GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 10, 2026

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • CubicleNate ☛ Linux Saloon 215 | Odyssey Linux

    The content discusses a recent technology and GNU/Linux community interaction, with participants sharing their experiences and opinions on various GNU/Linux distributions, particularly Void Linux. Additionally, it includes links to resources, upcoming events like Open Mic Night, and participant project links, fostering community engagement within the tech space.

• Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization

  • Zenwalk Burst Oriented kernel brings true low latency desktop experience

    The BORE (Burst-Oriented Response Enhancer) CPU scheduler patch modifies the Linux kernel's EEVDF scheduler. It detects task behavior and gives more priority to short, bursty tasks. This improves desktop smoothness, lowers latency, and keeps systems responsive during heavy background loads.

    To achieve this, BORE introduces a dimension of flexibility known as "burstiness" for each individual tasks, partially departing from CFS's inherent "complete fairness" principle. Burstiness refers to the score derived from the accumulated CPU time a task consumes after explicitly relinquishing it, either by entering sleep, IO-waiting, or yielding. This score represents a broad range of temporal characteristics, spanning from nanoseconds to hundreds of seconds, varying across different tasks.

• Graphics

  • Barry Kauler ☛ Xlibre and gtk2-ng are back!

    Xlibre, the continuation of X11, and gtk2-ng, the continuation of gtk2, were in EasyOS 7.4. In a subsequent release, I removed Xlibre as the 'nouveau' driver caused the X server to crash. Then in another later release, gtk2-ng was removed, as it caused Xdialog to misbehave.

  • Canonical/Ubuntu Family

    • Ubuntu Handbook ☛ LightDM Released Version 1.33.0 After Four-Year Hiatus

      LightDM, the lightweight display manager originally developed by Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu), returns by releasing version 1.33.0 a few days ago. It’s the first release in four years, that features bug-fixes for the issues since the last 1.32.0 and Qt6 support, while Qt5 will continue to be available.

• Games

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ After 24 years, Return to Castle Wolfenstein is finally distributed uncut in Germany — game was censored due to strict laws regarding Nazi symbolism

    Germany's strict laws surrounding depictions of Nazis meant the game had to be altered, giving it an arguably more interesting story as a result.

  • Ava ☛ playing the mass effect board game

    The concept is less a static boardgame, but a whole campaign you can play through with different paths, missions and outcomes.

    Instead of having to build a map via different physical parts or a map you unfold in each scenario, you open the specific map page in one of the spiral bound books and play on that. Less mess, cooler maps!

• Distributions and Operating Systems

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

    [...] This week we are pleased to summarize recent releases in the Linux community and then we ask our readers: how are you impacted by the AUR shutdown? [...]

  • Andrew Nesbitt ☛ This Week in Package Management: 8 August 2026

    Week twelve of the roundup, built from the package manager OPML feed collection and whatever I’ve posted or boosted on Mastodon.

  • BSD

    • Vermaden ☛ FreeBSD Storage for OpenShift with Democratic CSI

      While the Democratic CSI driver is suited mostly for Linux based systems like TrueNAS SCALE for example – its zfs-generic-nfs driver also works with FreeBSD – and this is what we will use today. The FreeBSD setup is very simple – its just NFSv4 only server and a dedicated NFS share for OpenShift along with dedicated ZFS dataset. One can also use any regular user with added ZFS permissions done via zfs allow command or a regular user with sudo(8) to lift up the permissions.

      The FreeBSD/ZFS/NFS part was done my be – as I am not expert in the OpenShift domain – the OpenShift commands were done by luckyonesl and shared with his approval – thank You for help.

  • Arch Family

    • ArchLinux ☛ On scripts and hooks

      Over the last few weeks, we have been doing research on the integration of our official distribution packages when installed on a target system. In this context we have been looking at the current uses of alpm-install-scriptlet(5) files and alpm-hooks(5) in around 120 package source repositories (alpm-source-repo(7)) to better understand the underlying functionality and use-cases these two integrations offer and target.

      In this article we are going to look at how these two systems work, how Arch Linux is currently using them and attempt to provide suggestions for when to use which.

  • Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

    • Nick ☛ 3G at last!

      So to eBay I went, and 4-6 weeks later I had myself a Cisco / AT&T branded DP-153-AT a UMTS femtocell capable of Band 8 and Band 2.

      The thread explaining how to get these units online is long and a bit disjointed, but Tempest wrote up a much cleaner thread detailing the steps they’d gone through step by step to successfully transmit.