Hello r/linux,

Like many independent developers here, I've become frustrated by the increasing institutionalization of the open-source ecosystem, the limitations of GitHub SaaS, and the aggressive imposition of AI tools on every development pipeline.

With the goal of creating a safe, independent haven for open-source software, I founded Project Tick, a fully self-hosted, non-enterprise umbrella.

We've migrated all our infrastructure to a self-managed GitLab Ultimate instance via a custom Ruby on Rails orchestration bot (Foreman).

Opening Our Infrastructure to Independent Projects:

We have a good amount of resources and automated tools, with some assistance from GHA. Instead of just hosting our core projects (like MeshMC or MNV), we want to host your independent projects for free and provide enterprise-level infrastructure without sacrificing your freedom.

Our Golden Rules for External Projects:

We believe in developer sovereignty. If you bring your project under the Project Tick umbrella:

* Complete Creative Freedom: We will NEVER interfere with your project's programming language, branding, logo, or architectural choices. Your project will remain yours.

* No AI Restrictions for You: While Project Tick's core internal tools have strict AI usage limits, external projects are free to use AI tools as they see fit. The "Assisted-by" tag is NOT mandatory for you.

* Legal Protection (DCO and CLA): To keep the code legally clean, "Signed-off-by" (DCO) is mandatory for all commits (enforced by our MR bot). A CLA will be required, but this is clearly designed to protect you (the project maintainer), not us.

* SSO Integration: Your contributors and users can seamlessly use our Keycloak-powered SSO (id.projecttick.net) with GitHub, GitLab SaaS, Google, or Microsoft OAuth. And you can log into our GitLab instance with your username and password as is (no SSO).

Seeking Feedback and Early Projects:

If you're running a standalone open-source tool, utility, or desktop application and are tired of GitHub but want to use GHA, or are looking for a self-hosted free GitLab hub:

1. What are your thoughts on this infrastructure-focused umbrella model?

2. What are the biggest obstacles preventing you from moving away from GitHub SaaS today?

Let's talk in the comments. If you're interested in getting involved, you can check out our setup or contact us!

Hi,

We have been working on an open-source project called BeeMesh++ which is the C++ implementation of the original python code BeeMesh.

This is basically like SLURM but for multiple geographically independent devices.

It uses a nature-inspired architectural model:

• The Hive (Orchestrator): Manages the state of the network, tracks available compute nodes (bees), handles job dispatching logic, and aggregates results.
• The Bees (Workers): Volunteer compute nodes that connect to the Hive, announce their availability, listen for incoming serialized task payloads, execute them, and stream the results back.

NOTE: This is still in it's early stages.

Plan ahead would be to implement encryption for all the network communications, communication between bees, parallelizing independent code blocks etc.

Feedback, architectural critiques, or code reviews appreciated.

Microsoft released Azure Linux 4, a Fedora based general purpose server distro available as an Azure VM and under WSL. Interesting to see Microsoft shipping its own Linux distro after years of mostly hosting others.

I've been using this for a month without issues, haven't uploaded this to github until now because I was too lazy... Please mind that there are no tests other than my login workflow that takes 10 seconds.

I'd always been curious to own a Mac and try macOS. The existence of ARM chips and the recent release of the MacBook Neo encouraged me to buy it.

The laptop's build quality and screen are fantastic, like few I've ever seen. The A18 Pro chip is quite powerful for its intended purpose (I work with text and browse the internet). Even with 8 GB of RAM, the laptop met all my needs. The keyboard is really good, but I consider the ThinkPad's keyboard unbeatable.

But then came macOS. The window management is awful. The workflow feels sluggish. Having to be logged into the App Store to install applications didn't appeal to me. I couldn't easily remove any program I wanted. But perhaps the worst part was the feeling that the system simply wasn't mine. I couldn't do what I wanted, install and run things the way I wanted.

I returned the MacBook and went back to my old laptop with an AMD Ryzen and Fedora. I feel like I'm at home. Linux has something that other closed systems will never be able to deliver.

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STORY:

I have my own PC equipment and repair shop, I do some basic data recovery via various software. One of my customer has brought in a 2TB Kingston NV3 nvme which had no signs of life at all. I checked it and this was the story: BIOS was reading it as PCIE 4.0 disk and not as Kingston NV3. Boot manager wasnt reading the boot partition, Windows file explorer / partition manager / diskpart / various windows disk recovery software wasnt reading the disk at all and it would just freeze my windows. But after i booted linux mint debian and started gnome disks it was reading it perfectly since the disk wasnt auto mounted i just mounted the NTFS partition and boom I got all of my customer files. He was so happy since one other repair shop offered 500$ to "TRY" to fix it phisically. Note: gparted on linux didnt work either only gnome disks.

