Slackware Release Anniversary

On this day in 1993, Patrick Volkerding — the “Benevolent Dictator for Life” of Slackware — released Slackware 1.0, launching the oldest Linux distro still maintained. Still simple. Still solid. Still Slackware.
Read the original announcement: https://www.slackware.com/announce/1.0.php

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Forgot I had an old windows 8 laptop laying around.
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Built devstat - CLI tool to check GitHub/LeetCode/Codeforces stats in one place

Got tired of opening multiple tabs to check my coding stats across different platforms, so I built devstat, a command-line tool that fetches and displays your GitHub, LeetCode, and Codeforces profiles in one place.

Preview

Features:

GitHub: repos, stars, followers, top languages, etc.
LeetCode: problems solved, difficulty breakdown, ranking
Codeforces: rating, rank, contests, etc.
Profile comparison between users
Interactive CLI with progress bars and animations
Remembers your usernames for quick access

Try it: npx devstat

The tool is open source and I'm looking for contributors! Would love feedback on the code structure or ideas for new features.

GitHub: https://github.com/Indra55/devstat

What do you think? Any other platforms you'd want to see integrated?



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Dual booting, now I wanna dump Windows, what about Grub?
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SO! I found a font that makes reading linux forums tolerable. OpenDyslexic

opendyslexic.org

I have a young friend who has difficulty reading (dyslexia or something like it). I did a test of this font for her. With a side by side of reg font vs this font. She was able to read through the OD font at 3x speed.

I did a blog about it (YT and TT too), for people who needs this for their kids (mostly focused on windows users).

But then I realized that I can legit read MAN Pages and Linux Forums way faster using this font. So.... I'm keeping the extension installed. And I put it system wide on my Linux Mint VM.

Check it:

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sudo apt install fonts-opendyslexic



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Did You Know This Fact ?

So I found that around 16-18% of users of India uses Linux which is the third highest and that is a big number

1st is norway
2nd is Andorra ( I didn't knew about this)

So how many here are Indians in this community

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VoxInput v0.5.0 - Voice trannoscription that works with any Linux desktop/app and LocalAI
https://github.com/richiejp/VoxInput

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Any thoughts on recent humble bundle? Is it worthwhile?
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eBPF perf buffer dropping events at 600k ops/sec - help optimizing userspace processing pipeline?

Hey everyone! I'm working on an eBPF-based dependency tracer that monitors file syscalls (openat, stat, etc.) and I'm running into kernel event drops when my load generator hits around 600,000 operations per second. The kernel keeps logging "lost samples" which means my userspace isn't draining the perf buffer fast enough. My setup:

eBPF program attached to syscall tracepoints
\~4KB events (includes 4096-byte filename field)
35MB perf buffer (system memory constraint - can't go bigger)
Single perf reader → processing pipeline → Kafka publisher
Go-based userspace application

The problem:At 600k ops/sec, my 35MB buffer can theoretically only hold \~58ms worth of events before overflowing. I'm getting kernel drops which means my userspace processing is too slow.What I've tried:

Reduced polling timeout to 25ms

My constraints:

Can't increase perf buffer size (memory limited)
Can't use ring buffers (using kernel version 4.2)
Need to capture most events (sampling isn't ideal)
Running on production-like hardware

Questions:

1. What's typically the biggest bottleneck in eBPF→userspace→processing pipelines? Is it usually the perf buffer reading, event decoding, or downstream processing?
2. Should I redesign my eBPF program to send smaller events? That 4KB filename field seems wasteful but I need path info.
3. Any tricks for faster perf buffer drainage? Like batching multiple reads, optimizing the polling strategy, or using multiple readers?
4. Pipeline architecture advice? Currently doing: perf_reader → Go channels → classifier_workers → kafka. Should I be using a different pattern?

Just trying to figure out where my bottleneck is and how to optimize within my constraints. Any war stories, profiling tips, or "don't do this" advice would be super helpful! Using cilium/ebpf library with pretty standard perf buffer setup.

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meta Proposal to auto reply to rule-breaking posts with a link to the About or sidebar

I sometimes see rather terse "see rule 1" responses here; I've even done it.

Some newbies might not recognize where to find the rules, for whatever reasons (they seem easy enough for me, but who am I to judge). A "see rule 1" response could come across as rude and elitist.

I propose that if a post is reported as breaking the rules, then an auto reply is made with links to the About and/or sidebar. Those have the rules and lots of useful information for newbies. This would help make the sub a little more newbie-friendly.

The link to the About page: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/about/

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How to tell what is supported by a usb port?

