Tux Machines Bulletin for Thursday, October 08, 2026 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Fri 9 Oct 02:49:38 BST 2026 Created by Dr. Roy Schestowitz (𝚛𝚘𝚢 (at) 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚣 (dot) 𝚌𝚘𝚖) Full hyperlinks for navigation omitted but are fully available in the originals The corresponding HTML versions are at http://news.tuxmachines.org ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ Tux Machines - Americans Connected to Microsoft versus Webhost of GNU/Linux News Sites ⦿ Tux Machines - Android Leftovers ⦿ Tux Machines - Blender 5.3 Enters Public Beta Testing with Vulkan Backend by Default on Linux ⦿ Tux Machines - COSMIC 1.10 Adds Support for Mapping Drawing Tablets to Specific Displays ⦿ Tux Machines - Events/Education: IndiaFOSS, Djangonaut Space, and AsiaBSDCon ⦿ Tux Machines - Forget Linux Mint, this is the Windows alternative you need ⦿ Tux Machines - Free and Open Source Software, and Benchmark ⦿ Tux Machines - Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations ⦿ Tux Machines - Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers ⦿ Tux Machines - Games: Bazzite, Windows Losing to GNU/Linux, and Valve ⦿ Tux Machines - Gentoo infrastructure sponsors wanted! ⦿ Tux Machines - GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers ⦿ Tux Machines - Google Betrayal, Microsoft Favouritism, and Microsoft's Back Doors ('Secure' Boots) Vandalise Choice Again ⦿ Tux Machines - GStreamer 1.28.8 Multimedia Framework Improves the AMD AMF AV1 Video Encoder ⦿ Tux Machines - I switched from Phone Link to KDE Connect, and Windows 11 is missing these 4 game-changing features ⦿ Tux Machines - I tested the top 10 popular Linux distros, here's how I'd rank them ⦿ Tux Machines - KDE Gear 26.08.2 Released with More Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps ⦿ Tux Machines - KDE is fighting over whether AI belongs in Linux. 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It has also been 13 years since Rianne became the chief curator, as Susan passed the baton to her. 3 years ago the hosting was moved to London. Some of the events leading up to it and occurring since that move are outlined in this new and ongoing series: 2026-07-29 Brigading_Against_Women_-_Part_I_-_Bypassing_the_Legal_System_by Threatening_Companies_in_Another_Continent Brigading_Against_Women_-_Part_II_-_Threatening_Women_Using_the 2026-08-04 Human_Rights_Tribunal_of_Ontario_(HRTO)_and_Then_False_Threats Miscarrying_the_Name_of_a_Court 2026-09-26 Brigading_Against_Women_-_Part_III_-_Racism_Looms_Large,_Not_Just Sexism Brigading_Against_Women_-_Part_IV_-_Death_Threats,_Threats_to_Women, 2026-09-26 and_Threats_for_Pointing_Out,_Correctly_and_Based_on_Hard_Evidence, That_Garrett_and_Lozza_Talk_to_Each_Other_About_Me_Every_Year_(for_4 Years) 2026-09-27 Brigading_Against_Women_-_Part_V_-_SWATTING,_Extortion_Against Webhosts,_and_Lawfare_Under_Sworn_Oath_(Perjury_Also) Brigading_Against_Women_-_Part_VI_-_On_Garrett_and_Lozza, 2026-09-27 Defamation,_Attempts_to_Crack_My_Wife's_Accounts,_Social_Engineering to_Try_to_Take_Sites_Offline,_Subscribing_Us_to_Mountains_of_SPAM 2026-09-28 Brigading_Against_Women_-_Part_VII_-_'Trolling'_Courts_and_Legal Systems_in_America_and_in_the_UK_(Europe)_Costs_a_Lot_to_Taxpayers 2026-09-28 Brigading_Against_Women_-_Part_VIII_-_Misogyny_Embedded;_Like_Firm, Like_Clients 2026-09-29 Brigading_Against_Women_-_Part_IX_-_"What_Are_You,_a_Racist?" 2026-09-29 Brigading_Against_Women_-_Part_X_-_When_Actions_of_American_Men_Are Not_Judged_by_Other_American_Men 2026-09-30 Brigading_Against_Women_-_Part_XI_-_An_Abject_Lack_of_Social_Skills_ (and_Not_Knowing_How_to_Handle_Women) 2026-09-30 Brigading_Against_Women_-_Part_XII_-_Toxic_Masculinity,_Hunting Women,_Will_Code_for_Sex Brigading_Against_Women_-_Part_XIII_-_The_Offer_We_Didn't_Ask_For_ 2026-10-01 (and_Under_Threats_to_a_Lady_at_the_Webhost,_a_Form_of_Extortion From_America) 2026-10-02 Brigading_Against_Women_-_Part_XIV_-_Mastery_of_Distraction 2026-10-03 Brigading_Against_Women_-_Part_XV_-_Trying_to_Put_Women_in_Prisons 2026-10-03 Brigading_Against_Women_-_Part_XVI_-_When_Your_Own_Colleagues Complain_About_You_Maybe_the_Problem_is_You 2026-10-04 Brigading_Against_Women_-_Part_XVII_-_The_Appeal 2026-10-05 Brigading_Against_Women_-_Part_XVIII_-_Turning_Censorship_Attempts_ (Articles_About_Matthew_Garrett)_Into_Mild_Redactions Brigading_Against_Women_-_Part_IXX_-_Overreaction_From_Young_Female 2026-10-05 Professional_After_Invalid_Threats_Made_and_Sent_From_an_Incel_in Another_Continent Brigading_Against_Women_-_Part_XX_-_Attempts_by_Lozza_to_Deplatform 2026-10-06 Techrights_and_Tux_Machines_Only_Days_After_I_Sued_Garrett_and_My Wife_Also_Sued_Garrett_(Shortly_Before_the_Serial_Strangler_From Microsoft_Joined) Brigading_Against_Women_-_Part_XXI_-_Hiding_Behind_the_Veil_of 2026-10-07 "Privacy"_After_Telling_Nazi_Things_in_IRC_Channels_of_Techrights and_Physically_Threatening_People 2026-10-07 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https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Blender_5_3_Enters_Public_Beta_Testing_with_Vulkan_Backend_by_D.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Blender_5_3_Enters_Public_Beta_Testing_with_Vulkan_Backend_by_D.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Blender 5.3 Enters Public Beta Testing with Vulkan Backend by Default on Linux⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Marius Nestor on Oct 08, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Blender_5.3_Beta⦈_ Blender 5.3 looks like another solid update that promises to finally enable the Vulkan backend by default on Linux, replacing the OpenGL backend, with the minimum Vulkan requirements being lowered to Vulkan 1.1 and some GPU/driver features made optional to support more devices. Blender 5.3 also promises support for hardware ray-traced shadows in Workbench with both Vulkan and Metal backends, full sun disc support for sky textures, support for panoramic cameras, as well as new Material Lighting nodes, including Light Accumulation, Light Info, Light Evaluation, Shadow Raycast, Attribute (Light Mode), and Vector Transform (Light Space). 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The COSMIC Term terminal emulator received keyboard shortcuts for moving tabs left (Ctrl+Shift+Left) and right (Ctrl+Shift+Right), COSMIC Store now adds a gallery mode after clicking screenshots and caches screenshots locally, and the cosmic-settings-daemon is now in charge of setting the interface font when syncing font settings with GTK/GNOME. 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Every year, as the conference grows both in scale and ambition, the designs had to adapt and grow along with it. This year we had around 8-10 volunteers contributing to the design work for IndiaFOSS. This is a collection of my experiences, observations, and learnings from managing and contributing to the design of IndiaFOSS 2026. * ⚓ Juha-Matti Santala ☛ 3…_2…_1…_becoming_a_Djangonaut⠀⇛ I’m beyond excited. I was accepted to join the 7th cohort of Djangonaut Space starting next Monday. * ⚓ AsiaBSDCon ☛ AsiaBSDCon_2027⠀⇛ AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. The next conference will be held in Tokyo, Japan, in March, 2027 (the dates will be fixed soon). The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our open source community are shared with the widest possible audience. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 591 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Forget_Linux_Mint_this_is_the_Windows_alternative_you_need.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Forget_Linux_Mint_this_is_the_Windows_alternative_you_need.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Forget Linux Mint, this is the Windows alternative you need⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Oct 08, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇multitasking⦈_ Quoting: Forget Linux Mint, this is the Windows alternative you need — Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: I used Windows 10 for years, and with Microsoft pulling the plug on it, several machines like my 2015 HP EliteBook 850 G2 will be left behind. These systems aren’t bad, but simply don’t meet the strict hardware requirements. The only viable choice is switching to an operating system that feels familiar but doesn’t require a hardware upgrade. Although Tiny11 is an option, some experts advise against it. I’ve found Zorin OS to be an ideal replacement. It’s built on Linux but offers a Windows-like interface, with great performance on old computers that wouldn’t qualify for Windows 11 by default. It may not be as popular as Linux Mint, but if you were to replace Windows 10 with something from the Linux ecosystem, Zorin OS should be your first pick. Read_On! ⠀⠀⢰⣶⣶⡆⠂⠒⢲⣶⣶⣶⠀⡆⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡆⠀⠐⠒⠒⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⠀⢰⠀⢰⠀⠂ ⢰⠒⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣤⣆⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣚⣛⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⡄ ⢸⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠻⠿⠿⠿⠻⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⡿⢿⠟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⢸⣶⣦⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⢸⣀⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⢸⡉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⢸⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢰⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⢲⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⢸⠶⠿⠿⠾⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⡆⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⢰⡆⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⢸⠶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠃⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠘⠃⠀⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⠸⠤⠤⠤⠤⠼⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠘⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠚⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⢰⠒⡖⠒⠒⠒⠒⣶⣶⣶⣶⣖⠒⡆⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⢸⠛⠟⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠻⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⡇⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣾⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⢸⠶⡷⠶⢶⠿⢿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠁⠙⠛⠛⠛⠋⠈⠁⠉⠈⠛⠛⠛⠛⠁⠉⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⢸⣤⣦⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⢸⣄⣄⣀⣀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⢸⠉⡉⠉⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠷⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⢸⠛⠛⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⢸⠶⠿⠶⠾⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⢸⣤⣶⣦⣦⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⢸⣄⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣉⣏⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣙⣉⣉⣉⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⢸⣁⣉⣉⣉⣉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢹⡇ ⢸⠉⡛⠛⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⡇ ⠸⠛⠟⠿⠿⠿⠟⠟⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠧⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠷⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠴⠇ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 661 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_and_Benchmark.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_and_Benchmark.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Free and Open Source Software, and Benchmark⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Oct 08, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇terminal-anki⦈_ * ⚓ Mutagen_-_fast_file_synchronization_for_remote_development⠀⇛ Synchronization sessions connect two endpoints and keep their contents coordinated without requiring the remote filesystem to be mounted directly on the local machine. Endpoints can represent local paths, SSH-accessible systems or container environments. Mutagen also provides network forwarding, letting TCP and Unix-domain socket connections cross boundaries between development environments. