GNU/Linux Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 05, 2026

• Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization

  • Klara ☛ OpenZFS Monitoring and Observability

    Today, instead of talking about the things we can do with ZFS, let’s talk about OpenZFS monitoring and observability— how we can measure it, and make sure it’s functioning properly. We’ll start off by discussing manual methods to look into ZFS’ current condition, and then move on to ways to automate them.

• Games

  • GeForce NOW Linux App beta launches with RTX 5080 cloud streaming for Ubuntu 24.04 plus ten new game titles [Ed: Might be a slopfarm]

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

  • GNOME Desktop/GTK

    • Daniel Pocock ☛ Sexism & GNOME: shaming men, hiding women, Sonny Piers update

      Why do they use the GNOME forum to make a public libel attack against Sonny Piers, a volunteer with 20 years of service but they hide the name of Anisa Kuci from the list of people getting paid?

      Are they trying to hide the fact that an American non-profit organization has sacked all their American staff and replaced them with two Albanian girls?

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • New Releases

    • Alpine Linux ☛ 2026-01-27 [Older] Alpine 3.20.9, 3.21.6, 3.22.3 and 3.23.3 released

  • SUSE/OpenSUSE

    • OpenSUSE ☛ Community to Discuss New Governance Proposal

      The meeting, accessible on the project’s Jitsi channel, follows a recent draft proposal that outlines structural changes to how the project manages technical and community decisions.

  • Debian Family

    • Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in January 2026