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A place to discuss all things *nix

I have been really loving Cosmic Desktop by PopOS!. Its still in Alpha 4 but very stable. Written in Rust its fast, minimal and has great tiling. Turns out I love tiling window managers.

Why does, almost every linux distro/desktop ship with Firefox as the default browser instead of Brave of Chromium? Is its Firefox's long term commitment to open source or is there some funding available for projects that do?

I hadn't checked in since Alpha 1 but Cosmic Desktop Alpha 4 is pretty great.

A good balance of minimalism, customization and speed.

https://system76.com/cosmic/?srsltid=AfmBOopmc_OCRHKk-H-i9eMuJatt4YFSJbv_I90y8OXomZpmDeiTooio

New Cinnamon 6.4 Desktop is now available with a native Night Light, a revamped theme, and many other goodies.

https://9to5linux.com/cinnamon-6-4-desktop-environment-released-with-revamped-theme-night-light

How many different incompatible packages called udptunnel are there? I found 3 already

The Linux 6.12 kernel has been released!

https://lwn.net/Articles/997958/

Anyone used Kyanos yet? Curious to see what people think of it compared to tools like Wireshark and bettercap.

https://github.com/hengyoush/kyanos

eBPF test suite just got a massive speedup. This should make working on eBPF a lot faster for devs!

https://x.com/grsecurity/status/1853874390141894835?t=CTkvvS7Hdh8oxEqiW7gJQg&s=19

The latest news from Linux Mint! Some big announcements in there, like working with the Framework team!

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4762

A nice little kernel performance improvement will land in the 6.12 kernel.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-2.6p-Faster-Scale-Patch

Submitted my first tiny fix to the Cinnamon project today.

https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/pull/12479

Lots of work goes into Debian behind the scenes. This is a breakdown of their "secret" sauce.

https://lwn.net/Articles/990177/

Linus Tolvards on banning some Russian contribuors from Linux

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/23/linus_torvalds_affirms_expulsion_of/

RIP2 is released https://github.com/MilesCranmer/rip2

Spent half a day fixing my Linux gui, which decided to randomly stop working. Turned out it was just a fuck up in dot profile. Love it 🤣

The real trilemma:

Linux, NVIDIA, an external monitor.

Pick two

decided to give linux a go as my daily cos my laptop was starting to sound like a jet engine on windows - running cachy os on arch linux

what browser are we using? gave vivaldi a go but not a huge fan, cachy browser is nice but firefox based which makes me kinda ugh and i'm trying thorium out now

but before i go logging back in to a million websites for the umpteenth time and redownloading extensions - is there anything better?

Yesterday I migrated from Ubuntu to Pop!_OS to try something different out.

No regrets so far!! Compatibility with Steam has greatly improved (all MGSs work now!) and having an encrypted disk feels so much better for peace of mind.

Highly recommended! Can't wait for the #system76 #COSMIC desktop environment :)

https://serenityos.org/

isn't this a grail?

Window Maker Live https://wmlive.sourceforge.net/

Securing a Linux Server

https://kenhv.com/blog/securing-a-linux-server

I built a single-host configuration management tool awhile back and am trying to decide if it's worth shaping up into an open-source release. I think it hits a sweet spot between learning curve/complexity of Ansible etc., and the brittleness of sh scripts. That scratch anyone's itch?

A tasty Linux 🐧

there’s no feeling like erasing everything and starting fresh without looking back

how much of what you store on your computer is actually necessary?

Linux enthusiasts don't ask why you need a server, linux enthusiasts search for excuse to have a server.

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