This is the classic 90's music player experience without draining your computer's resources. It is an open-source audio player descended from XMMS (an early Winamp clone for Unix) that natively supports the famous classic Winamp skins (.wsz files). Wondering if someone still uses it today....

When I was a newbie to Linux, one of the things I struggled with was finding a good and simple reference for Linux commands.

There are plenty of great resources out there, but sometimes I just wanted something quick simple.

So Im sharing Syntaxia. a cheatsheet for things. it include Linux commands cheatsheet .

https://syntaxiadev.vercel.app/ref/linux-commands

Hopefully this can also be useful to other Linux beginners. 🐧

https://github.com/teutekeune/iBSSloader Research and tooling to boot Linux on iPad mini 1 (P105AP / iPad2,5, Apple A5) via checkm8, patched iBSS/iBEC, and custom bare-metal payloads — without writing to the iOS install.

Head over to the github to download and test out the latest release

https://github.com/arkwise/blackroolinux

You're going to need a blue retro for use with a Bluetooth keyboard, a spare cd-r and a playstation console.

This lets you run audio plug-ins built for Windows, and Linux, (maybe Mac in the future) loaded and run as native code on Linux. No Wine dependencies. It's a good V1 any feed back is appreciated!

https://github.com/spacestate1/VST-ace

Hello Linux community! I’ve been using Linux since my teenage years in middle school, which was a long time ago. I remember jumping for joy when I first started using Linux, and I’ve tried different flavors of it over the years. However, I’ve also noticed that the internet is undergoing significant changes, and I’m curious to know if Linux and different distributions will be affected by these changes.

With the rise of AI in our lives, I wonder if Linux and different distributions will change forever. Will Linux remain secure? I know that Linux has been growing in popularity, and even governments from different countries are starting to use it. This has made me wonder how long the Linux community will be able to resist the influence of bad actors.

I’m also curious to know if AI will improve system and hardware support (drivers). I’ve heard that Linus Torvalds supports AI as long as each security breach is reviewed and validated. However, I’m not sure if the community is still skeptical about this.

I’m especially interested in the expert and veteran members of the Linux community who have been using it for over 20 years. I wonder if AI will make games run even better. Maybe this will be the beginning of a stronger Linux system.

I appreciate any information about it because I’m a neurodivergent person, and sometimes I don’t understand certain concepts well. I do recall a conservative community and a professor named Richard Stallman, who was quite radical towards many distributions, particularly Ubuntu. I remember him calling Ubuntu a spyware. Now, how does each side think about this today?

(First of all sorry yall if i made a mistake while typing this. Also sorry for cat hair stuck on my mousepad lol😼)

I was super bored today after studying about 4hr without break. After that i opened reddit for chill. While surfing on here i find something called “postmarketOS”. After searching that what is this i saw this OS can run on iPhone. So excited and I started searching web to find which devices are supported, after clicking wiki i find out this OS can run iPhone 6s. I opened my closet and booom! I found my old 6s!

So after i found my old iPhone I installed Linux Mint to my PC and started to work. I tried multiple times and failed multiple times. I keep tried over and over and after 3,5 hrs i finally managed to run Linux on iPhone. Not emulated, not virtualized(?). Just pure and native Linux on iPhone!

It was super fun because i love putting things that not belongs there :) Hackintosh, Linux on iPhone, Project Sandcastle etc. I always loved that projects and finally first time i tried something like that and run Linux on a phone.

On many Debian- and Arch-based distributions, Snapper can create rollback snapshots, but the system does not provide openSUSE-style integration to prepare the rollback result as the next writable root. Their common nested Btrfs snapshot layouts require additional boot preparation that Snapper alone does not perform.

BootPrep fills that gap. It provides a Snapper rollback plugin that prepares the resulting writable snapshot for the next boot, plus a direct activation workflow for booting an existing snapshot without performing a rollback. It integrates with the system's existing Btrfs, Snapper, GRUB, and UEFI configuration without requiring a filesystem redesign.

Compatibility testing:

• Debian
• Ubuntu
• Kubuntu
• Manjaro - installed with GRUB
• CachyOS - installed with GRUB
• EndeavourOS - installed with GRUB

For the Arch-based distributions, GRUB was explicitly selected as the bootloader during installation, since BootPrep currently targets GRUB.

The same two test cases were performed on all six distributions: 

1. Direct snapshot activation: I created a Snapper snapshot, used bootprep-btrfs activate <snapshot-number> to activate that existing snapshot directly, rebooted, and verified that / was running from the selected snapshot as a writable Btrfs root.
2. Native Snapper rollback: I performed a normal snapper rollback, allowed the BootPrep Snapper plugin to detect and prepare the resulting writable snapshot, rebooted, and verified that / was running from the expected rollback snapshot and was writable.

So far, both workflows have completed successfully on all six distributions.

How the sausage is made:

• BootPrep no longer patches the 10_linux template and does not directly modify the EFI stub. Instead, BootPrep mounts and chroots into the requested snapshot subvolume, runs grub-mkconfig and grub-install from within that environment, and reconciles the /.snapshots and /home/.snapshots subvolumes to ensure they are mounted correctly on the next boot.
• This prepares the system to boot into the next snapshot selected by either the Snapper plugin or bootprep-btrfs activate <snapshot-number>.
• BootPrep currently targets Btrfs + Snapper + GRUB on UEFI systems. The installer also validates the GRUB configuration it requires and fails safely if a compatible configuration can't be found, rather than completing an installation that will fail later when BootPrep is used.

GitHub: https://github.com/mcsgeek/bootprep

There are still more distributions I'd like to test, so I'm intentionally limiting compatibility claims to configurations I've actually exercised.

I'd be interested in hearing from other Btrfs/Snapper users, particularly about their testing with BootPrep on other distributions with similar Btrfs layouts.

Hey r/linux

I have been working on atlas.nvim, a Neovim plugin for handling pull requests and issues without constantly switching back to the browser 😄

It currently supports GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket plus Jira issues. You can browse PRs, review changes, reply/resolve comments, create PRs/issues and handle most of the usual workflow directly inside Neovim. I am also working on Gitea/Forgejo support right now so that’s coming soon!

Still working on it quite a bit, so if you try it out I do love to hear what works and what does not :)

https://github.com/emrearmagan/atlas.nvim