r/linux • u/LooseFirefighter8911 • 1d ago
Kernel Darrick Wong removes himself as an IOmap maintainer: "After 14 years at Oracle and 23 years working on Linux, I've decided to step back for a while."
phoronix.comr/linux • u/diegodamohill • 2h ago
KDE This Week in Plasma: New Weather Widget and On-Screen Keyboard
blogs.kde.orgr/linux • u/Kassenshlager • 11h ago
Fluff Linux/Dreamcast via Retroarch/Android phone
What the hell am i doing with my life? Here i took linux for dreamcast and attempted to boot it in retroarch on an android device? Why? Im not even sure any more.
r/linux • u/unixbhaskar • 1d ago
Popular Application Today's Steam Beta Makes The Linux Client A 64-bit App
phoronix.comr/linux • u/sharanoth • 10h ago
Popular Application Waytator - screenshot and screenrecord on Wayland (GTK+C)
if you find satty ugly like I do (no offense), try https://github.com/faetalize/waytator
It's basically an all encompassing screenshot tool - started out as merely an annotator, but expanded in scope recently :p
Not sure if it matters to anyone, but this app is AI-free, (I'm not anti, but I'm working on this to practice on my C)
Standout features:
- Based on GTK4, but fast - sub 70ms launch from cold, so no need for a daemon (lots of pain to get this, GTK is annoying as hell)
- Sleek design, fits in any WM, blurrrrrrr
- More than just for annotating screenshots - you can use waytator to take screenshots directly, either from the gui or from the cli (try binding to `waytator --screenshot --notify`
- Hyper configurable. Almost everything can be rebound
- OCR and text extraction (optional tessaract dependency)
- can be piped into if you prefer to use your WM's screenshot tool
- Planned, coming soon: screen/area recording, GPU accelerated video editing.
Historical Some good history in here...
Even if you don't use KDE, they have released a documentary on it for the 30th anniversary. Some really good history on Linux in there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vyzla9mx4g
It's well worth your time to watch it.
I switched to Linux in 1998, and it's sometimes hard to remember how bad (by today's standards) what the desktop was like back then. It was all really great at the time, but thankfully some people went out on a limb with their crazy ideas and decided to build a better desktop environment.
It makes me really appreciate how far it has come, and also all the other 'crazy' Linux projects that have gone on over the years. After all, they were ALL crazy new projects at some point.
r/linux • u/_SomeRandomDude__ • 7h ago
Tips and Tricks Airpods 5 seem to work with lc3 bidirectional audio on linux.
Fluff Why are people scared of the terminal/shell?
When people see me using my computer, web browser, office suite, photo editing, it's all fine. But if they catch a glimpse of my white-on-black terminal, they completely zone out. The shell is not something I know about and they don't but very well could, it's a hard no. It's a dark zone they feel they can't enter. Using a terminal is not within the realm of interacting with a machine but black magic. It's not that they simply "prefer" to use the mouse for everything. They feel an almost religious revulsion it seems.
Especially in times of AI chatbots where everybody and their dog start using the keyboard again to do a text-based back-and-forth with a machine, shouldn't the shell come more natural to people Or is it time for "sish"? Super intelligence shell that internally translates human language into shell commands? Interaction would go like this:
What do you want to do? Please list all files in the current directory.
Sure thing, here goes:
..
.
file1
file2
etc
Anything else? Would you also like to see creation time and file sizes?
EDIT
Thanks for the many replies. I agree with the fact that a menu-driven GUI is inherently "discoverable," while a CLI inherently is not. Also I'm not implying that people should be using the CLI or that using a CLI is inherently better. This is not about shell elitism but about the fact that even occasional shell use is so off limit that people say the won't use Linux because they've seen somebody (me) use the terminal every now and then (I do that on Windows, too, but only at work).
r/linux • u/toxict12yroldbackup • 5h ago
Fluff Does using Linux for modern video game emulation improove performance?
