Render a Guitar Pro score in real time on Linux
Tuxguitar is a quite powerful application written in a mixture of Java / C. It is able to render a score in real time either via Fluidsynth or via pure MIDI. The development of Tuxguitar started in 2008 on Sourceforce and after a halt in 2022, the project restarted on Github and is still actively developed. The goal of this article is to try to render a score via Tuxguitar, and various other applications connected to Tuxguitar, via Jack … ⌘ Read more
6.15-rc7: mainline
Version:6.15-rc7 (mainline)Released:2025-05-18Source:linux-6.15-rc7.tar.gzPatch:full ( incremental) ⌘ Read more
5 Linux Commands You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
In this article, I will show you five Linux commands you’ve probably never heard of. They’re simple, practical, and designed to make your…
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6.1.139: longterm
Version:6.1.139 (longterm)Released:2025-05-18Source:linux-6.1.139.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-6.1.139.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.139 ⌘ Read more
5.15.183: longterm
Version:5.15.183 (longterm)Released:2025-05-18Source:linux-5.15.183.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-5.15.183.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.15.183 ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de you need to get a gold chain and hang this little penguin on it, so that nobody can doubt your Linux user status.

Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames: Control Characters (such as Newline), Leading Dashes, and Other Problems (2009, 2024)
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Yet Another Linux Distro Ditches Firefox for Brave
First Zorin OS, now the Fedora-based Nobara changes the default web browser. ⌘ Read more
next-20250516: linux-next
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Accessibility on Linux sucks, but GNOME and KDE are making progress
Accessibility in the software world is a problem in general, but it’s an even bigger problem on open source desktops, as painfully highlighted by this excellent article detailing the utterly broken state of accessibility on Linux. Reading the article is soul-crushing as it starts to dawn on you just how bad the situation really is for those among us who require accessibility features, making it vir … ⌘ Read more
next-20250515: linux-next
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Expose & Explore: Discover misconfigured service protocols and ports using Linux
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is the organisation responsible for managing and assigning port number … ⌘ Read more
OH MY FUCKING GOD I’M GOING TO CRY I NEED BIG TUX SO BAD https://www.steiner-plueschshop.de/kuscheltiere/arktis-seetiere/pinguin-linux/
next-20250514: linux-next
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How to install and run Minikube with Rootless Podman on ARM-based MacBooks
minikube provides a local Kubernetes cluster on macOS, Linux, and Windows. minikube’s primary goals are to be the best tool for local Kubernetes application development and to support all Kubernetes features that fit into that environment…. ⌘ Read more
next-20250513: linux-next
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Linux removes support for the 486, and now I’m curious what that means for Vortex86 processors
I had to dig through our extensive archive – OSNews was founded in 2007, after all – to see if we reported on it at the time, but it turns out we didn’t: in 2006, Intel announced that in 2007, it would cease production of a range of old chips, including the 386 and 486. In Product Change Notification 106013-01, Intel proclaimed these chips dead. … ⌘ Read more
next-20250512: linux-next
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6.15-rc6: mainline
Version:6.15-rc6 (mainline)Released:2025-05-11Source:linux-6.15-rc6.tar.gzPatch:full ( incremental) ⌘ Read more
VPS troubles and the weekend
This weekend I went to the cottage with P on Friday. I hoped I would
have a nice weekend reading in front of the wood stove, but I had also
planned to spend at least a few hours trying to configure Maddy as the
new mail server for hack.org et al.
Then the web server I moved to the new VPS died. Again. I connected to
the VNC console and, like before, the Linux kernel couldn’t find its
root disk. A simple:
# mount /dev/vda2 /sysroot; exit
in the emergency shell solved thi … ⌘ Read more
Xtool: cross-platform Xcode replacement for Linux, Windows, and macOS
A few months ago I shared my Swift SDK for Darwin, which allows you to build iOS Swift Packages on Linux, amongst other things. I mentioned that a lot of work still needed to be done, such as handling codesigning, packaging, and bundling. I’m super excited to share that we’ve finally reached the point where all of these things are now possible with cross-platform, open source software. Enter, xto … ⌘ Read more
next-20250509: linux-next
Version:next-20250509 (linux-next)Released:2025-05-09 ⌘ Read more
5.15.182: longterm
Version:5.15.182 (longterm)Released:2025-05-09Source:linux-5.15.182.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-5.15.182.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.15.182 ⌘ Read more
next-20250508: linux-next
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Mastering Linux Part 3: A Beginner’s Guide to APT and YUM Package Management
A Beginner’s Guide to APT and YUM Package Management
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Canonical (Ubuntu) Requiring Applicants Take “DEI and Belonging” Class
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next-20250507: linux-next
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A Penetration Tester’s Journey
Part 4 of “Beginner to Master in Linux” — A Penetration Tester’s Journey
A Must-Have Tool for Bug Hunters: Find Open Redirect Vulnerabilities on Linux
Automate open redirection detection, save hours of manual testing, and level up your bug bounty recon game.
