Some more tweaking, and my BeOS impersonation under XFce is near complete. It just feels good.

And the system now cold-boots at 475 MB of RAM. Awesome!

I can't remember the last time I felt such fulfillment playing #electricguitar with a digital amp is pure bliss

Having a digital amp brings me a big step closer to my life-goal of covering all of Iron Maiden's songs (some day... maybe in 35 years )

#ArchLinux is now powered by #Linux kernel 6.15

I replaced the jackd package with pipewire-jack

this allows using pipewire within the jack setup. For example mixing guitar/amp output with browser output (backing tracks for example)

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/pipewire-jack/

The first few GNOME 49 alpha releases are now available¹ via gnome-unstable repo²

¹ https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&repo=Gnome-Unstable&q=&maintainer=&flagged=

² https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Official_repositories#gnome-unstable (important to read!)

I finally got my #ArchLinux disk encryption upgraded to #LUKS2. It certainly was a challenge because #grub does not seem to play nicely with it but I did get it to work. Grub has a bug in it where passphrases entered from the keyboard need to use PBDKF2 and key files need to use Argon2id. Once I figured this out, everything worked smoothly.

My graphics card keeps calling me poor

No vulkan for my GTX 550 TI

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Arch project to create new sponsorships policy, which defines two types of sponsorships:
https://news.itsfoss.com/arch-linux-sponsorships/

elementaryOS 8 released with new gesture controller, improved multitasking view, notification when taking a screenshot with a keyboard shortcut, improved dock, etc.:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/6/elementary-os-improves-window-manager-dock-multitasking-screenshot-capture-and-more/

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed monthly update brings Linux kernel 6.14.6, QEMU 10.0, KDE Plasma 6.3.5, other updated packages:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/6/opensuse-tumbleweed-update-brings-qemu-10-kde-plasma-6-3-5-and-security-upgrades/

CachyOS update fixes NVIDIA issues by detecting the GPU and atomatically installing the correct driver, brings new boot animation and GRUB theme, Cachy-Browser discontinued, Firefox with custom config becomes the default, Proton-CachyOS is now based on Proton 10:
https://betanews.com/2025/06/01/cachyos-nvidia-fix-steam-deck-support-linux-browser-dropped/

Rocky Linux 9.6 released with enhanced image-building and delivery process, updated images, additional policy rules for SELinux, package updates:
https://9to5linux.com/rocky-linux-9-6-is-available-for-download-based-on-red-hat-enterprise-linux-9-6

UBports 20.04 OTA-9 released with VoLTE support out-of-the-box for more carriers, Waydroid 1.5.1, new font for emojis, support for newer emojis, bug fixes:
https://ubports.com/en/blog/ubports-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-ota-9-focal-release-3962

Malicious pull requests to the Linux kernel copying Linus Torvalds' patches and re-listing him as the author got prevented:
https://news.itsfoss.com/linus-kernel-broken-pull-request/

(FOSS news in comments)

Seems like we might need to move the @archlinux account off from fosstodon. What is a good option?

I appeared over in an interview over on Linkarzu's channel, go give it a bit of a sus #Linux #Podcast #ArchLinux https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAmJQuX4-ak

Keepassxc is broken on #archlinux because the present package is built against an older qt lib version.

Normally, I would just report on the Archlinux gitlab instance that it needs a rebuild
However, I can't do that without my github credentials
Which I can't access because keepassxc won't load...

computer funnee

Arch Linux is planning something interesting. 

https://news.itsfoss.com/arch-linux-sponsorships/

When you leave Arch and your blood pressure drops by 20 points!!!

#ArchLinux, kendt for sin no-nonsense, gennemsigtige udviklingstilgang, hvor brugere og udviklere spiller en nøglerolle og samarbejder åbent og hvor alle ændringer er synlige for fællesskabet

..behovet for en konsekvent og gennemsigtig proces, da Arch Linux i stigende grad modtager henvendelser fra organisationer, der er interesserede i at tilbyde økonomisk støtte

.. i september sidste år indgik #Valve et samarbejde med Arch Linux om at støtte 2 projekter
https://news.itsfoss.com/arch-linux-sponsorships/

We are working on integrating our Astian Accounts services for #midoribrowser bookmark history, strong passwords, but also #midorivpn, Cloud storage and much more. Very soon.