Talk from recent Kernel Recipes about bug reports and fixes.

Interesting view on how bots report things, also interesting breakdown of certain "79 issues" which really were not that many in reality.

Replaced kubuntu with opensuse tumbleweed because I liked the chameleon logo (didn’t know much about the distro until post boot), and I am loving it.

Some things I had to learn, but all of them for the better for most part.

Little chameleon was calling to me. And I love it here

Titan Army only ships a Windows tool for the P275MV PLUS, so I reverse-engineered the monitor's DDC/CI protocol and wrote a Linux app (Rust, GTK4/libadwaita) that does the same from your desktop. It is free and open source (MIT).

What it controls

• All 15 picture modes with their Custom settings (brightness, contrast, gamma, color temperature and RGB, hue/saturation, Color Enhance, Shadow Balance, Night Vision, Dynamic OD, local dimming, Halo, DyDs)
• HDR (and it switches system HDR on KDE Plasma along with it), Adaptive-Sync, game overlays (crosshair, stopwatch, magnifier, HawkEye)
• Inputs, PIP/PBP, USB hub, volume, LED lighting, OSD settings
• Tray menu with favorite modes and settings, and it follows changes you make with the monitor's buttons

Extras

• The protocol notes and every VCP code I found are documented in the repo, with small Python tools (getter, setter, table reader)
• The repo also has both official firmware packages with an English translation of the update guide

Install: deb, rpm, AppImage and tar.gz on the Releases page.

Please note: it is alpha software, it writes settings to your monitor, and you use it at your own risk. I tested it only on one monitor (P275MV PLUS), so I'd love feedback from owners of the regular version. The code was written with the help of an LLM, which the README says openly.

Repo: https://github.com/mkarenko/titan-control
Support: https://buymeacoffee.com/mkarenko

Topic title. Docker is so ubiquitous these days in the public dev space that it's almost unreal to me. It seems like a good 70% of FOSS requires it - and with it all the loquaciousness of YAML and Docker compose. I use it, because I have to.

But whatever happened to the humble systemd-nspawn container? It gives you roughly comparable size to most Docker containers, is (IMO) a heck of a lot easier to configure and run, is portable across systemd systems everywhere, and has been a native part of the Linux ecosystem for over a decade. Was it just Kubernetes coming out the gate swinging that caused Docker to take over the world? I still prefer nspawn, and use "full stack" containers for deployments of things like edge ingress nodes because its fast, simple, intuitive, and hard to screw up.

Before discovering the Linux rabbit hole I've only seen Cloudflare, hCaptcha and Google's reCaptcha, but it seems like every Linux website uses Anubis... I'm thinking of it being the only open-source option or it being the most effective/modern approach.

Hi everyone. I want to show you a project that honestly I'm pretty embarrassed to share, because it's the first time I share something with the general public. Sorry if I sound nervous. I just think it could be useful to someone, so here it is.

I collaborate on Neko Void, specifically on the part that makes images for musl, for the musl C library. And we all know how this goes: stuff made for glibc doesn't work on musl, you have to rebuild it. And proprietary software is hard to build because the source is not free. So most of those apps just don't work. Steam doesn't work by default either, and that's what makes a lot of users run away from musl distros.

There are alternatives. AppImage bundles glibc inside, but when you have a lot of AppImages you end up duplicating deps everywhere and it gets heavy. I also tried Nix as a separate subsystem, but it's extremely heavy even if it runs natively.

My goal was to make those apps run as fast and light as possible, with as little space as possible, without duplicating deps like Flatpak does. So I made arxy, it's a way too basic and simple project: an Arch rootfs that gets mounted so you can install whatever you want on it. Optimized to weigh as little as possible (~130MB tarball), but complete enough that most Arch packages work on any distro. Best part, it keeps AUR access (-bin only).

How it works is pretty simple: it mounts the image with bwrap, and if that's not available it falls back to a basic chroot + ld-linux. It shares /home, /tmp, GPU and kernel, so it runs native. Commands are simple: arxy install <pkg>, arxy update, arxy run <bin>. Since it uses real pacman, deps are shared, no duplication. It creates .desktop launchers normally.

It's one of the first projects I've worked on and I've put a lot of time into it. I'm no expert, so any feedback is welcome and I really invite anyone to collaborate. I tested it on Alpine, Chimera and Void, glibc and musl. I'd love reports from other distros, especially Gentoo musl and weird setups.

Repo, it's GPL-3.0: https://github.com/SrDicov/arxy

I'm the author, happy to answer technical questions here. What do you use for the glibc-on-musl gap?

anyconvert is a project for word-sys's PDF Editor that converts PDF documents into DOCX, PPTX, ODT, ODP, and TXT using only the Python standard library. Convert library is anyconvert's itself. Its released on PyPI too.

This update added native JPEG and multi-format image embedding to ODT and ODP emitters to improve ODT & ODP builds, updated Markdown emitter to preserve native image extensions, this feature is start of loseless-image export option, Fixed ODT and DOCX underline issue and DOCX heading color issue, and lastly added end-to-end regression tests across all 5 export formats (DOCX, PPTX, ODT, ODP, TXT) for stability tests. For more details you can look to anyconvert's GitHub page.

Small & quick information: word-sys's PDF Editor is getting ready for v1.11.1 which is Flatpak release, thanks to anyconvert project :)

Hello everyone. Just wanted to share a small milestone I’m pretty proud of.

I’ve been porting Linux to my old iPhone XS for quite some time, and this week I finally made some significant progress.

First: it boots. As a real, alternative OS. This is not an emulation.

Second: I got the kernel log on screen and the framebuffer working:

This is a raw, recovery-based Linux boot. iOS does not take any part in the boot sequence!

I haven’t set up a GitHub repo yet, and the project doesn’t even have a name at this point. But I’ll keep working on it and share more once the process is reliable and reproducible.

Rebelle is an awesome painting simulation programme from Slovakia. it's one of the best painting software I've tried (way better than Corel Painter or Krita)
But they also announces optional paid update access... which is not really appreciated by the community, as you can see in the comments.

hello i apologize if this seem like out of nowhere in advance, but i think you may want to know this

there is a leaked legislation about the EU trying to pass the "EU kids act" which according to the [stop killing games video] the [document] mentioned which also appears on the description mentions "operating systems" several times which it could include Linux distributions and i think that might be a problem if true because the regulation seem quite extreme.

so im sharing it here because there is this petition for people on the EU which is about making it respect privacy among other things

the deadline is 25-Aug-2027 so there is still time

again i apologize and i don't want to cause problems i thought you would like to know this

https://github.com/vantfindthe/hothello

has a ui to control every piece.

it wont change your terminal, only the motd. utillzes oh-my-posh for themes, an open source ascii collection for a new picture every login, animations, rss reader, and you can pick and choose every single displayed item.

opensourceofcourse

Not sure if this is Linux specific enough, but I figured this sub may appreciate my little Vulkan project:

ShadeVk is cross-platform pixel shader viewer for Vulkan, written in C23. It supports Slang, GLSL, HLSL and comes with live-coding capabilities. It's 100% human made.

Fun fact: the logo itself is also a shader. :)

More info on Codeberg:

https://codeberg.org/literallylara/ShadeVk

Mirror:

https://github.com/literallylara/shadevk

Maybe I missed such a discussion here but, Cern used to be a very large "customer" of rhel/rhel-derivatives, and even had created/curated scientific linux for a while. Now though that the rhel/rhel-derivatives need x86-64-v2 to run, a lot of older hardware are becoming obsolete.

ENTER DEBIAN.

Do you believe that now that such an organization is going to use debian, things will change and become more professional/industry standard?