Basically, the bloatware from the new windows 11 updates has been fucking up my laptop lately and I'm thinking of Dual Booting linux, question is: will emulators like eden for nintendo switch games run better on linux because of more system resources available, or run better on windows because they are more optimized for that platform?
r/linux • u/ReplacementReady3796 • 26m ago
Software Release ZJX Basic is out for Linux. Here’s my case for the world’s greatest compression standard.
r/linux • u/Metallic_Madness • 1d ago
Popular Application Microsoft Releases Microsoft Defender For The Linux Desktop
phoronix.comr/linux • u/Mysterious_Notice685 • 2d ago
Open Source Organization Canada could save millions by developing its own operating system instead of relying on Microsoft Windows
theconversation.comr/linux • u/homothebrave • 1d ago
Development Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design
github.comr/linux • u/leonthepro83 • 1d ago
Distro News Ubuntu 26.10 Released With Linux 7.3 + GNOME 51, Rust Coreutils Migration Complete
phoronix.comr/linux • u/libreleah • 1d ago
Software Release Libreboot – Libreboot 26.10 “Ominous Olive” released! With full UEFI support.
libreboot.orgLibreboot is free/opensource boot firmware replacing proprietary BIOS/UEFI. Better security/customisation than most proprietary firmware.
Highlights in this release include:
* MrChromebox EDK2 payload by default on most boards, with SeaBIOS CSM (CSMWrap) and GRUB EFI provided in-flash for backward compatibility.
* 233 new Chromebooks added; every board supported by MrChromebox coreboot. With our GRUB EFI/SeaBIOS CSM build added
* 15h.org coreboot fork used on KCMA-D8, KGPE-D16 boards for improved raminit.
* GRUB EFI build uses terminal_input console and no nativedisk; it piggybacks off of EDK2 drivers, like distros. It even works on Chromebooks (eMMC boot).
* Intel HAP bit set by default on Chromebooks, and IFD regions unlocked where appropriate
* Dell OptiPlex 5050 SFF, Supermicro X11SSH-F, ThinkPad X280, X270.
Modern Linux distros boot, with e.g. UKI/systemd-boot. Windows also compatible now.
r/linux • u/Fun_Board3743 • 10h ago
Software Release Shadowsocks VPN TUI Client for Linux
github.comSoftware Release To celebrate our 10th anniversary, our team just released a brand new Linux friendly DLC for our studio's first title ATOM RPG
store.steampowered.comr/linux • u/3DNebGuy • 1d ago
Hardware Linux 6.18 now boots on the Amazon Echo Show 8 2nd gen
Amazon shipped this with a 32-bit 4.4 kernel on a 64-bit MT8183. It now boots mainline 6.18 arm64. Screen, touch, Wi-Fi, USB and audio all work, with a real display driver still to go.
Most of MT8183 is already in mainline thanks to the Chromebooks that use it, which helped a lot. What wasn't there was the board itself: device tree, an audio machine driver, and a fix to the AFE driver that I'll try to send upstream once it's cleaned up.
Getting there took opening one up and finding the serial pads, since the stock kernel turns serial off. Notes and code will be in TECHO5 (https://github.com/HuskerMinion/techo5) when it's released.
r/linux • u/adminvasheypomoiki • 2d ago
Kernel Spent three years blaming rsync and SSH. It was a DMA cache bug in Qualcomm's Wi-Fi driver corrupting 64 bytes at a time
blog.dfb.shr/linux • u/mattdm_fedora • 2d ago
Discussion Never mind new launcher: Epic's new approach to anti-cheat on Linux is the big news
onlineservices.epicgames.comr/linux • u/googlemeonce_ • 17h ago
Development DockDesk – lightweight Docker Desktop-style GUI for Linux (~250 KB, no VM)
Hi everyone,
I created DockDesk, a small native GUI for managing Docker on Linux.
It is not Docker Desktop — it has no VM and no extra daemon. It talks directly to the Docker Engine you already have installed, so the containers you see are exactly the same ones the docker CLI shows.
Highlights:
Extremely small: ~250 KB .deb, zero npm dependencies
Containers (live stats, logs, file browser/edit, terminals)
Images (pull, build, run dialog with presets, vulnerability scan, compare)
Full Compose support (editor, dependency graph, combined logs)
One-click security labs (DVWA, Juice Shop, etc.) for learning/testing
Accessibility-focused and multi-language
Primarily developed and tested on Kali, but works on Debian/Ubuntu and should work on most Linux distros with Docker + Node 18+.
GitHub: https://github.com/DocKDes/DockDesk
Releases (with .deb): https://github.com/DocKDes/DockDesk/releases
I’m looking for feedback, testing on other distros, translation reviews, and packaging help (Fedora, Arch, etc.). Happy to answer any questions!