Linux 6.18 Adding A New Power Savings Option For The Intel Graphics Driver
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-SLPC-Power-Profile

https://redd.it/1npbh71
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Intel Moves Pre-Arc Graphics To "Legacy" Driver On Windows - Linux Users Need Not Worry
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-11th-14th-Gen-Legacy-Drv

https://redd.it/1npbgnq
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SPARC v9-targetted Linux Distro?

I'm getting into the SPARC eco-system in a quest to collect all of the dead-tech RISC UNIX workstations of old. In that vein, I've glommed onto a reasonably new (13 years old) Sun SPARC T5-2 server.

Now, what to run on it? I've downloaded Oracle Solaris 11.4, but I'd rather do straight up Linux, but I don't know if it has drivers for all of the funky hardware that SPARC brings to the party. I know Debian does/used to have a sparc port, but this is a sparc64 architecture.

If worse comes to worst, there's always the Gentoo sparc64 port.

But really, if it were relatively straight forward, I'd love to have an Arch sparc64 (SPARCH-64?) port.

https://redd.it/1nphvch
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Open Infrastructure is Not Free: A Joint Statement on Sustainable Stewardship
https://openssf.org/blog/2025/09/23/open-infrastructure-is-not-free-a-joint-statement-on-sustainable-stewardship/

https://redd.it/1npitr0
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SUSE Announces Better Support for NVIDIA CUDA

SUSE in partnership with NVIDIA today announced making the NVIDIA CUDA TOolkit officially available on all SUSE platforms.

Similar to Canonical's recent announcement of official support for NVIDIA CUDA within Ubuntu Linux archives, SUSE today announced formal CUDA support on SUSE Linux operating systems.

This evolved support for NVIDIA CUDA on SUSE Enterprise Linux includes simplified installation support via the SUSE repositories, continuous updates for new CUDA packages that align with the latest NVIDIA official releases, and is available to all SUSE users.

SUSE wrote in today's announcement:

"Following a close collaboration with NVIDIA, SUSE can now distribute the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit directly within our products. You might have already seen the news from NVIDIA about this; we’re excited to share what this means for you, our developer community. Our goal is simple: to make deploying CUDA on SUSE platforms radically easier, helping you accelerate your work in AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and beyond.
...
We’ve teamed with NVIDIA to bring the CUDA software stack directly into SUSE products.
This means you can now get the essential CUDA components right alongside your other SUSE packages, which will streamline your entire setup and dependency management. This is a game-changer, especially for complex AI frameworks like PyTorch and essential libraries like OpenCV."

Source: SUSE Announces Better Support For NVIDIA CUDA - Phoronix

https://redd.it/1npttla
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Alright, this is a bit of a weird question

I’ve been looking for answers about how to run the Ultrix Window Manager, the first x11 window manager from 1985. I cannot find instructions on how to compile it, and can’t even find its dependencies. I’ve found a github repo with the source code, but it’s archived and doesn’t have any info on compiling.

https://github.com/Arquivotheca/uwm is the repo for anyone wondering

https://redd.it/1npn7o2
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How much space does your Flatpak take up?
https://redd.it/1npxsa8
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Linux for a 1.7 Ghz, 16 GB RAM laptop.

Title says it all, using an ALLDOCUBE i1506s with an Intel N95, 16 GB of RAM, and an 500GB HDD. Stopped using Windows 11 within a month, it was insanely slow. Using Linux Mint XFCE, but the experience isn't great. Issues everywhere, and old versions or missing packages thanks to Ubuntu base. Want a non-Ubuntu Linux distro and a DE that will run good on such hardware. Not that good at Linux yet, so do not reccomend Arch or Gentoo. Use it for daily stuff, like web browsing, some YT, Reddit. Also some student work. Text editing, and some extremely light gaming (browser games).

https://redd.it/1npwqrh
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mgmtconfig version 1.0.0 now released

Dear reader,

Your mod is the main author of a next generation automation tool. I'm trying to make this open source work sustainable so I've started an open source style company.

If you'd like to encourage this work, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks

~

Ten years of #mgmtconfig

Version 1.0.0 now released

https://purpleidea.com/blog/2025/09/25/10-years-of-mgmt/

https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/releases/tag/1.0.0

https://m9rx.com/news/10-years-of-mgmt/

Please share if you're so inclined:

https://mastodon.social/@purpleidea/115263337144317190

https://bsky.app/profile/purpleidea.bsky.social/post/3lznalos6uk2l

https://x.com/purpleidea/status/1971088021404655862

https://redd.it/1nq0h33
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Yt-dlp: Soon you'll need Deno or another supported JS runtime, to keep YouTube downloads working as normal.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404

https://redd.it/1nq1xxe
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Septor distro in 2025

Im looking for a pretty good privacy focused linux, iv came across one called Septor, but it doesn't look like it receives ongoing updates, does anyone here have any experience using it the past couple years?

https://redd.it/1nq1qn7
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Intel Releases IGSC 1.0 For Applying Firmware Updates To Graphics Cards
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IGSC-1.0

https://redd.it/1nq51bu
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Could this soft lockup bug occur due to Intel's E core, P core, Hybrid architecture?
https://redd.it/1nq4hiv
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linux actually have alot of software support for an OS with around 5% marketshare

