https://kazeta.org/

A Linux distro that is a retro gaming system where you can have games loaded on SD card "cartridges".

I plan on trying this soon!

#linux #retro #gaming #kazeta

#DistroHopping #linux

Using vacation time for manchild stuff..

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How do I get the visualizer to work on newer versions of #Clementine?

#Linux #Ubuntu

@pkal @ghul there's a reason why #Linux is #GPLv2-only and not #GPLv3.

• Mostly because GPLv3's terms are a non-starter for many things, as it's demands are just not compatible eith #patents and #copyrights that companies have to abide.

But yeah, the #SFC nowadays is quite of a net negative and it makes them and #copyleft look bad.

• Don't even get @landley started on how "GPL enforcement" made #BusyBox look like litigatious dicks and contributed 0 lines of code back to the project.

Whilst we all would prefer #ReproduceableBuilds and fully-#OpenSource'd and #OpenHardware, beating it out of corporations in court won't be a winning strategy, and lobbying for legislation and espechally choosing repairable and open hardware will be more effective long-term…

@jti42 @pkal @ghul cuz I think that in the legal battle game #FLOSS vs. #Corporations that #OpenSource would be on the loosing end.

• The main success factor for #Linux is not only it's #licensing but also that it coopted #GAFAMs into being contributors that pay key #developers.

And since they all have stakes with partially diverging interests, this is a useful way to take their resources (personnel hours and money) for something good (instead of them wasting it on #Enshittification, #Cyberfascism and #Militarization)…

• IOW: Would you rather want some developer from #nvidia work on #Linux or #Palantir's #Govware? Cuz shure as hell said developer ain't gonna stop developing for 6 figures per year either way.

Kinda like @landley pointed out that #Android - unlike #iOS - is gonna be "salvageable" (and due to #Google going *full 'asshole mode' that #fork is necessary sooner than anticipated)…

• This is opportunistic af but that is kinda necessary until the world decides to ban capitalism, redistributes wealth and sentence billionaires to lifetime community service without parole.

#sarcasm #politricks

@etchedpixels @landley @ghul @jti42 @pkal I mean, the reason to pay #RedHat & #SUSE for any business is that they offer very high #SLAs for those willing to pay (i.e. #Finance) and those customers basically demand to get a named account manager they can yell at and expect a "Yes, we'll fix it ASAP!" as the only reply.

• Not shure if Red Hat still offers an #insurance option at their highest support tiers for #damages due to software errors and associated #downtime. This was something #Microsoft would never offer for #Windows!

That the fixes and improvements would get contributed back to #Linux was and is the original premise, even tho Red Hat decided to axe their "gateway drug" (#CentOS) used to lure businesses into supporting, targeting and using #RHEL…

Installed #lubuntu on an old laptop computer, was very confused why the supposedly lightweight system was so slow, first I thought maybe it was just a crappy processor, but it turns out the screensaver service was for some reason constantly at 90%+ CPU usage.

#Linux

#mastodon #fediverse #server #vps #linux #instanz #frage #selfhosting #fediadmin #fediadmins

Happy 56th Birthday to Linus Torvalds! 🐧🎂

The man who gave us Linux to power the world and Git to build it. A true legend of the open source revolution. 💻🔥

#linux #linustorvalds

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Happy Birthday Linux Torvalds December 28, 1969 There is a picture of Linux Torvalds on the right with a smile on his face and a Tux plushie in his right hand.

This has been an awesome year for #linux.

Youtube is awash with "I've had it, I'm switching" videos from all over. The hype is real, and the userbase is growing.

Finally being heard feels so nice.

@rl_dane I empathize completely. #Documentation is one area where #Linux falls behind #FreeBSD by several orders of magnitude.

I love #Debian. It's my favorite OS but oh my gods the documentation is, at best, an afterthought. And yes, other distros are not that much better.

It's actually *the* reason why I've been using FreeBSD more and taking the time to learn it.

Troubleshooting on #Linux:

You try something new, and it probably works without having to do anything.
If it doesn't work, you enter into an eldritch horror of complexity and incomplete/conflicting documentation. You give up and just hope that the next version of Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora handles "X" automatically, because you just can't be arsed anymore.

