GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 02, 2025

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • Late Night Linux – Episode 362

    KDE Plasma is finally moving on from X11, Tuxedo Computers abandons their Arm laptop project, Mozilla completely loses the room, but there might be a glimmer of hope.

• Kernel Space

  • Prizak ☛ Landlock-ing Linux

    Landlock is a Linux API that lets applications explicitly declare which resources they are allowed to access. Its philosophy is similar to OpenBSD’s unveil() and (less so) pledge(): programs can make a contract with the kernel stating, “I only need these files or resources — deny me everything else if I’m compromised.”

    It provides a simple, developer-friendly way to add defense-in-depth to applications. Compared to traditional Linux security mechanisms, Landlock is vastly easier to understand and integrate.

• Graphics Stack

  • Video Cardz ☛ Intel Core Ultra 9 285K gains 9% performance and cuts power use on Linux one year later

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • BSD

    • MWL ☛ Beastly Virtues

      On Christmas, my new book Beastly Virtues disappears forever. No, you can’t get it in my bookstore. Beastly Virtues is exclusive to the 14-book Wee Beasties Storybundle. When the bundle runs out, this book runs out.

    • Tara ☛ A Love Letter to FreeBSD

      My hope is simple: that you stay different. Not in the way that shouts for attention, but in the way that earns trust. If someone wants hype or the latest shiny thing every month, they have Linux. If they want a platform that feels like it could simply run, and keep running, the way the best of Unix always did, they should know they can find it here. And I still dream of a future where a purpose-built “open-source mainframe” exists: a modern, reliable hardware system running FreeBSD with the same quiet presence as Sun’s Enterprise 10k once did.