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Upgrading my Linux Mint laptop to double my storage and add 8GB of RAM. 😎 #Linux #LinuxMint

Linus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Code A new branch named "noref-filemap-read-with-llm" contains kernel improvements he's been working on with the help of AI / LLMs, Claude Code specifically "The code, the test programs, the review behind the list above and the first draft of this text were done with an LLM coding assistant (Claude Code) under my direction. The measurements were run on my machine." https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Claude-Code #linux #ai

Mozilla Firefox 159 Enters Public Beta Testing with Wayland Improvements Following the release of Firefox 158, Mozilla promoted the next major release, Firefox 159, to the beta channel for public testing, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements. Firefox 159 promises easier access to saved passwords from the sidebar by default, the ability to search open tabs with a keyboard shortcut, support for importing bookmarks from Google Chrome profiles that are signed in to a Google account, and improved visuals for menus and panels on Linux and Windows. Firefox 159 also promises to fix an issue with tabs sometimes detaching into a new window when clicked on Linux with Wayland, an issue with long drop-down lists on web pages showing a blank space in place of the last options, and loading issues with sites that reject an HTTP/3 request, falling back to HTTP/2 instead of failing. On top of that, Firefox 159 promises to fix the file upload dialog opening in the last folder a file was saved to, such as Downloads, instead of the folder last used for uploads, as well as memory usage issues causing rapid growth when sites like the Zoom web app were left open in a minimized window. Last but not least, Firefox 159 promises to display addresses written in the Balinese, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, Javanese, and N’Ko scripts in their own script instead of being encoded as “xn–” text, and updates the AI chatbot’s Summarize page option to share the page’s address instead of the page’s text content. For macOS users, Firefox 159 promises support for the native macOS share picker, better support for web games when using a gamepad, support for opening the sign-in page for apps that sign in through the default browser, and better support for the Apple Writing Tools suite when pasting text on sites. For Windows users, Firefox 159 promises to improve video playback when NVIDIA RTX Video HDR is enabled. Also, the upcoming Firefox release promises to update the Web Console to allow let, const, and class variables to be declared again, so a snippet can be edited and re-run without a redeclaration error. For web developers, Firefox 159 promises support for scoped custom element registries, so custom elements that share a tag name can coexist on the same page, and support for scroll-driven animations, so CSS animations and Web Animations API animations can progress with the scroll position of a container. In addition, it promises an updated Sanitizer API that can now sanitize HTML as it’s parsed rather than afterwards, so custom element constructors no longer run for elements the sanitizer removes. Also, WebGL now supports the EXT_clip_control and EXT_texture_mirror_clamp_to_edge extensions, and EXT_texture_norm16 for WebGL 2. Mozilla plans to release Firefox 159 later this month, on October 27th, 2026, along with the Firefox 153.6 and Firefox 115.44.0 ESR releases. Until then, you can download the latest beta version of Firefox 159 right now from the official website, but keep in mind not to use it for production work.

Best resource to learn kubernetes? What in-depth video course, article series or book would you recommend to learn kubernetes? The goal is to get to junior devops level of expertise, so I’m not talking about ‘learn k8s in one hour crash course’.

Disaggregated Routing with SONiC and VPP: Lab Demo and Performance Insights - Part Two https://www.linux.com/contributed/disaggregated-routing-with-sonic-and-vpp-lab-demo-and-performance-insights-part-two/ #Linux #Networking #OpenSource

