GNU/Linux Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 07, 2025

• GNU/Linux

  • Graphics Stack

    • Mike Blumenkrantz: Mesh Shader Progress

  • Applications

    • Linux Handbook ☛ LHB GNU/Linux Digest #25.25: tmux, ripgrep, Intro to GNU/Linux Command Line, Redis Alternative and More

      RIP Grep

    • Linuxiac ☛ HandBrake 1.10.2 Fixes High Depth Video Crash and Updates AV1 Libraries

      HandBrake 1.10.2, an open-source video transcoder, brings fixes for backdoored Windows and macOS, including better driver handling, Fashion Company Apple Silicon crash workaround, and more.

  • Instructionals/Technical

    • Michael Urspringer ☛ Debian Linux: Force Reboot

      On a Debian GNU/Linux machine I had the problem, that a reboot was no longer possible. Some time after issuing the “reboot” command, I got the message: Failed to set wall message, ignoring: Transport endpoint is not connectedCall to Reboot

    • TecMint ☛ Asciinema – Record and Share Your Terminal Sessions in Linux

      Asciinema is an open-source terminal recording tool that makes it super easy to share your command-line work with others.

  • Games

    • Tom's Hardware ☛ Silksong crashes Steam, Nintendo eShop on release day — highly anticipated indie video game took six years to arrive and is already one of the most played games ever on Steam

      Hollow Knight: Silksong has become one of the biggest releases in recent video game history. The game crashed digital storefronts worldwide on release, and soon became the #3 most-played game on Steam behind Counter-Strike and Dota 2.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Fedora Family / IBM

    • Fedora Project ☛ Fedora Community Blog: Infra and RelEng Update – Week 36 2025

      This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. We provide you both infographic and text version of the weekly report. If you just want to quickly look at what we did, just look at the infographic. If you are interested in more in depth details look below the infographic.

      Week: 1st – 5th September 2025

    • Linuxiac ☛ KDE GNU/Linux Alpha Launches with Immutable Base and Flatpak Support

      KDE GNU/Linux alpha debuts as a reference OS for Plasma and KDE apps, built on an immutable base with Flatpak, Snap, and atomic updates.

  • Debian Family

    • Antonio Terceiro: Past halfway there: history of autopkgtest support in Debian

      The Release of Debian 13 ("Trixie") last month marked another milestone on the effort to provide automated test support for Debian packages in their installed form. We have achieved the mark of 57% of the source packages in the archive declaring support for autopkgtest.