GNU/Linux Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 15, 2026

• Server

  • TecMint ☛ Kubescape: Kubernetes Security Scanning for Manifests, Images, and Clusters

    Kubernetes accepts it because the API server mainly checks whether your YAML is valid. Kubescape goes further, and it reads the same file, showing which security controls failed, and points out the lines that could give an attacker an advantage, even before the resource reaches the cluster.

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • Hackaday ☛ Hackaday Podcast Episode 382: Glueballs, Borg Cubes, And Supersonic Trebuchets

    Supercon Ten Tickets On Sale Now
    Procrastineers Rejoice! 2026 Supercon Call For Participation Extended
    Have Scientists Stuck The Landing On The Glueball Discovery?
    Watch Today’s Eclipse At Home

• Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization

  • A single log line eats 49KB of disk, and Linux admins are furious

    If you run a Linux server, there is a good chance a piece of software called systemd-journald is quietly chewing through your disk. A bug report filed on GitHub on Aug. 13 laid out the numbers: a single line of log output triggers more than 49KB of disk writes on the ext4 filesystem and more than 110KB on btrfs. For context, a typical log line is a few hundred bytes at most. The finding has drawn sharp attention from the open-source community and reignited a years-old argument about how Linux handles something as basic as writing a log file.

• Graphics Stack

  • Video Cardz ☛ Intel XPU Manager 2.1 adds P2P topology view for Arc Pro GPUs

    Intel has released XPU Manager 2.1, the latest version of its open-source GPU monitoring and management software. The tool is primarily intended for Intel Arc Pro graphics and provides telemetry, configuration and device information through the XPU-SMI command-line interface. In that sense, it’s pretty similar to NVIDIA-SMI tool.

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

  • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

    • GSoC 2026 Final Wrap-up: Tournaments, Bots, and Voice Chat in Mankala

      It has been an incredible 12-week journey contributing to the KDE Community for Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2026! The guidance and support from my mentors, Benson Muite and Srisharan VS was incredible. A lots of code, contributions and conversation over this happy period.

      Here is a comprehensive summary of what we accomplished this summer:

      XMPP Integration in Login and UI updates (Weeks 1-3)

      I began by integrating in-game XMPP server registration (following XEP-0077: In-Band Registration), complete with compliance checks to ensure protocol adherence. On the frontend, I redesigned the Profile Page to dynamically fetch profile icons and usernames directly from the user's logged-in XMPP account.

  • GNOME Desktop/GTK

    • This Week in GNOME ☛ This Week in GNOME: #262 Minor Major Update

      Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from August 7 to August 14.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • ZDNet ☛ I used OpenFactory to build my own Linux distro overnight - this AI tool is going to be big

    Recently, a developer, Erik Ziegenbalg, reached out to me to test his new service, called OpenFactory. I was skeptical at first, because I've seen such services make lofty promises they didn't deliver on. Still, I offered to give it a try.

  • OpenFactory's AI builds custom Linux distros overnight [Ed: Seems to be a parasitic slopfarm]

  • Canonical/Ubuntu Family

    • OMG Ubuntu ☛ Add multiple picture widgets to your Ubuntu desktop

      If you remember that desktop picture widget for GNOME I wrote about last year, but found it a bit too basic for your personalisation preferences, you weren’t alone. Another user felt it could lacked enough flexibility, so forked and improved it. Picture Desktop Widget Remake improves on the original. It lets add multiple picture widgets to your Ubuntu desktop, and assign each one a different folder to pull images from, at random. Plus, you can set the size, position, border radius and aspect ratio of each widget individually.