GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 30, 2025

• Server

  • University of Toronto ☛ Do you care about (all) HTTP requests from cloud provider IP address space?

    You definitely want to search your logs before doing this, and you may find that you want to make some exceptions even if you do opt for it. For example, you might want or need to let cloud-hosted things fetch your syndication feeds, because there are a fair number of people and feed readers that do their fetching from the cloud. Possibly you'll find that you have a significant number of real visitors that are using do it yourself personal VPN setups that have cloud exit points.

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • mintCast Podcast ☛ mintCast 473 – Parental Misguidance

    First up in the news: Theres and initiative in protecting OTA TV from DRM

    Then in our Wanderings: Joe does a lot, Bill plays magical video cards, Majid is trying to resist Black Friday, Charles goes to a GNU/Linux conference, and Jim eschews the mouse.

• Graphics Stack

  • Linuxiac ☛ Niri 25.11 Lands with a New Alt-Tab Switcher, True Maximize

    Niri v25.11 scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor adds a new Alt-Tab switcher with live previews, true Wayland maximize, and DisplayLink support.

• Applications

  • Ubuntu Handbook ☛ VLC 3.0.22 is Available with AMD Frame Rate Doubler & .mus Support

    After almost a year and a half of development, VLC 3.0.22 is finally available to download! PPA updated for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, 25.04 and 25.10.

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

  • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

    • Kdenlive ☛ Kdenlive 25.12 RC ready for testing

      The Kdenlive 25.12 Release Candidate is ready for testing. We made several changes to the user interface to improve your workflow, including a new widget docking system that makes rearranging panels much easier and more powerful, an enhanced audio display in the clip monitor with a waveform overview for faster navigation and zooming, and a new Startup and Welcome screen allowing to easily select a few options when launching the program.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • [Old] 夏恺/Kai Xia ☛ Adventures with Chimera Linux

    This article documents my experience installing Chimera Linux on a decade-old MacBook Air.

    Why Chimera Linux? While I’ve used many Linux distributions over the years, most carry significant historical baggage. I wanted to see what a more modern distribution could achieve. Chimera Linux’s technical approach is quite appealing—it doesn’t use systemd and incorporates userland components from FreeBSD.

  • BSD

    • Tao Security Blog ☛ We have achieved FreeBSD 15.0-REL with KDE Plasma

      Houston, we have installed #FreeBSD 15.0-REL with KDE Plasma 6.4.5 on a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 6 laptop.

  • SUSE/OpenSUSE

    • SUSE's Corporate Blog ☛ 4th GNU/Linux Mobile Hackday at SUSE Prague

      A lively day at the office SUSE Prague hosted the fourth GNU/Linux Mobile Hackday last Thursday from eleven in the morning until the late afternoon. David Heidelberg organised the event and twelve people joined. The hackday took place one day after the very busy SUSE Open House, so the office felt quiet at first.

  • Fedora Family / IBM

    • Kevin Fenzi: coming up: december of docs

      I keep not having time to work on documentation, and it's so very important, so in an effort to see what progress I can make I am going to try and submit / merge at least one doc pull-request or close / comment on at least one docs ticket every day in december.

      I'm going to concentrate on the infrastructure docs of course, but I might branch out into other areas where I could help.