GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 03, 2026

• Server

  • Kubernetes Blog ☛ Kubernetes v1.36: Pod-Level Resource Managers (Alpha)

    Kubernetes v1.36 introduces Pod-Level Resource Managers as an alpha feature, bringing a more flexible and powerful resource management model to performance-sensitive workloads. This enhancement extends the kubelet's Topology, CPU, and Memory Managers to support pod-level resource specifications (.spec.resources), evolving them from a strictly per-container allocation model to a pod-centric one.

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

  • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

    • Goals for GSOC 2026 and Mankala Engine

      Firstly, thank you to the entire community and mentors for selecting my proposal for GSOC. Congratulations to all others 🎉

      Goals for GSOC

      Starting with the goals for ManakalaNextGen, the GUI of Mankala Engine, the main goal is to implement a tournament system for the game. I plan to start with improving the user registrations by giving users the option to create an XMPP account directly from within the game. We can have a minimum of 3 servers, which the game can support. Based on this, we can also have possible player icons and in-game names for the players, which would be displayed in matches.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • BSD

    • Nico Cartron ☛ My FreeBSD laptop finally goes to sleep when closing the lid!

      This was a small annoyance, so I spent 30 minutes to fix it. Turns out it was easy!

  • Fedora Family / IBM

    • Kevin Fenzi: misc fedora bits last of april 2026

      I'm back from my vacation, so time for another weekly recap...

      Vacation

      Week before last I had a lovely time away in hawaii (The big island). I saw volcanoes (we missing lava fountaining by like 15minutes), lava tubes (really cool (literally) and dark), botanical gardens (unreal flowers), had a dinner/sunset cruise with history and finally a sunset/stargazing trip to the top of mona kea. Super fun! Wish I had another week there to lounge on the beach. If you ever have a chance to go, take it!

      I did look at my email and such the first day or so, but after that I was too busy and never took my laptop out even until I got back.