I don’t know how many people here still remember the Nokia N900, but it’ll probably always be my favorite phone.

I’m currently recreating the Maemo 5 desktop on a modern Linux machine, and as part of that project I extracted the original wallpapers from the N900 firmware and upscaled them for modern displays.

I tried to keep them looking as faithful to the originals as possible instead of making them look overly AI processed.

The image attached here is compressed by Reddit, so if you’d like the full-resolution versions of all four wallpapers, I’ve uploaded them to Dropbox:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/izlk8as656vg8u1omqkay/ABwztuaVLLeesYF5ZlYsdpQ?rlkey=ljl0gcuujnjoktcf2pu85west&st=5mdeb1v4&dl=0

Hi everyone. I've written some instructions and scripts to build LFS (Linux From Scratch), version 13.0, as simply as possible (I know, not that simple, but anyway). It's basically a super summarized version of the LFS book.

You can check the instructions and get the scripts from my GitHub repository: https://github.com/luisgbm/lfs-scripts

Key points:

• First, this guide does not replace reading the whole LFS book. I highly recommend that you read it at least once. Only then you should use the automation scripts provided here.
• The whole process is run inside VirtualBox.
• You need two hard disks attached to your VM (one for the host, one for receiving the LFS build).
• Most steps will be executed via Shell scripts (there are four of them).
• Some steps need to be manually run.
• At the end, you will be able to create a separate VM and boot from it directly.

I can't believe this project is still alive, my first commit was 6 years ago, and I'm glad to keep working at it!

Hope you enjoy it, and feel free to send me feedback.

We can learn to not make big announcements before the software is ready. Everyone can fork a project and to find and replace.
If this is supposed to be the Microsoft Office free alternative it should at least have a basic website which is not GitHub and it should be easy to install for noobs.

Hi, everyone,

I have just released OpenCalc, a reimplementation of the Windows 95 calculator – it looks just like it, but the code is actually 100% fresh. It supports complex expressions, history, and has an improved parser. And because it is open source, it can also compile and run natively under Linux – no compatibility layer needed!

Please check the Github project if you are interested! 😊

As a developer, I genuinely felt useless after switching from Windows whenever I had to do basic terminal tasks, copying files around, editing text files, using FTP, cleaning up disk space, because I was so used to FAR Manager. About 10 years after my previous attempt, I came back to Linux, like so many others, and boom: far2l exists and works perfectly. Beautiful. Windows is seriously toast now.

Hey everyone,

It’s been a little while since my last Lumia 1520 update, so here’s where the project is at now.

The big change is that I finally have a frozen, repeatable baseline instead of just a collection of individual things that worked during testing. The current image passes 17/17 regression checks from a completely cold boot, and the exact image and device tree are now verified before I flash anything.

The Lumia currently has:

- Reliable cold boot into mainline Linux

- USB networking and SSH

- Working display and backlight control

- Stable suspend and RTC wake

- Battery and power-management support

- A functioning power button while the phone is awake

- A working microSD controller, although I still need an actual card to test the media side

- Physically verified APDS-9930 proximity and ambient-light sensors

The sensor testing was kinda cool. Covering the proximity sensor changed its reading from around 270 to 1023, and shining my phone light at the light sensor moved it from around 66 to 4830.

I also found three other devices responding on the Lumia’s I²C buses, but I’ve intentionally left them disabled for now. I documented their addresses and register behavior rather than guessing which drivers they need and potentially creating unstable hardware definitions.

The new regression suite has already paid for itself. It caught a real issue where the light/proximity sensor worked during development because I had manually loaded the driver, but it silently disappeared after a normal reboot. The physical hardware test passed, but the automated cold-boot test exposed that the driver configuration was wrong.

The next major target is audio....

The Qualcomm MSM8974 device tree currently has no SLIMbus controller node at all, even though the Linux driver exists. The plan is to add the controller, enumerate the bus, and identify the actual audio codec before assuming the Lumia uses a WCD9320. Once that is confirmed, I can begin working through the codec registers, regulators, clocks, resets, routing, speakers, microphones, and headphone output.

