sshPilot 2.0 released with tunelling support and more

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sshPilot is a desktop application for managing SSH connections. It loads/saves standard .ssh/config entries and make it easy to manage multiple servers.

It fully supports dynamic, remote and local port forwarding, key-pair generation, file transfer to remote machines and more.

Fetures:

- Load/save standard .ssh/config entries (it loads you current configuration)
- Tabbed interface
- Full support for Local, Remote and Dynamic port forwarding
- Intuitive, minimal UI with keyboard navigation and shortcuts: Press ctrl+L to quickly switch between hosts, close tabs with ctrl+w and move between tabs with alt+right/left arrow
- SCP support for quickly uploading a file to remote server
- Generate keypairs and add them to remote servers
- Toggle to show/hide ip addresses/hostnames in main UI
- Light/Dark themes
- Customizable terminal font and color schemes
- Free software (GPL v3 license)

The app is currently distributed as a debian package and can be installed on recent versions of Debian (testing/unstable) and ubuntu. Debian bookworm is not supported due to older libadwaita version.

Latest release can be downloaded from here: https://github.com/mfat/sshpilot/releases/

You can also run the app from source. Install the modules listed in requirements.txt and a fairly recent version of GNOME and it should run.

A Flatpak and an RPM version are also planned for future.

I'm also looking for a volunteer to design a good icon for the app.

I'd highly appreciate your thoughts/feedback on this.

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Thinkpad T14 gen 2 Fedora 42 kde
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What's the best offline capable information resource on linux?

I was thinking about how wikipedia lets you download the whole site as a html file. Is there anything like that for information on linux?

This is perhaps becoming more meaningful in a world where corporate and governmental powers are gaining further and further control over the internet, and climate change is also threatening data centres, particularly in terms of the water requirements.

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LibreOffice is hiring a full time UI developer!
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/08/07/join-the-libreoffice-team-as-a-paid-developer-focusing-on-ui-with-initial-emphasis-on-macos-preferably-full-time-remote-m-f-d/

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More distros should take notes from NixOS's installer's desktop choice screen.
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LINUX market share surpasses %6 and how mainstream distros ratio is:
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Used to be a Linux hater. Just spent 19 hours getting my sound system to work on Windows. never again

Windows has fucked me ripe in the ass for almost 20 years. I'm never using it ever again except for gaming. I have never been so annoyed. I just spent many hours trying to hook an aux device and I couldn't do it because Windows refused. I plugged the aux into my phone and it instantly worked flawlessly. Linux here I come

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A screenshot from year 2008 of Manux, a discontinued Indonesian-based distro. You could find this be installed in some internet cafe back in the day.
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Release Notes for Debian 13 (Trixie)
https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/index.en.html

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This Week in Plasma: quick toggles in System Settings
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/08/09/this-week-in-plasma-quick-toggles-in-system-settings/

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Made my own GNU/Linux distro! ObsidianOS
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Built Updo, a CLI website monitoring tool because I got tired of web dashboards
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Additional Intel Linux Drivers Left Orphaned & Maintainers Let Go
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-More-Orphans-Maintainers

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Debian 13 released!

https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250809

Debian 13 is released. I never seen many users waiting for a new released. Hope it will be stable and secure.

I read some days ago about the release date and many users started upgrade and install the release using rc installer before official release!

Happy Debian release!

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Older tech books
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Debian 13 "trixie" released
https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250809

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Linux is one of the best gaming platforms right now

It’s not perfect, sure (anti-cheat is still a pain in the ass) - but the problem is, people keep comparing it to Windows, which obviously has a way bigger market share and way more years of direct support from devs and companies.

Comparisons can be useful for pushing Linux gaming forward, but they can also make us forget how far it’s already come.

And honestly, in 2025, Linux is a very mature gaming platform:

Drivers are constantly improving, and if you’re on AMD or Intel, you don’t even need to install them manually - just plug in your controller and play.
There are over 21,000 games available on the biggest gaming store - Steam (straight from your distro’s store) with cloud saves, automatic updates, and free online play.
Epic, GOG, or Amazon games? Install Heroic (also in your store) and you’re set.
Retro gaming? You’ve got emulators for pretty much anything - PS1, PS2, PS3, GameCube, SNES, Xbox, you name it - all right there in your distro's store.
Steam Deck, SteamOS.
DXVK, VKD3D, Vulkan and Proton are improving all the time.
And also tools like MangoHud for hardware info.
There are even distros made just for gaming, like Bazzite.

Even some big tech influencers are making videos about Linux gaming now. So Basically… gaming on Linux in 2025 is awesome. And I just love how good it has become.

EDIT: Some people here are misunderstanding the point of this post. It’s meant to be a celebration of what Linux is right now as a gaming platform - and it’s actually a very good one. At no point am I saying it’s better than Windows or making any direct comparisons. Like I said in the post:

"Comparisons can be useful for pushing Linux gaming forward, but they can also make us forget how far it’s already come."

