KDE Plasma 6.3 brings drawing tablet improvements
Tue 11:31am By Thom HolwerdaSpeaking of KDE, Plasma 6.3 has been released. It brings with it a ton of improvements aimed at digital artists, such as much improved management and configuration of drawing tablets. You can now map an area of the tablet’s surface to a part of the screen,…Moving KDE’s styling into the future
Tue 11:10am By Thom HolwerdaOne of the major issues with KDE’s styling system is the fact that over the year, it has accumulated four ways of styling applications – which makes themeing and changing aspects of the default theme far more cumbersome than it should be. In fact, with the…Oasis: a small, statically-linked Linux system
Mon 6:28pm By Thom HolwerdaYou might think the world of Linux distributions is a rather boring, settled affair, but there’s actually a ton of interesting experimentation going on in the Linux world. From things like NixOS with its unique packaging framework, to the various immutable…Redox’ relibc becomes a stable ABI
Mon 5:41pm By Thom HolwerdaThe Redox project has posted its usual monthly update, and this time, we’ve got a major milestone creeping within reach. Thanks to Anhad Singh for his amazing work on Dynamic Linking! In this southern-hemisphere-Redox-Summer-of-Code project, Anhad has…Rediscovering Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Mon 3:00pm By Thom HolwerdaDuring a weekend of tidying up – you know, the kind of chore where you’re knee-deep in old boxes before you realize it. Digging through the dusty cables and old, outdated user manuals, I found something that I had long forgotten: an old Plan…FreeBSD and hi-fi audio setup: bit-perfect, equalizer, real-time
Mon 11:36am By Thom HolwerdaA complete guide to configuring FreeBSD as an audiophile audio server: setting up system and audio subsystem parameters, real-time operation, bit-perfect signal processing, and the best methods for enabling and parameterising the system graphic equalizer…Three years of ephemeral NixOS: my experience resetting root on every boot
Mon 11:04am By Thom HolwerdaWe had a bit of a bug caused by changes we made to make quotes look better, but we’ve fixed it now, so we’re back on track (you may need to do a force-reload in your browser). Sorry for the disruption – and if you want to stay up-to-date on such issues…Cassette: a POSIX application framework featuring a retro-futurist GUI toolkit
Fri 6:17pm By Thom HolwerdaCassette is a GUI application framework written in C11, with a UI inspired by the cassette-futurism aesthetic. Built for modern POSIX systems, it’s made out of three libraries: CGUI, CCFG and COBJ. Cassette is free and open-source software, licensed under…UnixWare in 2025: still actively developed and maintained
Feb 5, 2025, 10:06 am By Thom HolwerdaIt kind of goes by under the radar, but aside from HP-UX, Solaris, and AIX, there’s another traditional classic UNIX still in active development today: UnixWare (and its sibling, OpenServer). Owned and developed by Xinuos, UnixWare and other related code and…MaXX Interactive Desktop 2.2.0 released
Feb 5, 2025, 9:43 am By Thom HolwerdaLate last year, the MaXX Interactive Desktop, the Linux (and BSD) version of the IRIX desktop, sprung back to life with a new release and a detailed roadmap. Thanks to a unique licensing agreement with SGI, MaXX’ developer, Eric Masson, has been able to…Why Upstart from Ubuntu failed
Feb 4, 2025, 8:39 am By Thom HolwerdaUpstart was an event-based replacement for the traditional System V init (sysvinit) system on Ubuntu, introduced to bring a modern and more flexible way of handling system startup and service management. It emerged in the mid-2000s, during a period when…The dumb reason why flag emojis aren’t working on your site in Chrome on Windows
Feb 4, 2025, 7:36 am By Thom HolwerdaAfter doing more digging than I feel like I should have needed to, I found my answer: it appears that due to concerns about the fact that acknowledging the existence of certain countries can be perceived as a nominally political stance, Microsoft has opted to…TuxTape: a kernel livepatching solution
Feb 4, 2025, 5:39 am By Thom HolwerdaGeico, an American insurance company, is building a live-patching solution for the Linux kernel, called TuxTape. TuxTape is an in-development kernel livepatching ecosystem that aims to aid in the production and distribution of kpatch patches to…GTK announces X11 deprecation, new Android backend, and much more
Feb 3, 2025, 6:16 am By Thom HolwerdaSince a number of GTK developer came together at FOSDEM, the project figured now was as good a time as any to give an update on what’s coming in GTK. First, GTK is implementing some hard cut-offs for old platforms – Windows 10 and macOS 10.15 are now the…Run Linux inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator
Feb 3, 2025, 5:49 am By Thom HolwerdaYou might expect PDF files to only be comprised of static documents, but surprisingly, the PDF file format supports Javascript with its own separate standard library. Modern browsers (Chromium, Firefox) implement this as part of their PDF engines. However, the…The GNU Guix System
Feb 3, 2025, 5:42 am By Thom HolwerdaGNU Guix is a package manager for GNU/Linux systems. It is designed to give users more control over their general-purpose and specialized computing environments, and make these easier to reproduce over time and deploy to one or many devices. ↫ GNU Guix…
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