Ever wanted to use SSH to connect to an embedded Linux system over the serial port instead of suffering through some janky login program that supports very limited terminal features?
Well, I did, and the tooling didn't exist, so I made it.
It also supports ppp automatically.
Stellt sicher, dass eure Popcorn-Vorräte voll sind, am Samstag um 11 Uhr gibt's meinen Vortrag "Tatort 🤡-IT" auf den #glt26 😎
https://pretalx.linuxtage.at/glt26/talk/ARZU9Q/
Schaut aber auf *alle* Fälle auf den @linuxtage vorbei! Am Freitag (10.04.) gibt es viele Workshops, am Samstag (11.04.) über 30 Vorträge und zahlreiche Community-Stände. Es ist *das* Treffen der Szene in Österreich, oder wie es so schön heißt: einmal im Jahr normale Leute! 🤓
Cu there!
https://www.linuxtage.at/
https://pretalx.linuxtage.at/glt26/schedule/
Im täglichen Geschäft kümmert sich der Vortragende unter anderem darum, dass die IT-Infrastruktur von diversen Kunden wie gewünscht und möglichst stressfrei funktioniert. Immer wieder gibt es dabei aber auch spannende Debugging- und Feuerwehr-Einsätze. Im Vortrag schauen wir einige dieser "sysadmin stories of things gone wrong" an. Es geht dabei u.a. um Firewalls, Backup-Software und Passwörter. Wir analysieren anhand dieser Geschichten, was konkret schief lief und welche Lektionen sich daraus lernen lassen. Und welche Fehler gilt es beim Betrieb von IT-Infrastruktur generell zu vermeiden, um nicht mit 🤡-IT zu enden? Der Vortrag erfordert *keine* speziellen Vorkenntnisse, aufgrund der Fragestellungen sollte für jedes Skill-Level was passendes dabei sein. Inhaltlich richtet sich der Vortrag an alle Interessierten rund um den zuverlässigen, langfristigen und stabilen Betrieb von IT-Infrastruktur.
Getting in the mood for #glt26 with my e-ink in the park. Caveats: The e-ink is running shady software (but at least android, so i can have termux) and the ssh connection to my desktop is a bit choppy.
Plasma is getting better and better and the time has come to install it on your friends and parents computers.
All you have to do in 2026 to migrate someone to linux is pick a sane base distro, like fedora or debian, install plasma and the
kde software suite on it and show them how to install and upgrade packages. That's it.
Additional recomendations: If they have older windows software they still use, install them the bottles flatpak and show them how to use it.
If they really need office, show them how to use it in the browser. If they ever used photoshop, show them krita.
Additional opinion on picking the distro: I think if they are a tinkerer, don't hesitate and give them an archlinux install. arch-install exists and it takes no time to get kde plasma installed with it. They will love the archwiki and probably profit from the AUR at some point.
For many people, the #Linux vs #Windows vs #Mac debate is a privilege — it assumes you can choose. But working with the Computer Upcycle Project, I've seen the real choice is often Linux vs no computer at all.
~95% of donated computers are "too old" for Windows 11 or macOS. Linux installs on them anyway, adding 10+ years of life to machines #Microsoft and #Apple called trash.
This isn't Linux vs Windows. It's Linux vs e-waste.
In other news, I finally allocated some time this weekend to do some maintenance work and get wl-clipboard 2.3 out.
People have long been asking for a new release (especially once KDE decided to just drop wlr-data-control support). However, it takes time and effort even to review & test & merge (with changes...) incoming PRs; maintenance work is work too.
Read the release notes at https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard/releases/tag/v2.3.0
Some of my favorite cartoons from @cartoonmovement this week, by Andrew Winters, Emad Hajjaj, Oleksiy Kustovsky and James Mellor.
More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/
Ryan Castellucci (they/them) 
mika
derPUPE
Mela Eckenfels
Mike 
Sergey Bugaev
BergRo
Tjeerd Royaards