Linux May Get a New Home for AI Agent Skills We soon will have a /slop dir in distros. A Fixes tag in a kernel patch points to the commit that introduced the bug, but the last commit to touch a buggy line may only have moved the code to a new file. Sasha Levin, who co-maintains the stable and long-term support kernel trees, wants AI coding assistants to verify which commit introduced a bug before assigning it a Fixes: tag. His two-patch series went to the workflows and ksummit mailing lists last week, where he has proposed a new agents directory in the kernel tree to hold the skill that does it. The first patch adds an agents/ directory at the top of the kernel source tree for skills, prompts, and other resources meant for coding assistants. It also adds a MAINTAINERS entry covering the directory. Each skill gets its own folder under agents/skills/, with a SKILL.md file as its entry point, written in the Agent Skills format. Assistants are told to read a resource directly from its path in the repository, and links inside a skill are relative to that skill’s folder. A new section in the kernel’s coding assistants document is meant to describe this layout. The find-fixes skill, which arrives with the second patch, would be the first one in the directory. Why do Fixes tags go wrong? Levin says the series traces back to a question from Ted Ts’o about incorrect tags in stable tree work. He pointed to LLM workflows that help find the right commit. Ted later explained that the request came from a talk with Hannes Reinecke, who estimated that 15 to 20 percent of Fixes tags are wrong. That matters beyond bookkeeping, since the tag is how stable maintainers and distributions work out which kernels need a given fix. A wrong one can send a fix to the wrong branches or leave a bug unpatched. The new find-fixes skill reads Git history and returns a proposed tag with its evidence, while leaving the commit itself untouched. The skill’s guide.rst file says no single clue settles which commit a Fixes tag should name, not even an existing tag. The agent explains how the bug fails, traces candidate commits, and compares each against its parent. It separates the commit that added the code, the one that made it defective, and any later change that only exposed the flaw. For backported fixes, it checks whether the bug came from the original change or from how that change was adapted for an older kernel. Merges, reverts, and incomplete histories get their own handling. When it cannot establish the origin, it returns no tag, lists the candidates and what is missing, and the fix stays a draft until someone resolves it. Still a work in progress The second patch would add a section to the kernel’s coding assistants document saying an assistant must follow the guide before finalizing a bug fix or its commit message and when reviewing an existing tag. The document’s step for committing a fix would ask for a verified tag, where it now asks only for a Fixes tag. Keep in mind that the skill would not write commit messages, apply the tag, or decide whether a fix belongs in stable. The series follows Levin’s earlier push for the kernel’s AI coding assistants policy, which we covered in April, and his proposal for a kernel killswitch. Where the files should live is still open. The introductory patch message says he is unsure whether they belong under Documentation or in a separate agents directory at the root. Greg Kroah-Hartman asked whether the series would fix tools skipping the kernel’s guidance because an AGENTS.md file is missing. Sasha replied that this is a separate issue for the symlink patch.

Linus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Code

Create an automated terminal command? Newish to Linux and slowly learning lol. I recently got a podcast downloader working through rss with castget, works great. The command to get new eps that haven’t been downloaded is castget -c. Is there a way to automate this, so the command runs say every day at a set time?

Rolling Release Distros Superior To LTS Distros In The Patch-Heavy GenAI Era?

Hi Mastodon! I'm a DevOps engineer, mostly Kubernetes, Jenkins and a lot of Linux boxes. In my spare time I make small open source things that I will share here. I also write notes at https://thelinuxnotes.com https://github.com/epogonii #introduction #Linux #DevOps #GNOME #OpenSource

Linus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Code https://lobste.rs/s/iq5xtw #ai #linux #vibecoding https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Claude-Code

3-2-1 Backup Strategy with restic and Backblaze B2 https://lobste.rs/s/9zcxev #devops #linux https://chuck.is/paranoid/

The legendary meme distro returns after nearly two decades with a modern Debian Trixie base, KDE Plasma 6, and a whole lot of pink nostalgia. https://linuxiac.com/hannah-montana-linux-is-back-and-yes-its-real/ #linux #opensource

I was so looking forward to pitching Part 2 of my "Future Desktop UX" talk at @kde@floss.social Akademy this fall. #Linux needs to be building for the future and I was looking forward to seeing what the #KDE community thought of this. But alas, the acceptance gods were not on my side and my talk wasn't accepted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZTOjd_bOQ

GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years https://nebusec.ai/research/ionstack-part-2/ #ai #linux

Firefox 153 has been released! This is the last monthly release before the release schedule speeds up. It enables container tabs for all, QR code link sharing and – at long last – nicely rounded bottom window corners on GTK desktops. Details and screenshots: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/firefox-153-new-containers-feature?v1 #Firefox #OpenSource #Linux

Tello's GameSir T1d controller as a Linux Xbox controller https://lobste.rs/s/dxftjg #linux #python https://blog.jacq.cc/guides/gamesir-t1d-linux-gamepad/

How can I use a local agentic LLM on Linux to debug code similar to Anthropic use of Claude to find vulnerabilities in Firefox? cross-posted from: reddthat.com/post/62484268

batman please answer this is important #PixelArt #Art #Comic #Comics #Meme #Batman #DC #Linux #AnubiArts

systemd Pilot, user-friendly systemd manager systemd Pilot](github.com/mfat/systemd-pilot) is a desktop application for managing systemd units and browsing its logs. Features: Support for managing remote machines over SSH Creating services and timers Filtering units by a status and type Download here: github.com/mfat/systemd-pilot/releases