GNU/Linux and Other Operating Systems

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 06, 2025

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • Linux.org ☛ This week at Linux.org (2025.E4)

    We'll go over some of the highlights of the week along with some forum stats!

    We're also going to deep-dive into a strange traffic spike this week and also give away a new Linux.org T-shirt!

• Games

  • Joel Chrono ☛ Every ongoing game I have in 2025

    Here is a list of every game I played but didn't complete during 2025, categorised by the likelihood of me actually completing them.

  • Godot Engine ☛ Dev snapshot: Godot 4.6 dev 6

    Feature freeze is here; time for one last round-up!

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

  • Cédric ☛ My AeroSpace setup for QWERTZ layout

    In a previous episode of the Comfort Zone podcast, Nilean proposed a challenge: use AeroSpace for a week. This application automatically reorganizes your application windows. Unlike classic window managers, you don’t decide where to place your windows with keyboard shortcuts. The program automatically resizes them as soon as they appear.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Joshua Blais ☛ Setting up a brand new nixos machine

    I recently took my old workstation out of storage, booted it and found it running Fedora 40 - so of course it was time to put NixOS on the machine and bring it into the fleet. I’ve probably been sleeping on the machine as a build/rendering server for my projects, and figured let’s do it.

    While the setup was farily painless (after a `nix flake update`), I have written a quick guide for setting up a brand new machine (workstation - including secrets and files needed for getting a machine up and running) - as the secrets do need to manually be transferred over, as well as some directories.

  • HaikuOS ☛ The Gerrit code review iceberg, episode 2

    Recently some discussions on the forum led to asking about the status of our Gerrit code review. There are a lot of changes there that have been inactive for several years, with no apparent interest from anyone. To be precise, there are currently 353 commits waiting for review (note that Gerrit, unlike Github and other popular code review tools, works on a commit-by-commit basis, so each commit from a multiple-commit change is counted separately). The oldest one has not seen any comments since 2018.

    Last time we looked at the 5 oldest changes. Of these, one has since been finished up and merged, while the other ones remain untouched. Let’s look at the next 5 and see if the same thing happens!

  • SUSE/OpenSUSE

    • Dominique Leuenberger ☛ Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2025/49

      Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

      This week, we have seen only a single snapshot (1127) published, which landed just before the start of HackWeek.

      Since then, a few issues have piled up, blocking further releases. First, the update to ICU 78 caused libqt5-qtwebengine the build to fail. Because this package is present on nearly 100% of systems (specifically those installed before the new opensuse-welcome), we could not consider releasing it in that state.

      We also encountered significant friction with systemd 258, which triggered several complex issues in openQA. While we have set that update aside for deep diagnostics, we decided to revert to the already shipped version for the immediate future. This specific move should unblock Tumbleweed and get the snapshots rolling again.