Distrowatch in 2002. I was still on Slack (praised be Bob!). I don't remember more than half of these.
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Intel Begins Adding Nova Lake Xe3P To Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers - Some Will Lack Ray-Tracing
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Nova-Lake-Mesa-Xe3P

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Do you think Linux is the future of home desktops?

I feel like with the current trends in Windows development (telemetry, AI, ads, hardware reqs, bloatware) the alternatives in the form of GNU/Linux distributions become more and more attractive in comparison. And thanks to Valve, gaming has become almost seemless. I've been using Mint for a better half of the month and I don't see any reason to come back (yet?).

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Fix for bluetooth woes - Intel AX201 chip

I did an update recently and my bluetooth stopped working. It turned out to be a regression in the firmware (so I'll try to report it upstream) but maybe this will help someone else in the same situation. This was on voidlinux but it might affect anyone on an up to date system.

Symptom: bluetooth won't always connect and if it did it would produce terrible sound - halts and stammers.

Chip is an Intel AX201, lsusb gives:

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 8087:0026 Intel Corp. AX201 Bluetooth

I found that an old Mint USB stick worked fine so I thought to try an older version of the firmware:

From dmesg I found that the firmware is /lib/firmware/intel/ibt-19-0-0.sfi and ibt-0040-0041.ddc

The Mint 8 version is 249-27.23

The Void version is 193-33.24 (ie 2024 and newer)

Get the correct 2023 firmware files:

cd /tmp
wget https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/plain/intel/ibt-19-0-0.sfi?h=20231030 -O ibt-19-0-0.sfi.20231030.249-27.23
wget https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/plain/intel/ibt-0040-0041.ddc?h=20231030 -O ibt-0040-0041.ddc.20231030.249-27.23

sudo cp /lib/firmware/intel/ibt-19-0-0.sfi /lib/firmware/intel/ibt-19-0-0.sfi.193-33.24
sudo cp /lib/firmware/intel/ibt-0040-0041.ddc /lib/firmware/intel/ibt-0040-0041.ddc.193-33.24
sudo cp ibt-19-0-0.sfi.20231030.249-27.23 /lib/firmware/intel/ibt-19-0-0.sfi
sudo cp ibt-0040-0041.ddc.20231030.249-27.23 /lib/firmware/intel/ibt-0040-0041.ddc
sudo reboot

bluetooth (& wifi) work perfectly.

Now I just have to keep an eye on it manually after every update to see if it changes.

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TARmageddon Strikes: High Profile Security Vulnerability In Popular Rust Library
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-TARmageddon

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Torturing my Gigabit Ethernet to Preserve Linux History
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Ubuntu 25.10 Unattended Upgrades Broken Due To Rust Coreutils Bug
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10-Broken-Upgrade

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Progress Report: Asahi Linux 6.17
https://asahilinux.org/2025/10/progress-report-6-17/

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Flathub admits to years of license negligence
https://docs.flathub.org/blog/enhanced-license-compliance-tools

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Linux - Ubuntu 24.04 Lts keeps crashing.

Folks - facing issue when booting into Ubuntu instance, that's at initial boot time.
Post rebooting, in bios if i specifically pick only 6.14.0-29-generic from GRUB then only it works

Choosing other kernel version like 6.15.0 or 6.15.0-33-generic from GRUB screen still results in Kernel Panic

Setup
Dual booting OS on separate boot drives
Storage
M.2_1: Lexar SSD NM790 2TB -> Feodra
M.2_2: Lexar SSD NM790 2TB -> Ubuntu

I got two boot drives
Main - Fedora-42 (works perfectly fine, no issues or whatsoever. This setup for personal use time)

Secondary - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (uname -r 6.14.0-29-generic), runs into kernel panic at 1st launch and frequent crashes when using it, error logs below)


Hardware
Asus Motherboard
Intel Core Ultra Arrowlake CPU
Nvidia D-GPU

Ubuntu 24.04 at initial boot after selecting drives from bios



lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,LABEL,MOUNTPOINT,SIZE,MODE