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ terminal-anki_-_flashcards_with_spaced_repetition_in_your_terminal⠀⇛ The statistics side is unusually substantial for a terminal flashcard program. It includes an activity heatmap, session history, tag breakdowns, quick statistics, streak tracking and configurable daily goals. Themes, session size and card ordering can be adjusted from within the interface, while the persistent frame keeps navigation and status information visible throughout a session. terminal-anki can also exchange material with Anki. It imports .apkg packages and Anki text exports, can preserve existing scheduling data where supported, and can export cards in an Anki-compatible text format. Images can be displayed on cards in supported terminals. Study data and configuration are stored locally, with atomic writes and recovery handling intended to reduce the risk of a damaged collection. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ Calculator_-_simple_calculator_for_the_COSMIC_desktop⠀⇛ One of Calculator’s more useful features is its calculation history. Previous operations remain available so that you can inspect earlier results instead of having to repeat the same calculation. A previous calculation can also be brought back into the main display when you want to reuse or modify it. The interface keeps the numbers, operators and result prominent. This is not intended to compete with specialist computer algebra systems, programmable calculators or large scientific mathematics packages. Its focus is the much more common requirement of having a convenient graphical calculator immediately available on the desktop. Calculator is therefore a good option for COSMIC users who want a small native application for routine arithmetic. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ RAWmakase_-_fast_non-destructive_RAW_photo_developer⠀⇛ The application offers a Lightroom-style set of development controls together with an integrated image library. It can import a Lightroom Classic catalogue, including ratings, flags, colour labels, keywords and compatible development settings, without modifying the source catalogue or original photographs. RAWmakase accelerates colour and tone processing on the GPU, using Vulkan on Linux, while retaining a CPU fallback. It also provides presets, camera profiles, masking and spot-removal tools, and a command-line interface for inspection, rendering and catalogue operations. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ pSync_-_synchronize_files_securely_between_networked_hosts⠀⇛ pSync is a command-line file synchronization system designed to keep selected directories aligned between networked hosts. It uses a deliberately manual approach: synchronization happens when the user requests it rather than through a permanently running watcher. This can be useful where predictable transfers are preferred or where synchronizing a file while it is still being edited would be undesirable. Directories are associated with labels, so paths do not have to be identical on each host. Multiple synchronization directories can be configured, and different remote hosts can be associated with different sets. The same software operates at both ends of the connection, allowing direct synchronization between local machines as well as workflows involving remote or cloud systems. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ siltide_-_terminal_monitor_for_AI_accelerators⠀⇛ The program is particularly suited to AI, machine learning and HPC systems where it is not enough to know that a device is busy. It brings device telemetry, workload attribution and operational health into one TUI, while also exposing machine- readable data for monitoring infrastructure and automation. On Linux, AMD and Intel telemetry comes from kernel interfaces such as sysfs and DRM fdinfo, while NVIDIA support uses NVML. Other accelerator families use their vendor management tools. Missing values are reported as unavailable rather than guessed. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ GridTracker_-_amateur_radio_mapping_and_activity_companion⠀⇛ GridTracker is an amateur radio companion that turns activity from applications such as WSJT-X into a visual operating environment. Its centrepiece is an interactive map showing live and historical radio activity, Maidenhead grid squares and information useful when deciding which stations to work. It has grown well beyond its original role of plotting WSJT- X traffic. GridTracker combines decoded activity, logbook information, spotting, award progress, callsign data and propagation-related information, making it particularly useful to operators working FT8 and other digital modes. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ Matuwall_-_fast_graphical_wallpaper_picker_for_Wayland⠀⇛ A full-screen preview mode lets users see a wallpaper against the desktop before making a selection. Matuwall can also be told which output to appear on, which is useful on systems with multiple monitors. Wallpaper application is delegated to a supported backend. awww is the default, while sweetbg is also supported. An automatic mode can detect a suitable running backend rather than requiring one to be specified manually. Configuration can be stored in a TOML file under the user’s configuration directory. Almost all of the main settings can also be supplied as command-line options, making it straightforward to create different launchers or invoke Matuwall with temporary settings. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ DNSDiag_-_DNS_measurement,_troubleshooting_and_security_auditing tools⠀⇛ dnsping repeatedly sends a query to a DNS server and measures its responsiveness. dnstraceroute traces the network path taken by DNS requests and can help identify unexpected routing or possible interception. dnseval sends queries to multiple resolvers and compares their latency, packet loss and responses, making it useful for evaluating resolver performance and reliability. The tools are useful for routine troubleshooting, resolver benchmarking and investigating DNS security problems without requiring a graphical interface. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ BOSGAME_VTA-439:_Gaming_on_Linux_–_Shadow_of_the_Tomb_Raider: Definitive_Edition⠀⇛ Gaming on Linux has changed enormously over the past few years. Proton, Mesa and better launcher support have opened up a huge catalogue of Windows games that can now be played with surprisingly little fuss. In this short series, I’m seeing what the BOSGAME VTA-439 can deliver as a compact Linux gaming machine. The VTA-439 is an interesting system for this sort of testing. Its Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 combines Zen 5 and Zen 5c CPU cores with Radeon 890M integrated graphics. There is no discrete GPU doing the heavy lifting, so it gives me a good opportunity to see how far a modern AMD APU can be pushed at 1920×1080. There is a Linux angle too. Gaming performance depends on Mesa, Vulkan and Proton, as well as how effectively the kernel schedules work across the HX 470’s mixed Zen 5 and Zen 5c cores. I’m interested in more than a headline FPS figure. What matters is whether the game feels smooth and how much image quality has to be sacrificed to get there. * ⚓ Trove_-_self-hosted_file_storage⠀⇛ Trove is a self-hosted file storage platform aimed at people who want straightforward file management without the wider application stack of a full groupware suite. It provides a browser-based environment for personal storage, small teams and homelab deployments. Its scope is deliberately narrow. Trove concentrates on managing stored files and making them accessible to the people who need them rather than adding calendars, contacts, messaging or a complete office suite. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ PINCE_-_powerful_GDB_front-end_and_reverse_engineering_tool⠀⇛ The Memory View provides assembly and disassembly functionality together with bookmarks, instruction searches, memory maps and function searches. Users can modify registers, restore changed instructions and inspect the call stack. Keystone is used for assembling instructions dynamically. Debugging facilities include breakpoints, watchpoints, stepping, tracing and breakpoint conditions. PINCE can track which instructions access a particular address and can follow addresses calculated from register expressions. Its collision detection helps prevent invalid combinations of hardware breakpoints. There are also facilities for dissecting Mono and IL2CPP applications, finding class instances, invoking methods and exporting discovered classes as structures. Native shared- object injection and DLL injection into applications running through Wine or Proton are supported. PINCE provides a reusable Python library called libpince and includes a GDB console for direct access to the underlying debugger. Pre-built AppImages are available for users. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ jrpn_-_HP-15C_and_HP-16C_inspired_calculator_simulators⠀⇛ The 15C-inspired calculator concentrates on scientific and engineering work. Its capabilities cover standard scientific calculations as well as more advanced operations associated with the original calculator, including complex-number, matrix, statistical and programming facilities. The 16C-inspired calculator is aimed primarily at programmers. It provides integer arithmetic and operations useful when working with different number representations, while retaining the keyboard-driven workflow and RPN model of the original hardware. The project is a clean-room implementation rather than an emulator of HP firmware. The interface and behaviour seek to remain faithful to the calculators while running as modern desktop applications. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ iRedis_-_interactive_Redis_command-line_client⠀⇛ iRedis is an interactive command-line client for Redis that offers a richer working environment than the standard redis-cli utility. It is designed to make entering, inspecting and repeating Redis commands more convenient while retaining a familiar command-oriented workflow. The interface is built around an interactive prompt with contextual assistance while commands are being entered. It can also operate non-interactively, allowing an explicit command to be supplied directly or commands to arrive through standard input. This makes it useful both for exploratory administration and for incorporating Redis operations into shell-oriented workflows. iRedis also adds safeguards intended to reduce accidental use of potentially expensive operations on production systems. Output is formatted for readability rather than simply exposing raw replies, which can make large or complex Redis values easier to inspect. 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This improves readability and consistency while ensuring the code’s functionality remains unchanged. It saves developers valuable time and helps minimize disagreements over style preferences. Using this type of software means coders cede control over the minutiae of hand-formatting. In return, the software offers speed, determinism, and freedom from style-checker nagging about formatting. Save time and mental energy for more important matters. This roundup selects some useful code formatters for Go developers. Here’s our verdict captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style ratings chart. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion. * ⚓ Machine_Learning_in_Linux:_Local_AI_Studio_–_local_AI_toolkit⠀⇛ Running machine learning models locally has some obvious attractions. Your prompts and data remain on your own machine, there are no API charges, and you’re not dependent on a remote service remaining available. The downside is that setting up separate tools for image generation, large language models, speech recognition and text-to-speech can involve a fair amount of work. Local AI Studio takes a different approach. It brings several types of local AI together in a single browser-based interface, with the aim of keeping configuration to a minimum. The project is currently branded Portable AI Studio in its documentation, although the web interface still identifies itself as Local AI Studio. The project was previously known as Uncensored Local Studio. The software offers image generation using Stable Diffusion, text chat using GGUF large language models, speech-to-text using Whisper, and text-to-speech using Kokoro. Processing takes place locally, with no external API keys or accounts required. