Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops
https://www.linaro.org/blog/linux-on-snapdragon-x-elite/

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You can now run Doom and other graphical apps in Android's Linux Terminal
https://www.androidauthority.com/linux-terminal-graphical-apps-3580905/

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Linux 6.16 changelog, includes Ext4 perf improvements; XFS support for large atomic writes; USB audio offload; zero-copy send TCP payloads from DMABUF memory; futex improvements; support for sending coredumps over an AF_UNIX socket, or make easier to build your kernel optimized for your local CPU
https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.16

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After what kind of changes does the kernel get a new major version?

There have been 6 major versions of the kernel (7 if you include the 0.x versions), so I was wonder what changes have been significant enough for the kernel to get a major-version upgrade? Is it design? Is it new features? If so, which kind of features? Is it user space API changes?

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Small thing but getting rid of the windows key felt important to me.
https://redd.it/1mdf1l8
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Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1mcx9ni/microsoft_bans_libreoffice_developers_account/

https://redd.it/1mdi573
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X11 functionality in wayland

I'm trying to prepare my Emacs configuration for distribution and I'd like to have it working under both X11 and Wayland. There're two things I'd like to have, one important the other mainly for me and I can do without and I could use some help from people familiar with Wayland.



[important\] under X11 whenever I change the font size or the background color, I also write a \~/.Xdefault file. This way when Emacs starts its window has already the right size and color and there's no visual flashing. Is there a way for doing this in Wayland?



[nice to have\] in development I can launch a secondary Emacs (that the window manager then maps to a different workspace, but this part is not too important). I have <f1> mapped so that from the main Emacs it launches the dev Emacs and focuses it (including switching to the relevant workspace). On the dev Emacs, <f1> would return and focus the main emacs. This way if I change the configuration <f1> gives me a dev Emacs and another <f1> brings me back after testing whatever I'm interested in. Any way to do something like this?

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KDE Linux
https://kde.org/linux/

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How to set Equalizer in PulseEffects or EasyEffects for noobs for listening music in your Linux Distro . Difficulty level:Easy

Yo Yo Yo . Linux noob here .

Don’t mind my English as it is not my first language .

For music listeners i have setup the PulseEffects’s equalizer for “near perfect bass & treble” for wired/wireless earbuds ( i don’t have external speakers with subwoofers so can’t say if this will work on external speakers . You can try . My guess is it will work ) .

Settings have to be done only in Equalizer of PulseEffects .That’s it .

This will also work in EasyEffects as both Pulseeffects & EasyEffects are same .PulseEffects is for pulseaudio framework & EasyEffects is for pipewire audio framework . check what comes with your Linux distro. in Debian 12 Mate pulseaudio is installed , which is my Linux distro .

First make a system snapshot in timeshift in case you want to go back to previous state as was before if you don't like it .(pulseeffects installs bunch of dependencies so it's time taking to remove them 1 by 1 in synaptic package manager)

Then Install PulseEffects from synaptic package manager (for debian users) or software manager (Ubuntu/linuxMint & others) .

Now open PulseEffects . Tick mark the box next to Equalizer to select it . Then select the settings menu in equalizer . Now type ‘10’ in bands to get 10 toggle bars in equalizer . Click out side of the menu to get out of the menu .

https://preview.redd.it/ht68ufhtk6gf1.png?width=1366&format=png&auto=webp&s=24b571331489459be3a610aadffffe65793b1abe

Now , starting from left side in Equalizer (picture below) , select the settings menu on top of first toggle bar . set the frequency & quality to the prescribed numbers given below . Example : type ‘31’ in Frequency & ‘1’ in Quality . Leave the rest of the boxes in the menu as same as in the picture below . Simple .Click out side of the menu to get out of the menu . Setup the 10 toggle bars of Equalizer like this .

https://preview.redd.it/hofxbd45l6gf1.png?width=1366&format=png&auto=webp&s=3b03b2d2b081b5f9fddd342e9aa9118e6164e06b

