GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 05, 2026

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ Linux by Proxy | LINUX Unplugged 687

    Millions of people may already be using GNU/Linux by proxy, so we went digging through their strange little cloud desktops to see if we can turn them into servers.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

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

    [...] while the GhostBSD lead developer begins work on a new desktop environment. Plus we share a report from openSUSE which talks about the many security fixes published over the past month. We begin this week with a look at a distribution called fu11m00n which reportedly wants to provide an unusual mixture of components, using Slackware as base. [...]

  • Vincent Delft ☛ Recreating OpenBSD's daily and weekly reports on Void Linux with ZFS: the checks I run and why

    On OpenBSD, /etc/daily and /etc/weekly quietly watch over the machine and mail you a report. On FreeBSD, periodic(8) does the same. I love that model, but when I wanted ZFS on my laptop, Void Linux turned out to have better drivers than FreeBSD for my hardware. The catch is that Void ships no periodic maintenance at all. So I wrote two small POSIX shell scripts, one daily and one weekly, that mimic the BSD reports and add checks specific to ZFS and to a laptop. They log everything, compare today with yesterday, and interrupt me only for real problems such as a degraded pool, a failing disk, or a kernel installed without its ZFS module. This post walks through each check, the command behind it, and why it is there.

    I can put both at the top of void-zfs-maintenance-blog.md if you want. I can also write a shorter, punchier title, for example "Daily and weekly maintenance on Void Linux with ZFS, the BSD way", which matches the current heading of the post.

  • PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family

    • PCLinuxOS Magazine ☛ PCLinuxOS Screenshot Showcase

    • PCLinuxOS Magazine ☛ From The Chief Editor's Desk...

      My wife and I had gone through the museum back in 2007 when we bought a vacation package through the Branson Tourism Bureau. In the intervening 19 years, they’ve done a lot to update and upgrade the museum, so this felt almost like our first time going through the museum.

    • PCLinuxOS Magazine ☛ Wiki Pick: Keep Your System In Good Order

      You've downloaded PCLinuxOS Livecd ISO, along with the md5sum file, and burned it to your USB Flash Drive or CD Rom.

      All your hardware works, and you install.

      Everything works sweetly and you want to keep it that way.

      First, do a full update of the system.

  • Fedora Family / IBM

    • Kevin Fenzi: misc fedora bits: first week of october 2026

      A bit late with the weekly recap this week, possible due to lower energy from getting my flu and covid boosters friday, but lets go...