Git: Introduce Rust and announce that it will become mandatory
https://lore.kernel.org/git/20250904-b4-pks-rust-breaking-change-v1-0-3af1d25e0be9@pks.im/

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This Week in Plasma: KDE 6.5 beta (Only Notable Change Log A.K.A. "TL;DR") by Nate Graham

Source: https://blogs.kde.org/2025/09/20/this-week-in-plasma-6.5-beta-and-start-of-the-bug-fix-a-palooza/

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How often do you update your wallpapers?
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Graphite (FOSS, non-destructive 2D art/design suite) September update - project's largest release to date
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl5BA4g3QXM

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Multiple kernels on a single system
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1038847/051210b0b125822a/

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What happened to unix.com???

Does anyone know what happened with unix.com? I remember using and learning Linux and other *nix from it for 15 or so years. I was on there less as I got to where I could answer most questions myself or with google. I went to just browse it the other day and it seems to be gone. Wondering if anyone knows what happened as it was a great resource.

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Serial console on a vm

I am running a server with Debian Trixie. It runs two virtual machines using kvm. I always ssh into these machines to do maintenance tasks. Yesterday I learned that I can also use



virsh console <machine_name>



to connect to the vm if the host hast serial console enabled, which may be useful in some situations.

Does having the serial console enabled on a vm possess any security risks?

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Service offerings from Mastodon
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/service-offerings-from-mastodon/

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Deleting a project on Fedora COPR

An image showing a snapx project dashboard with a \\"Delete Project\\" prompt. The prompt asks the user to solve a word problem to confirm the deletion: \\"3.6 hens lay 2.0 eggs in 3.4 days. How many eggs do 4.2 hens lay in 1.3 days?\\"

I think I might leave the project up... Human verification too hard these days /s

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I Created A CLI Data Processor

Lately, I built a data processor in Rust. It's incredibly fast compared to Python-based and other interpreted applications. I used it to check if 100M random numbers up to a billion were prime, and it finished in 3:42.6, a tiny amount of time compared to doing the thing with some python modules on my i7-3450QM. This data processor is also very easily integrated as a backend with AI middlemen and GUI frontends via shell and stdin, and the result is simply printed to stdout. If you find any problems or think I should add more features, please put in Issues tab.

https://github.com/matthewyang204/dproc

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any linux distro left that support i686 32bit cpu?

I have a really old laptop and I just realize that the CPU is i686 and that means no 64 bit linux distros, I try downloading voidlinux, it worked but not fully and any older version were impossible look for as most and all links are expired.

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Linux based Workflow for private cloud
https://redd.it/1nmz570
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Does Linux suffer from a community that suffers the "Curse of Knowlege"?

So the idea of this post is to ask a very simple question. Does the Linux community suffer from the Curse of Knowlege?

The Curse, or at least my interpretation of it, is simmilar to "math teacher syndrome" where a teacher doing a lesson on math can sometimes "skip trivial steps" when teaching more complex topics.

In the terms of Linux's community, its the idea that when we give our opinions, advice, and knowlege to others, we tend to do so with the Curse of Knowledge.

Take Nvidia Drivers. We can argue every day to Sunday about how, "objectively" Nvidia is a worse time on Linux than AMD (this is not an invitation to argue this is the comments haha).
This can put off new users as it makes Linux seem unstable when we talk about stuff like drivers not updating properly etc. But the reality is that, unless you are doing everything from complete scratch, the drivers are not likely to poop themselves if you use something like Ubuntu, Bazzite etc.

Another is "what is important". On Ubuntu, they spent a solid year updating their installer to be "more modern". But last year, when I helped around 12 students install Ubuntu on old laptops that they had "given up on"... not a single one of them even commented on the installer... which was the older version.

When it comes to major adoption, do we struggle to get people moving to Linux because, to be frank, the most important opinions, topic, advice... knowlege... is from a position of folk who have drunk quite a bit of the Linux sauce?

This is a community where we spend months on updating niche or intermediate / advanced tools and software... but then still dont have a way to change % to the actual raw values on GNOME's out of the box system monitor (that I know of haha).

So I guess my question is, are we held back a bit by a "Curse of knowlege" and does it effect the image folk have of Linux's stability / viability?

Interested to hear folk's opinion below 😁

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Flathub downloads per capita
https://redd.it/1nn70x4
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sshPilot is now on Flathub, has a built-in SFTP file manager
https://redd.it/1nn7arv
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How unsafe is it to have a simple weak password for a general use linux pc?

With Windows becoming worse and worse as years go on i'm planning to make the jump to linux soon. I have some knowledge of linux, but one thing always bothers me is the actual requirement of your password. I'm not planning on having my pc run servers ssh or anything like that just a simple gaming PC and my question is it really required to have a strong password? Like can I use for example 123 and not be vulnerable to just random attacks?

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Hardest Distro You’ve Ever Set Up?

I’m about 2 years into my linux journey and about 9 months after ditching Windows as my main operating system for Fedora.

Earlier on in my journey I distro hopped like most of us do (I assume,) and of course tried out Arch. Despite all the discussion about how involved it is I found the set up quite easy to follow. At the time I was rocking KDE Plasma and had little issue with it. I eventually ditched it because I didn’t want to learn AUR/Pacman, and have spent most of my days on Fedora as mentioned earlier.

