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@zolaris my bad! didn't spot the category

26/07/10 ⇒ Linux 7.3 Enabling Second Graphics Pipe For Modern AMD APUs AMD on Thursday sent out another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver updates to DRM-Next of new feature material ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Second-Pipe-GFX11-APU 26/07/12 ⇒ Reworked System Call Entry Handling Slated For Linux 7.3 Stemming from looking at a proposed Linux kernel patch to alter the Linux kernel's system call number handling, veteran Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner went down a rabbit hole of the kernel's system call entry handling to make a number of clean-ups and improvements to the code. That rework to the system call entry handling is now expected to land for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rework-Sysclal-Entry-Linux-7.3

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No problem with the vote @grahamperrin said: For what it's worth, I think: don't delete it from BSD Cafe Billboard. It's good to raise awareness of the reputation. I hadn't thought of it that way. Interesting!

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No response to https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2026/04/22/anthropic_mythos_hype_nothingburger/#c_5266893 after five days (and no correction to the article); that's disappointing. I'll respectfully request a correction. I refrained from sending an email, because @bigsneakyduck had already done so (mentioned in Reddit: "… I've tried reducing this to the bare minimum and sent an email to corrections at theregister dot com.").

@grahamperrin said: I assumed, wrongly, Certainly: wrongly and I'd even go so far as to say: nothing to do with!

I sought advice in Matrix, then ran a command: ubuntu-bug qutebrowser End result: Bug #2158488 “qutebrowser crashes when starting” : Bugs : qutebrowser package : Ubuntu

@hypostase The final version of the fix is now accepted and landed onto both main (aka latest) and 2026Q2. https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=a92d927574fca313453ae266f4e78517eb406a33 https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?h=2026Q2&id=1c9a29edad562f0650166239fba46dd8b2cc1fdd

26/07/17 ⇒ Updating FreeBSD 15.0 to FreeBSD 15.1 (via pkgbase) I decided that Thursday morning at 8:27 AM was the right time to start my first update from FreeBSD 15.0 to 15.1 – all my hosts are now on pkgbase. I used the pgkbasify script. Now it’s time to update again. https://dan.langille.org/2026/07/17/updating-freebsd-15-0-to-freebsd-15-1-via-pkgbase/

Thank you!

… Let's move on. It's still quite newsworthy; Cody Franklin used the phrase "recently". Until yesterday, I never heard anyone from TrueNAS or IXsystems talk about the transition. I learnt something new.

grahamperrin said: the horse or the otter … I guess that other random animals can appear at the Not Found screen.

@naltun Bumbling along it is!

@ruben@kedara.social said: Sysadmin tasks will be performed (remotely) Maybe difficult with OpenZFS-encrypted root-on-ZFS. Will your mom be prepared to enter the passphrase when a task requires a restart of the OS?

Thanks, Jails, Not Containers: FreeBSD Isolation Done Right Posted separately in Mastodon, https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116976955869878432 (https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/search?q=Jails%2C Not Containers%3A FreeBSD Isolation Done Right) can not find your https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@ciotbsd@billboard.bsd.cafe/116913345978489881.)

@CiotBSD said: ⇒ FreeBSD 16 Retires The Last Of Its GPL Code From Its Base System Via @governa@fosstodon.org at https://fosstodon.org/@governa/117006685536082407 FreeBSD's Kernel Still Has A Bit Of GPL Code While Its Base User-Space Is GPL-Free - Phoronix

@ptribble thank you for the reply. My error re nfs... probably getting Tribblix confused with Open/NetBSD. The emcryption would be interesting. Perhaps even if it was only data partitions encrypted for now and auto unlockable then root/FDE later. Not sure if #alpinelinux or #ChimeraLinux would be a useful starting point as both do native encrypted zfs.

@grahamperrin That was poorly written. Better said that a whole lot of money is being dumped into marketing these product before they are fully baked.