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Pandoc - Twenty Years of Pandoc
https://pandoc.org/twenty-years-of-pandoc.html

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To any KDE Flatpak users

If you are like me, you use KDE and Flatpak apps.

For a long time now, whenever I had to change some app's permissions, I used a dedicated tool called Flatseal. It works. However, KDE has a native alternative.

System Settings -> Security & Privacy -> Application Permissions -> Application Permissions -> (search and choose an app) -> optional: Manage Flatpak Settings -> optional: Advanced Permissions

It does exactly the same thing as Kubeseal, it's just native KDE/Qt instead of being Gnome/GTK. The one functionality Kubeseal has over it is the ability to set globals. But I think that's it.

If this is common knowledge, then disregard this. I didn't know about it, so I'm sharing it. KDE is awesome.

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FFmpeg 9.0 released
https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html

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What do you use to switch between different "contexts" on your computer?

I'm looking for inspiration on new ways to organize my PC and separate different activities, stuff like coding projects, studying, gaming and personal use. 

Do you use anything to automate, customize or simplify switching between these contexts? I find it quite annoying to reopen everything and organize the windows and everything again and again.

I'm interested in anything, from scripts and keyboard shortcuts to workspace managers, browser extensions, unique apps or even mods like Vencord.

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Some thoughts on declarative package management
https://github.com/vasi/declarative-package-management

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Linux in a Enterprise Environment.

I work for a fairly large Tech company that does tech support. Someone mentioned today that while we support Linux systems, we won't get many tickets over it. Due to the fact that most sysadmins of Linux are better equipped to handle issues themselves, compared to sysadmins of other OS.

Do you believe it stems from the whole idea and culture of Linux?

Edit: I guess I should have been more clear that I was referring more to the server side over the end user systems.

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Benchmarking Six Linux Distributions On The Framework Laptop 13 Pro
https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-laptop-13-pro-linux

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straight to the AAD web auth flow.
- <remote-hostname> must match the hostname exactly as registered in Entra ID, and must actually resolve (DNS or /etc/hosts) — an IP address will not work for this auth flow.
- /w:, /h:, and /smart-sizing fixed a real rendering bug — reconnecting to a previously-disconnected session rendered the remote desktop content squashed into a small corner of the window with the rest black. Explicitly forcing the resolution and enabling smart-sizing (which scales/stretches remote content to fill the client window regardless of the session's actual internal resolution) fixed this completely.

## Result

Running that command pops open a real embedded browser window right in the FreeRDP client for the Microsoft sign-in — full Conditional Access / MFA support — no external browser, no manual URL copy-paste. Exactly matching the mstsc.exe "use a web account" experience, just self-compiled.

## Wrapper script

Threw this into a small shell script so I can just run rdp-aad instead of remembering the whole command:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

DEFAULT_HOST="your-vm-hostname"
DEFAULT_USER="youruser@yourdomain.com"
TENANT_ID="your-entra-tenant-id"
FREERDP_BIN="$HOME/FreeRDP/build/client/SDL/SDL2/sdl-freerdp"
RES_WIDTH="2560"
RES_HEIGHT="1440"

HOST="${1:-$DEFAULT_HOST}"
USERNAME="${2:-$DEFAULT_USER}"

if [[ ! -x "$FREERDP_BIN" ]]; then
    echo "FreeRDP binary not found at $FREERDP_BIN"
    exit 1
fi

if ! getent hosts "$HOST" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
    echo "Warning: '$HOST' does not resolve. AAD auth needs a resolvable hostname"
    echo "matching the device name registered in Entra ID."
    read -r -p "Continue anyway? [y/N] " reply
    [[ "$reply" =~ ^[Yy]$ ]] || exit 1
fi

exec "$FREERDP_BIN" \
    /v:"$HOST" \
    /sec:aad \
    /azure:tenantid:"$TENANT_ID" \
    /u:"$USERNAME" \
    /cert:ignore \
    /dynamic-resolution \
    /w:"$RES_WIDTH" \
    /h:"$RES_HEIGHT" \
    /smart-sizing

Hope this saves someone else the trial and error. Happy to answer questions if anyone hits a snag replicating it.

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Connecting to an Azure Join Windows Machine Using Web Authentication From Linux

# Got native Entra ID (AAD) webview login working with FreeRDP on Fedora/Nobara — full writeup

Wanted to share this since it took some digging to get right. Background: I wanted to RDP from my Linux desktop into an Entra ID-joined Windows 11 box using modern auth (Conditional Access, MFA, the works) — basically the Linux equivalent of checking "Use a web account to sign in" in mstsc.exe.

The distro-packaged freerdp (3.29/3.30 from Fedora's repos) supports the AAD auth flow, but it's built without the native in-app login popup — you get a URL printed to the terminal instead, and you have to manually copy the redirect URL back in after signing in through your normal browser. Functional, but clunky, and in my case actually broken by my org's Conditional Access policy behavior.

Here's what it took to get the real in-app popup working.

## The problem with the stock package

Checking the build config on the distro package:

xfreerdp /buildconfig | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -i webview

showed WITH_WEBVIEW=OFF. That flag controls whether FreeRDP's SDL client can pop up a native browser window for the AAD sign-in, instead of the manual copy/paste flow.

