A Lost Unix Treasure: Fourth Edition Tape Finally Found
https://ponderwall.com/index.php/2025/11/09/unix-lost-tape/

https://redd.it/1osi8wp
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What happened to Unix Stickers?

In the 2010s Sticker Mule offered Unix Sticker Packs for just 1$ per package.
I am out of stickers and wanted to order a new pack today and just realized that sticker mule now does not offer these packages anymore and instead wants to have 5$(!!) for each sticker (completely insane, considering that you would get a full package for just a dollar back then).

Do you know about any other good shop that offers open source / technology / linux stickers in good quality?

https://redd.it/1oslr3j
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wayland global positioning

If I understand things correctly, most steam games current rely on xwayland or a compositor specific feature to position their window on the user's preferred monitor, while in a wayland-only scenario the wayland devs prefer to have it open randomly, and the application should be able to be resized without any error, despite the fact that I always want it to open on my preferred monitor

Been reading some of the current discussion over the wayland protocols related to global positioning, e.g. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge\_requests/264, though it gets into some other discussions about multi-window apps that need to move their windows dynamically around the screen. Some of the sentiment that I'm getting is that some, not all, of the waylands devs want to remove the idea of global positioning at all costs, even if it breaks existing UI paradigms that are still in use and are thriving over on windows and macos. Some of the cross-platform toolkits have their own devs in the discussion, like SDL, and tbh I would feel frustrated in their position too because if I had to support windows, macos, and linux/wayland, I honestly feel like there would be no other way to handle this besides just saying, "the user experience on wayland is borked and is impossible to fix on our end"

Why is it not impossible to provide a protocol that implements global positioning, and then leave it up to the compositors if they want to support it in the first place? I feel like that would leave applications functioning correctly on regular desktop setups, while giving other setups like VR the choice to say, hey, we don't support global positioning because it literally makes no sense here. Reading these wayland discussions is honestly maddening

https://redd.it/1osqmy4
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How screwed am I?

Inherited a non-boot system from a cnc machine

custom linux distro (heros5) unknown based on?
legacy bios, not efi
no installation source

(supposedly) machine was shutdown without drive shutting down successfully, came up with errors. drive was placed in another machine, who knows what then returned to cnc machine non-boot., incorrect signatures

forensic recovery pulled up a deleted partition which corrected one set of errors.

spent days going through grub repair. looks as if all the files and directories, etc. are there

finally get it to boot to a kernel panic.

able to try anything as I'm working off cloned drive.
have attempted live environments, no success
fsck seems to checkout

Hopefully someone will have a better solution than me repeating myself.
Any help appreciated Thanks in advance

panic at the kernel



https://redd.it/1osthy3
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UxPlay and iOS hotspot

UxPlay works flawlessly in my home network and I can mirror the screen of an iPad on my Debian laptop.

However, when the two devices (iPad and Debian laptop) are connected to the hotspot of my iPhone, UxPlay does not work.

I guess this has to do with the default settings of the iOS hotspot, any idea how to circumvent the problem?

https://redd.it/1osozv5
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What makes a Linux Distribution good for you?

Just want personal opinions, to see how the Linux community views each distribution differently, and what unites the Linux community together. Please answer with honesty and your own opinion. Include qualities such as “ease of use/security/customizability/CLI/GUI/etc.” And include a distro example!

Thank you!

https://redd.it/1osvkuh
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What is the best Linux I can install on my old MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009)?

That's it. What is the best Linux I can install on my old MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009)? I love that old school laptop and it has a MacOs installed, decent, but wanted to know if I could install a really fast Linux so get better juice from it.

The Mac has an SSD 250 kingston upgraded.

2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed.

4GB (two 2GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 memory.

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory.


Thank you.

https://redd.it/1osytkf
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nvidia libdrm support

(This is a bit of a technical post, bear with me)

I recently stumbled upon this post from august 2022:

https://developer.nvidia.com/docs/drive/drive-os/archives/6.0.4/linux/sdk/common/topics/window\_system\_stub/libdrmSupport12.html

It says there that libdrm is *not* implemented on top of the drm-kms driver. This seems odd (or outdated) to me, since nvidia's drivers have a drm kernel module and the kernel module was open-sourced a while back. Is this still current? I'm currently reading up on the linux graphic stack.

https://redd.it/1oszply
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Reminder that Linux is AMAZING for your old systems!
https://redd.it/1ot21gq
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The Linux conversion is complete
https://redd.it/1ot22n5
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Any distros that are lightweight and can run on a Chromebook without issues? I just installed Lubuntu and my 16 GB of space is already full.
https://redd.it/1ot44sa
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Linux 6.18-rc5 Released: "Small And Boring"
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-rc5-Released

https://redd.it/1ot513m
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Hibernate mode is being abandoned by most Distros. Why?