Prescribed frequencies & qualities for 10 toggle bars are as follows :

Frequency 31Hz 63Hz 125Hz 250Hz 500Hz 1KHz 2KHz 4KHz 8KHz 16KHz

Quality 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Toggle bar +6 +3 -3 -5 0 0 +1 +2 +3 +5

to set the toggle bar value simply roll up/down your mouse wheel (accurate method ) or just pull them using mouse or use arrow keys (slowest yet accurate) .

next is

https://preview.redd.it/2emmdt2xm6gf1.png?width=1366&format=png&auto=webp&s=81643639d121dd786883897dd7d0b746bc21cdb2

set input to - 4 (minus 4)

to save the Equalizer settings go to here as in this picture below

https://preview.redd.it/ufgceopen6gf1.png?width=1366&format=png&auto=webp&s=0e226bdb01cc91cac72b6e35c1c9ad4457887687

write the name you want to give in ‘name box’ & click the + sign . After that on your ‘named preset file’ click the download sign to save the EQ settings .

I hope you guys enjoy my Equalizer setting . i took the 10 frequencies from VLC android .

Feel free to change it according to your liking .

Thanks






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BTRFS bug bites a bunch of Fedora users
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/1md7uk6/what_a_bad_day_for_my_ssd_to_shit_itself_out/n5zhuxe/

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We've just released a FOSS Universal 2D Graphics Editor
https://pixieditor.net/blog/2025/07/30/20-release/

https://redd.it/1me02ts
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kAirPods: Native AirPods support in KDE with battery + ANC control
https://redd.it/1me5chy
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Acer and Linux compatibility question

I hear that Acer laptops specifically have really bad compatibility with Linux Operating Systems, I was considering buying an Acer laptop and using Linux on it (Acer Swift Go 14") so I wanted to ask if anyone else has had experience/problems with Linux on Acer laptops.

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Adding Obstacles to Your Ebitengine Game (Tutorial)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmRxgScWu1c

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A good low-cost laptop to boot with linux for a computer science / cyber security major.

I'm gonna be a freshman in college this year, majoring in computer science (plan on doing a cyber security track). I already have an M4 Mac Pro as my main college laptop (I do have a Linux virtual machine), and I'm wondering if there's a point to purchasing a low-cost laptop that I will only boot with Linux. Looking for advice on the specifications I should be looking for, but my general idea is something along the lines of 8/16 GB RAM, 128/256 GB SSD, and I truly have no idea what processors/number of cores I should be looking for. ATP, my idea is to simply purchase a 2020ish Intel MacBook (one of the reasons why I bought my Mac is how important I consider the battery in a college setting), wipe macOS, and boot with Kali or Ubuntu. As I mentioned, I'm still not sure if this is even worth it or if I should just stick with a virtual machine. Thanks for any advice, appreciate it.

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I made a simple graphical SSH connection manager

sshPilot is an ssh connection manager made with GTK and Python.

Here are the features:

Manage multiple SSH connections
Open each connection in a separate tab
Both password and SSH key authentication methods are supported
Automatically detects SSH keys in ~/.ssh/
Use your desired color theme and font style for the terminal
Uses secure password storage (GNOME secure password storage)

If you manage multiple remote machines, this might come in handy.




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Got my best friend into linux and now hes falling down the rabbithole

So my friend ive had since highschool has had a desktop gaming pc thats about 13 years old that after buying a gaming laptop that he just uses for YouTube and 3d printing stuff. Well his windows install corrupted and he thought the computer was just dead.

I told him id take a look at it and see if I could get it working while we were hanging out since we usually treat his house as a nerd cave and work on projects and radios and stuff there anyway.

He had an ssd he never used in the computer befause he thought it was messed up but it just wasn't properly partitioned. I taught him how partitioning works and ended up installing mint on his computer.