## Step 1 — Install build dependencies

sudo dnf install cmake ninja-build gcc-c++ git \

  systemd-devel libuuid-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel \

  libXrandr-devel gsm-devel pam-devel fuse3-devel \
 
  opus-devel lame-devel openssl-devel libX11-devel \
 
  libXext-devel libXinerama-devel libXcursor-devel \
 
  libXi-devel libXdamage-devel libXv-devel libxkbfile-devel \
  
 alsa-lib-devel openh264-devel libavcodec-free-devel \
 
  libavformat-free-devel libavutil-free-devel \
 
  libswresample-free-devel libswscale-free-devel \
 
  libusb1-devel uriparser-devel SDL2-devel SDL2_ttf-devel \
 
  pkcs11-helper-devel krb5-devel cjson-devel cairo-devel \
 
  soxr-devel wayland-devel wayland-protocols-devel \
 
  cups-devel webkitgtk6.0-devel

Two things worth calling out specifically:

- cups-devel — missed this initially, build fails at the printer channel with "Could NOT find Cups" if it's absent.
- webkitgtk6.0-devel — this is the actual key package. FreeRDP's webview feature pulls in a small external helper library (akallabeth/webview via CMake FetchContent) which searches for WebKitGTK in this priority order: webkitgtk-6.0 → webkit2gtk-4.1 → webkit2gtk-4.0. Current Fedora has deprecated/removed webkit2gtk-4.0, but webkitgtk-6.0 (GTK4-based) is available and works fine — no need to chase the old deprecated package.

## Step 2 — Clone and configure

git clone https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP.git
cd FreeRDP
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -GNinja -DWITH_WEBVIEW=ON -DWITH_CLIENT_SDL=ON -DWITH_AAD=ON ..

Confirm the config actually picked up webview support before building:

grep -i "webview\|gtk4" CMakeCache.txt

You want to see it successfully checking for and finding gtk4/webkitgtk-6.0 in the configure output, with "Configuring done" at the end and no errors.

## Step 3 — Build

ninja

Took about 10 minutes on a Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Just let it run.

## Step 4 — Find the actual binary

The build output binary is not at the path you might expect from the source tree layout:

find . -iname "*freerdp*" -executable -type f

Mine landed at:

./client/SDL/SDL2/sdl-freerdp

## Step 5 — The actual working connection command

./client/SDL/SDL2/sdl-freerdp \
  /v:<remote-hostname> \
  /sec:aad \
  /azure:tenantid:<your-entra-tenant-id> \
  /u:<user>@<yourdomain>.com \
  /cert:ignore \
  /dynamic-resolution \
  /w:2560 \
  /h:1440 \
  /smart-sizing

A few flags that turned out to matter, that I'd have missed otherwise:

- /sec:aad is required alongside /azure:. Using /azure: alone let the client fall through to a default NLA/Kerberos negotiation attempt, which failed outright with Cannot find KDC for realm since there's no Kerberos realm configured on a home Linux box. Explicitly forcing /sec:aad skips

Better sources than Statcounter
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Conclave Linux author Dan Williams has passed away
https://lwn.net/Articles/1084545/

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Addressing Wayland pain points – kgamma
https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/wayland-and-kgamma/

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Linux didn't just eat 10% of Windows market share, AI bots are inflating the numbers
https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/03/linux-didnt-just-eat-10-of-windows-market-share-ai-bots-are-inflating-the-numbers/

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AerynOS Blog update and ISO release (August 2026)
https://aerynos.com/blog/2026/08/02/solid-foundations-are-leading-to-expanding-horizons/

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With the amount of people that would switch if photoshop ran on Linux, why are there not massive community efforts to make some compatibility layer?

With the amount of people that would switch if photoshop ran on Linux, why are there not massive community efforts to make some compatibility layer? Seems to me like the biggest single tipping point, what makes Photoshop so uniquely hard versus videogames which now work without issue?

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Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM
https://github.com/wie-project/kakehashi

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Linux 7.3 To Support The Qualcomm Adreno 704 & Adreno 722 GPUs
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-MSM-DRM-Driver

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What was your "ok, this is enough" to finally move to linux?

I've been moving between windows and linux distros since Ubuntu Netbook Remix (oh Dell Mini 10, I hated you and loved you at the same time...) but, sadly, every time something happened that I had to move back to Windows, whether it was a problem with some specific drivers, battery life too short in comparison to windows at the time or some specific software that only ran on Windows.

Just after Windows 7 (which I love) and all the freaking telemetry, borderline spyware and bloatware (this was before I've heard about LTSC/LTSB versions) I was trying from time to time to finally stick on linux but I failed time to time, the system (and myself) just "wasn't at that point yet" and I had to use Windows (almost) against my will all these years.

But, for me, the final straw was the freaking Global Device Identifier and the FBI thing which can't be turned off (at least, officially). As a windows 10 LTSC (at least until a couple days ago) and Pirvacy Sexy Script user, topics like privacy, choice and consent are important to me and this was beyond acceptable.

I don't care anymore if my laptop could run for one hour more if I used windows, I don't care if my desktop has an issue with AMD HDMI's audio output, I don't care if I have to resign to specific software like Controller Companion while using my pc with my TV, all of that can be sorted out eventually and I see it as a small price to pay in order to my devices to be mine again.

Thanks Microsoft, you just give me the last push I needed.

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Is this book worth reading for a developer?

I'm a software developer, not planning to become a system administrator, but I'd like to get a much deeper understanding of Linux. I noticed that the latest edition covers modern topics like systemd, containers, and cloud infrastructure, so it doesn't seem completely outdated.Would this book still be a good investment for a developer who wants to better understand how Linux systems work, or is it more useful for people working as full-time sysadmins? I'm looking for knowledge that will make me a better developer rather than preparing for a system administration career.

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Intel Graphics Driver Support For Xe3 "Peak Bandwidth Threshold" Feature In Linux 7.3
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-7.3-Peak-Bandwidth

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