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The Penguin Breaks Through: Linux Finally Hits 5% Market Share in the US
https://brainnoises.com/blog/linux-hits-5-percent-market-share-us/

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Btrfs at Scale: How Meta Depends on Btrfs for Our Entire Infrastructure BY The Linux Foundation (May 25, 2023)

Video (41 min): Btrfs at Scale: How Meta Depends on Btrfs for Our Entire Infrastructure - Josef Bacik, Meta

Explained by Phoronix :

Josef Bacik, a prominent Btrfs engineer at Meta, wrote about the magnitude of impact for Meta's Btrfs usage:

>"The Meta infrastructure is built completely on btrfs and its features. We have saved billions of dollars in infrastructure costs with the features and robustness of btrfs."

With the scale to which Meta operates and their massive infrastructure, Btrfs is attributed as having saved "billions of dollars" thanks to its advanced feature set and robustness. An interesting anecdote for those that continue to question Btrfs or its suitability for use in production environments.

More commentary can be found via this LKML thread amid the ongoing discussion over Bcachefs in the mainline Linux kernel.

From: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
To: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: "Aquinas Admin" <admin@aquinas.su>,
"Malte Schröder" <malte.schroeder@tnxip.de>,
"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Carl E. Thompson" <list-bcachefs@carlthompson.net>,
, ,

Subject:
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2025 15:21:56 -0400
Message-ID: <20250809192156.GA1411279@fedora> ()
In-Reply-To: <>

On Sat, Aug 09, 2025 at 01:36:39PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2025 at 07:42:38PM +0700, Aquinas Admin wrote:
> > Generally, this drama is more like a kindergarten. I honestly don't understand
> > why there's such a reaction. It's a management issue, solely a management
> > issue. The fact is that there are plenty of administrative possibilities to
> > resolve this situation.
>
> Yes, this is accurate. I've been getting entirely too many emails from
> Linus about how pissed off everyone is, completely absent of details -
> or anything engineering related, for that matter. Lots of "you need to
> work with us better" - i.e. bend to demands - without being willing to
> put forth an argument that stands to scrutiny.
>
> This isn't high school, and it's not a popularity contest. This is
> engineering, and it's about engineering standards.
>

Exactly. Which is why the Meta infrastructure is built completely on btrfs and
its features. We have saved billions of dollars in infrastructure costs with the
features and robustness of btrfs.

Btrfs doesn't need me or anybody else wandering around screaming about how
everybody else sucks to gain users. The proof is in the pudding. If you read
anything that I've wrote in my commentary about other file systems you will find
nothing but praise and respect, because this is hard and we all make our
tradeoffs.

That courtesy has been extended to you in the past, and still extends to your
file system. Because I don't need to tear you down or your work down to make
myself feel good. And because I truly beleive you've done some great things with
bcachefs, things I wish we had had the foresight to do with btrfs.

I'm yet again having to respond to this silly childishness because people on the
outside do not have the context or historical knowledge to understand that they
should ignore every word that comes out of your mouth. If there are articles
written about these claims I want to make sure that they are not unchallenged
and thus viewed as if they are true or valid.

Emails like this are why nobody wants to work with you. Emails like this are why
I've been on literally dozens of email threads, side conversations, chat
threads, and in person discussions about what to do when we have exceedingly
toxic developers in our community.

Emails like this are exactly why we have to have a code of conduct.

Emails like this are why a majority of the community filters your emails to
/dev/null.

You alone with your toxic behavior have wasted a fair amount of mine and other
peoples time trying to figure out how do we exist in our place of work with
somebody who is bent on tearing down the community and the people who work in
it.

I have defended you in the past, I was hoping that the support, guidance, and
grace you've been afforded by so many people in this community would have
resulted in your behavior changing. I'm very sorry I was wrong, and I'm very
sorry if my support in anyway enabled the decision to merge your filesystem.

Because your behavior is unacceptable. This email is unacceptable. Everything
about your presence in this community has been a disruption and has ended up
with all of our jobs being harder.

You are not some paraih. You are not some victim. You are not some misunderstood
genius. Your behavior makes this community a worse place to work in. If you are
removed from this community it will soley be because you lack the ability to
learn and to grow as a person and take responsibility for your behavior.

If you are allowed to continue to be in this community that will be a travesty.

Thanks,

Joseflinux-bcachefs@vger.kernel.orglinux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.orglinux-kernel@vger.kernel.orgRe: GIT PULL bcachefs changes for 6.17thread overviewraw3ik3h6hfm4v2y3rtpjshk5y4wlm5n366overw2lp72qk5izizw@k6vxp22uwnwa

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It's sick how big of an event a new debian release is

Title, basically.

It just makes me so hype that virtually the whole community celebrates and cherishes it everytime a new debian release comes out. There's some good reasons for that, obviously, but I just wanted to voice how happy this makes me.

Debian is an awesome distro, a true part of the bedrock of the ecosystem, and seeing so many people being hype for a new release on virtually every platform is just incredible to watch.

Way to f'ing go, Debian.

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