today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 16, 2025

• HowTo Geek ☛ Why You’ll Never Stop Breaking Your Linux Install (and Why That’s Fine) [Ed: 'You Have Too Much Power' as in let some company lock everything down and pretend that having no access to your computer is beneficial?]

  Linux is wonderful, and like you I have fond memories of spending a whole weekend compiling Red Hat's kernel in the 2000s and then just giving up with nothing to show for it. These days, Linux is more user friendly than ever, so getting it all up and running is a breeze in comparison.

  However, unless you're using your computer as a glorified iPad, chances are you're going to break your Linux install at some point. That's not a read on Linux, that's just the life of a Linux user that's always flying just a little too close to the sun. Let me explain.

• Kernel Space

  • Hot Hardware ☛ Intel Job Cuts Feared To Deliver A Critical Blow To Future Linux Projects

    It hasn't been a fun past few months for Intel employees as the company continues to fire large swaths of its workforce. The job cuts run quite deep, so much that they're starting to affect the company's Linux kernel driver support.

    Intel has officially removed maintainers for multiple bits of software, with the latest being drivers for some of its older and lesser-known chips. To wit, the drivers fully losing support are Intel PTP DFL ToD, a time-of-day device on FPGA cards, and Intel WWAN IOSM, affecting M.2 modems and some Chromebook devices. Intel has long left this market, but some devices using the modems in question are still in the field.

• Applications

  • Stéphane Graber: LXC/LXCFS/Incus 6.0.5 LTS release

    Introduction

    This is now the fifth round of bugfix releases for LXC, LXCFS and Incus 6.0 LTS.

    Announcement: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/lxc-6-0-5-lts-has-been-released/24438

• Games

  • HowTo Geek ☛ What Linux Gamers Still Can’t Do (and Why)

    Linux gaming is better than ever, and I finally feel that it's actually viable as a gaming platform beyond just a few hardcore Linux fans. However, while Linux gaming is on the up-and-up, it's far from reaching the end of the road.

    There are still quite a few limitations when gaming on Linux, though hopefully these remaining issues will soon be a thing of the past.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Fedora / IBM

    • Remi Collet ☛ Remi Collet: 🎲 PHP version 8.3.25RC1 and 8.4.12RC1

      Release Candidate versions are available in the testing repository for Fedora and Enterprise Linux (RHEL / CentOS / Alma / Rocky and other clones) to allow more people to test them. They are available as Software Collections, for parallel installation, the perfect solution for such tests, and as base packages.

    • Ruben Schade ☛ Buying a Thinkpad X230

      I got great feedback from a bunch of you on Wednesday about which ThinkPad to get as a low-distraction writing tool. I’ll save writing details for when I actually get it, but I found someone in Australia selling a couple of X230 machines for less than AU $100 shipped.

  • Open Hardware/Modding

    • CNX Software ☛ ArmSoM CM1 – A $15 Compute Module/SBC hybrid powered by Rockchip RK3506J SoC

      ArmSoM CM1 is a system-on-module/compute module powered by the industrial-grade Rockchip RK3506K tri-core Arm Cortex-A7 SoC, coupled with 256MB or 512MB DDR3L, 256MB or 512MB NAND flash, and exposing I/Os through 2.54mm pitch headers. The module is more of a SoM/SBC hybrid with a MIPI DSI display connector, a microSD card slot, a USB Type-C port, and 44-pin and 40-pin GPIO headers that allow the CM1 to be used as a standalone SBC or as a module connected to a baseboard like the company’s CM1-IO carrier board (aka ArmSoM-FORGE1-IO).

    • CNX Software ☛ AAEON NV8600-Nano Hey Hi (AI) Developer Kit Review – Part 2: Benchmarks, features testing, Hey Hi (AI) demos with Nx Meta

      In the first part of the review, I had a look at the hardware of the NV8600-Nano Hey Hi (AI) developer Kit featuring an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 8GB module, booted it to Ubuntu 22.04, checked some system information, and made sure both the USB camera and Raspberry Pi Camera Module 2 (MIPI CSI) module worked fine.