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ wpaperd_-_modern_wallpaper_daemon_for_Wayland⠀⇛ Different wallpapers can be configured for individual displays. Displays may also be grouped so that several outputs share the same wallpaper when random selection is enabled. Regular- expression based output matching makes more complex multi- monitor configurations possible. wpaperd is controlled through a TOML configuration file and the accompanying wpaperctl command-line utility. Configuration changes can be reloaded while the daemon is running. wpaperctl can move to the next or previous wallpaper, pause and resume automatic cycling, or immediately set a particular image. The daemon uses OpenGL ES to render images and transitions. Transition timing can be configured, and several image placement modes are available including fit, centre, stretch and tile. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ Timekpr-nExT_-_control_computer_usage⠀⇛ Limits can be set for individual days, permitted time periods, and weekly or monthly allowances. PlayTime extends this control to individual applications and games, while supervisors can choose actions such as locking, suspending or terminating a session when limits expire. The client displays remaining time and configurable warnings before restrictions take effect. Time accounting excludes inactive and locked sessions as well as periods when the system is sleeping. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ edb_-_graphical_debugger_inspired_by_OllyDbg⠀⇛ The debugger uses Capstone for disassembly and Qt for its graphical interface. Its architecture also supports plugins, allowing additional debugging and analysis functionality to be added without putting everything into the core application. Optional Graphviz integration is available for functionality which benefits from graph visualisation. Users can build edb with either GCC or Clang. Current development supports modern Qt 5 and Qt 6 releases, and recent work has included compatibility improvements for newer versions of Qt and Capstone. edb has been under development for many years and has a substantial user base. It remains one of the more established free graphical low-level debuggers available for Linux. 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It means that I can call commands or come up with my own commands without worrying about assigning them to keyboard shortcuts or making sense of where to place them in a hierarchical menu. With flexible completion via the vertico and orderless packages, I don’t even need to type in the full name of the command or remember the words in the right order. If I still can’t remember the command, it’s easy enough to use defalias to make my own nickname for it. * ⚓ Sacha Chua ☛ Using_Emacs_to_visualize_speaking_and_target_words/phrases in_real-ish_time⠀⇛ When I'm working with a tutor to improve my French, I sometimes need to push myself to provide more details when I'm sharing and ask more follow-up questions in response to what they're saying, instead of falling back to « D'accord » and « C'est cool. » Visualizing the timeline in real-time lets me see if the turn-taking looks good. I might even need to take a more active role in controlling the conversation if I happen to be meeting a tutor who tends to go on monologues. When I'm talking out loud on my own for practice, this might also nudge me to reduce the pauses and enrich my vocabulary by practising saying things often enough that they become more automatic. * ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ What_I_use_Eglot_for_in_GNU_Emacs_and_what_good it_is⠀⇛ Recently, via Sacha Chua's Emacs News, I saw a Reddit question titled I've used emacs successfully for decades without using LSP or Eglot. Tell me what I'm missing. This started me thinking about what I use Eglot for and how I would answer this question, because in some ways I'm in this situation too. I don't really think of my programming with GNU Emacs as 'Eglot centered', although I have Eglot set up for (some) languages I program in. § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ * ⚓ Document Foundation ☛ State_of_the_Project_(October_2025_–_September 2026)⠀⇛ We are releasing the State of the Project Slide Deck, which is updated quarterly and based on data extracted from the LibreOffice dashboard and the Matomo repository between 1 October 2025 and 30 September 2026. § Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)⠀➾ * ⚓ DJ Adams ☛ Markdown_previews_in_lf_with_leaf⠀⇛ Today I'm finding I'm working Markdown even more, and the delta is mostly in read-mode, rather than write-mode. Reading agent and skill files, intent summaries, product requirement documents and more, especially in the context of Joule Studio. * ⚓ Kiwi_TCMS:_Kiwi_TCMS_16.6⠀⇛ Dear testers, we're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 16.6! improvements and bug fixes, new API methods and internal refactoring. § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾ * § Open Data⠀➾ o ⚓ Bioconductor ☛ A_Collaboration_Fest_for_research_software interoperability⠀⇛ Members of the Bioconductor, Galaxy and nf-core communities came together for a three-day Collaboration Fest to explore research software interoperability, applying the BiocJobs approach to a single-cell workflow and developing ways to make Bioconductor methods more readily reusable across workflow ecosystems. § Programming/Development⠀➾ * ⚓ Steinar H Gunderson ☛ Steinar_H._Gunderson:_Decompilation_patterns, part_4:_range_comparison⠀⇛ Today, we're looking at a rewrite that rarely differs for matching, but can mean quite a lot for understanding the code. Say that you have a signed variable and the compiler has suddenly decided to make an unsigned comparison: [...] § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ * ⚓ Andrew Nesbitt ☛ Package_Management_RFCs⠀⇛ Package registries, manifest formats, lockfiles, version ranges and identifiers all have written specifications of some kind, spread across six kinds of venue. Specifications show up in package management mostly as an invisible layer of the dependency tree, where an HTTP library is built against RFC 9110 and a JSON parser against ECMA-404, and the documents covering package management itself are spread just as thinly. I went looking for the IETF’s share, since wire protocols between independently written implementations are what the RFC series exists for, and found nine documents, most of them concerned with firmware updates on IoT devices. The rest is distributed among Ecma, ISO, CNCF and OASIS, the enhancement proposal processes individual ecosystems run for themselves, and for a couple of registries a service’s own API reference. Which venue a document is published in determines whether a second client, a mirror or an archival reconstruction can rely on it, since each of those requires specified behaviour rather than whatever a given server returns this week. * ⚓ Yle ☛ Finnish_public_broadcaster's_teletext_service_turns_45⠀⇛ Well before the dawn of the internet, Yle's 'Teksti-TV' debuted in 1981 to provide news, sports and weather updates around the clock. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1383 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Games_Bazzite_Windows_Losing_to_GNU_Linux_and_Valve.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Games_Bazzite_Windows_Losing_to_GNU_Linux_and_Valve.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Games: Bazzite, Windows Losing to GNU/ Linux, and Valve⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 08, 2026 * ⚓ N Recursions ☛ N_Recursions:_In_Dangerous_Dave_it's_possible_to identify_the_fall-through_pink_girders_via_a_lighter_pixel⠀⇛ All these decades I used intelligent guesswork to figure out which of those pink girders (or metal bars, as I prefer calling them) in Dangerous Dave were walkable and which were not. Today I watched a walkthrough where a person pointed to a pixel difference between the areas that were walkable and the ones that were fall-through. It left me surprised that I didn't notice it for so long. I'm quite sure it'd have been noticeable even on black & white screens. * ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Check_out_Death_Falls:_Zombies_Are_Coming_-_inspired_by Thronefall_and_Project_Zomboid_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Death Falls: Zombies Are Coming is a zombie post-apocalypse tower defense where you build up by day, fight by night as you try to survive the hordes. Inspired directly by both Thronefall and Project Zomboid, it's one to stick onto that wishlist and watch. * ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Bazzite_Linux_has_a_fresh_stable_update_for_October_| GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Bazzite Linux has the first stable release out for October, bringing lots of improvements for everyone from handhelds to desktops. This continues being my Linux version of choice when it comes to handhelds, although they've had a fair bit of cleaning up to do due to issues from the most recent major version that had some massive changes to all the tech behind the scenes. Hopefully now the experience is a bit more stable. * ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Humble_Choice_for_October_2026_has_Like_a_Dragon: Pirate_Yakuza_in_Hawaii,_Prince_of_Persia:_The_Lost_Crown_and_more_| GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ A fresh Humble Choice Bundle for October 2026 has arrived and it's a really good set of games overall for this month to claim. * ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Racing_roguelite_autobattler_Backseat_Champions_arrives November_13_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Instead of directly racing, you're managing your driver in Backseat Champions - a racing roguelite autobattler. It's now set to arrive in Early Access on November 13th, with a demo is still available so you can try before you buy. * ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Warhammer_40,000:_Boltgun_2_is_Steam_Deck_-_Steam Machine_Verified_ahead_of_release_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 releases soon on October 14th, and it is now rated Steam Deck Verified and Steam Machine Verified! * ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Warhammer_Survivors_will_be_launching_on_November_10_- demo_available_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Play as characters from the Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer: Age of Sigmar universes, collect and evolve iconic weapons and destroy endless swarms of enemies. * ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ SteamOS_0.4.5_Beta_for_Steam_Frame_and_Steam_Client Update_For_Frame_released_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Valve released another bug fix with SteamOS 0.4.5 Beta for Steam Frame, along with a bigger stable Steam Client Update For Frame. * ⚓ Windows_11_lost_to_Linux_at_1080p_Crimson_Desert,_Space_Marine_2,_RDR2 and_Cyberpunk_2077⠀⇛ A discussion about the transition from the operating system has unfolded in the pcmasterrace community Windows The CachyOS distribution with the KDE Plasma desktop environment. Users cite constant system crashes, intrusive background telemetry, forced reboots for updates, and pre-installed Start menu bloat as the main reasons for abandoning the Microsoft platform. The new environment boasts a highly responsive desktop and a complete absence of background services that waste CPU resources. The only difficulty during initial installation remains the basic setup of UEFI Secure Boot. * ⚓ XDA ☛ Valve's_Lepton_could_do_for_Android_games_what_Proton_did_for Windows,_but_it's_starting_smaller⠀⇛ Valve has been shaping the gaming scene for many years now, but the biggest recent example people would point to is the Steam Deck and the Proton compatibility layer that enables such a Linux machine to run Windows games. It can't be understated how big of an impact this has had on Linux gaming, and you've surely heard about it at this point. But now, the company is aiming at Android with something called Lepton. This compatibility layer wants to do for Android games what Proton did for Windows games, but there's a bit more to it than that. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1521 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Gentoo_infrastructure_sponsors_wanted.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Gentoo_infrastructure_sponsors_wanted.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Gentoo infrastructure sponsors wanted!⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Oct 08, 2026, updated Oct 08, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇hardware_rack⦈_ Quoting: Gentoo infrastructure sponsors wanted! – Gentoo Linux — Gentoo Linux is made possible by many community donations and sponsors, together with the enthusiastic work of our developers. Unfortunately, this year several long-running sponsors were unable to continue their prior support, and at the moment we are looking for replacements. Are you or your organization interested in supporting Gentoo via an infrastructure sponsorship? There are many ways to do that, ranging from providing rack space or servers in a data center to donating server hardware; details and typical arrangements are described on a wiki page of the Infrastructure project. Partnerships with organizations aligning with Gentoo’s goals are strongly preferred. We can be reached at infra@gentoo.org. Please help us continue to provide the best source-based Linux distribution ever! Read_On! It's FOSS: * ⚓ Gentoo_Needs_Your_Help!_Several_Sponsors_Have_Pulled_Out⠀⇛ Plenty of open source projects keep going on goodwill alone, with contributors putting in the hours and expecting nothing back. While others lean on outside support like cash, donated hardware, or someone else covering the hosting bill. This kind of support rarely gets much attention, but these needs are some of the most foundational aspects of any project that's serious about growing. Gentoo falls in the second group. The source-based Linux distribution, built around the Portage package manager, runs largely on sponsored infrastructure, as it can only manage to maintain a few vital machines. Sadly, many sponsors that had backed Gentoo all these years have decided to stop making contributions. The project is now looking for replacements and has put out a call for infrastructure sponsors. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣤⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣰⠶⠛⠁⠀⠙⠻⢶⣄⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣴⠟⠋⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠙⠷⣦⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣰⠶⠛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠻⢶⣆⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣴⠟⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠛⠿⣤⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣴⠶⠛⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠻⢶⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣴⠞⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠙⠷⣤⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣀⣰⣶⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣶⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣤⣾⠟⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⡟⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣶⠿⠛⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⡇⠀⢸⡟⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣴⣾⠿⠋⠉⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣶⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 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Native_HTML_and_CSS_Features_That_Replaced JavaScript⠀⇛ Modern HTML and CSS have gained a surprising number of features that cover interactions and layout problems we used to solve with custom scripts or libraries. JavaScript obviously isn’t going anywhere, and there are plenty of things that still require it, but in 2026 I find myself needing it less often for ordinary website interfaces. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ 2026-09-25_[Older]_Simon_de_Vlieger:_Cohesive_Linux⠀⇛ Over the past few years I’ve been in contact with and working with “image-based” Linux systems and grown fond of the ideas and possibilities they offer while being wary of the things they can take away from tinkerers and hackers (in the correct sense of the word). My work has mostly been on the Fedora side of things and the implementations of “image-based” Linux there through ostree and nowadays bootc. Lately I’ve also been interested in the systemd approach described by Lennart Poettering in his Fitting Everything Together blog. All of these systems have been described as “immutable”, “atomic”, “image-based”, and those terms have become very overloaded, wide, and often don’t even fit. They’re applied to a huge set of implementations (Fedora Atomic and its derivatives, NixOS, ChromeOS, openSUSE’s MicroOS, ParticleOS, and many others) all of which use very different ways of achieving “image-based” Linux. The words are useful but non-specific and prescribe behavior that many of these systems do not hold, or hold partially. o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ Undeadly ☛ New_laptops_and_OpenBSD:_HP_Envy_17-DA0013dx⠀⇛ We have to admit that even users of a well rounded operating system like OpenBSD sometimes encounter hardware that is not quite supported yet. Fortunately, sometimes the user facing the problematic hardware is an experienced developer like Ian Darwin, and he took the time to write up his experience in a blog post titled Un-hanging the HP Envy 17-DA0013dx for OpenBSD. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux On Mobile ☛ 2026-09-27_[Older]_Weekly_GNU-like_Mobile Linux_Update_(39/2026):_Raider_→_Twix⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ The_kernel_from_a_PostgreSQL_point_of_view_ [LWN.net]⠀⇛ Andres Freund has a few claims to fame, but chief among them is his many years of work to improve the performance of the PostgreSQL relational database management system. That work requires working with — or around — many Linux kernel features and behaviors. He put in an appearance at the 2026 edition of Kernel Recipes to talk about his experience working with the kernel project, how the kernel could better support applications like PostgreSQL, and some interesting developments in the PostgreSQL world. He started with a quick list of "fun" experiences he has had with Linux, starting with the fallout from the 2018 discovery that the kernel could silently lose data in response to I/O errors; he called this episode ""fsyncgate"". More recently, there were problems with io_uring that broke multi- process applications; he made a point of saying that he has a productive collaborative relationship with io_uring maintainer Jens Axboe that has led to solutions for many of these problems. There is, he said, a steady stream of bugs and crashes resulting from kernel changes that must be dealt with, and random performance changes that must be tracked down. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1774 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Google_Betrayal_Microsoft_Favouritism_and_Microsoft_s_Back_Door.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Google_Betrayal_Microsoft_Favouritism_and_Microsoft_s_Back_Door.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Google Betrayal, Microsoft Favouritism, and Microsoft's Back Doors ('Secure' Boots) Vandalise Choice Again⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 08, 2026 * § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ o ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Googlebooks_have_a_Linux_app_problem_that even_budget_Chromebooks_solved_years_ago⠀⇛ Google may promote Googlebooks as the evolution of its Chromebooks, but the limitations of an Android-based interface are already peeking through. While Googlebooks easily runs Android apps, the early crop of laptop devices lacks proper support for Linux apps, a crucial feature ChromeOS has supported for years. ChromeOS lets you enable a “Linux development environment” in Settings, which sets up a container for installing Debian packages and running them straight from the app drawer. However, while digging around in Googlebook OS, members of the Android Authority team discovered that they couldn’t replicate the same straightforward way of installing Linux apps as they could on a Chromebook. Furthermore, even though there are plenty of new support pages for Googlebooks talking about their new features, there’s limited information on how to install or run Linux apps. * § WINE or Emulation⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Office_365_Available_for_Testing_on_GNU/Linux via_Bottles⠀⇛ Linux users can now test the official Office 365, thanks to Mirko Brombin's work on Bottles. * § Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)⠀➾ o ⚓ Kentaro_Hayashi:_Testing_Japanese_IMEs_on_virtual_desktops_with virt-japanese-desktop⠀⇛ Japanese input method editors (IMEs) such as Mozc are essential for typing Japanese (yes, skk, anthy and more, but it's out-of-scope in this article). Testing them is a surprisingly fiddly job: an IME behaves differently depending on the desktop environment (GNOME, KDE, Xfce, Budgie), the input framework (ibus, fcitx5, uim), and the Wayland or X11 session. Setting up a fresh VM for every combination from scratch is slow and repetitive, and breaking your host's environment while experimenting is no fun. * § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ o ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_26.10_drops_Btrfs,_XFS_&_ZFS_/boot_with Secure_Boot [Ed: Conflating_a_lack_of_choice/diversity_with "security", where by "security" they mean Microsoft kill switches]⠀⇛ Canonical has changed how Ubuntu 26.10 boots on system with Secure Boot enabled, in an effort to reduce the attack surface of the boot process. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1864 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/GStreamer_1_28_8_Multimedia_Framework_Improves_the_AMD_AMF_AV1_.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/GStreamer_1_28_8_Multimedia_Framework_Improves_the_AMD_AMF_AV1_.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ GStreamer 1.28.8 Multimedia Framework Improves the AMD AMF AV1 Video Encoder⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Marius Nestor on Oct 08, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇GStreamer⦈_ Coming a month after GStreamer 1.28.7, the GStreamer 1.28.8 release is a small update that adds support for reading AAF AIFF-AIFC audio to the MXF demuxer, improves AMD AMF AV1 video encoder force-keyframe, adds Windows media audio/ video seeking improvements, and brings hlssink3 improvements. GStreamer 1.28.8 also fixes endless drain in some FFmpeg wrapper audio encoders and dual mono support, fixes ISOBMFF dash/iso/fmp4 muxer for 2036 timestamp rollover, reworks Cerbero checksum verification to allow mirror retries, and fixes alpha blending with Intel GPU drivers in the VA-API compositor. 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And it's true that there are some cool things you can do with a setup like this, but it's also still very limited. Meanwhile, KDE Connect has been around for a good while now, and it still offers capabilities Windows 11 can't or won't. Here are just a few of the features that should make you consider setting up KDE Connect. 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Like most distro hoppers, I usually find my next one on DistroWatch. However, it’s worth remembering that DistroWatch’s rankings aren’t representative of a distro’s quality or user count. It simply ranks how many people visit each distro’s page on DistroWatch. 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KDE Gear 26.08.2 also improves sending of signed emails in the KMail app, fixes opening of external maps while the indoor map is still loading in the Itinerary app, fixes unneeded scaling of folder pixmaps and sub thumbs in the thumbnail worker, and adds Flatpak packaging for the kjournald abstraction library for the systemd-journald API. Read_on Planet KDE: Quoting: KDE Gear 26.08.2 - KDE Community — Over 180 individual applications plus dozens of programmer libraries and feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear. 