today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 20, 2025

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • Montana Linux ☛ Video: The before the video, video - Linus meets Linus

• Kernel Space

  • Linuxiac ☛ Xen 4.21 Hypervisor Arrives With New PDX Compression

    The release increases the minimum compiler and binutils versions for all supported architectures. For x86, Xen now requires GCC 5.1 and Binutils 2.25 or Clang/LLVM 11. ARM32 and ARM64 also move to GCC 5.1 and Binutils 2.25, while RISC-V raises its baseline to GCC 12.2 and Binutils 2.39. In the project’s CI, Debian Trixie has been added, and Debian Bullseye has been removed from RISC-V testing as a result.

  • Dan Langille ☛ Duplicating partitions to a larger drive #ZFS #FreeBSD

    As I was writing a different blog post, I came across this interesting situation. I couldn’t create the same partition layout on the new drive.

  • Dan Langille ☛ Moving a zpool to larger drives #ZFS #FreeBSD

    It is a rainy Wednesday morning and I’m drinking a cappuccino in my favorite cafe. A five minute walk from here, in the basement of an 1890 Victorian twin house, sits r730-04. Last weekend, I configured it to boot from two SATADOM drives. Today, I’ll move that zpool to a pair of larger drives. I’ve done that move before and it is a common procedure for increasing zpool capacity.

  • Dan Langille ☛ SATADOM smartctl details SATADOM-ML 3MG2-P

    These are the two SATADOM devices I’m using in a series of recent blog posts.

• Applications

  • It's FOSS ☛ FOSS Weekly #25.47: Hey Hi (AI) Mode in Firefox, Nitrux 5, GNOME Panel, Rust Alternative Commands and More GNU/Linux Stuff

    Rust based new commands or classic GNU/Linux commands?

  • Unicorn Media ☛ Raider File Shredder: For Those Times When Simple Deletion Isn’t Enough

    Don’t leave deleted files behind—Raider File Shredder offers an uncomplicated solution for permanently erasing data.

• Games

  • The Verge ☛ Screw it, I’m installing Linux

    Linux has been a perfectly viable desktop OS for ages. But gaming on Linux is now viable, too. Valve’s hard work getting Windows games to run well on the Linux-based Steam Deck has lifted all boats. Gaming handhelds that ship with Windows run better and have higher frame rates on Bazzite, a Fedora-based distro, than they do with Windows. And after reading about the upcoming Steam Machine and Antonio’s experience running Bazzite on the Framework Desktop, I want to try it.

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

  • GNOME Desktop/GTK

    • Philip Withnall: Parental controls screen time limits backend

      Ignacy blogged recently about all the parts of the user interface for screen time limits in parental controls in GNOME. He’s been doing great work pulling that all together, while I have been working on the backend side of things. We’re aiming for this screen time limits feature to appear in GNOME 50.

• Open Hardware/Modding

  • Hackaday ☛ Amiga? Arduino? AMeagerBall Gets The Uno Bouncing

    When the iconic “Boing Ball” first debuted 40 years ago, it was a wonder to behold. There was nothing like it in the home compuing world upto that time, and it showed that Commodore’s new “Amiga” was a powerhouse sure to last the test of time. Forty years later, the Amiga as we knew it then might not be with us anymore, but [Mark Wilson] is recreating its iconic demo on a microcontroller– but not just any microcontroller. “AMeagerBall” is an Arduino Uno exclusive, and it even tells the time.

  • Colin Leroy-Mira ☛ Why I forked the SPIISD project

    This is when the second disappointment happened: I wanted to investigate the problem, but when I bought the SPIISD v2, I missed the part in the documentation that says that the v2 firmware is closed-source. I doubt the legality of this, given that serial logs similarity give me the impression that it is heavily based on the v1.17 firmware – which is MIT-licensed – but that is not my main problem so far, as I so far had no copyright on v1.17. I was mostly annoyed that I couldn’t debug anything further than looking at serial logs.

    I traced the PCB connections from the IDC-20 Smartport connector to the Nano, and the ones from the SD card module to the Nano, ignored the four buttons and the screen, and compared those to the gerber files for the v1 board (those are here). All connections matching, I flashed the v1.17 firmware on my v2 board, and started debugging.