So I did all the setup for him and got him setup with a browser of his choice, got bambu studio installed (that was actually more of a pain that I expected), then for fun I customized his boot screen ti a fallout theme, installed cool retro term, and a fallout terminal emulator for his terminal. I also just added a few widgets to his desktop and changed his icons and wallpaper to a fallout theme.

He was intimidated by the terminal at first but I made it fun for him with cool retro term and then let him have at it as I told him how to install stuff through terminal and showed him the package manager.

NOW HES OBSESSED. So many times ive heard him complain about windows and bloat and everything and hes never seen his computer run as clean as it does now. I told him about the man command so he can rtfm and now he prefers doing things with the terminal anytime he can because he likes the retro terminal theme and it makes him feel like a hacker in a 2000s movie haha

So tldr; helped my buddy install Linux on his old pc and helped him make it unique to him and made it fun for him now hes got more terminal commands memorized than me

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Started an open-source project that lets you use your android device as an external monitor for your linux system.

Hi everyone!

I've been using Lubuntu for about 6-7 months now. Professionally I'm a full-stack engineer, mostly working with typenoscript. I play with Linux, VimScript and bash for my entertainment and whenever I get bored with writing and debugging the same old javanoscript and typenoscript codes.

I had a samsung tablet and I decided to use it as an external monitor, so that I can keep running my backend server logs on a separate screen while looking at the code or testing the product. When I had windows, extended screen was fairly easy but I tried to look for similar options for linux; ended up trying Deskscreen, Virtscreen, Weyelus etc, but mostt of them had limitations and requried extensive configuration to be used a proper extended display. I once even ended up crashing my boot while trying to configure xrandr as I added a noscript that would start on boot. (fixed it by removing the noscript from GRUB menu).

After a lot of trial and error (and AI, ofcourse) I finally found a decent setup which worked exactly how I wanted. With this I was able to drag my mouse, application windows, keyboard shortcuts and everything to my tablet, with no lag, no wires and just by using a VNC viewer application on my device (I use RealVNC Viewer Play Store Link )

So now I've polished it further and created an open source project via which any (most of the distros right now, not all) Linux system can connect to any android device and use it as a secondary/extended display:

GITHUB REPO

How it works:

Uses `xrandr` to create virtual displays
VNC for streaming the extended area only
Works with any VNC viewer app on Android
Supports custom resolutions and positioning (left/right/above/below)
Compatible with Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and most major distros

This started as a personal tooling project, but I think it could benefit the entire Linux community. I'm pretty new to bash and developing things for linux ecosystem (if this even counts in that), so I just wanted to let it out in the community; maybe this can help someone; or someone can help this project and take it to the next step.

I had a few questions as I kept planning out the plausible next steps for this, and would love the opinion of people who are more familiar to the ecosystem than I am:

I'm looking for help with:

Packaging & Distribution:

Arch Linux AUR package
openSUSE RPM packaging
Snap/Flatpak packages
Ubuntu PPA setup

Features:

GUI configuration tool (probably Qt or GTK)
iOS support (might be challenging due to VNC limitations)
Multi-tablet support
Auto-discovery of tablets on network
Performance optimizations

Testing:

Different desktop environments (KDE, GNOME, XFCE, etc.)
Various hardware configurations
Different Android devices/VNC clients

Documentation:

Better setup guides with screenshots
Video tutorials
Troubleshooting wiki

I'm not completely (or correctly) aware of the possibilities of these but would love if people will try this out and contribute to it.

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Is there a Linux operation software for gaming, editing and programming for beginners?

I've been seeing TikToks of Linux and how it's better than windows but it doesn't support some games which I honestly don't mind. I wanted to ask since I've never used Linux if there is one for beginners that you can use for programming, gaming and editing since I do those as a hobby and windows 11 is being a bitch

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Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/72892.html

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Pi-hole - Compromised Donor Emails: A post-mortem
https://pi-hole.net/blog/2025/07/30/compromised-donor-emails-a-post-mortem/

https://redd.it/1mev6p1
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