GNU/Linux Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 09, 2026

• Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization

  • It's FOSS ☛ 20% of Linux Kernel Bugs Hide for More Than 5 Years

    Study of 20 years of kernel history finds bugs hide for 2+ years on average, some for decades.

• Applications

  • Sven Hoexter: Moving from hexchat to Halloy

    I'm not hanging around on IRC a lot these days, but when I do I used hexchat (and xchat before). Probably a bad habbit of clinging to what I got used to for the past 25 years. But in the light of the planned removal of GTK2, it felt like it was time to look for an alternative.

    Halloy looked interesting, albeit not packaged for Debian. But upstream references a flatpak (another party I did not join so far), good enough to give it a try.

• Instructionals/Technical

  • Olivier Mehani: Pausing a background process

    It’s common, in a Unix shell, to pause a foreground process with Ctrl+Z. However, today I needed to pause a _background_ process.

    tl;dr: SIGTSTP and SIGCONT

• WINE or Emulation

  • FEX ☛ FEX 2601 Tagged

    As the developers awaken from their holiday induced hiberation, another release is upon us in the new year! Let’s see what we managed to implement before hibernation snuck up on us.

    Update thunks for Vulkan 1.4.337

    This update is fairly important as Proton and Mesa have started using some new extensions that we didn’t previously support. So if your system had a new driver with these extensions then dxvk/vkd3d-proton would assert out. With these updated it is no longer a problem and thunking is working again as normal!