Unix recap for week 16/2025

From 14/4/2025 to 20/4/2025

Articles #

• NEWS: German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice 1163 comments in 6 discussions

• Fedora 42 is now available for download from the torrent server. 542 comments in 15 discussions

• Fedora 42 released 235 comments in 2 discussions

• Quare FreeBSD? 232 comments in 3 discussions

• [UPDATE] Qualcomm, fsck you. 176 comments in 1 discussion

• PanVK is officially Vulkan 1.1 conformant on the Mali-G610 GPU 159 comments in 4 discussions

• Serbian student activist’s phone hacked using Cellebrite zero-day exploit 104 comments in 2 discussions

• Debian Bug #1094969: "git-remote-http is linked against incompatibly licensed OpenSSL" 85 comments in 2 discussions

• Canonical Releases Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin 81 comments in 2 discussions

• "Serbia: Cellebrite zero-day exploit used to target phone of Serbian student activist" -- "The exploit, which targeted Linux kernel USB drivers, enabled Cellebrite customers with physical access to a locked Android device to bypass" the "lock screen and gain privileged access on the device." [PDF] 77 comments in 1 discussion

• My Own Private Binary - An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Linux Kernel Modules 76 comments in 9 discussions

• Nvidia Beta 575.51.02 - Fixes VK_KHR_present_wait Issue, opens door for functioning Gamescope & Wine-Wayland HDR 72 comments in 1 discussion

• Software crying to have better interfaces 61 comments in 1 discussion

• Android 16 lets the Linux Terminal use your phone's entire storage 55 comments in 1 discussion

• Notes on Porting a UNIX Classic with Cosmopolitan 52 comments in 2 discussions

Projects #

• GitHub - ubisoft/Chroma: Chroma is a one-stop solution for detecting color blindness-related issues in games. It replicates Protanopia, Deuteranopia, and Tritanopia filters over the game screen, helping users flag accessibility concerns in real-time. 111 comments in 2 discussions

• An unofficial Electron wrapper of Crunchyroll for Linux 23 comments in 1 discussion

• Easier Wi-Fi control on Linux for terminal dudes! 21 comments in 2 discussions

• Privacy focused, local-first, inference engine app for Linux 13 comments in 4 discussions

• NEON-optimized sin/cos math library for embedded Linux — high accuracy, small, and fast 11 comments in 1 discussion

• yet another trxsh cli 8 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: ClipCapsule – A Clipboard Manager for Linux (Built with Go and Wails) 8 comments in 1 discussion

• als-led-backlight - Auto adjustment of keyboard and LCD backlight through Ambient Light Sensor 7 comments in 2 discussions

• ¥enOS - A Little "Linux Distro" based on Slax 5 comments in 1 discussion

• User Evaluation For Ineptness: UEFI Sobriety check 5 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• Why I Switched to Fedora on My ThinkPad (from macOS & Arch) 19 comments in 1 discussion

• The Last Of Us Part 2 Remastered with mods 9 comments in 1 discussion

• Raspberry Pi 5 home router GeekPi U2500 dual ethernet hat Debian 12 no dhcpcd [SOLVED] - (almost a tutorial). 7 comments in 1 discussion

• The Last of US Part II | 1080p High FSR3 Q | RX6600 | Linux 3 comments in 1 discussion

• Third issue detected on video, on Ubuntu 25.04 2 comments in 1 discussion

• Linux on a 70s Typewriter [video]

• Our mainly linux metroidvania (sometimes compiled for windows too) have a new features trailer :^)