GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 16, 2026

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • CubicleNate ☛ Linux Saloon 216 | Open Mic Night

    The content discusses various technology and Linux-related updates, including a live weekend discussion about user experiences with Fedora and job openings at Epic Games focused on GNU/Linux security. It also covers IBM's new chip architecture advancements and Dell surpassing HP in U.S. PC sales amid a shrinking market.

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

  • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

    • Volker Krause ☛ NFC Integration for Plasma Mobile

      Around NFC there’s a whole bunch of interleaved standards and protocols.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • BSD

    • Ruben Schade ☛ NetBSD 11!

      I was holding off on discussing this until I had all my machines upgraded, but I think the news is worthy enough to mention in the interim. Everyone’s favourite OS hit version 11 at the end of July, and it’s an awesome release.

  • SUSE/OpenSUSE

    • OpenSUSE ☛ openSUSE Kudos Recognitions for July 2026

      During 1-31 July 2026, 4 users received 4 kudos, and 4 badges were awarded to 3 contributors.

  • Fedora Family / IBM

    • Kevin Fenzi: misc fedora bits: second week of aug 2026

      Another week gone by, hard to understand that it's almost fall here now. Here's a recap of things from this last week:

      Fedora 45 branched

      Fedora 45 has branched off of rawhide. rawhide is now marching toward Fedora 46. Overall the actual branching went pretty reasonably, a few minor issues. There was a lot of issues with the last minute dnf repos move change that landed hours before branching. This caused a lot of work to try and get a compose with it, without reverting. Perhaps we should make sure all changes that affect the compose process have to land a week or so before branching or will just be reverted.

  • Debian Family

    • Russell Coker ☛ Russell Coker: AMD Video Drivers, LLMs, and Debian Kernels

      The AMD GPU Problem

      For a while I’ve been having issues with AMD GPUs, video locking up periodically. I blogged about this late last year but I first had noticeable problems early last year [1]. The problems hadn’t only concerned my workstation but also my home server which is also used as a workstation. I’ve recently upgraded my machines to Debian/Testing, my home server has been generally OK but my workstation has been crashing a lot. Every second day when on kernel 7.1.6 and then when on 7.1.7 it crashed at least once a day.

  • Devices/Embedded

    • Sean Conner ☛ Did I inadvertently unlock someone else's car doors?

      I went out to get Bunny and I some lunch, and as I was leaving, as I used my fob to pop open the trunk to store the food for the trip home, I noticed that a car near my own honked briefly and flash its headlights. Odd, I thought. I then used my fob to unlock the car, and again, the nearby car honked briefly and flashed its headlights. I then used my fob to lock my car, but this time, the nearby car sat silent. I unlocked my car again, and again, the nearby car honked and flashed its lights.