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Here's what's at stake⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Oct 08, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇kde_logo⦈_ Quoting: KDE is fighting over whether AI belongs in Linux. Here's what's at stake — That earlier Linux Pro Magazine post highlighted that KDE had a proposed AI policy posted, which was later taken down, and as of this writing there's nothing like a final or well-developed draft. There are so many issues around legality, privacy, control, ethics, and more raised by the advent of generative AI that this policy discussion will either go on forever, or will probably end up being some extreme polarizing decision, splitting the community into pro and anti-AI factions. So what's at stake here might be the very soul of this crucial Linux project. Again, KDE is far from the only FOSS project facing the issue of what to do with generative AI, but most of those projects aren't as impactful and influential as this. In fact, I'd wager whatever the KDE community and leaders end up doing will act as a signal to everyone else. So the pressure is on to get it right. Read_On! ⣿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣟⣿⣿⣿ ⡟⠀⠈⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢻⣿⠿⢿⣿⠿⠿⠉⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣭⣍⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⡉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠛⣿⣿ ⣿⡿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣭⣽⣯⣭⣿⣯⣽⣯⣭⡭⠉⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣠⡈⠹⣯⣭⣿⣿⠟⠉⢀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠉⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⠑⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⢿⡾⣿⣟⣚⣟⣣⣾⣷⣀⣂⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢀⣘⣛⣛⡁⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣦⢌⣛⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣏⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠀⠛⠻⣿ ⣿⠶⠶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣶⣗⣿⣿⢟⠿⢿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠙⠉⠉⢀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠁⠽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿ ⣿⠾⠲⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠯⣿⠽⢍⣵⣿⣷⣦⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡁⠀⠀⠀⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠀⠦⢄⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠼⠼⢿⣿ ⣷⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣴⣾⡿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⣿⢆⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⣴⣿⣾⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿ ⣿⡀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠈⢻⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⣡⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠁⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣥⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣥⣽⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠑⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣤⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⣼⣿⠋⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣤⣤⣿⣿ ⣿⣏⡉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠙⠛⠋⠉⠁⠀⠀⣼⣿⠃⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡀⠀⠀⠙⠻⣿⣗⠍⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣫⣿⣿⡟ ⣧⣤⣤⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡧⠀⢠⣶⣶⣾⣿⣇⣿⡏⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⡜⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣌⢿⣶⣶⣤⠉⣭⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⣀⣠⣽⡇ ⣿⣯⠸⣿⣿⣟⣋⣝⣟⣛⣿⣿⣟⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⡃⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⢹⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣌⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡹⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⣿⣿⠇ ⣍⣉⣉⣉⣿⣿⡧⢟⣛⣛⣿⣟⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣀⠈⠉⠛⠛⠻⠂⣿⣷⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⡄⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡌⠉⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣍⣈⣉⣿⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡓⣎⣉⣩⣭⣍⣿⢿⠷⣾⣷⣶⣿⢿⠤⠤⠤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣧⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢿⠟⡇⢤⣌⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⣍⢿⡟⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣯⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣛⣟⣛⣿⣿⣻⣗⣛⣛⣛⡀⠀⠀⢀⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠈⢉⣵⣿⣿⡧⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠷⢘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣗⣀⣘⠁⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢤⡼⠿⢿⣿⡿⣿⢽⢿⣭⣽⣿⣿⣿⢭⢭⠭⠭⠀⠀⣠⣿⣷⣌⠻⣿⣿⣿⣧⣘⣋⣉⣉⣉⣥⣤⣾⣿⣿⡿⠋⣠⣷⣌⡛⠋⠉⢁⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣗⣟⣻⣛⣿⣿⣿⢮⣭⣭⣽⣿⣭⣽⠖⣛⠓⠒⠀⢴⣿⣿⣿⣿⡷⠄⠙⠻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠛⠉⠰⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⠄⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠏⣯⣭⣽⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣆⠙⠿⠟⠉⠀⣀⢀⠀⠀⠠⣤⣬⣭⣤⣤⠀⠀⠀⣀⡀⠀⠙⠻⠿⢁⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣤ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢶⡿⠶⢷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣒⣒⣺⣿⣿⣿⡃⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣓⣒⣚⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣋⣛⣛⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣶⣄⠸⠿⠿⠿⠁⠀⣰⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡿⣿⡿⣿⣿⡟⣁⣿⢭⣭⡿⡿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⡿⣷⡤⢀⣀⠴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣻⣿⣿⣛⡛⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡝⣻⣻⣯⣲⣾⣿⡊⢿⣆⣈⣟⡎⢻⣀⣖⣿⠂⢩⣤⣥⣷⢤⣽⣠⣺⡇⣀⣸⣯⣿⣇⠀⢰⡯⠄⢿⣁⣠⣿⣇⣹⣻⣌⣽⣿⣿⣿⣏⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣽⣿⣿⣿⣯⣭⣼⣯ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2203 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/KDE_Qt_and_GNOME_GTK_Leftovers.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/KDE_Qt_and_GNOME_GTK_Leftovers.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ KDE/Qt and GNOME/GTK Leftovers⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 08, 2026 * § KDE/Qt⠀➾ o ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_for_MCUs_2.12.3_LTS_Released⠀⇛ Qt for MCUs 2.12.3 LTS has been released and is available for download. This patch release provides several bug fixes and other improvements while maintaining source compatibility with Qt for MCUs 2.12 (see Qt_for_MCUs_2.12 LTS_released). This patch release is stability and user workflow focused and does not add any new functionality. o ⚓ KDE ☛ My_Notes_from_Akademy_2026⠀⇛ Writing this blog today feels a bit unreal. Six months ago, if you had told me I'd be attending Akademy in- person, 3000 miles from home - I probably wouldn't have believed you. And yet, here we are. So I attended Akademy 2026, in Graz - and my experience was truly remarkable. I learnt a lot about the KDE Community, met some amazing people and returned with a fresh boost of motivation to keep contributing to the KDE Community! It also happened to be my first trip to Europe, and it really lived up to the expectations! * § GNOME/GTK⠀➾ o ⚓ GNOME ☛ Philipp_Sauberzweig:_Fellowship_Update,_2026-10-07⠀⇛ It has been another productive month working on GNOME Design and Community Management as part of my Sovereign Tech Fellowship, and I want to share some of the most interesting developments. o ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ A_pair_of_flashy-looking_weather_extensions_for GNOME_Shell⠀⇛ I revised my list of the best GNU/Linux weather apps recently, but I know most people prefer to use panel applets to glean current conditions and future forecast data. There’s no drought in weather extensions for GNOME Shell. All kinds – some like Weather or Not show a simple label on panel, others dish out reams of meteorological data in a dropdown of varying designs (and, in a few cases, vertical length). I’ve seen a flurry of newer weather extensions for GNOME Shell emerge in recent months. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2279 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Kernel_and_Graphics_Leftovers.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Kernel_and_Graphics_Leftovers.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Kernel and Graphics Leftovers⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 08, 2026 * ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ New_GNU/Linux_tech_compresses_memory_in_RAM,_as_RAM, for_452x_speedup⠀⇛ The new method allows access using standard memory semantics instead of as a block device, drastically improving performance. * ⚓ InfoQ ☛ The_Async_Multiprocessing_Has_Sound_Foundations_in_Linux,_But Further_Testing_Is_Needed⠀⇛ At Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2026, Wolfram Sang discussed the Linux building blocks for asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP). He highlighted the solid foundation but noted challenges like limited contributor coverage and fragmented testing. Sang's work on a hardware-spinlock driver revealed maintenance complexities and the need for more reviewers and testers to support evolving AMP systems. By Olimpiu Pop * ⚓ Klara ☛ Biggest_ZFS_Misconfigurations_and_How_to_Fix_Them:_Part_2⠀⇛ OpenZFS 2.3 introduced powerful new capabilities, including RAIDZ expansion, Fast Dedup, and Direct IO. But the wrong configuration can waste expensive hardware, hurt performance, or put your data at risk. Learn what to watch for with SLOG, RAIDZ expansion, Fast Dedup, Direct IO, special vdevs, and snapshots. * ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Forcing_a_direct_kernel_reboot_is_sometimes needed_and_recommended⠀⇛ Normally when we need to reboot one of our servers, I type 'reboot' and don't think twice about it. This is sometimes a mistake (for reasons other than rebooting the wrong server), as I was reminded yesterday when I ran 'reboot' on a server and had it hang during the reboot process. To put the summary up front, if the server I'm rebooting is in a dodgy state, such as having a piece of hardware drop off the PCIe bus, probably I want to proceed straight to an abrupt, direct kernel reboot. I can always selectively shut down certain important and safe services beforehand. * § Graphics Stack⠀➾ o ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ xorg-server_21.1.25_and_xwayland_24.1.14_released due_to_more_security_issues_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ New versions of X.Org and XWayland have been released since more security issues have been revealed. The new releases are xorg-server 21.1.25 and xwayland 24.1.14, so you'll want to keep a close eye on your Linux distribution updates for the fixes coming in. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2362 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Linux_centric_Hardware_ESP32_Raspberry_Pi_and_More.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Linux_centric_Hardware_ESP32_Raspberry_Pi_and_More.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Linux-centric Hardware: ESP32, Raspberry Pi, and More⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 08, 2026 * § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ o ⚓ RTL-SDR ☛ ESP32-SDR:_Turbo_Mode_Throughput_Improvement_+_Real_I/ Q_Output⠀⇛ Thank you to Zoltan Doczi for writing in and sharing with us an article he's written explaining how he managed to speed up the ESP32-SDR's sampling time by 50x. The ESP32 has recently been discovered to have undocumented features that let it be used as an SDR. However, ESP32s have very limited USB bandwidth, so the full 80 MS/s I/ Q sample rate cannot be sent to a PC, and hence only the spectrum data can be sent to a browser-based UI in bursts with gaps in between. o ⚓ Kevin Boone ☛ First_steps_in_bare-metal_programming_using_UEFI_– part_1⠀⇛ This series of articles outlines how to start writing bare-metal programs for modern PCs, using Linux as the development platform. By “bare metal” I mean there is no operating system, just the minimal resources provided by the motherboard’s UEFI firmware. o ⚓ Kevin Boone ☛ First_steps_in_bare-metal_programming_using_UEFI_– part_2⠀⇛ There are other ways to boot the EFI test application. You might, for example, create a bootable DVD or USB flash drive. I’ve decided to explain how to boot from a hard drive first because, although it’s fiddly – and potentially risky – it’s relatively easy to understand. Moreover, you’ll almost certainly want to boot from a hard drive eventually. I’ll explain how to boot from removable media later. o ⚓ Kevin Boone ☛ First_steps_in_bare-metal_programming_using_UEFI_– part_3⠀⇛ In this article I’ll explain how to create a bootable DVD drive or USB flash drive from test.efi. You’ll be able to boot this on a real or virtual machine without installing anything on a hard drive. Although booting from removable media is a safe and straightforward process, not requiring any changes to the test machine, most computers boot a lot more quickly from a hard drive than from removable media. That’s an important consideration if you’re developing a substantial EFI application (a new operating system, for example). * § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ DSPi_firmware_turns_Raspberry_Pi_RP2040/RP2350 into_a_USB_sound_card_with_an_onboard_DSP_engine⠀⇛ DSPi is a full-featured audio DSP firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico, Pico 2, and other Raspberry Pi RP2040/ RP2350 boards, which turns them into a USB sound card with an integrated DSP. It allows users to make use of essential tools like room correction, active crossovers, parametric EQ, time alignment, and more, and essentially works as a regular sound card on your computer. DSPi firmware’s capabilities: Dual-Core DSP – EQ processing is split across both cores on both RP2040 and RP2350. o ⚓ LWN ☛ A_new_Raspberry_Pi_Desktop_release_is_finally_available_for x86-64⠀⇛ Simon Long has announced a long-awaited release of Raspberry Pi OS, based on Debian 13_("trixie"), for x86- 64 systems. o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Efinix_Sapphire_RV64_SoC_–_Configurable_RISC- V_soft-cores_with_DDR3,_LPDDR4x,_and_HyperRAM_for_Efinix_FPGAs⠀⇛ Efinix has introduced the Sapphire RV64 SoC, a configurable 64-bit RISC-V soft-core processor designed for its Titanium and Trion FPGAs. It is based on the VexiiRiscv core and can be configured with one to four RISC-V cores running at up to 400 MHz. The Sapphire RV64 has a seven-stage pipeline, configurable L1 caches, optional 64–512 KB L2 cache, and 4–512 KB of on-chip RAM. It supports DDR3, LPDDR4x, and HyperRAM with up to 512- bit AXI interfaces and external memory from 4 MB to 8 GB. o ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ IBASE_IB966_3.5-inch_SBC_with_Panther_Lake_and_up to_180_TOPS⠀⇛ IBASE has announced the IB966, a 3.5-inch SBC based on Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” processors, with up to 180 TOPS of aggregate AI performance, 128GB of DDR5-7200 memory, dual 2.5GbE and three M.2 slots. o ⚓ RTL-SDR ☛ ESPsoup:_Turn_an_ESP32-C5_into_a_2.4_&_5_GHz_Pocket Scanner_with_a_Connected_Phone_or_PC⠀⇛ Thank you to Peter Holzhauser for writing in and sharing with us his latest open-source project, 'ESPsoup'. Peter has written in previously to share his Android app, V2X2MAP, which detects and plots vehicle V2X (car-to-car) communications used by some modern cars. His new project, ESPsoup, combines an ESP32-C5 and a connected PC or phone into a fully featured scanner for the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ ESP32_As_Your_Raspberry_Pi’s_Linux_Wireless_Co- processor⠀⇛ What if I told you there’s a unique solution to the problem, as long as the SBC has an SDIO or SPI to spare? There’s a wireless card we can all try to get behind, and it’s certainly not flawless but gives us way more room to grow – it’s got somewhat open-source firmware, it comes from a respectable company, and it’s nigh-guaranteed to be easy to source. I am, of course, talking about esp- hosted – using ESP32 modules as your WiFi/BT card, over SDIO or SPI. I’ve recently added an ESP32-C6 into my project, and setting up esp-hosted wasn’t ultra straightforward – so here’s a guide, and a discussion on what makes esp-hosted so cool and so incredibly promising. Spoilers: it works with privacy switches that cut out power, it could be hacked into a coprocessor for mesh protocols, and it could potentially help us build a fully open-source SDIO WiFi card. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Repairing_A_Couple_Of_Very_Expensive_Registered_DDR5 RAM_Sticks⠀⇛ The 128 GB stick was first on the bench, with the fault being that it would fail DDR5 training on boot. This suggests that one or more of the DRAM BGA packages had developed a cracked solder joint, which is something that you could conceivably fix with more diagnosing and testing for a single IC reballing. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Solve_Your_TTL_Video_Woes_With_An_RP2350⠀⇛ It requires a bit of level shifting hardware, which at minimum can be a set of resistors, and it targets the Waveshare RP2350-PiZero which comes with a handy ready- made HDMI socket. There’s a USB serial terminal to manage the thing, for which there’s even a TK GUI script. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Keep_That_Old_Radio_Alive_With_An_ESP32⠀⇛ As the legacy AM broadcast bands fade away, what happens to the millions of devices built to receive them? Many of them will go into e-waste, but with a century of radios to choose from, some of them are collector’s items. Vintage tube radios like the ones [GarethDaviesLondon] has would go silent, so he’s made a small AM transmitter to keep them alive. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2563 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/_Linux_Foundation_Doing_Anything_But_Linux.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/_Linux_Foundation_Doing_Anything_But_Linux.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 'Linux' Foundation Doing Anything But Linux⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 08, 2026 * ⚓ PR Newswire ☛ Linux_Foundation_Launches_OpenGrid_to_Build_Open,_Shared Infrastructure_for_the_World's_Electric_Grid⠀⇛ * ⚓ PR Newswire ☛ xFusion_Joins_the_Linux_Foundation_to_Support_Open_Source Innovation⠀⇛ * ⚓ PR Newswire ☛ Linux_Foundation_Releases_OpenChain_Automotive_SBOM Framework_1.0_for_Greater_Reliability_and_Traceability_in_Automotive Software⠀⇛ * ⚓ Automotive World Ltd ☛ Linux_Foundation_sets_common_automotive_SBOM framework⠀⇛ * ⚓ The New Stack ☛ What’s_up,_Docsy?_Google’s_docs_project_joins_the_Linux Foundation_as_AI_agents_become_readers⠀⇛ * ⚓ PR Newswire ☛ AWS_Becomes_a_Platinum_Member_of_the_Linux_Foundation, Deepening_Commitment_to_Open_Source⠀⇛ * § FSF / Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty⠀➾ o ⚓ Dolphin Publications B V ☛ Europe_falls_short_on_open_source governance⠀⇛ Nearly one-third of European organizations lack formal open-source governance, according to the Linux Foundation’s new “State of open source in Europe” report. As a result, organizations are losing a lot of money, those with proper governance recoup 4.6 times their costs. Having a clear understanding of open-source software is also important for other reasons. For example, AI tools flood maintainers with bug reports, and if left unpatched, these can be exploited very quickly. The report, now in its fifth edition, is based on a survey of 367 European organizations and interviews with maintainers and policymakers. It is sponsored by NeoNephos, the project the Linux Foundation launched last year to promote European digital sovereignty. o ⚓ PR Newswire ☛ Linux_Foundation_Europe_Report_Finds_Digital Sovereignty_Drives_European_Tech_Strategy,_but_Governance_and_AI Strain_Present_Major_Hurdles⠀⇛ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2635 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/LWN_on_KDE_and_Plasma.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/LWN_on_KDE_and_Plasma.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ LWN on KDE and Plasma⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 08, 2026 * ⚓ LWN ☛ The_year_in_Plasma_and_what's_ahead_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ A lot has happened in the KDE Plasma desktop environment in the last year. Marco Martin, a KDE contributor who spends most of his time working on Plasma, took the stage at Akademy 2026 in Graz, Austria to give an update on Plasma's major new features, some of the minor-but-interesting ones, and a preview of what's coming soon. The biggest upcoming change, dropping X11 support from Plasma, has been well-advertised; but there are also plans afoot to further improve remote-desktop support and more. * ⚓ LWN ☛ How_KDE_got_funding_to_add_enterprise_features_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ The Sovereign Tech Agency (STA) is investing nearly €1.3 million in KDE through 2027. At Akademy 2026 in Graz, Austria, Nate Graham and Kevin Ottens, two of the contributors who helped bring in the investment, explained how the funding was secured, provided tips on how projects should approach organizations like STA, and talked about how that money will be improving KDE for everyone. In addition to keeping the community informed about the work, the pair hoped to pass on what they have learned to encourage others to help raise funds for development as well. Graham is the co-owner and CEO of a KDE-focused software- development consultancy, Techpaladin Software, that specializes in doing work on KDE. He said that he also writes the "This Week in Plasma" blog posts, does other KDE promotional work, and tries to do as much software development as he still can. Ottens, who has been involved in KDE since the early 2000s, is a tech lead, manager, and partner at enioka Haute Couture, a software-development agency. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2690 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Media_helped_create_the_crisis_it_finds_itself_in.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Media_helped_create_the_crisis_it_finds_itself_in.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Media helped create the crisis it finds itself in⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 08, 2026 I think it’s fair to say the whole media sector is in crisis. Media organizations and journalists are hurting, and have been hurting for a very long time. There are obviously many,_many_reasons_for_that, most of them outside of media organizations’ control. But not all. There are three aspects of this hurt that I want to focus on: money, eyeballs, and trust. I don’t think it’s controversial to say journalism cannot thrive without these three. The point I want to make to you today is this: Media organizations have materially helped create the crisis they currently find themselves in, by being uncritical and naïve about the tech sector and power dynamics of its products and services. ✐ Unchecked power⠀✐ I don’t think I need to convince anyone in this room that tech sector’s power is currently not checked in any meaningful way. Heads of state wait hat in hand on its leaders, legislation is being_shaped_by its_interests to the detriment of everything else, regulatory action takes years if not decades, and usually ends up with a slap_on_the_wrist. Read_on ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2744 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Memorizing_these_7_Linux_command_line_options_will_turn_you_int.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Memorizing_these_7_Linux_command_line_options_will_turn_you_int.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Memorizing these 7 Linux command line options will turn you into a pro⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Oct 08, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇ls_--help_running_in_konsole⦈_ Quoting: Memorizing these 7 Linux command line options will turn you into a pro — Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: Linux commands often have long lists of options they support, many of which are single-letter mnemonics. These can be tricky to learn and remember, but their redeeming feature is their reusability: common options are shared by different commands. The following options are the most common and are widely available across several commands. Learn these, and you’ll gain a solid understanding of how to use many different programs, with consistent results. 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The latest update also introduces data quality improvements, operational enhancements, and plans for a new API architecture designed to support more efficient queries. * ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ pgx-bm25_1.0:_BM25_ranked_full-text_search_as_a_native PostgreSQL_index⠀⇛ PGX_Inc. has released version 1.0 of pgx-bm25, an extension that adds Okapi BM25 ranked full-text search to PostgreSQL as a native index access method. It supports PostgreSQL 17 and 18, and installs as bm25_native. * ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ pg_plan_filter_1.0.0_released⠀⇛ pg_plan_filter version 1.0.0 has been released. This loadable module test sstatements against specific configured criteria before execution, raising an error if the criteria are violated. This allows administrators to prevent execution of certain queries on production databases. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2886 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Programming_Leftovers.