Does this have to do with security issues? If so, why not just encrypt the SWAP partition? I saw that Fedora leans more toward ZRAM, but as I understand it's not an alternative to hibernate. Wouldn't hibernate be helpful for battery quick drain (which is a known problem on many laptops)?

https://redd.it/1ot8rah
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From Gtk+libadwaita to Qt+KDE Frameworks: Easyeffects rewrite
https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects

https://redd.it/1ot9xcl
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The airplane’s passenger screen infront of me was running Linux code mid flight, which seemed abit unusual to me
https://streamable.com/4l8l8j

https://redd.it/1ota5o3
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Based on a true story
https://redd.it/1otc42y
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The Linux Kernel Looks To "Bite The Bullet" In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-Patch-Would-MS-Ext

https://redd.it/1otdo8h
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Firefox 145 Binaries Available - Aside From 32-bit Linux Being Removed
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-145-Released

https://redd.it/1othzlx
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After 35 years, I ditched Microsoft.

I'm almost 45 years, started with MS-DOS5 as a kid and here I am writing that I entirely ditched Microsoft.

I'm not gonna bother you with all the reasons that I have, but the main reason is security. These big tech companies push you into their clouds, steal your data and spy on you.

To me back in the 80's and 90's Microsoft was all about innovation and cool stuff. Now these days, just like Google, it seems to be all about power and money. There seems to be barely anything happening anymore, aside from releasing a new Windows version every X year with the same stuff but the start button on a different location, and perhaps a few different colors and more and more cloud integration.

I've seen MSDOS, Novell Netware, all Microsoft releases, BSD, OS2/Warp and a bunch of linux distro's. For now I'm on Mint as I love how tidy and clean everything is, not sure what is next.



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Is there a repository of videos for live desktop wallpapers?

I'm not sure in which community should I post this question in particular, if you have a suggestion I would appreciate it.

The thing is that there seems to be some some Linux apps that allow you set a video file as your desktop background, I know that the easiest thing would be to look for some on YouTube but it tends decrease the video's quality. So i was wondering if there's a place where people can submit/download videos to set them as desktop background, similar to the Wallpaper Engine's Steam workshop.

https://redd.it/1otofkg
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An open source funding-revolution is very well possible! Bear with me...

TL;DR https://youtu.be/IWmDZUtTzo8

Recently the Python Software Foundation denied a $1.5M grant from the U.S. government in order to keep their integrity. They turned down the biggest cash influx in their history. Cheers for that! It was kind of a wake up call for me, asking myself: How do I see open source working out for me and what can I do for the community?

Open source has got an obvious problem: lack of funding. And although donations exist, they are inefficient. With open source foundations such as the Mozilla Foundation or the Python Software Foundation being offered or actually taking investments from private companies or other bodies, often with strings attached, open source is running the risk of losing its independence and ultimately its openness. So what can we do?

Let me ask you another question: Why choose GitHub over Codeberg? Why choose Microsoft Office over OnlyOffice? Why choose proprietary over open source? Although there are many other reasons, private companies mostly get people hooked with convenience. This is often reflected by players like Microsoft or Google creating enormous software ecosystems inside which you as a user can traverse easily.

So convenience is a huge driver. Let's keep that in mind. People choose convenience, at least the mainstream, with priority and are willing to pay a price for it, fair enough. Private companies also provide closed ecosystems and support, which has got a value. I am not talking about that. All of that also means, that people generally have got and will spend money for software products.

So what is the proposition here? I am asking the entire open source community to endorse in a convenience of donation method which I call "downstream donations", for now. My point is, that donating to a single entity of the open source community is not an impact on the community as hole. Although almost every project in the community relies on other libraries and tools, those do usually not benefit from their forks. It is not a problem of funding, but a problem of liquidity in the system, partly due to a lack of convenience which developers, users and foundations can easily change with the method proposed here. It is an honor-based system that will distribute funding throughout the entire open source landscape and reward the most appreciated projects fairly and rightfully so.

To give you an example of this practice, let me show you the 'README.md' of my project 'morPy'. What I am doing is to provide a clear statement of my downstream donations, QR codes for convenient payment and provide summaries of donations and downstream payments on my homepage. I will also provide account statements, because transparency builds trust. This way, donations are just a qr-code scan away and will benefit other developers, in this case the ones morPy depends on. Nobody is obligated to pay and who can't will be covered by the community. This was always the spirit of open source. What we as developers have got to do is live this practice. Set up your 'readme'-file and homepage accordingly or miss out on being a receiver and a guarantor of the dependencies you choose. People can donate conveniently and know that their donation is in one way or another distributed throughout the community. They do not have to feel obligated for the next thing they make use of.

And finally, the icing on the cake. We urgently need a software license tailored for these downstream donations. One which explicitly allows for commercial use, but obligates to a fraction of the earnings in downstream donations. And I mean these really need to be a fraction, so companies can still benefit from open source as an inexpensive base, all the while open source stays independent and will be far better funded. The license also has to cover for the obligations of the developer: transparent downstream commitments and the correct implementation of the downstream donation method, which is still an individual setup.