mobile phone network.