GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 26, 2026

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

  • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

    • KDE ☛ Redesigning Lokalize's Translation Memory Tab - GSoC Week 9

      After working on the UI of TM Tab in Lokalize during the first phase of GSoC, I got back to work on the backend. Currently, only a single TM can be searched in TM Tab. My changes enable querying across multiple selected TMs as per translators' feature request.

      A little about threads and mutexes before I share week-wise updates. The GUI runs on the main thread, while TM operations (querying, opening/closing databases, removing files) run as jobs on a separate worker thread pool, TM::threadPool(). This pool is explicitly capped to a single worker thread at startup- setMaxThreadCount(1). This means TM jobs never actually run concurrently with each other, they queue and execute strictly one at a time (this can be changed given my new changes but will have to be careful).

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Barry Kauler ☛ EasyOS draft submitted to Wikipedia [Ed: Wikipedia is now like a conference you submit papers to and can sponsor to get your paper accepted]

    Forum member pp4mnk submitted this to Wikipedia awhile ago:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:EasyOS

    I didn't mention it earlier, as I thought that it looked OK and would be accepted. But it hasn't, see the commentary prepended.

    pp4mnk sent me this in a private message, June 26: [...]

  • New Releases

    • LWN ☛ mklinux-v7.0-mk2 released

      For people who would like to experiment with the multi-kernel GNU/Linux concept, Cong Wang has

      announced the

      release of mklinux v7.0-mk2.

  • BSD

    • Wally Jones ☛ Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month

      My homepage now runs on OpenBSD with httpd(8) and Let's Encrypt via acme-client(1). I previously hosted it on GitHub Pages and then eventually moved to Cloudflare Pages because both options were free and easy. Free and easy is cool, and I understand that writing software full-time leaves us wanting absolutely nothing to do with computers after we punch out, but lately I have been missing the do-it-yourself web that I grew up with. Some of my favorite times growing up included installing and configuring UNIX-based operating systems and spending hours trying to understand how computers worked. I even met one of my closest friends online through a FreeBSD UNIX shell account forum more than 20 years ago.