r/linux

When people see me using my computer, web browser, office suite, photo editing, it's all fine. But if they catch a glimpse of my white-on-black terminal, they completely zone out. The shell is not something I know about and they don't but very well could, it's a hard no. It's a dark zone they feel they can't enter....

Libreboot is free/opensource boot firmware replacing proprietary BIOS/UEFI. Better security/customisation than most proprietary firmware. Highlights in this release include: \* MrChromebox EDK2 payload by default on most boards, with SeaBIOS CSM (CSMWrap) and GRUB EFI provided in-flash for backward compatibility....

Hey everyone, Like many sysadmins and developers, I frequently run scripts, autonomous tools, or quick terminal edits that can accidentally overwrite critical configuration files or source code. Traditional solutions like Git-based watchers (\`gitwatch\`) often break on rapid consecutive writes due to...

Amazon shipped this with a 32-bit 4.4 kernel on a 64-bit MT8183. It now boots mainline 6.18 arm64. Screen, touch, Wi-Fi, USB and audio all work, with a real display driver still to go. Most of MT8183 is already in mainline thanks to the Chromebooks that use it, which helped a lot. What wasn't there was the board...

I recently built a new rig around an AMD Ryzen 5 9600X paired with 32GB of DDR5 RAM. My primary goal was to find the optimal Linux distribution for this setup—specifically one that could leverage the CPU’s hardware instructions (AVX-512 / AVX-VNNI) to run local LLMs via Ollama at maximum speed, without needing a...

Hey y'all so before we start i should warn AI was used in the creation of this but don't worry it not vibe coded slop and I've made it open source under MIT so you all can inspect it all you want. But i came to y'all today to tell you I've been working on interpreter for basic it called basically it is still very...

"Torvalds said that the time has come to make it harder for new people to contribute code to the kernel. People like Kroah-Hartman have spent years trying to teach people how to contribute; it is time to stop doing that, he said." [https://lwn.net/Articles/1099594/](https://lwn.net/Articles/1099594/) It is...

Finally they support Linux in Appimage format with specs: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or newer, Fedora 43 or newer, or Debian 12 or newer and An internet connection is required for setup and online features. Offline mode supports eligible installed games.