Troubleshooting on #FreeBSD:

You try something new, and it probably doesn't work out of the box.
You fire up the handbook PDF, read through the two pages of pertinent documentation, install a pkg or two, tweak a config file, and bob's your uncle.

Linux bretheren, it need not be like this. It didn't use to be like this. We used to have documentation. HOWTOs. Now they're all obsolete because of needless drastic changes, politics, and empire-building.

*sigh*

Is there any more terrifying phrase in modern #Linux than "updating snaps..."?

Linux forever! 🗿

#windows #linux

And so it begins.

#linux #linuxfromscratch #TTYpewriterOS

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That glorious moment you remove that magic screw, that allows an expired Chromebook to become a #nixbook

#linux #chromebook #nixos

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Massive respect to his efforts so far. 🙏

#linux #linustorvalds

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DID YOU KNOW? In 2000, Steve Jobs offered Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, a position at Apple on the condition that he discontinue his work on Linux. Torvalds declined the offer, citing his dislike for the macOS kernel and his commitment to open-source development; he continues to actively lead the Linux project to this day. FOLLOW US IT’S FOSS

💡 “I didn't get certified to get a job. I did it to learn and prove I could.” Luis Felipe Hernandez career journey shows how certifications can spark confidence, not just career change.

🔗 Read his Linux-powered career story now: https://training.linuxfoundation.org/blog/meet-luis-felipe-hernandez/

#Linux #CloudNative #Kubernetes #Developers

9to5Linux: postmarketOS 25.12 Linux Mobile OS Rolls Out Based on Alpine Linux 3.23 https://9to5linux.com/postmarketos-25-12-linux-mobile-os-rolls-out-based-on-alpine-linux-3-23 @9to5linux @mariusnestor #Linux

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115767245843883385

this is going to destroy so many systems built on MSWindows that if you are a CTO and not making contingencies to freeze further development on that OS & chart a path to migrate out to #Linux, then why are you even in that job.

Microsoft is gonna use an autocorrect on amphetamines to rewrite their O/S? this is absolute madness.

may they go down in flames but not before y’all moved out of their poisoned ecosystem.

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Microsoft is using AI to replace all their C/C++ code with Rust by 2030. Is that actually possible? What could go wrong? Microsoft’s strategy relies on a new "North Star" metric: 1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code. 😱

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/galenh_principal-software-engineer-coreai-microsoft-activity-7407863239289729024-WTzf/

Rust is good, but this approach seems incredibly difficult. Given the risk of AI hallucinations, aiming for a million lines of code per developer feels like an 'Apollo-program' level of difficulty and an excessive task 😱

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A screenshot of a LinkedIn post by Galen Hunt, a Microsoft employee. The post details a goal to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030 by using AI and algorithmic infrastructure to translate large codebases into Rust at a scale of "1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code."

"With the desktop, though, we saw, and still see, endless incompatibilities."

The Register: What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/22/what_linux_desktop_really_needs/ @theregister @sjvn #Linux #opensource

A pro tip to all Windows users out there.
Every time you're about to start using a new type of software, opt for a software that also works on Linux. Make that a new rule to live by, even if you're not currently thinking about switching to Linux.
Then also start looking for Linux-compatible alternatives to all software you currently use and slowly switch to them, if possible.
You'll thank me later.
#Windows #Linux

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@maxamillion/115750583128266042

Super grateful for the investment and involvement that Microsoft has made in open source, and in the Fedora Project specifically. They're joining the project just as other contributors would and becoming part of our community!

Some of their impact so far:
* Modernizing Fedora Cloud image delivery
* Enabling Secure Boot on ARM
* Improving Fedora compatibility with Azure
* Fedora on WSL

There's even talk of having Azure Linux treat Fedora more like an upstream!

#Fedora #Microsoft #Linux

@rl_dane @OpenComputeDesign I would argue that LFS helps you understand what #Linux actually is - basically just the kernel and a build chain. Everything else is a distribution, not "Linux" - or, more properly "a" Linux.

The core of Linux is very understandable - it's the distributions and add-ons that create the convolution. Sometimes that's for better, sometimes that's for worse. I will say that for all it's faults, systemd has massively increased the approachability factor of using Linux distros by standardizing a bunch of things that didn't used to be. There are other similar items; that's just the big white elephant.