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VectorVFS: your filesystem as a vector database
VectorVFS is a lightweight Python package that transforms your Linux filesystem into a vector database by leveraging the native VFS (Virtual File System) extended attributes. Rather than maintaining a separate index or external database, VectorVFS stores vector embeddings directly alongside each file—turning your existing directory structure into an efficient and semantically searchable embedding store. VectorVFS supports Meta’s Percepti … ⌘ Read more
How to build a fleet of networked offsite backups using Linux, WireGuard and rsync
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IBM unveils the LinuxONE Emperor 5
Following the recent release of the IBM z17 mainframe, IBM today unveiled the LinuxONE Emperor 5, which packs much of the same hardware as the z17, but focused on Linux use. Today we’re announcing IBM LinuxONE 5, performant Linux computing platform for data, applications and your trusted AI, powered by the IBM Telum II processor with built-in AI acceleration. This launch comes at a pivotal time, as technology leaders focus on three critical imperatives: enabling … ⌘ Read more
next-20250506: linux-next
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Building your own Atomic (bootc) Desktop
Bootc and associated tools provide the basis for building a personalised desktop. This article will describe the process to build your own custom installation. ↫ Daniel Mendizabal at Fedora Magazine The fact that atomic distributions make it relatively easy to create custom “distributions” is s really interesting bonus quality of these types of Linux distributions. The developers behind Blue95, which we talked about a few weeks ago, based their entire … ⌘ Read more
6.1.137: longterm
Version:6.1.137 (longterm)Released:2025-05-05Source:linux-6.1.137.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-6.1.137.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.137 ⌘ Read more
next-20250505: linux-next
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6.15-rc5: mainline
Version:6.15-rc5 (mainline)Released:2025-05-04Source:linux-6.15-rc5.tar.gzPatch:full ( incremental) ⌘ Read more
You need break the routine.
I haven’t really done that lately. 🤔 Maybe have another go at Rust (given its increasing importance in the Linux kernel)? Or Elixir, yes, I only had some very, very brief contact with it. 🤔
I just came across an old forum posting of mine about Prolog. That brought up some memories. Prolog is pretty alien, but I do miss stuff like that because it’s so different.
Just thinking out loud here. 😅
“Low on Space in Kali Linux? Here’s How I Fixed It and Freed Up GBs”
“I was in the middle of a pentesting session when Kali refused to cooperate.”
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz @quark@ferengi.one In 2014 one person created protocol ii. Later it forked in IDEC. Why i said this? Because it’s simple “federated” forum-like protocol where from your station fetch another every 5-10 minutes. Stations has topic-based channels like idec.talks, linux.16, haiku.os, zx.spectrum. In short it’s FIDO but.. more modern? Documentation: https://github.com/idec-net/new-docs (mostly Russian, but you can use translator, also protocol already translated to english)
Confession:
I’ve never found microblogging like twtxt or the Fediverse or any other “modern” social media to be truly fulfilling/satisfying.
The reason is that it is focused so much on people. You follow this or that person, everybody spends time making a nice profile page, the posts are all very “ego-centric”. Seriously, it feels like everybody is on an ego-trip all the time (this is much worse on the Fediverse, not so much here on twtxt).
I miss the days of topic-based forums/groups. A Linux forum here, a forum about programming there, another one about a certain game. Stuff like that. That was really great – and it didn’t even suffer from the need to federate.
Sadly, most of these forums are dead now. Especially the nerds spend a lot of time on the Fediverse now and have abandoned forums almost completely.
On Mastodon, you can follow hashtags, which somewhat emulates a topic-based experience. But it’s not that great and the protocol isn’t meant to be used that way (just read the snac2 docs on this issue). And the concept of “likes” has eliminated lots of the actual user interaction. ☹️