Unix recap for week 17/2025

From 21/4/2025 to 27/4/2025

Articles #

• The prosecution's case for restricting the set of valid filenames in Linux and POSIX 345 comments in 8 discussions

• The Arch Wiki has implemented anti-AI crawler bot software Anubis. 317 comments in 4 discussions

• FreeTube - great client app for YouTube 294 comments in 4 discussions

• Daily driving a Linux phone, but why? 225 comments in 1 discussion

• MinC - OpenBSD-flavored cygwin-alike for running UNIX-y things on Windows 224 comments in 2 discussions

• [Pop!_OS] COSMIC Alpha 7: Never Been Beta 222 comments in 2 discussions

• A Science Project: "Make the 486 Great Again!" - Modern Linux in an ancient PC (2018) 205 comments in 5 discussions

• Parallel ./configure 201 comments in 3 discussions

• Steam Linux Support - Valve will abandon support of the Steam client on Linux distributions without glibc 2.31 or newer as of 8/15/25 196 comments in 1 discussion

• newlines in filenames; POSIX.1-2024 175 comments in 1 discussion

• GCC 15.1 release. 170 comments in 3 discussions

• Android 16 lets the Linux Terminal use your phone's entire storage -- "With the latest Android 16 beta, you can now allocate as much storage as you want to the Linux Terminal" 164 comments in 4 discussions

• Linux migration question 151 comments in 6 discussions

• EU OS: A European Proposal for a Public Sector Linux Desktop 148 comments in 2 discussions

• This blog is hosted on a Nintendo Wii 138 comments in 5 discussions

Releases #

• OpenBSD 7.7 released April 28, 2025 8 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• Realtek Wifi driver (8852CE) not working on Ubuntu based with kernel version 6.10 and upper 87 comments in 13 discussions

• Fedora System Upgrade to 42 and Btrfs Assistant 85 comments in 2 discussions

• A from-scratch OS kernel that runs DOOM 83 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: I486SX_soft_FPU – Software FPU Emulator for NetBSD 10 on 486SX 38 comments in 1 discussion

• Use your potato laptop as a Linux server with KeepAlive! 27 comments in 1 discussion

• Fedora 42 on Asus Zephyrus G14 2023 19 comments in 5 discussions

• togo: a beautifull termianl-based to-do manager, 17 comments in 2 discussions

• als-led-backlight: Adaptive Brightness feature implemented 11 comments in 3 discussions

• Linux Troubleshooting - a compendium of information on issues and how to fix them 11 comments in 1 discussion

• FREE collection of minimalist Arch wallpapers, up to 8K 9 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• Pewdiepie – I installed Linux (so should you) [video] 187 comments in 3 discussions

• PewDiePie BTW I use Arch moment 178 comments in 1 discussion

• PewDiePie posted a video on why everyone should install Linux 177 comments in 1 discussion

• I installed Linux (so should you) - PewDiePie 136 comments in 1 discussion

• Linux vs Windows Benchmark Witcher 3 Next gen RT 25 comments in 2 discussions

• New open source drivers with Vulkan 1.4 support for a lot of older Nvidia GPU! 16 comments in 1 discussion

• [Ubuntu 25.04? Base and Kubuntu live test] - Ubuntu 25.04 seems like a valiable gaming option again! 9 comments in 1 discussion