Leftovers: GNU/Linux, BSD, Hardware, and Gadgets

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 01, 2025

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ The Sunday Soapbox | LINUX Unplugged 643

    We pull on a few loose threads from recent episodes, and some of them unravel into way more than we expected.

  • Invidious ☛ 2025-11-20 [Older] MX Linux 25 RELEASED! The DistroWatch KING Just Got a WILD Makeover! (NOT Everyone’s Happy)

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

  • GNOME Desktop/GTK

    • GNOME ☛ Sophie Herold: Weekly report #75

      Hello world! Last week, I asked the people that financially support me, if I should post my updates publicly. A majority voted to release my future weekly reports to the public, some voted to make them public every other week. So I will try to post some of them publicly in the future.

      These updates are made possible by the amazing people that support me on Ko-fi, Patreon, Open Collective, and GitHub! Thank you so much, folks!

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • BSD

    • DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ Lazy Reading for 2025/11/30

      Some good long reads. Claude is listening.  Linked to note there’s no standard in how long a company keeps your data. Strandbeest evolution 2025.  I am glad this has kept happening. Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again.  (lost the source, sorry) Containers and giving up on expecting good software installation practices.

  • Gentoo Family

    • Gentoo ☛ One jobserver to rule them all

      A common problem with running Gentoo builds is parallelization. Many packages include extensive build steps that are either fully serial, or cannot fully utilize the available CPU threads throughout. This problem becomes less pronounced when running building multiple packages in parallel, but then we are risking overscheduling for packages that do take advantage of parallel builds.

      Fortunately, there are a few tools at our disposal that can improve the situation. Most recently, they were joined by two experimental system-wide jobservers: guildmaster and steve. In this post, I’d like to provide the background on them, and discuss the problems they are facing.
      

  • Fedora Family / IBM

    • Unicorn Media ☛ How to Make Your GNU/Linux System Flatpak Ready

      Flatpaks can give your GNU/Linux desktop access to newer apps, but only if your system is set up to use them. Here's a straightforward guide to getting any distro Flatpak‑ready.

  • Open Hardware/Modding

    • Hackaday ☛ Tiny Little TV Runs On ESP32

      Few of us keep big old cathode ray tubes in the house anymore, but we can still appreciate the form factor of the classic TV. Indeed, the Tinytron from [t0mg] is a neat little tchotchke in this vein — a miniature TV that you could just about fit on a keyring.

    • Hackaday ☛ A Deep Dive Into Using PIO And DMA On The RP2350

      Here’s a fun rabbit hole to run down if you don’t already have the RP2040/RP2350 PIO feather in your cap: how to serve data without CPU intervention using PIO and DMA on the RP2350.

  • Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

    • Android Police ☛ How to change your Android phone's default Google account

      To properly use your Android phone, you likely already understand the importance of registering a Google account to access Google services.

      If you've become a long-term Android user, there's a chance that the Google account you used many years ago is no longer the same one you use with your current services, like YouTube and Gmail.

    • The Local DK ☛ Why will new EU driving licence rules take 4 years to come into force?

      One of the headline changes is a new directive introducing a fully digital driving licence on mobile phones to be issued into the EU Digital Identity Wallet, as well as imposing EU-wide bans on drivers who lose their licence in one country.