#Random Linux

[Ice Tea]

With Nvidia teaming up with Intel i wonder what will happen in regards to linux support.

 

[Ice Tea]

Linux 6.17 File-System Benchmarks, Including OpenZFS & Bcachefs - Phoronix

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- Bcachefs
- Btrfs
- EXT4
- F2FS
- OpenZFS
- XFS

EXT4 is now taking some leads.

 

[Ice Tea]

A Major Trading Firm Has Open-Sourced The Latest Linux File-System: TernFS - Phoronix

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TernFS has been in development for over three years and for over the past year is being used by all of the XTX machine learning efforts. XTX Markets reports that "to this day, we haven't lost a single byte" on TernFS.

New file system: TernFS

 

[Ice Tea]

Sounds interesting. I've mainly been looking at ZFS recently but will keep my eye on this.

Lots of people seem to like ZFSBootMenu, but when i looked at what was involved i bottled out.

 

[Ice Tea]

I had a play with GhostBSD in VM but never went any further with it to try out the ZFS side.

 

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With the release of GNOME 49 the desktop environment has increased its dependency on the systemd project. As a result, GNOME requires more work and patching to get it to run on operating systems which do not run systemd. As one Artix developer stated: "Some of you have probably seen the blog post a few months ago about how GNOME is more strongly depending on systemd. The changes mentioned there have landed into the latest stable versions of the mentioned software (GNOME 49) and do affect us. In particular, the main culprit is the removal of the non-systemd fallback code in gnome-session. This makes it currently impossible to launch gnome-shell/mutter on a non-systemd system. A fairly straightforward patch of using elogind, like what was previously done, no longer works either.

Since we don't have the time or interest to write a new non-systemd codepath for gnome-session, this means that all support for gnome-based desktops has to be dropped. In particular, the affected packages would be gnome-session, gnome-shell, mutter, and gnome-settings-daemon. For now, the old versions are still in the repos but because there is so much intertwining between other GTK/GNOME packages, there is no guarantee they actually work and will later be removed from our repos." This change will exclude GNOME from running on the approximately 90 Linux distributions which do not run systemd by default, unless the packages are patched to work with alternative dependencies.

approximately 90 Linux distributions which do not run systemd by default

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OUCH!

 

[Ice Tea]

From what I can see, System76's new Rust-based Cosmic desktop doesn't require systemd, so it might be a good Gnome-esque replacement when it's completed.

 

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Apparently not everyone has given up on Gnome running without Systemd!

 

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I'm getting up to speed with FreeBSD as I haven't used it in a long time.

I've been having a play with GhostBSD and there are way too many workarounds and compromises for me to be able to use it as a daily driver.

DRM for example means jumping through hoops just to watch catchup tv.

 

[Ice Tea]

What caught my attention is that freebsd still offerers legacy Nvidia drivers so i thought it might be useful for old cards, maybe i'll have another play with GhostBSD on it's next release.

 

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Intel's Open-Source Strategy Is Changing

https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-open-source-2025

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/intel_open_source_commitment/

This doesn't sound good: laying off engineers, engineers leaving, and more use of closed source libraries.

 

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Yet Another Longtime Linux Driver Maintainer At Intel Has Left - Phoronix

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Yet another has left.

 

[Ice Tea]

I was going to say Alpine also, though learning to get along with musl instead of glibc can be a steep learning curve like the first time you use Arch.

Flatpaks work if you need a glibc applications but considering the size and extra overhead some people question if it's worth it on alpine as it's no longer a tiny os.