GNU/Linux Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 28, 2025

• Graphics Stack

  • CCC ☛ The art of text (rendering)

    Typography is the art of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. However, for the neophyte, typography is mostly apprehended as the juxtaposition of characters displayed on the screen while for the expert, typography means typeface, scripts, unicode, glyphs, ascender, descender, tracking, hinting, kerning, shaping, weigth, slant, etc. Typography is actually much more than the mere rendering of glyphs and involves many different concepts. If glyph rendering is an important part of the rendering pipeline, it is nonetheless important to have a basic understanding of typography or there’s a known risk at rendering garbage on screen, as it has been seen many times in games, software and operating systems.

• Applications

  • Linux Links ☛ DWARF Explorer – GUI utility for navigating the DWARF debug information

    DWARF Explorer is a cross-platform GUI utility for visualizing the DWARF debugging information in executable files

• Games

  • Juha-Matti Santala ☛ We played a full Scarlet & Violet Progression Series

    I’ve always wanted to play one but with physical cards, it’s so freaking expensive especially these days to purchase a booster box for each set that it never seemed doable. Last summer, I started putting together an idea where we’d open virtual packs using PokemonCard.io’s Pack Opening Simulator and Pokémon TCG Live. Scarlet and Violet block had just finished and it was relatively cheap to craft missing cards in Live so for the first time it felt doable.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Fedora Family / IBM

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      Datacenter moves

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