GNU/Linux Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 30, 2025

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • Destination Linux 437: NVIDIA & Intel's Hey Hi (AI) Alliance, Steam Malware, and GNU/Linux CUDA

• Applications

  • Adriaan de Groot ☛ New Calamares Languages

    Calamares is a GNU/Linux system installer used by a wide range of distro’s. It is in “community maintenance” mode, which means it depends on downstream code submissions and careful bug reports. Sometimes I have time to work on it, outside of any particular distro. It would be correct to say it is “slow going”. But that doesn’t mean there are no changes! Just this week a new language was requested, Luganda, bringing the total to 79. Not all of the languages have enough coverage to be included in the language drop-down, but all of them have translators working on bringing the installer to their locale. Welcome!

• Games

  • France24 ☛ Gaming giant EA to be taken private in a $55bn deal

    Electronic Arts, the company behind blockbuster video games such as the Sims and Madden NFL, has agreed to transfer ownership to a consortium led by Saudi Arabia's public investment fund PIF, US private equity firm Silver Lake and Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners.  The $55 bn deal marks the largest leveraged buyout in history.  Meanwhile, China is launching a new visa programme to attract young foreign talent, after Washington shocked the tech world with a new $100,000 fee for its H1-B visa.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Hackaday ☛ Ask Hackaday: How Do You Distro Hop?

    If you read “Jenny’s Daily Drivers” or “Linux Fu” here on Hackaday, you know we like Linux. Jenny’s series, especially, always points out things I want to try on different distributions. However, I have a real tendency not to change my distro, especially on my main computer. Yet I know people “distro hop” all the time. My question to you? How do you do it?

  • Debian Family

    • Thomas Lange

      Updates on FAIme service: Linux Mint 22.2 and trixie backports available

      The FAIme service [1] now offers to build customized installation images for Xfce edition of Linux Mint 22.2 'Zara'.

      For Debian 13 installations, you can select the kernel from backports for the trixie release, which is currently version 6.16. This will support newer hardware.

  • Canonical/Ubuntu Family

    • Ubuntu News ☛ Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 911

      Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 911 for the week of September 21 – 27, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here.