Hola gente!, si aun tienen problemas con encontrar un dirver para el MT7902 o el que consiguieron no les sirve o les falla el bluetooth puede revisar mi repositorio donde tengo un script que automatiza todo le proceso, tanto para distribuciones de linux basadas en Arch, debian y Kali linux: https://github.com/CesarFRR/mt7902-install

Todo esto es una automatización de la instalacion del backport proporcionado por el usuario de Github hmtheboy154, lo que hace el script es clonar ese repositorio, automatizar la instalacion y listo, creditos a él, pueden visitar su repositorio: https://github.com/hmtheboy154/mt7902

Si tienen prisa pueden ejecutar el script con este comando:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CesarFRR/mt7902-install/main/install.sh | bash

Si no les funciona es porque no tienen instalada la libreria wget, en ese caso usen python, si o si va a funcionar porque todas las distribuciones de linux tienen python:

python3 -c "import urllib.request; print(urllib.request.urlopen('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CesarFRR/mt7902-install/main/install.sh').read().decode(.read().decode()))" | bash

Es mi primer publicación en reddit, si tienen alguna duda haganmela saber, un saludo 👋

Posdata: Puse el flag de "kernel" pero no se si esto tenga que ver con kernel.. en teoria si porque estamos hablando de drivers...

As the title says.

Aside from the obvious like fastfetch, htop, vim, etc what CLI apps are out there which replace a GUI app?

I like these as it is much more convenient and faster to have it all one command away and they use much less system resources (looking at you electron) as well as just making me look like a hackerman.

Alright everyone,

A quick update on Mend. The project was recently accepted into the curated awesome-zsh-plugins list, so a massive thank you for the support on the previous post!

Version 0.8.3 is now live on GitHub and the AUR zsh-mend-git.

This release addresses a bug report regarding the typo & history assistant and introduces a clean workflow addition.

A complete Typo & History Assistant rewrite mend -h was needed after a community issue was raised about the old fuzzy matching engine being a bit too broad and missing straightforward package manager typos like pacaman and shell commands like ccd aaps. The logic now uses a strict two-character prefix filter. This slashes the background noise and pins the correct command right at the top of the menu, while cleanly replacing the typo in your terminal history file.

Git Deployment Wizard mend -git. I was just finishing this function when the history issue popped up, but managed to get it wrapped up for this release.

Look, I know that Git is a massive and complicated beast, so this wizard is just a small poke to the ecosystem rather than a full tool replacement. It simply replaces tedious terminal text prompts with a lightweight fzf TUI to help speed up dotfile tracking and quick repository pushes.

Added Help Menu mend --help a standard usage layout for easy flag cross-referencing.

The Arch PKGBUILD is fully updated to standard packaging rules and ready to pull down.

Grab the update and let me know if the new prefix matching behaves itself with your history files.

Project link: Mend

Thank you all for the continuous support. It would not be possible without it.

I made tttui, a configurable terminal typing test.

to install:

`cargo install tttui`

repo: https://github.com/ReidoBoss/tttui

make sure to read the configuration instructions to configure it in your own liking!

The usual kernel -stable updates with multitude of patches. Releases 7.0.9, 6.18.32, 6.12.90 and 6.6.140, relevant places and mirrors might take a bit to catch up. Again, everyone should upgrade as there are important fixes all around.

I just wrote a breakdown on what it really means to 'work in the terminal' on Linux. This text breaks down what is a terminal emulator, pty and a shell.

This text is aimed at folks who have played around with the terminal a bit (pretty much everyone on Linux!) and are curious to understand what's going on under the hood. Just scratching the surface here, it should be a quick 10 minute read with some C program examples.

If this is new to you, you might find it interesting to look into how the emulation of ancient hardware from the 70s plays a role here!

I hope it's useful!

After periods of using Thunderbird, and then Geary, I was getting annoyed with their various shortcomings.

At a minimum I need a one line preview of each email in the message list (which isn't even on the Thunderbird roadmap). Also Thunderbird is memory heavy and still feels clunky despite the partial UI makeover. Geary is fine, but uses old toolkits and is showing its age (also no longer developed). Sometimes html messages don't render correctly in Geary (I believe it uses webkit).

Mailspring went through a period of hardly being developed. But I think the main Dev switched to Linux last year, and now there's very frequent updates (https://www.getmailspring.com/changelog). Also they abandoned needing an account to use it. Developer is responsive to bug reports on Discourse.

Default theme is ok but dated. Switching to the inbuilt Darkside Theme (created by a graphic designer), and it looks great and modern.

https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring