GNU/Linux Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 24, 2025

• Desktop/Laptop

  • It's FOSS ☛ Here's Our Prediction for the Future of Desktop GNU/Linux in 2026

    Our take on the trends that will shape desktop GNU/Linux and open source in the year ahead.

    The year 2025 was happening for Linux. From Rust making inroads in the kernel to AI knocking on the door, we have seen plenty.

    As we inch closer to the new year, there’s an opportunity to look forward with careful analysis, trend watching, and gut feeling.

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

  • GNOME Desktop/GTK

    • Lee Yingtong Li ☛ GNOME Files (Nautilus) extension for git gui/gitk

      This is a simple extension for GNOME Files (Nautilus), which adds an item to the context menu (when right-clicking in the background in any folder containing a git repository) to directly open git gui or gitk.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • The Register UK ☛ UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered

    Last month, we wrote about the remarkable discovery of a forgotten tape with a lost early version of Unix, found by Professor Robert Ricci at the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah. At the time, we quoted the redoubtable Kossow, who also runs Bitsavers, as saying that it "has a pretty good chance of being recoverable." Well, he was right, and at the end of last week, he did it. Ricci also shared a video clip on Mastodon.

  • Linux.org ☛ Winux 11: A GNU/Linux Distribution Designed for backdoored Windows Users

    There are quite a few people still using backdoored Windows yet, and some that want to switch to Linux. People are comfortable with the look of backdoored Windows and dislike the GNU/Linux desktops.
    Now, there is Winux that looks exactly like backdoored Windows 11.
    

  • Fedora Family / IBM

    • Red Hat ☛ How in-place pod resizing boosts efficiency in OpenShift

      Red Hat OpenShift, the most popular container orchestration platform, has always provided flexibility, scalability, and resilience. As workloads evolve, so do the requirements for resources such as CPU and memory. Traditionally, adjusting these resources for a running pod meant recreating the pod. However, with the concept of in-place resource resizing, this is changing. Let's dive into what in-place resource resizing is and why it's a game-changer for OpenShift users.

    • Red Hat ☛ Getting started with OpenShift Hey Hi (AI) for Data Protection

      In a multi-tenant Red Hat OpenShift environment, managing application backups and restores traditionally presents a classic operational challenge. How do you empower development teams to protect their applications without granting them cluster-level administrative privileges? Requiring platform administrators to handle every backup and restore request creates a bottleneck, slowing down development cycles and CI/CD pipelines.

  • Debian Family

    • Isoken Ibizugbe: Everybody Struggles

      That’s right: everyone struggles. You could be working on a project only to find a mountain of new things to learn, or your code might keep failing until you start to doubt yourself. I feel like that sometimes, wondering if I’m good enough. But in those moments, I whisper to myself: “You don’t know it yet; once you do, it will get easy.”

  • Canonical/Ubuntu Family

    • University of Toronto ☛ Early notes about using dgit on Ubuntu (LTS)

      The subsequent discussion got me to try out dgit, especially since it had an attractive dgit-user(7) manual page that gave very simple directions on how to make a local change to an upstream package. It turns out that things aren't entirely smooth on Ubuntu, but they're workable.