NAME FSTYPE LABEL MOUNTPOINT SIZE MODE

loop0 squashfs /snap/bare/5 4K brw-rw----

loop1 squashfs /snap/firefox/7084 249.2M brw-rw----

loop2 squashfs /snap/core22/2133 73.9M brw-rw----

loop4 squashfs /snap/firefox/6966 247.6M brw-rw----

loop5 squashfs /snap/firmware-updater/167 11.1M brw-rw----

loop6 squashfs /snap/firmware-updater/210 18.5M brw-rw----

loop7 squashfs /snap/gnome-42-2204/202 516M brw-rw----

loop8 squashfs /snap/gnome-42-2204/226 516.2M brw-rw----

loop9 squashfs /snap/gtk-common-themes/1535 91.7M brw-rw----

loop10 squashfs /snap/snap-store/1270 10.8M brw-rw----

loop11 squashfs /snap/core22/2139 73.9M brw-rw----

loop12 squashfs /snap/snapd/25202 50.8M brw-rw----

loop13 squashfs /snap/snapd-desktop-integration/31 576K brw-rw----

loop14 squashfs /snap/thunderbird/812 226.2M brw-rw----

loop15 squashfs /snap/thunderbird/825 226.2M brw-rw----

loop16 squashfs /snap/snapd/25577 50.9M brw-rw----

nvme0n1 1.9T brw-rw----

├─nvme0n1p1 vfat /boot/efi 1G brw-rw----

└─nvme0n1p2 ext4 / 1.9T brw-rw----

nvme1n1 1.9T brw-rw----

├─nvme1n1p1 vfat 600M brw-rw----

├─nvme1n1p2 ext4 1G brw-rw----

└─nvme1n1p3 btrfs fedora 1.9T brw-rw----

Crash logs -> Mostly attributed to nvidia-kernel-source-580

cd /var/crash

/var/crash$ ls

linux-headers-6.14.0-32-generic.0.crash mlnx-ofed-kernel-dkms.0.crash _usr_bin_dash.0.crash

linux-headers-6.15.11-061511-generic.0.crash nvidia-kernel-source-580-open.0.crash _usr_lib_xorg_Xorg.1000.crash






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I need desperate help

I dont use reddit much so I dont know if there is a specific place to put this but I'll just put it here for now. I basically trapped myself in the bios menue of a laptop after an archinstall gone wrong. When I try to boot into the USB it just goes back to the bios menue. The only devices in my house are a Chromebook from my uncle (which i dont know how to get an iso from) a work desktop (which from my mom I dont think would allow me to download etcher. And the bricked laptop. Is there anything I can do?

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Fatsort for MECHEN DAP

I am having difficulty installing FATsort for my MECHEN audio player. I have used the codes in the terminal examples. So far, there have not been results in alphabitizing my music library. Does anybody know how to do this code correct?

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Graphics card fun with X11...

Today my colleague installed Manjaro KDE on his PC. Everything was set up well and cleanly. Only the performance with his gtx 960 and the 580 driver (which is his current one) with x11 was not optimal. A lot of jerking and a bit sluggish. The gtx960 is actually a pretty good GPU. Well. We've been fiddling around with the nvidia settings for a while, including the kwin compositor... didn't bring any improvement. A little annoyed, we wanted to look for another distribution when I noticed that it was running x11. So I switched to wayland and lo and behold:
The box performs excellently. Why none of us had the idea to check which session was active when we first started...
Well. Apparently the plasma version and the nvidia driver are no longer compatible with x11...
We could have saved ourselves all the fiddling around 😅

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What to do now?

Hi 👋 community,
I’m here for a question that’s making me go fool.
I have a Lenovo Notebook with the following specs:
- Amd E3020
- 8gb ram DRR3
- 240gb SSD

I’ve friend to use it as second pc with Linux Mint but as the work becomes harder it sticks and I have to push the power button to make it alive again.

It makes me fool to throw away this pc, it has never been really used, and it looks really good.

I was bought by my mother to my sister a few years ago ago (against all my suggestions and alternatives)


What would you do with a pc like this ?



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Are we now unknown?
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"Ok but can your GRUB do this?" - GRUB Bootloader Running Pong
https://github.com/aqarooni02/GrubHackPro

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Little brother got his first pc
https://redd.it/1ofqm1u
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Nyno 2.0 "The Engine" Release: Build Linux Workflows using Plain Text YAML + Bash + High-Performing Python, PHP, JavaScript Extensions using Multi-Process Worker Engines.
https://github.com/empowerd-cms/nyno

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Mozilla is a 65 million dollar per year organization that makes 25 mil profit, and has hundreds of millions of hoarded assets in securities. 15 CEOs make 10 mil. Employees are contracted for 2 mil, and 2 mil goes to "consulting and marketing" firms. A podcast firm is paid 50,000 per ~25 min episode
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This Week in Plasma: Plasma 6.5 is here! - KDE Blogs
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/10/25/this-week-in-plasma-plasma-6.5-is-here/

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Improve Linux for the PS2?

As many know, the PS2 have an official Linux release, my question is: area there any mod/homebrew version of this that work better that the official release?

I know that you cannot ask for too much with 32 MB of ram and a 300 MHz CPU, but I'm curious to know if someone have done it before, because as far I'm researching, I didn't find anything related to that

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