I see many people talking about how "linux barely supports anything", but when we look at how low the marketshare is, it's quite alot.

most of the free popular proprietary software are on linux. and the only paid one people miss ALOT is the office suite

https://redd.it/1nq8x5i
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This month in Servo: variable fonts, network tools, SVG, and more!
https://servo.org/blog/2025/09/25/this-month-in-servo/

https://redd.it/1nqbdzq
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Seedit is fully open source, peer-to-peer, and self-hosted reddit alternative built on IPFS
https://github.com/plebbit/seedit

https://redd.it/1nqg858
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RedoxOS Development Priorities for 2025/26
https://www.redox-os.org/news/development-priorities-2025-09/

https://redd.it/1nqhoa1
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Flatpak 10+ GB disk occupation
https://redd.it/1nqkp8q
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The COSMIC Beta has arrived.
https://x.com/COSMIC_desktop/status/1971403017351201001

https://redd.it/1nqpyal
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I published my first GNOME Extension!
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/8238/gnome-speech2text/

https://redd.it/1nqriaj
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Rescued my crashed NVME drive to a new one. AMA

Recently my desktop main 2TB nvme drive with arch linux installed on it suddenly went into read-only mode just after booting, throwing up all kinds of errors. I quickly ordered a new nvme drive (same size) and have not touched the crashed drive since.

The errors:

Sep 24 16:51:39 danktank kernel: nvme1n1: Write(0x1) @ LBA 2780645808, 8 blocks, Attempted Write to Read Only Range (sct 0x1 / sc 0x82) DNR
Sep 24 16:51:39 danktank kernel: critical medium error, dev nvme1n1, sector 2780645808 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 2
Sep 24 16:51:39 danktank kernel: EXT4-fs warning (device nvme1n1p2): ext4_end_bio:368: I/O error 7 writing to inode 96750082 starting block 347580726)
Sep 24 16:51:39 danktank kernel: EXT4-fs (nvme1n1p2): failed to convert unwritten extents to written extents -- potential data loss! (inode 96750082, error -5)
Sep 24 16:51:39 danktank kernel: Buffer I/O error on device nvme1n1p2, logical block 347449398

[rip nvme disk](https://preview.redd.it/8ot7u0xisfrf1.jpg?width=2304&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=779d13aa173e22be4f06d6d429d1022ed864997f)

Once i got my new drive i used [ddrescue](https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html) to copy the crashed drive to the new NVME via a bootable usb stick linux environment:

# Clone entire source (/dev/nvme0n1) to destination (/dev/nvme1n1)
sudo ddrescue -f -n /dev/nvme0n1 /dev/nvme1n1 rescue.log
# Second pass to retry bad areas
sudo ddrescue -d -r3 /dev/nvme0n1 /dev/nvme1n1 rescue.log

Ran fsck on the new device to fix any filesystem errors that occured on the old drive:

e2fsck -f /dev/nvme1n1p1
e2fsck -f /dev/nvme1n1p2

Removed the old nvme from my system (since we now have conflicting disk UUID's), booted up, held my heart... and it actually booted!

Some more issues arose, since some of the files were corrupted. Hyprland would not boot, a lot of weird library errors when starting some software.

Solution

# Re-install all the packages from pacman that
# are currently installed. Force overwrite any
# files that are still lingering around.

# Use this with caution, i'm not responsible for
# anything that breaks if you run this on your
# perfectly fine system.

# This was only used because my system was just cloned
# from a broken disk, and i had little to lose anyway.

pacman -Qnq | pacman -S --noconfirm --overwrite '*' -

Now i'm back to running my old desktop environment without the need to install a whole new linux environment. Pretty happy with the outcome.

If anyone has any comment of what i could have done better, or what i can do on the newly recovered environment to make sure i will not run into issues in the future please let me know!

**Bonus ddrescue outputs**

Just after starting ddrescue

[root@CachyOS ~]# ddrescue -f -n /dev/nvme0n1 /dev/nvme1n1 rescue.log
GNU ddrescue 1.29.1
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
ipos: 113608 MB, non-trimmed: 655360 B, current rate: 89718 kB/s
opos: 113608 MB, non-scraped: 0 B, average rate: 321 MB/s
non-tried: 1887 GB, bad-sector: 0 B, error rate: 0 B/s
rescued: 113306 MB, bad areas: 0, run time: 5m 52s
pct rescued: 5.66%, read errors: 10, remaining time: 5h 4m
time since last successful read: 0s
Copying non-tried blocks... Pass 1 (forwards)

About 3.5 hours later

[root@CachyOS ~]# ddrescue -f -n /dev/nvme0n1 /dev/nvme1n1 rescue.log
GNU ddrescue 1.29.1
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt

ipos: 118918 MB, non-trimmed: 655360 B, current rate: 120 MB/s
opos: 118918 MB, non-scraped: 0 B, average rate: 295 MB/s
non-tried: 1881 GB, bad-sector: 0 B, error rate: 0 B/s
ipos: 1960 GB, non-trimmed: 2359 kB, current rate: 222 MB/s
opos: 1960 GB, non-scraped: 0 B, average rate: 158 MB/s
non-tried: 41134 MB, bad-sector: 0 B, error rate: 0 B/s
rescued: 1959 GB, bad areas: 36, run time: 3h 25m