Brodie Robertson | Linux Tips & Tricks on Odysee

Recently there was an incident where the Xubuntu website was compromised and the download link began pointing to malware but the attack was so badly handled that it achieved literally nothing.

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VXunderground Write Up: https://x.com/vxunderground/status/1979885711579865307
Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1oad1m6/xubuntu_website_got_hacked_and_is_serving_malware/
Xubuntu Video: https://youtu.be/MX2oP5EjHiU
Virus Total: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/0f59f553fcfac3cac07aa7986eac914be069a6dd407b2d9f761f11d3e865b4f6
Sean Davis Comment: https://floss.social/@bluesabre/115401767635718361

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#Xubuntu #Linux #UbuntuLinux #OpenSource #Malware

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For a few months I've been using the Niri Window manager and it makes use of a scrolling window manager model, but is the model even worth your time?

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Karousel Repo: https://github.com/peterfajdiga/karousel
PaperWM Repo: https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM
Old Hyprland Plugin: https://github.com/dawsers/hyprscroller
New Hyprland Plugin: https://code.hyprland.org/hyprwm/hyprland-plugins/src/branch/main/hyprscrolling
Scroll Repo: https://github.com/dawsers/scroll
Niri Repo: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri
MacOS Plugin: https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon

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#Linux #Hyprland #OpenSource #LinuxDesktop #FOSS

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We've kind of moved past the discussion of whether or not Rust is going to be added into the Linux kernel, now it's a question of what work is going to be done.

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oogle Rust Kernel: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2023/06/rust-fact-vs-fiction-5-insights-from-googles-rust-journey-2022.html
The Register Article: https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/31/rust_google_c/
Rust Binder: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Linux-Binder-In-Rust
LKML Announcement: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
6.18: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git/commit/?h=char-misc-next&id=eafedbc7c050c44744fbdf80bdf3315e860b7513
USB Driver: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/T/#mcd1fd0565941ee2f53183cf4fa5a27795b38bb87

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#Rust #Linux #LinuxKernel #OpenSource #FOSS

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I feel like most people assumed that the rust rewrite of the core utils in Ubuntu 25.10 was going to be what broke, turns out that it was actually flatpak that broke

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Uutils Reports: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues?q=ubuntu%2025.10
Launchpad Report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flatpak/+bug/2122161
Flatpak Report: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/4051

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Recently the FSF announced something called the Librephone and I do wonder if they're going to be able to achieve this where everyone else already failed.

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40th Anniversary: https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-turns-forty-with-a-new-president-and-a-new-campaign
Librephone Announcement: https://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-project
Replicant: https://replicant.us/

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I've done a couple of videos on the Linux Kernel Github chaos and well recently someone was suspended from github due to a PR that took place in this repo and we're here to talk about it.

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The PR: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/1355
Twitter: https://x.com/vmfunc
The Post: https://x.com/vmfunc/status/1978079375183536440
Other Suspension: https://x.com/vmfunc/status/1978213150529896904/photo/1
Support Issues: https://x.com/vmfunc/status/1978090229635440966/photo/1
The Email: https://x.com/vmfunc/status/1978090229635440966
The Update: https://x.com/vmfunc/status/1978368062966394910

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What should you pick as your first Linux distro, well there's certainly no correct choice but there are few options which I think are worth looking at

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Ubuntu Website: https://ubuntu.com/
Mint Website: https://linuxmint.com/
Fedora Website: https://fedoraproject.org/
Bazzite Website: https://bazzite.gg/
Zorin Website: https://zorin.com/os/

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#Linux #LinuxDistro #UbuntuLinux #FedoraLinux #Bazzite #SteamOS #FOSS

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Every so often this discussion of KDE being old and outdated comes up and recently there was a massive thread on the KDE forums about exactly this that we're covering today.

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KDE Thread: discuss.kde.org/t/does-kde-need-to-hire-professional-designers-ui-looks-outdated/39966

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Now that Windows 10 is entering it's End of Life EOL, what does that mean for the users going forward. Are you going to move to Windows 11, are you trying out MacOS or maybe it's time to try Linux.

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A lot of the time you'll see claims that a data center makes use of solar power but here we have a server that is 100% solar powered, if the battery runs out then the server turns off

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Website: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
Power Supply: solar.lowtechmagazine.com/power/
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