Recently I swapped my desktop to proxmox in order to use vms with gpu pass through, and have been playing around with Nix. And at this stage I’ve been learning how to use Linux without a desktop manager. I have a simple macbook air I loaded i3 onto and have been using it quite successfully. And as of most recent, I have been trying Hyprland out. I’ve converted my bazzite install to use it, as well as the macbook, and for what I am currently doing they are going quite well.

But Nix.. Nix has been quite a pain to set up. Took me a day and a half to get to the point where I could get a session going, use keybinds and whatnot. The trickiest part has been (as far as I can tell) some issue with home manager and hyprland on the latest NixOS version. I am on 23.11 and everything seems to be working now though I have to figure out how to update Firefox so I can use extensions.

I will admit I am not the most savvy with these systems and have unfortunately relied too heavily on LLMs to assist me with stuff. So that is definitely a big part of my headache, but everything else I have ever done has been with its assistance, so I’m guessing it isn’t that well trained on Nix documentation, as well as being prone to hallucinations.

Regardless, I am quite happy to have a functioning Nix install and look forward to customizing it further.

I’m curious about what distributions have been the toughest for you to set up? Thanks for reading and commenting, feel free to roast me for using AI :)

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I think I understand now…
https://redd.it/1nnecva
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Why should I switch to Linux?

I don't really know much about like operating systems and such. I know from what I've read/seen that windows sucks (and Microsoft is also super annoying), but what are the pros and cons? I've tried I believe it was mint before, and used steamOS with the deck, but I was very confused/lost.
As someone who almost exclusively uses her laptop for gaming and university coursework, is it worth it to consider switching to Linux?

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My OmniROM Logo Redesign
https://redd.it/1nnmf4w
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Loving Linux a LOT after 31 years of use.

I started tinkering with Linux in 1994. I bought a set of 3 floppy disks at a computer show after seeing a computer displayed with Linux running on it. I don't remember WHAT distro it was. Could have been anything at that point. I'm trying to hunt down the floppy disk case (I moved my home office to another bedroom and everything is kind of in a shambles now). If I find it, I'll take pictures of the disks if they actually have a name... I do recall it was a BBS that made the disks. Like Fox Valley Linux User Group (an Illinois Linux group) I think is what it was called. But basically, you installed it, and when it booted you were presented with a command line login and a command line session pretty much. I do recall Midnight Commander (mc) being my most used program on that PC. It's main purpose was to copy stuff from one place to another, But you could also edit text based files like config files and whatnot. The internet I don't think was all that popular back then. It was mostly Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) that ruled the dial up kingdom in those days.

I was probably running Windows 3.1 back then. It was a great MS-DOS Based GUI (MS-DOS was the Operating System and Windows was the GUI for DOS... Much like KDE, Cinnamon, MATE, etc are GUI's for the Linux OS).

But in my free time, I would spin up Linux on a spare PC and just play around in it for maybe an hour or so each time. Trying to get a grasp of it at that time. I wasn't even sure if there even WAS a GUI for Linux back then. Mine didn't have one. I didn't experience a GUI until I found SUSE Linux. I believe it was in 2001 and there was internet back then. We had ADSL as I recall.

By that time, you could just download Linux and put it on floppies yourself. As I recall, it was pretty easy to do. I think they came in .rar format and when you extracted them, it wrote to the floppy as it should be written to. So if it was supposed to boot your system, it could. I may be wrong on the rar... Might have been something else. I don't think .zip stored bootable file info and ISO wasn't really a thing yet I don't think.

In 2007, I made my first Ubuntu CD which that one booted fine... CD writers could take single file compressed CDs and make an exact image on a CD/DVD. Might have been ISO back then... I can't remember... Man! It's been a LONG time since I've had to do that... I don't even have a DVD drive in this computer. Crazy!!!

In 2012 the transformation kinda started for me. I was running Windows 7 and I really liked it. But rumors were flying about the new version of Windows that hadn't come out yet... Windows 10. I didn't like what I was hearing about it. So, I wanted to get ahead of the game and started looking seriously at Linux as a possible successor for me.

So, I looked at Ubuntu again. 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) is the version I was dual booting along with Windows 7. The way I did that was kind of neat. I really wanted the 2 OSes to never bump heads. Never seeing each other at all. So, I devised this Hot Swap drive tray system. Basically, I had 2 identical hard drives (if they were identical models then you wouldn't have to mess with anything in the BIOS when you swapped drives). So, if I was running Windows and wanted to switch to Linux, I's shut down Windows, turning off the PC. Then, I'd pull out the Windows 7 tray and slide in the Ubuntu tray and restart the system. The BIOS never knew the difference.

As far as it was concerned, the computer thought it still had the same Seagate 120GB Drive in it when it started up because they were the exact same model. In fact, I had 2 more on the shelf in case I wanted to try out another Linux distro. I think that only happened once. Yeah, it was Gentoo now that I think of it. I had printed the install section from the manual. Man, that was a bear to install back then. But I got it installed. Didn't really care much for it so that drive tray sat on a shelf the longest. I did boot it a few times to update it and whatnot but Ubuntu was my main Linux distro at the time when I