Unix recap for week 12/2025

From 17/3/2025 to 23/3/2025

Articles #

• FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 763 comments in 3 discussions

• Introducing two new open source PebbleOS watches! 635 comments in 4 discussions

• PSA: Readability-enhancing opensource font 'Atkinson Hyperlegible' has got a 2025 release with a new 'Mono' variant and improvements to the original called 'Next'. Enjoy! 593 comments in 10 discussions

• The atrocious state of binary compatibility on Linux 474 comments in 4 discussions

• Calibre 8.0.1 released (e-book manager) 470 comments in 11 discussions

• Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them 398 comments in 2 discussions

• GIMP 3.0 released. Real talk about GIMP 3.0, caveats, future plans, project funding, and the name change 324 comments in 1 discussion

• A Linux phone: FuriPhone FLX1 273 comments in 3 discussions

• Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 263 comments in 4 discussions

• Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default 224 comments in 1 discussion

• Use Long Options in Scripts 195 comments in 2 discussions

• Asahi Lina Pausing Work on Apple GPU Linux Driver Development 186 comments in 3 discussions

• Huawei to drop Windows, shifting to HarmonyOS and Linux for future PCs 157 comments in 2 discussions

• Half-Life 2 RTX mod is out 145 comments in 2 discussions

• Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu 124 comments in 2 discussions

Releases #

• GNOME 48 released 315 comments in 4 discussions

Projects #

• I built a CLI tool to sandbox Linux processes using Landlock : no containers, no root 192 comments in 3 discussions

• The easiest way I've found to mod Bethesda games on Linux 70 comments in 5 discussions

• Linux: A modular dream until you try customizing keyboard layouts 45 comments in 1 discussion

• Streamline Your KDE Monitor Setups with Screen Profiler (Similar to Monitor Profile Switcher!) 19 comments in 3 discussions

• empiriqa: TUI for UNIX pipeline construction with feedback loop 10 comments in 3 discussions

• I wrote myself a script to track my terminal usage and give out EXP points and achievements. Maybe someone else will enjoy it too. 9 comments in 1 discussion

• I've polished my unique Linux audio player 8 comments in 1 discussion

• Fixing Steam Games Icons On Gnome 4 comments in 1 discussion

• Anubis: self hostable scraper defense software 4 comments in 1 discussion

• QuickBench: A Zero-Dependency Linux Benchmark for CPU, Memory, and Storage 3 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• Linux vs Windows Benchmark GTA5 Enhanced 41 comments in 1 discussion

• Emulate Hardware Ray Tracing Support on Old GPUs (GCN Old) 31 comments in 2 discussions

• Raytracing Linux (AMD) Drivers WAR - Who wins? 15 comments in 1 discussion

• Linux Gaming 9070 XT VS 5080 VS 7900 XTX Benchmark CachyOS 6 comments in 1 discussion

• LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #2 – Design and UX in Free and Open Source Software 5 comments in 1 discussion

• My first look at Fedora 42 beta ❄️ 2 comments in 1 discussion

• RoboNuggie reviews GhostBSD again for 25.01-R14.2p1: his first since the new versioning scheme and switch to FreeBSD RELEASE from STABLE 2 comments in 1 discussion