I have a ten year old laptop and one from last year, both running the latest Fedora. A USB C to hdmi adapter only works on the newer one. My guess is that whatever protocol is used by the adapter is not supported on the old one. Is there a command I can run to check for the future if I want to buy other accesories?

I looked at lsusb but didn't see anything useful

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30 years ago...
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How TPMs Work and Why We Added Support in Bottlerocket
https://molnett.com/blog/25-07-16-bottlerocket-part2-tpm-additions

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Terminal history wrapped
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fun fact about debian!

Every release of debian from 1-14 is named after a toy story character!

Debian 1.1 (buzz) is named after Buzz Lightyear

Debian 1.2 (rex) is named after the green toy dinosaur

Debian 1.3 (bo) is named after Bo peep

Debian 2.0 (hamm) is named after the pig

Debian 2.1 (slink) is named after Slinky Dog

Debian 2.2 (potato) is named after Mr. Potato Head

Debian 3.0 (woody) is named after woody

Debian 3.1 (sarge) is named after the sergeant of the toy soldiers

Debian 4 (etch) is named after the Etch-A-Sketch

Debian 5 (lenny) is named after the pair of walking binoculars

Debian 6 (squeeze) is named after the green "squeeze" aliens

Debian 7 (wheezy) is named after the penguin (how fitting)

Debian 8 (jessie) is named after jessie

Debian 9 (stretch) is named after Stretch Armstrong

Debian 10 (buster) is named after Andy's dog

Debian 11 (bullseye) is named after the horse woody rides.

Debian 12 (bookworm) is named after the smart worm at the daycare

Debian 13 (trixie) is named after the blue dinosaur

Debian 14 (forky) is named after the spork craft project.

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Trash Can Mac and Proton

I know it's dumb. But the 2013 trash can Mac is one of my favorite PC designs of all time. I've never used one because 1, hate apples walled garden and 2 could never afford one. Now that I can afford one Id like to use it for something useful.

With the advent of steam OS and Proton I'm wondering if I could use it as a gaming machine. I don't think steam os can work on it. But is there a Linux version that would also work well with Proton that would work on this machine? I am a total newb.

This is my first foray into trying to use Linux. I've built two PCs in my life. That's it. And I had help. Bad idea for a project?

Thanks,
A lover of design but a hater of Apples Ecosystem

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I need a KWin Script that can play a sound when closing a window

There’s this cool Desktop Effect called “Fall Apart” and I wanted to pair an audio with it, I’m relatively new to Linux so I really need someone’s help, whether there is a noscript published online or if someone can help me develop one. Please help!

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Linux Advice???

I've been thinking about getting my CompTIA Network+ certification to pursue a career in Cyber Security/Penetration Testing, but now i'm thinking i should just continue on my pre-existing knowledge of Linux. I'm wondering what's the best way to learn how to use the tools like Aircrack-ng, NMAP, and every tool on the Linux OS, whats the best way to gain hands on real life experience with out having my hand held by tryhackme or hack the box???

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Why Hyprland and Zen Browser?

Now I understand trends exist but I've seen Hyprland and Zen browser being used alot in ricing and I am quite curious what makes Hyprland and Zen browser such a common sight among ricing and even some daily driver builds

I do understand the aesthetics behind it, I do think they look very nice but I am wary about if switching over to Hyprland would be worth it, if I'd find any issues down the line or if there's any concerns for performance or stability

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The right filesystem for external drivers for Linux users.

Having used macs for several years I have finally moved over to Linux. Very happy so far. I'm almost out of the Apple ecosystem and replaced almost everything with open source solutions.

As I was deep into the apple system, my external drive was using APFS. I tried to mount it using fuse for Linux but somehow I could not and when I try to connect my external drive to my mac, it will not mount. First Aid under disk utility also doesn't succeed.

luckily with a third party app I am able to see and export my data out so probably somewhere in the APFS structure something got messed up.

Moving forward I have other APFS based drives and now I am afraid to hook em up to my Linux machine.

My goal is to backup al my external drives to my NAS using a mac. Then format all my external drives to an "appropriate" filesystem.

I am looking for a filesystem that ideally works on both Linux and windows without file size limitations. What filesystem would you recommend for my external drives and why?

Please watch out when using APFS-FUSE as it might do something with the filesystem structure? Luckily I am able to retrieve my data and as always... make backups backups backups :) Glad to join the Linux party!

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This month in Servo: network inspector, a11y first steps, WebDriver, and more! Plus some big perf gains, thanks to our incremental layout work.
https://servo.org/blog/2025/07/17/this-month-in-servo/

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