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Re: Wayland
by Gary 17 Feb '26

17 Feb '26

I am mad. I bought a book about "Enshittification". The title pretty much says it all. I found a link from one of Brian's post about what is going on with X and the guy who is making a fork. It really changed my mind on forks being churn. I'm looking into making my own disto. But that is just crazy ;) But, don't look too hard, the kernel is turning into a piece of work too. How do you deal with that? It's just IBM, and others, trying to make a buck off of something that they provide for free. I'm sure, at the end of the day, there will be some kind of subscription. I'm glad you made it back. Sorry we didn't fix anything while you were away. But, it is swimming against the current. Look at mailing list. I think they're generally great. What do people use now: X, Slack, Facebook, and their ilk. I like this list, and I'd really like to revive mailing list in general, but I don't know how LOL. And I feel warm knowing that we don't have a giant corporate overlord. But, in our favor is that Wayland is really poor, right now. It is going to cost someone a bunch of money to fix that. And most of the user community is happy with X. So they are going to try to break X. Embrace, Enhance, Eliminate. I'm keeping my eye on the X fork. I think the kernel is only at the Embrace, Enhance step. But, somehow, someone, wants a subscription there. It's nothing new. The room is cheap, but there is a resort fee that you don't get to know until it's too late. Fooled me once. I've never been back. But, I see that they are all doing just fine. Cable TV. This economic model has roots and most people don't care. Like they don't care how much the car cost, just what are the payments. The fact that they went from 3 year loans to 7 year loans doesn't seem to bother most people. They are just getting around to implementing that model on Linux. And, this is the door they chose. On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 05:46:05PM -0700, Linus Sphinx wrote: > Been through hell, a coma, brain damage and climbed out of my grave to > actually try some dev but first had to upgrade everything running Fedora in > the house and just wanted to let you guys know I am not Ok with having this > heinous incompatible garbage rammed up my ass. IS ANYBODY ELSE PISSED? We > Linux users look like a bunch of pussies just letting this go by, we need > to speak up loud and clear NOW. The desktop market was ours, MS screwed > their users and committed suicide with Win 11. Does nobody remember the > Year Of Linux Desktop? It was here, the world was ours, and our leading > desktops decided to drive their dick in the dirt by killing off X11 after > decades of working with everything. I smell a rat, somebody got paid to > make sure that didn't happen. Violating the whole spirit of Unix, ending > components and turning GDM into a monolithic POS. How the hell long was I > out? > [image: redcrap.png]

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playing BluRay
by Brian E. Lavender 24 Jan '26

24 Jan '26

I didn't think playing BluRay on Linux was doable, yet I got it working! I used the script `aacsdb-update.sh` to download the VUK for known BluRay disks. https://gist.github.com/CPT-GrayWolf/c26446298bc769238b349165a051e4b1 Plus, I installed the aacs packages. ``` sudo dnf install libaacs-utils libaacs-devel ``` # This allows Blu-Ray disks who's VUK is known # to be played on systems using libaacs Then, I set `JAVA_HOME` environment variable for my system. ``` export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-21 ``` Then I launched vlc and opened the disk (Top Gun) at /dev/sr0. It's title is in the VUK database. It plays! More info on BluRay in Linux is available on the Arch site. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Blu-ray#Playback Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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Memory
by Chris Miller 20 Jan '26

20 Jan '26

Hi Folks, I have some memory that I can't use, but may not be completely useless. If anybody is interested, speak up. 1 - 8GB PC3 10600 1333 MHz (2x4GB) 1 - 1GB PC3 1600 (1x8GB) 4 - 1GB PC2 6400 CL5 -- Chris. V:916.799.9461 F:916.974.0428 A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right. Q: > Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?

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meeting tonight
by Brian E. Lavender 20 Jan '26

20 Jan '26

Don't forget the social at Kupros this evening. Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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Secure boot custom modules
by Brian E. Lavender 18 Jan '26

18 Jan '26

I discovered that you can install custome kernel modules using secure boot with Fedora. https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Secure%20Boot Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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Raley's on Freeport
by Brian E. Lavender 18 Jan '26

18 Jan '26

Future meeting location ideas. Does anyone hang out at the Raley's on the Freeport? They have the mezzanine area. I was thinking we could do a social there. I realized that I could actually bring another monitor and plug it into my system. That way we could just have people on both sides of the table. -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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January Meeting
by Brian E. Lavender 11 Jan '26

11 Jan '26

January General Meeting We will continue at Kupros for January. If anyone has a different location in mind for February, please let me know. https://www.saclug.org/articles/2026/january-2026.html When: Tue January 20, 2026 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM Speaker: You Location: Kupros We will meet back at Kupros for this meeting! The last meeting we had, some noted that it was too loud. I had been thinking about a different location, but I didn’t investigate, so we will continue at Kupros for now. Bring your gadgets, laptop, etc., and we will discuss, evangelize and strategize the upcoming meetings. We usually congregate on the second floor. Look for a penguin printout or hackers with their laptops open. Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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Happy New Year Lug Nuts!
by Kevin B 11 Jan '26

11 Jan '26

I hope Santa was good to you and Happy New Year! Thanks Kevin When is the next meeting?

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btrfs subvolumes
by Brian E. Lavender 17 Dec '25

17 Dec '25

We were discussing separate partitions for / and /home in an installation and I noticed that my two separate partitions shared the same space. btrfs to the rescue! https://fedoramagazine.org/working-with-btrfs-subvolumes/ So where do the home and root subvolumes in Fedora Linux come from? These are created by the installer at install time. Traditional installations would often include a separate filesystem partition for the / and /home directories. During boot, these are then appropriately mounted to assemble one full filesystem. But there is an issue with this approach: Unless you use technologies such as lvm, it is very hard to change a partitions size at some point in the future. As a consequence you may end up in a situation where either your / or /home runs out of space, while the respective other partition has lots of unused, free space left. Since Btrfs subvolumes are all part of the same filesystem, they will share the space that the underlying filesystem offers. Remember when we created the subvolumes above? We never told Btrfs how big they are: A subvolume can take up all the space the filesystem has, by default nothing keeps it from doing so. However, we could dynamically impose size limits via Btrfs qgroups, which can also be modified during runtime (And we’ll see how in a later article in this series). -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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meeting tomorrow
by Brian E. Lavender 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

Don't forget the SacLUG tomorrow at Kupros. https://www.saclug.org/articles/2025/december-2025.html Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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