What is Linus Torvalds' third-best creation?

obviously 1. linux kernel, 2. git

But what's the third-best thing he's ever made outside the sphere of those two? The most I've been able to find is a pretty lowkey log software for dive computers. Surely he must have built something else right? So what's #3?

Update: okay I found out Linus made Subsurface in 2011 during the 2-week stretch of the "kernel.org disaster" when he wasn't getting any pull requests (I think this has something to do with a security breach). He was bored and wanted to do his biggest hobby of programming, so he turned to literally his only other hobby of scuba diving and made it. Pretty interesting stuff.

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zswap/zram is a godsend during these RAM shortages.

I went with 32gb in April. 64gb would've only been 50% more at the time. It stings.

Thankfully, zswap chills the burn. Firefox tabs and compilation jobs seem to compress between 3 and 4x using zstd compression when I've tested it out. Wouldn't work if I did video editing or other media stuff, but I'm thankful for the headroom it does give me.

If you haven't tried it or zram out yet, do so!

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NVIDIA 590 Linux drivers drop GeForce GTX 900 “Maxwell” and GTX 10 “Pascal” support
https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-590-linux-drivers-drop-geforce-gtx-900-maxwell-and-gtx-10-pascal-support

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What is the most user friendly Linux distro you can recommend for a beginner?

Hi, guys. I have been a windows user for almost 30 years now. And I started to think I need to move to linux, especially after the windows 10 end of support and the messy windows 11 state.

So basically, I want to know what distro do you recommend. I know some basic programming, nothing complicated or fancy.

Also, what apps/software do you recommend as alternative to MS Office (mainly need word, excel, and Power point)

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AES-GCM Optimizations Land In Linux 6.19 - Benefiting AMD Zen 3, AVX-512 CPUs Too
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-AES-GCM

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For "Distro Hoppers", how do you do it?

Is the machine you "Distro Hop" on not your daily driver or something?

I really need stability. I get home from work, in a computer related field, and if I have to come home and fuck around with stuff just to get basic tasks done I'd be so burnt out.

If you do it on VMs or some side hardware, you'd be 'less' 'apt (get' har har) to run into as many things as you would as if you were to immerse yourself using your daily driver. Subsequently your 'distro hop' would only give you a portion of the info you'd want to decide if you were going to make it a daily driver.

There's always booting from a USB LiveCD, but then you're not using all your 'stuff', need to set up accounts, map drives, etc just to get basic functionality.

Just wondering what kinda methodology you all use to distro hop. Thanks!



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[OC] Popularity of gamer Linux Distros over time
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Just got my donation notification of the year
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Linux Kernel 6.18 Will Be LTS, Supported Until December 2027
https://web.archive.org/web/20251203180155/https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

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LibreOffice 26.2 Alpha1 is available for testing
https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2025/12/03/libreoffice-26-2-alpha1-is-available-for-testing/

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X.Org Server's xkbcomp Updated For Four Security Issues Dating Back Years
https://www.phoronix.com/news/xkbcomp-1.5-Released

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Alpine 3.23.0 released
https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.23.0-released.html

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I wrote an open-source storage engine that's 2x faster than RocksDB
https://tidesdb.com/articles/tidesdb-vs-rocksdb/

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Run any Windows app on Linux with WinBoat, it's free and open source - gHacks Tech News
https://www.ghacks.net/2025/12/02/run-any-windows-app-on-linux-with-winboat-its-free-and-open-source/

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Intel-****-firmware packages have the same changelogs as amd-****-firmware packages

I don't know if this affects Linux as a whole or only fedora and so I don't know where to report it. Also I don't know what flair to use

So today I want to update my system after about 2 week of not using it and discorvered that the changelogs for 20251125 of the intel firmware packages don't mention Intel even once but instead mentions AMD a lot. After locking at the AMD-***-firmware packages I discovered that they have the same changelogs.

That probably shouldnt happen.

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Petition: Oracle, it’s time to free JavaScript.
https://javanoscript.tm/letter

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Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice developer focusing on UI/UX
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/12/04/welcome-dan-williams-new-libreoffice-developer-focusing-on-ui-ux/

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It seems none of the major distros test systemctl suspend when updating the Linux kernel or any other package.

I'm probably part of the minority who suspends their desktop pc, instead of fully shutting it down. It's just convenient, to wiggle the mouse the next day and continue where I left off the night before.

However, over the past few years since I daily drive Linux, I've had many issues with different distros, where suspend didn't work for one reason or another. One time it wouldn't go to sleep at all and come back right after, other times the PC would freeze, and as of right now, monitors go black, and nothing else happens.

I'm on TW now, which is supposed to be a stable rolling release due to their thorough QA, but somehow suspend always seems to slip through.



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Why would someone use FreeBSD on a desktop?

I have seen a surprising amount of people using FreeBSD or some other variant of BSD. There's some on this sub, and there's even a whole sub for that. Is there any reason to do that? There's less development for FreeBSD because almost no one uses it, and no one wants to use it because there less development, I also heard there's less drivers. Is there any reason to use it, other that curiosity of course.

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EndeavourOS I love you!
https://redd.it/1pe9m8r
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My first PC build in 15 years. Running linux mint for the first time. You have a new convert.
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