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Programming Leftovers⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 08, 2026 * ⚓ Sean Goedecke ☛ How_to_read_code⠀⇛ The third reason — and I say this as a lover of literature and poetry — is that code is much more structurally complex than English texts. Even famously difficult books are syntactically simpler than most computer programs (for instance, grammatical dependencies are largely bounded by a single paragraph, while code dependencies can stretch across the entire codebase). Their primary difficulty lies in understanding the nuances of human nature being discussed, not in understanding what each word’s grammatical function is3. Large codebases are also just longer: War and Peace contains around 600,000 words, while most large modern codebases have that many lines. * ⚓ Farid Zakaria ☛ Nix_wrote_half_of_my_debugger⠀⇛ A classic simple example of a race condition is two threads depositing into one bank account. Each deposit reads the balance, writes a line to the ledger, then stores the balance plus the deposit. If one teller runs between the other’s read and store, it writes a stale balance over the other’s deposits. 💥 * ⚓ East River Source Control ☛ When_random_is_not_actually_random_enough⠀⇛ I fondly remember choosing this option several times when I was much younger, especially when writing C — its standard library does not offer anything beyond rand() — and also my other language de jour, Haskell. After all, it is a fairly immediate and intuitive solution when you have such a problem, and almost any codebase or language, no matter how austere or feeble, will have some mechanism to pick a random number. But there is a hidden problem with this solution: it doesn’t preserve the underlying uniform distribution of the given random_u64() function. That means that the variability of the chosen object you pick doesn’t respect what we might intuitively think: we might think every item has a 1/10 chance of being chosen. It does not. * ⚓ LWN ☛ Reducing_undefined_behavior_in_the_C_language_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ As a professor of biomedical engineering, Martin Uecker perhaps does not fit the profile of a typical presenter at Kernel Recipes. He is, however, a longtime Linux user, and works on free software for controlling magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners. He was at the conference to talk about the C programming language, the specific problem of undefined behavior in C, and whether it can eventually be made into a memory-safe language. Why bother with C in 2026? It is, he said, still a great language. C is portable, stable over the long term, offers fast compilation, and the resulting binary code is fast. ""What you see is what you get""; it is easy to look at C code and have some idea of what the computer will actually do. There are a lot of tools for working with the language, and C gets out of the way when necessary. C does have a long history, and that affects the language as we see it today, he said. The C89 standard had to cope with a wide variety of hardware, including machines with signed-magnitude or one's-complement integer representations, segmented memory, exotic pointer representations, and surprising sizes for types. Some Honeywell machines, for example, had nine-bit bytes. That greatly complicated the task of writing a standard that would enable the writing of portable code. * § Rust⠀➾ o ⚓ LWN ☛ Native_support_for_Rust_on_the_GPU_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Christian Legnitto is the maintainer of rust-gpu and Rust CUDA, two libraries that make it possible to program a computer's graphics processing unit (GPU) from Rust. He isn't satisfied with the current state of GPU support in Rust, however. In a talk at RustConf 2026, he explained his vision for how the GPU could become an ordinary compiler target for normal Rust code, without the need for any special libraries or new ecosystem support. That vision is not yet fully implemented, but he does have a prototype that he is preparing to release. o ⚓ LWN ☛ Listening_to_the_radio_with_Rust_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Many of the transmissions sent over the radio spectrum can be decoded with a relatively cheap hardware dongle. Thomas Eckert presented at RustConf 2026 in Montreal about his hobby: decoding radio transmissions with Rust. In his presentation, he covered all of the math necessary to get started with software-defined radio, and gave demonstrations of listening to AM and FM radio, as well as decoding transmissions from aircraft transponders. His slides and example code are available on GitHub. Eckert said that all of his demos relied on the same fundamental pipeline. He then ran a program that started picking up a FM radio station from Montreal's Mt. Royal. That signal starts as a current being applied to the transmitting antenna, pushing the electrons in the metal back and forth. A changing electric field means a changing magnetic field and vice versa; the changing field propagates out through the air until it reaches his antenna. For the FM and AM radio demos, that antenna was clipped to the side of the podium; for the aircraft demo, which uses a different wavelength, the antenna in question was located up on the roof, with the data relayed by a Raspberry Pi that the conference organizers had allowed him to place up there. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3030 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Q4OS_6_10_Andromeda_Is_Out_with_KDE_Plasma_6_3_6_and_Trinity_De.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Q4OS_6_10_Andromeda_Is_Out_with_KDE_Plasma_6_3_6_and_Trinity_De.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Q4OS 6.10 “Andromeda” Is Out with KDE Plasma 6.3.6 and Trinity Desktop 14.1.5⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Marius Nestor on Oct 08, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Q4OS_6.10⦈_ Based on Debian 13.7 “Trixie” and powered by Linux kernel 6.12.111 LTS, Q4OS 6.10 ships with the KDE Plasma 6.3.6 desktop environment for the flagship edition, which is accompanied by the KDE Gear 25.04.3 and KDE Frameworks 6.13 software suites, all compiled against Qt 6.8.2, as well as the Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) 14.1.5 desktop environment on the TDE edition. Q4OS 6.10 updates the KDE Plasma edition to no longer include any packages from the Trinity Desktop Environment by default on the live media or when installing the distribution, as the Q4OS tools now come with their own Qt 5 frontends. Of course, the Trinity Desktop Environment remains installable side by side. 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In addition, the embedded Raspberry Pi network installer now sets the clock from downloads.raspberrypi.com before Raspberry Pi Imager starts, supports retrying to fetch the OS list after 30 seconds, supports signing in to Raspberry Pi Connect with a device code or QR code, and supports importing SSH public keys from a GitHub username. 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It allows service providers to scale VM estates, unify operations across containers and VMs, and maintain operational stability across hybrid and sovereign cloud environments. * ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_IdeaBot_drives_Hey_Hi_(AI)_innovation_workflows_on OpenShift [Ed: Slop sold as "open" and "idea"]⠀⇛ Innovation is a core value of Red Hat's emerging technologies team. Beyond simply developing brilliant ideas, we work to align them within Red Hat's portfolio—ensuring every concept addresses a genuine need and fits purposefully into our broader ecosystem. * ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Breathing_life_into_corporate_innovation_with IdeaBot⠀⇛ To bridge that gap, our emerging technologies team built IdeaBot. IdeaBot is an internal deep research agent designed specifically for corporate innovation. When an engineer spots an important emerging capability that falls outside current roadmaps, IdeaBot structures the raw concept into a standardized evaluation package before it reaches my desk. Instead of letting valuable ideas fade during lengthy review cycles or burning resources on speculative prototypes, the tool gives our leadership team the context we need to decide what to pursue in days rather than quarters. * ⚓ Red Hat ☛ Use_Paicku_to_containerize_and_test_any_app_with_buildpacks and_Node.js⠀⇛ Containerizing applications is an important step in modern software development. It helps with consistency, portability, and reliability across different environments. The Paicku project helps you streamline the process of containerization and testing so you can be sure that your application works as expected during development and once it's been released. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3233 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Security_and_FUD_Leftovers.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Security_and_FUD_Leftovers.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Security and FUD Leftovers⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 08, 2026 * ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Wednesday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, dovecot, freerdp, kernel, mariadb-connector-c, mod_auth_openidc, nodejs22, nodejs:22, sudo, and vim), Debian (node-shell-quote, puma, rails, ruby-jwt, and suricata-update), Fedora (chromium, cockpit, flocq, freerdp, gappalib-coq, golang-x-mod, httpd, janus, libical, musescore, python3-docs, python3.14, python3.15, rocq, rocq-stdlib, tesseract, why3, and zenon), Mageia (srt and tor), Oracle (freerdp, kernel, libpcap, mariadb-connector-c, nodejs22, sudo, and vim), Red Hat (expat and grafana), Slackware (openssh), SUSE (chromium, docker- stable, firefox, jupyter-jupyterlab, libtcnative-1-0, tomcat, tomcat10, libtcnative-1-0, tomcat11, openexr, python310, python313-azure-storage-queue, python313-langchain-anthropic, python313-sglang, python313-Werkzeug, and valkey), and Ubuntu (fluidsynth, freerdp3, freetype, golang-1.18, golang-1.21, golang-1.24, gst-plugins-good1.0, libsoup2.4, libsoup3, libwebsockets, linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-gke, linux- ibm, linux-oracle, linux-realtime, linux-azure, linux-azure- fde, linux-nvidia-tegra, linux-oem-7.0, redis, sg3-utils, tesseract, and u-boot). * ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ ShinyHunters_Extorted_Boeing_Spin-off_Prior_to Arrests⠀⇛ A teenager from Amman, Jordan suspected of leading the prolific data theft and extortion group ShinyHunters has been detained and is reportedly cooperating with the FBI to identify other members of the hacking gang. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the suspect, who uses the hacker handle "Rey," was detained as ShinyHunters was in the process of extorting a business unit recently divested by the global aerospace company Boeing, which manufactures the fleet of planes used by the employer of Rey's father -- Royal Jordanian Airlines. * ⚓ Security Week ☛ Advantest_Discloses_Data_Breach_Months_After_Ransomware Attack⠀⇛ The Japanese chip testing giant said hackers stole personal information from its servers in the February 2026 cyberattack. * ⚓ QSB-120:_Two_CTAP_proxy_vulnerabilities⠀⇛ We have published Qubes_Security_Bulletin_(QSB)_120:_Two_CTAP proxy_vulnerabilities. The text of this QSB and its accompanying cryptographic signatures are reproduced below, followed by a general explanation of this announcement and authentication instructions. * ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ Florida_sues_TP-Link_for_‘lying_about_the_safety_of its_routers’⠀⇛ Florida and three other states have sued the company on the grounds that it's misleading their citizens about the security of its products and its ties with China. * ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Live_Nation_Is_Battling_Multiple_Class_Action Lawsuits_Following_Its_Latest_Data_Breach._DMN_Has_Already_Discovered Three_Separate_Suits.