GNU/Linux Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 15, 2025

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ The Nightly Wobble | LINUX Unplugged 632

    Our first look at KDE Linux, then Chris shares the latest on Hyprvibe, while Wes braves his first install.

• Applications

  • OMG Ubuntu ☛ Turntable Adds Offline Scrobbling, Resizing & More Bling

    In addition to being a baller piece of desktop eye candy (a desktop music widget), Turntable is also a universal scrobbler for services like Last.fm and Libre.fm. The latest update adds improvements to both areas. On the scrobbling side, Turntable’s developer, Evangelos “GeopJr” Paterakis (Tuba, Calligraphy), adds support for offline scrobbling in the 0.4 update. This logs your track scrobbles when offline, and lets you submit them to your preferred services once reconnected. If you’ve ever lost logging 3 AM deep-dive music discoveries to dodgy WiFi, you’ll appreciate that.

• Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)

  • GNOME Desktop/GTK

    • Linuxiac ☛ Libadwaita 1.8 Arrives Alongside GNOME 49 with Improved Shortcuts and Styling

      The GNOME team has announced the release of Libadwaita 1.8, a library that provides modern widgets, styles, and design patterns for apps, ensuring they look and behave consistently across the GNOME desktop, just in time to ship alongside GNOME 49 on September 17.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Barry Kauler ☛ Fix for overlayfs corruption

    EasyOS 7.0.8 has overlay filesystem by default, but I withdrew it soon after uploading, and 7.0.9 was back on aufs. The reason was filesystem corruption. Now testing 7.0.11, prior to release, and got the same corruption: [...]

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

    [...] This week we also share a Myths and Misunderstandings column, talking about authority and control in the Linux ecosystem. [...]

  • SUSE/OpenSUSE

    • SecureHome

      SecureHome

      I add two movies about SecureHome on Youtube.com. I also prepared packages for OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

      Currently, there is many major problems with SecureHome. If it crash or closed without normal exit procedure, you end up with broken system or without protection. Use at your own risk and on VM only – currently not on production system.

  • Arch Family

    • [Repeat] Boiling Steam ☛ CachyOS Seems Unstoppable

      The summer is now over, and I wanted to check again what has happened in regard the choice of Linux Distros used for gaming, using our favorite dataset: the ProtonDB data.

      I don’t want to bore you with the disclaimer, but the following needs to be said nonetheless: [...]

  • Debian Family

    • Diziet ☛ Ian Jackson: tag2upload in the first month of forky

      tl;dr: tag2upload (beta) is going well so far, and is already handling around one in 13 uploads to Debian.