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GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
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Instructionals/Technical
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Fedora Magazine ☛ 2026-09-25 [Older] Fedora Magazine: Installing Navidrome on Fedora Linux using Podman
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Ronalds Vilciņš ☛ Native HTML and CSS Features That Replaced JavaScript
Modern HTML and CSS have gained a surprising number of features that cover interactions and layout problems we used to solve with custom scripts or libraries. JavaScript obviously isn’t going anywhere, and there are plenty of things that still require it, but in 2026 I find myself needing it less often for ordinary website interfaces.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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2026-09-25 [Older] Simon de Vlieger: Cohesive Linux
Over the past few years I’ve been in contact with and working with “image-based” Linux systems and grown fond of the ideas and possibilities they offer while being wary of the things they can take away from tinkerers and hackers (in the correct sense of the word). My work has mostly been on the Fedora side of things and the implementations of “image-based” Linux there through ostree and nowadays bootc. Lately I’ve also been interested in the systemd approach described by Lennart Poettering in his Fitting Everything Together blog.
All of these systems have been described as “immutable”, “atomic”, “image-based”, and those terms have become very overloaded, wide, and often don’t even fit. They’re applied to a huge set of implementations (Fedora Atomic and its derivatives, NixOS, ChromeOS, openSUSE’s MicroOS, ParticleOS, and many others) all of which use very different ways of achieving “image-based” Linux. The words are useful but non-specific and prescribe behavior that many of these systems do not hold, or hold partially.
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BSD
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Undeadly ☛ New laptops and OpenBSD: HP Envy 17-DA0013dx
We have to admit that even users of a well rounded operating system like OpenBSD sometimes encounter hardware that is not quite supported yet.
Fortunately, sometimes the user facing the problematic hardware is an experienced developer like Ian Darwin, and he took the time to write up his experience in a blog post titled Un-hanging the HP Envy 17-DA0013dx for OpenBSD.
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Open Hardware/Modding
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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
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SaaS/Back End/Databases
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LWN ☛ The kernel from a PostgreSQL point of view [LWN.net]
Andres Freund has a few claims to fame, but chief among them is his many years of work to improve the performance of the PostgreSQL relational database management system. That work requires working with — or around — many Linux kernel features and behaviors. He put in an appearance at the 2026 edition of Kernel Recipes to talk about his experience working with the kernel project, how the kernel could better support applications like PostgreSQL, and some interesting developments in the PostgreSQL world.
He started with a quick list of "fun" experiences he has had with Linux, starting with the fallout from the 2018 discovery that the kernel could silently lose data in response to I/O errors; he called this episode ""fsyncgate"". More recently, there were problems with io_uring that broke multi-process applications; he made a point of saying that he has a productive collaborative relationship with io_uring maintainer Jens Axboe that has led to solutions for many of these problems. There is, he said, a steady stream of bugs and crashes resulting from kernel changes that must be dealt with, and random performance changes that must be tracked down.
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