GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 23, 2026

• Desktop/Laptop

  • HowTo Geek ☛ 3 reasons I still can’t switch to Linux: Where Windows still wins

    Linux is famous for being customizable, flexible, and resource-friendly. Unfortunately, despite gains in recent years, there are some areas where it still can't beat Windows.

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ Speeding Up Mistakes | LINUX Unplugged 655

    Planet Nix and SCaLE are just days away, and we're getting a head start with two guests, the tech, and the trends shaping open source. Our trip starts here!

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

  • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

    • Parallelizing a Game Hey Hi (AI) Engine: Root-Level Optimization

      As part of my Season of KDE work on the Mankala game engine, I am trying to impleemnt root level parallelization to speed up the AI's move evaluation.

      Here's how I achieved about 2x speedup.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Distro Watch ☛ DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.

    [...] We also report on GhostBSD experimenting with an alternative X11 implementation while Asahi Linux reports on the team's progress to support newer Apple ARM-powered computers. We also share news the NetBSD command line tools have been ported to other members of the Unix family. [...]