GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 14, 2025

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • The BSD Now Podcast ☛ BSD Now 637: /etc/hosts

    Time to update our /etc/hosts file...

  • Annie Mueller ☛ My new business + tech podcast - annie's blog

    — I have decided to start my own business and technology podcast (with video) to help balance this dreadful imbalance.

    Please enjoy. Show transcript available upon request3.

• Kernel Space

  • DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ Make sure your Hammer cleanup cleans up – DragonFly BSD Digest

• Graphics Stack

  • Jeff Geerling ☛ All Intel GPUs run on Raspberry Pi and RISC-V

    We finally have Intel Arc GPUs working on the Pi somewhat stably—it required overcoming many small hurdles, but it looks like support could land in Raspberry Pi OS if we can get a simple patch upstreamed1. If that happens, all you'd need to do to use an Intel card on a Pi is install a firmware package.

    The cards I've spent the most time with so far are: [...]

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • SUSE/OpenSUSE

    • OpenSUSE ☛ GRUB2-BLS in openSUSE Tumbleweed is now the default

      This follows the trend started by MicroOS of adopting boot loaders that are compatible with the boot loader specification. MicroOS is using systemd-boot, which is a very small and fast boot loader from the systemd project.

  • Arch Family

    • Linuxiac ☛ How to Handle .pacnew Files in Arch Linux

      If you use Arch Linux, you’ve probably noticed that after a while, and especially after system updates, files with the .pacnew extension start showing up on your system. And since you’re reading this, that’s likely what brought you here: to figure out what these files are, why they appear, and what you’re supposed to do with them.

      Well, you’ve come to the right place. In the lines below, I’ll try to explain everything clearly and straightforwardly. So, let’s start with the main question.

  • Debian Family

    • Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Upstreaming cPython patches, ansible-core autopkgtest robustness and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph)

      Debian Contributions: 2025-10

      Upstreaming cPython patches, by Stefano Rivera

      Python 3.14.0 (final) released in early October, and Stefano uploaded it to Debian unstable. The transition to support 3.14 has begun in Ubuntu, but hasn’t started in Debian, yet.

  • Canonical/Ubuntu Family

    • Ubuntu ☛ Canonical Kubernetes officially included in Sylva 1.5

      Guillaume Nevicato, Sylva Technical Steering Committee co-chair and Orange Telco Cloud Product Manager, recognized the importance of this contribution: [...]