today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 08, 2025

• Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization

  • Linuxiac ☛ Linux Kernel 6.19 Will Introduce the Terminus 10x18 Console Bitmap Font

    Beyond technical improvements, Linux Kernel 6.19 will also deliver something that, oddly enough, can be seen from a more aesthetic point of view. And more specifically, it is set to introduce a new Terminus 10×18 console bitmap font, offering a clearer, more balanced option for users who rely on text-mode consoles.

• Games

  • Old VCR ☛ Oblast: a better Blasto game for the Commodore 64

    Way back (well, six months ago, anyway), when I was wiring up a Gremlin Blasto arcade board, we talked at length about this 1978 arcade game's history and its sole official home computer port by Milton Bradley to the Texas Instruments 99/4A. In the single player mode you run around in a maze and try to blow up all the mines, which can set off sometimes impressive chain reactions, all the while making sure you yourself don't go up in flames in the process.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Fedora Family / IBM

    • Distro Watch ☛ Distribution Release: Oracle Linux 10.1

      Gursewak Sokhi has announced the release of Oracle Linux 10.1, an updated release of the company's enterprise-class Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux: [...]

    • Kevin Fenzi: infra weekly recap: early december 2025

      hey everyone, it's saturday so time for another recap of adventures in fedora infrastructure and other fedora areas.

      scrapers

      I started a discussion thread about the current scrapers we are dealing with. To summarize, anubis has cut out a bunch of them and really helped out quite a lot. It has caused some issues with clients as well, but we have been working thought those as we hear about them. The remaining scrapers are large botnets of browsers, probibly running on end user machines. Those are more troublesome to deal with.

  • Canonical/Ubuntu Family

    • The New Stack ☛ Reasons To Love Linux Mint

      If you’ve ever looked into the Linux operating system, chances are pretty good that you’ve run across a mention of Linux Mint. And if you’ve done any digging, then you’ve probably read accounts of user after user, pundit after pundit proclaiming that Linux Mint is the most user-friendly distribution on the market.

      I’m here to back that claim up.

      Yes, Linux Mint is one of (if not the) best Linux distributions for new users.

      But what is it about Linux Mint that makes it so good for those who’ve never touched Linux?

      Let me explain exactly why this claim has been true for some time and will probably remain so for the foreseeable future.