today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 20, 2026

• Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization

  • Dan Langille ☛ zpool upgrade blocked by gpart: /dev/da0p1: not enough space

    This seems to be inconvenient. Now I have to rollback to that checkpoint.

• Games

  • Ubuntu Handbook ☛ 0 A.D. Released 0.28.0 with New Civilization & AppImage for Linux

    0 A.D., the free open-source RTS game for Linux, Windows, and macOS, released new 0.28.0 version one day ago. The new version of this ancient warfare game, code-name “Boiorix”, introduced a new civilization: the Germans.

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

  • James Brown ☛ roguelazer's website: trying out aerospace, a macos window manager

    Anyhow, it turns out that nowadays, there are a few options for tiling window managers on macOS. The top few seem to be [...]

  • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

    • KDAB ☛ Automating Repetitive GUI Interactions in Embedded Development with Spix

      This blog post showcases Spix, a small but useful library for automating GUI-interaction in your Qt/QML-based applications. Just sending clicks or entering text to checking properties, Spix offers basic automated interaction. Combining the automated screenshot function with computer vision, you can even perform simple optical checks with Spix.

  • GNOME Desktop/GTK

    • GNOME ☛ Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, 2026-02-19

      Welcome to another GNOME Foundation update post, covering highlights from the past two weeks (this week and last week). It’s been a busy time, particularly due to conference planning and our upcoming audit – read on to find out more!

      Linux App Summit 2026

      We were thrilled to be able to announce the location and dates of this year’s GNU/Linux App Summit this week. The conference will happen in Berlin on the 16th and 17th of May, at Betahaus Berlin. More information is available on the LAS website.

      As usual, we are very pleased to be collaborating with KDE on this year’s LAS. Our partnership on LAS has been a real success that we hope to continue.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • New Releases

    • Barry Kauler ☛ EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.2 released

      The previous release, 7.1.5, was announced here: [...]

  • Debian Family

    • Peter 'CzP' Czanik ☛ UDP reliability improved in syslog-ng Debian packaging

      UDP log collection is a legacy feature that does not provide any security or reliability, but is still in wide use. You can improve its reliability using eBPF on GNU/Linux in recent syslog-ng versions. Support for eBPF was added to Debian packages while preparing for the 4.11.0 syslog-ng release.

  • Devices/Embedded

    • Robotic Systems LLC ☛ moteus.move_to and moteus ruckig python example

      For some time now the moteus python library has had a convenience function to repeatedly execute a command until moteus determines that the trajectory has completed. This helps a lot with simple applications with a single device, but as soon as multiple controllers are involved in the same machine numerous problems appear: [...]