GNU/Linux Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 14, 2026

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ You Ain't Ready For This Jelly | LINUX Unplugged 684

    We rebuild our media stack around Jellyfin 12, survive a major upgrade, and add self-hosted tools that make sharing with family and friends much better.

• Graphics Stack

  • Bruno Croci ☛ When the fractional part of a float fixes your shader

    The other night I wanted to implement a small Voronoi-diagram shader to use as a background to a music video, to show up the music project I recently finished. Voronoi Noise is type of algorithm I never implemented before, and I was always mesmerized by the geometric and often organic-ish way it looks. Without much direction in mind, I started implementing it and experimenting. I got it looking pretty cool and I was about to call it a day, but then next morning I found out that, in one of my computers only, there was a weird stutter to the animation. So I decided to dig into it to find out what the problem was. This is the write-up of my whole adventure of a week debugging and disassemblying shaders. There are a few plot twists to the story, and hopefully a lot of interesting information too.

• Applications

  • HowTo Geek ☛ One dev turned the Linux desktop into a single app, and it's surprisingly good

    Most Linux distros you'll find are basically a pile of separate programs—a panel, a compositor, a window manager, and so on—all exchanging information and coordinating their behavior to create a cohesive experience.

    Starling takes that approach and turns it on its head—it is one single program.

• Instructionals/Technical

  • peppe8o ☛ Install OpenProject on Raspberry Pi with Docker (2026 Guide)

    Looking for a self-hosted, open-source alternative to Jira, Trello, Redmine on your Raspberry Pi?

  • Linuxize ☛ ffmpeg Cheatsheet

    Keep essential ffmpeg commands close at hand, from stream inspection and lossless remuxing to CRF encoding, filters, subtitles, and GPU acceleration.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • IBM

    • Harish Pillay ☛ Open source language models for accountability and trust [Ed: Better to avoid LLMs altogether, openwashing does nothing for trust]

      Reminder, NONE of Anthropic’s models are open in any sense of the word. Hence, it is rather rich for Dario to complain.

  • Canonical/Ubuntu Family

    • OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils [Ed: Not really. They said this before, it failed badly, and users wanted something that worked, not Microsoft copycats.]

      Ubuntu 26.10 completes the distro’s move to Rust-based core utilities, with the commands previously held back due to security issues now migrated to memory-safe versions. cp, mv and rm were held back on their GNU versions in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS due to a crop of TOCTOU (time-of-check to time-of-use) issues that needed to be fixed in the uutils versions.  With those issues resolved upstream, Ubuntu 26.10 finishes the job. The ‘Stonking Stingray’ ships a full set of Rust core utilities, which encompasses common command-line tools like ls, cat, chmod and  du.