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[$] Sxmo: a text-centric mobile user interface

Sxmo, short for "Simple X Mobile", is described on its web site as "a minimalist environment for Linux mobile devices"; it offers a menu-driven interface that is controlled with th [...]

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[$] Improving pseudo filesystems

The eventfs filesystem provides an interface to the tracepoints that are available to be used by various Linux tracing tools (e.g. ftrace, perf, uprobes, etc.); it is meant to be a [...]

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[$] Nix alternatives and spinoffs

Since the disagreements that led to Eelco Dolstra stepping down from the NixOS Foundation board, there have been a number of projects forked from or inspired by Nix that have st [...]

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[$] A look at Linux Mint 22

Linux Mint has released a beta of its next long-term-support (LTS) release, Linux Mint 22 (code-named "Wilma"), based on Ubuntu 24.04. Aside from the standard software updates that [...]

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