Debian, Toy Story, and the Forgotten Genius Who Named the Future

Most people using Linux today don’t know that every Debian release: Buzz, Rex, Bo, Hamm, Woody, Jessie, Buster, Bullseye comes from Pixar's Movie Toy Story! As a long time linux user I was fascinated with the names as much as the creators. They say it started with Bruce Perens, the second Debian Project Leader, who was working at Pixar at the time (alongside Steve Jobs).

But the soul of the naming convention begins earlier with Ian Murdock, Debian’s founder. In 1993, Ian launched Debian not as a distro, but as a manifesto. He named it after himself and his then-girlfriend: Deb and Ian. (Many may know Ian died in 2015 under strange and tragic circumstances.)

The code still lives, but the people don’t. Their inner child at heart still plays in their creations. And by remembering that even in a world of machines, the most important thing... is the soul you put into them. That's why I still use Debian as the distro of choice.

[Apologies for any errors in my recollection of history\].



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Your favorite FOSS game?

Super Tux Racer is a game that many know. But what are your favorite free open source games and hidden gema for Linux, worth playing?


Extra: https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-software-games/

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Intel Mesa Drivers Now Properly Report INtel Arc Battlemage BMG-G31 GPUs
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-BMG-G31-Mesa-25.2

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Plasma 6.4 is out!
https://kde.org/pt-br/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.0/

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After Danish cities, Germany’s Schleswig-Holstein state government to ban Microsoft programs at work
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/after-danish-cities-germanys-schleswig-holstein-state-government-to-ban-microsoft-programs-at-work/articleshow/121833653.cms

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A sleek, Bash-based Matrix rain animation for your terminal — inspired by the iconic visuals of The Matrix. Originally inspired by the Matrix project by wick3dr0se. Link of the project in comments.
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Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time
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Multiple security issues in the X.Org X server and Xwayland disclosed, new versions released
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/multiple-security-issues-in-the-x-org-x-server-and-xwayland-disclosed-new-versions-released/

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Holy Linux Empire flag
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Refined Matrix rain animation in Bash — improved with feedback from my previous r/linux post, and inspired by the original Matrix project by wick3dr0se for its concept and style. Link in comments. Don't ban me please mods! XD
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What made you decide to use a certain distro?

I'm going down the rabbit hole of choosing a distro for home use. In the past, I've always used Linux in a VM, primarily Kali (I'm in cyber, I would never use Kali as my home OS) or Ubuntu. I've tried plenty of others, from installing and using Mint for a year at university, to throwing all kinds of distros in a VM just to play around.

I'd vaguely narrowed it down to Debian or NixOS, but if you asked me why I'd struggle to really say. At best, it being difficult to bork a NixOS system is appealing, but the learning curve is not. Conventional advice seems to be either:

Pick something popular that's user friendly, well documented and you're likely to get help when needed
Try a bunch of distros until you find something you like

But what does it mean to find something you like? I only see the OS as a tool, and yet I still have opinions on design philosophy, security, stable vs bleeding edge and so on. I know I can pick whatever I want and make it mine, but coming from Windows where I basically just left everything stock the analysis paralysis is real

So I'm curious to hear, what made you choose a certain distro? Did you pick it for a reason? Or if you tried a bunch of stuff, what made you settle?

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Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steam-beta-finally-enables-proton-on-linux-fully-making-linux-gaming-simpler/

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No way this is real...

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Lol the below ss is self-explanatory. I am dual booting Arch and Windows 10 as i need win for some work but when I tried to watch this video on it, this happened... Obviously one can use VLC but if I need to pay to do such a basic task of watching a video (even if it needs different codecs), then yeah I don't know what to do lol. Yet another day Microsoft disappointed me.

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Arch Linux Officially Adds Rust-Based init System – A New Era for PID 1?
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/arch-linux-breaks-new-ground-official-rust-init-system-support-arrives

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Serial Port Programming on Linux using C language and System calls
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Is LinuxJournal AI Slop now?