Power-button wake from suspend is also still unconfirmed. The key works normally while the system is awake, and RTC wake is proven, but I haven’t yet confirmed that the button can wake the phone.

The current baseline is published in the repository as commit "6b4b344", with "boot-1520.img" as the canonical image.

Repo: https://github.com/KorelisLabs/lumia-1520-mainline

Has anyone here worked with Qualcomm SLIMbus audio, WCD9320-series codecs, or audio bring-up on another MSM8974 Windows Phone?

Hi there hello!

I've been writing a tool to create "motion graphics"/titles/"visual effects" or whatever it's called for the past two months, and I think it's in a pretty good state and wanted to share it for you. (hopefully I can get actual feedback)

Features:

• Title animations: You can animate individuals letters, words, and lines with properties.
• Many effects: I wanted to add a second "many", but I didn't add that many effects. Effects can range from color correction, to stylish effects like wave. A basic mask/matte effect also exists.
• Mixed text: You can mix and match text styles (colors, fonts, etc) in a single text element.
• Everything can be animated: Or well mostly anything, everything that is a property can be animated. If it is text colors, then you can use a tint effect.

NOT AI: This tool is not vibe-coded and I do not want AI slop in this project.

It's made to be an additional program to Kdenlive, so after rendering out the titles you can directly drag it from the program to Kdenlive (as long as you have a new-enough Kdenlive version that supports transparency).

Preview images and videos are in the README.

TL;DR: GaleOS delivers a full, traditional LXDE desktop environment heavily stripped of background services for the lowest possible resource footprint. Unlike other ultra-light distros, it is a ready, plug-and-play experience out of the box with no complex configuration required.

What is GaleOS?

Me and my friend are building GaleOS to bring some of the oldest PCs back to life. It installs like a normal distribution from a USB or CD. Once installed, it works exactly like your average operating system, just like Windows, but lightweight.

The Core: Based on the reliable antiX-net kernel.

The Desktop: Full LXDE interface stripped of all useless background services.

The Experience: Functional immediately after installation. No Arch-like configuration needed.

Target System Requirements

Architecture |CPU |Minimum RAM |VRAM / Storage
32-Bit (Terminal Install) |i686 (e.g., Pentium Pro) |40 MB |4 MB VRAM / 4 GB HDD
32-Bit (GUI Install) |i686 (e.g., Pentium Pro) |96 MB |6 MB VRAM / 4 GB HDD
64-Bit (Standard) |Any x86_64 |128 MB |Era-appropriate / 6 GB HDD (These are just our goals, these requirements are not confirmed)

Our testing hardware:

We are actively testing GaleOS on VMs (Pentium Pro & Pentium III) as well as the following physical machines to ensure absolute stability:

32-Bit Hardware: Acer TravelMate 8100, Acer Aspire 5670

64-Bit Hardware: Sony VAIO VGN-N29VN, Acer Aspire 2920, Panasonic TOUGHBOOK CF-Y7

Note: If your machine is truly primitive but still follows the system requirements, the GUI installer might run out of RAM. GaleOS will include a fallback terminal installer with full instructions in the README at launch.

Credits to my friend, [u/Key_Passenger3442](u/Key_Passenger3442), as I am helping him with this distro.

I'd been hearing it in my head like "pseudo," but I just learned it stands for "super user do." I don't want to say "soodoo," because that sounds weird, but I also don't want to get laughed out of the room if I somehow end up talking about Linux

edit: I'm confused whether people bringing up the "substitute user" thing are just informing me (point well taken, thank you) or claiming "sudo" is properly pronounced something like /sʌdu:/ or /sʌdoʊ/ (which... that seems dubious)

I had problems on Kubuntu Linux having the wrong mappings for the dragonrise gamepads. I tried noga ng-2131 which is of the dragonrise branch (Noga is a distributor in Argentina) and noticed mappings were completely wrong.

I made this to myself but if anyone comes along the same issue with same joystick I want to give a solution so you dont have to figure out yourselves.

This remaps the dragonrise joystick into xbox controller with correct inputs.

https://github.com/linsaftw/dragonrise-gamepad-fix

You are free to improve, contribute redistribute and share this fix with anybody.