⠀⇛ Live Nation recently disclosed a data breach that exposed sensitive customer information. Now, multiple class action lawsuits have emerged. On October 1, Live Nation disclosed to the Vermont Attorney General a data breach that exposed highly sensitive customer information, including social security numbers and government ID numbers. * ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Major_rules_for_federal_contractors_handling sensitive_data_are_nearing_the_finish_line⠀⇛ The regulations on “controlled unclassified information” include security rules and requirements for reporting when they’re breached, including by cyberattacks. * ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Suspect_behind_South_Korea_bank_hacks_may_be_26- year-old_in_China:_Crowdstrike⠀⇛ CrowdStrike said the attacker used ARTEX, a recently released Chinese-developed open-source penetration testing tool. * ⚓ Security Week ☛ Atlassian_Patches_Critical_Vulnerability_Affecting_8 Products⠀⇛ Unauthenticated attackers could exploit the flaw to access specific files in the web application root directory. * ⚓ SANS ☛ Scans_for_Atlassian_vulnerablity_(CVE-2026-21589),_(Wed,_Oct 7th)⠀⇛ * ⚓ Security Week ☛ ASOS_Confirms_Cyberattack,_Data_Breach⠀⇛ Hackers compromised a third-party communication platform and sent rogue notifications to ASOS users. * ⚓ Security Week ☛ Android’s_October_2026_Updates_Patch_25 Vulnerabilities⠀⇛ The patches resolve a critical vulnerability in Android’s System component that could lead to privilege escalation. * ⚓ It's FOSS ☛ Google_Has_Shut_Down_Part_of_its_Open_Source_Bounty_Program [Ed: Proving_Wrong_Those_Slop_Maximalists_and_Boosters,_GAFAM_Says_Slop is_a_Nuisance_and_Bans/Hides_the_Slop_Submissions]⠀⇛ Submitting product vulnerability reports is no longer possible. You can thank Hey Hi (AI) for that. * ⚓ Security Week ☛ Qilin_Ransomware_Suspect_Arrested_in_Japan,_Extradited to_Germany⠀⇛ The individual was detained in May and has been extradited to Germany to face hacking charges. * ⚓ Security Week ☛ Georgia_Power,_Alabama_Power_Data_Breach_Hits_400,000 Accounts⠀⇛ Southern Company is notifying customers that their utility account information was accessed by hackers. * § Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation⠀➾ o ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Linux_Backdoors_Impersonate_Email_Security_Tools_to Evade_Detection_in_Korea_and_Taiwan [Ed: It's_Not_a_Linux_Back_Door If_It's_an_Unpatched_Device]⠀⇛ Linux backdoors targeting telecom and network appliances in South Korea and Taiwan have been disguising their traffic as email services and seemingly legitimate processes to blend in and evade detection. o ⚓ Security Boulevard ☛ AWS_Uses_AI_to_Tame_Linux_CVEs⠀⇛ So far in 2026, there have been, deep breath, 7,178 Linux kernel Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) reports with 526 rated Critical and 2,754 rated High severity. Debian Linux alone has 1,313 reasons to patch in its latest kernel security update. What’s a company to do? o ⚓ Researcher_finds_full_VM_escape_zero-day_in_Linux_KVM⠀⇛ Vercel has confirmed a zero-day vulnerability in Linux KVM that security researcher Paulos Yibelo described as allowing a full virtual machine escape, CEO Guillermo Rauch said. Yibelo said on X that the flaw could allow a user inside a guest virtual machine to gain root access on its host. He shared a screenshot showing a bug-bounty award for the discovery, which he described as “Full VM escape zeroday (guest>host root in industry standard hypervisors)!” ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3439 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/The_4_big_Windows_gaffes_that_convinced_me_to_try_Linux_Mint.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/The_4_big_Windows_gaffes_that_convinced_me_to_try_Linux_Mint.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ The 4 big Windows gaffes that convinced me to try Linux Mint⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Oct 08, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Recall⦈_ Quoting: The 4 big Windows gaffes that convinced me to try Linux Mint — Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: I kept my old laptop running Windows 10 for years without a single complaint, then Microsoft told me it wasn't good enough for Windows 11. Not because it was slow or because it crashed, but because the CPU was the wrong generation. That was just one crack that led to so many more. After a while, I didn't feel like I owned my computer anymore. Microsoft did. Linux Mint never asked me for anything but a working computer. 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Layoffs are "growth". 2. ⚓ Gemini_Links_07/10/2026:_Nostalgia,_Neutral_Map,_and_Shorthanding⠀⇛ Links for the day 3. ⚓ Slop_is_Plagiarism⠀⇛ Plagiarism is not "theft" and copyright infringement is not "piracy" ⚓ New⠀⇛ 4. ⚓ Gemini_Links_07/10/2026:_On_Feeling_Guilty_Leaving_the_US,_Multinet, and_Limiting_Net_Usage⠀⇛ Links for the day 5. ⚓ The_Cyber_Show_Explains_the_Concept_of_"Data_Rape"⠀⇛ a metaphor some might find crude 6. ⚓ FREE_BEER_is_Still_Online,_But_Barely_Active⠀⇛ 25 years ago or even 20 years ago many spoke of open/free beer (or "COLA") 7. ⚓ Syria:_GNU/Linux_Has_Surged_to_8%_"Market_Share"⠀⇛ I don't have a convincing explanation for this 8. ⚓ IBM_Dimming_Down_the_Lights_on_IBM_Consulting,_No_Knowledge_or Experience_Required⠀⇛ They just "ride" the (old) brand, that's all 9. ⚓ Statement_on_American_SLAPP⠀⇛ Crossposted from schestowitz.com 10. ⚓ Today_The_Register_MS_Published_"SPONSORED_FEATURE"_and_"SPONSORED POST"_With_"AI"_31_Times_in_Them⠀⇛ This isn't a "Reality" or "Era of AI", it's a paid-for spam campaign 11. ⚓ Links_07/10/2026:_Unrest_in_France_and_Rumours_of_Plague_in_Russia⠀⇛ Links for the day 12. ⚓ Brigading_Against_Women_-_Part_XXII_-_The_Lozza_Problem_(in_Length)⠀⇛ Garrett's case was a waste of the Court's money 13. ⚓ JavaScript_in_Richard_Stallman's_Web_Site⠀⇛ For search he is using CGI, not JavaScript 14. ⚓ EPO's_Local_Staff_Committee_The_Hague_(LSCTH)_Plans_Presentation_Next Week_(Coinciding_With_Apparent_Coronation_of_'Cocaine_King'_Campinos)⠀⇛ They've outsourced this session to the dictator's spying eye 15. ⚓ The_GNOME_Foundation's_Code_of_Conduct_Has_Been_Misused_to_Hide Corruption⠀⇛ People who value free speech and freedom of expression won't touch social control media with a 10-foot bargepole 16. ⚓ Voting_for_Freedom_of_the_Press⠀⇛ American elections happen every 4 years 17. ⚓ What_Brett_Wilson_LLP_and_Matt_Garrett_Don't_Want_People_to_See/Read⠀⇛ Book-burning is counterproductive 18. ⚓ Book-Burning_Mindset_Does_Not_Work⠀⇛ It makes the suppressed voices more widely known 19. ⚓ Microsoft's_XBox_in_'Freefall'⠀⇛ XBox is practically finished 20. ⚓ IBM_is_Almost_Defunct⠀⇛ IBM is doomed. It just tries to test how much more patience the shareholders have. 21. ⚓ Criminalisation_of_Journalism⠀⇛ "Journalist Derya Okatan arrested in Turkey for allegedly possessing classified material" 22. ⚓ Brigading_Against_Women_-_Part_XXI_-_Hiding_Behind_the_Veil_of "Privacy"_After_Telling_Nazi_Things_in_IRC_Channels_of_Techrights_and Physically_Threatening_People⠀⇛ To merely explain an abuse (or crime) requires naming people; that's a fundamental tenet of reporting 23. ⚓ Links_07/10/2026:_Quitting_Smartphone_and_"Meta's_Muse_Is_Spying_on_All Your_Friends_and_Family"⠀⇛ Links for the day 24. ⚓ Gemini_Links_07/10/2026:_Greed,_In_Praise_of_Zotero,_and_The_de-Google Path⠀⇛ Links for the day 25. ⚓ Over_at_Tux_Machines...⠀⇛ GNU/Linux news for the past day 26. ⚓ IRC_Proceedings:_Tuesday,_October_06,_2026⠀⇛ IRC logs for Tuesday, October 06, 2026 ========================================================================= The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text. 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Linux Distro, But it Can Run Games, Docker, and QEMU — How does an operating system that isn't proprietary or powered by the Linux kernel manage to run Docker, you ask? Well, it would need features like namespaces and cgroups. That's exactly what Vinix did, adding its own implementations of those plus overlayfs and seccomp, allowing the stock Alpine Linux Docker engine to run on ARM64. It also runs QEMU 9.1.2, which can boot a second Vinix inside a window of the first, and for gaming, it can run DOOM, a DOOM 3 demo, Gothic II's demo via OpenGothic, and Minecraft Java Edition. 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The new version of this multi-platform browser introduced some new features, including the long-requested per-window vertical tab state, and various bug-fixes. With Early Bird, the function to get early access to new features, it now has #vertical-tabs-collapse-per-window enabled. o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Chrome_155_Update_Patches_247_Vulnerabilities⠀⇛ Four critical-severity use-after-free defects were fixed in Chromecast, Browser, Navigation, and Track. * § Mozilla⠀➾ o ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Jambu_Palaniappan_and_David_Parry-Jones_join_the Mozilla_Corporation_Board_of_Directors⠀⇛ Today, we are very pleased to announce two new additions to the Mozilla Corporation Board of Directors: Jambu Palaniappan and David Parry-Jones. o ⚓ Mozilla ☛ 100_days_later:_Microsoft_still_steers_Windows_and Copilot_users_to_Edge,_everywhere_the_law_lets_it⠀⇛ One hundred days ago, Mozilla released Over The Edge 2.0, the second independent report from leading experts on deceptive design Dr. Harry Brignull and Cennydd Bowles, on how Windows, Edge, Bing, and Copilot are designed to steer people away from the browser they chose.  ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3985 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Web_Browsers_Web_Servers_Leftovers.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/Web_Browsers_Web_Servers_Leftovers.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Web Browsers/Web Servers Leftovers⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 08, 2026 * ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ Twenty-two_pending_curl_vulnerabilities⠀⇛ We decided to shorten the release cycle this time, so that we can release 8.23.0 a few weeks earlier than what we originally planned. We took this decision after we received one particular vulnerability report that highlighted a rather significant flaw. We will ship a new version with this problem removed, together with twenty-one other albeit less serious security vulnerabilities addressed. * ⚓ GoAccess ☛ GoAccess_-_Visual_Web_Log_Analyzer⠀⇛ GoAccess is an open source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser. o § Chromium⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Comparing_Chromium_development_at_Google_and_Igalia⠀⇛ Sharon Yang is a Chromium developer who worked at Google on the browser and now works on it at Igalia. On the final day of FOSSY 2026, she gave a presentation on her experiences with both of those companies, comparing and contrasting the ways each one operates and how that affects work on the code base. She enjoyed working at Google and feels the same about Igalia, so the talk was not aimed at complaints—instead it was meant to give a feel for two companies that are rather different. The talk was entitled "From Corporate to Co-op" highlighting one of the main differences between the enormous company, Google, and the employee- owned cooperative at Igalia. She is from Vancouver and went to the University of British Columbia, where FOSSY was held. While she was a student, she did an internship at Google, working on the Chrome browser, which is the Google product based on Chromium. In her slides, she showed a photo of herself—complete with propeller hat—in front of a Google sign. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4056 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/ZDNet_s_Jack_Wallen_Still_Promoting_Slop_Hype_Proven_Wrong.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/08/ZDNet_s_Jack_Wallen_Still_Promoting_Slop_Hype_Proven_Wrong.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ ZDNet's Jack Wallen Still Promoting Slop, Hype Proven Wrong⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 08, 2026 * § Applications⠀➾ o ⚓ ZDNet ☛ The_best_Linux_dictation_apps_I’ve_tried_for_voice_typing –_with_local_AI_for_maximum_privacy [Ed: Old gimmick, new buzzwords]⠀⇛ If you need voice dictation on Linux, there are plenty of options available, some of which are just as good as those found on other operating systems. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Sabine Hossenfelder ☛ Sabine_Hossenfelder:_Backreaction: The_Experts_Were_Wrong_About_AI._Again.⠀⇛ For years, experts have tried to predict how fast artificial intelligence would progress, and they've been wrong again and again. Benchmarks they expected in a decade fell in a year. But in some areas, they got it wrong in the opposite direction. Let's take a look. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 4101 ➮ Generation completed at 02:50, i.e. 36 seconds to (re)generate ⟲