Quick intro, this article popped up in my google recommendations this morning

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/arch-linux-breaks-new-ground-official-rust-init-system-support-arrives

It is a 404 now, but the wayback machine grabbed it before they deleted it

https://web.archive.org/web/20250618001301/https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/arch-linux-breaks-new-ground-official-rust-init-system-support-arrives

Its a complete (and relatively well written) article about a new system init tool called rye-init (spoiler alert, it doesn't exist). I will not pretend to be the arbiter of AI slop but when I was reading the article, it didn't feel like it was AI generated.

Anyway, the entire premise is bullshit, the project doesn't exist, Arch has announced no such thing, etc etc.

Whoever George Whitaker is, they are the individual that submitted this article.

So my question, is LinuxJournal AI slop?

Edit:

Looks like the article was actually posted here a handful of hours ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1ledknw/archlinuxofficiallyaddsrustbasedinitsystem/

And there was a post on the arch forum though apparently it was deleted as well (and this one wasn't grabbed by the wayback machine).

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Plasma Mobile Dev Log: April 2024 - June 2025
https://plasma-mobile.org/2025/06/18/dev-log/

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Boardswarm, a new Open Source tool for board management and distributed development
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/meet-boardswarm-a-new-open-source-tool-for-board-management-and-distributed-development.html

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How is Cosmic (Pop!OS) ?

How is Cosmic behaving ? Are there many bugs ? Is it stable ? I know it's pretty new.

I have a dual monitor setup ( 1 4k 1 2k ) and I mainly plan to use the PC for programming, gaming and internet browsing. The PC is high end.

I want things to be stable, I haven't used Linux for my personal computer for 5 years and I come with this question after a day where Fedora 42 came with too many problems, after reading about other distros, I arrived at Pop!OS.

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The Latest X.Org Server Activity Are A Lot Of Code Reverts
https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-Lots-Of-Reverts

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Linux has ruined my expectations for computing

Linux has completely ruined the way that it interact with computers. I used Linux for like a year now since they announced that Windows 10 was losing support. I bounced through distros a lot and I really fell head over heels with Linux and it's community. I ended up settling on arch based linux as it just worked best for my needs. But recently I was convinced by some friends to install the new windows on a second nvme to play battlefront ii, but trying to step back into windows is like going from riding a bike back to riding a tricycle. Every single computer I use I try to use like im a power user and I just end up getting frustrated. Like I cant configure anything at all, and if I try to make literally any changes at all to my system im not an administrator?? Like what do you mean I don't have the authority to change my display settings? What do you mean I edge is an essential part of my system? If i want to make any changes to my system even as simple as removing feature from the start menu, I have to go to a sketchy third party and download a sketchy executable just to not have ads in my fricken start menu. Windows keeps making decisions for me, updating things when it wants, and installing stuff on my computer that I don't want, and theres literally nothing I can do, lest I want to risk my system with another sketchy executable. And windows is also supposed to be better for productivity and gaming, but when my pc is on windows rather than Linux, suddenly my pc which I thought was pretty fricken good (32gigs ram, modern am5 chip, rx 7600xt) suddenly feels like a shitter pc. My pc stutters, my screen tears, everything feels clunky and using my pc feels like walking with gravel in my shoes. I opened task manager to see what my pc was even doing to lag like this. IT USES 20% OF MY MEMORE JUST IDLE. I opened one single programans my pc jumped cpu usage up to 80% for a second while it did so!!!!!!!!!!!!! Windows forced an update, and apparently it doesnt recognise my second monitor anymore????? Windows support just said "oh your monitor is just too old for Windows, get a new one."

I hate it bro. Wish I was just a normie so that this shit wouldn't bother me. But now every time I use a non Linux system, i cant help but feel held back because I could be doing so much more. My computer has so much potential and I know what it's capable of and it bothers me when I cant use my computer to its fullest. If i never knew how good computing could be, I wouldn't even care to begin with.

Tldr
Linux made normie computing feel terrible and I cant go back now. Thanks I guess

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