KDE Finally Gains Automatic Day/Night Theme Switching
KDE Plasma 6.5 will finally include automatic day/night theme switching, to change light/dark Global Themes based on the time of the day. You're reading KDE Finally Gains Automatic Day/Night Theme Switching, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reprodu...
KDE Plasma Adding Auto Day/Night Theme Switching
KDE Plasma 6.5 will finally include automatic day/night theme switching, to change light/dark Global Themes based on the time of the day. You're reading KDE Plasma Adding Auto Day/Night Theme Switching, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce el...
Orbitiny Desktop 1.0 Pilot 4 released
It’s not every day you stumble upon an X11 desktop environment you’ve never hard of, but today’s one of those days. The Orbitiny Desktop Environment is a one-person project, consisting of an entirely custom desktop environment written in Qt. Vers...
Introduction to Qubes OS when you do not know what it is
Solène Rapenne, who writes a lot about and contributes to operating systems like OpenBSD and Qubes OS, has published a primer about what, exactly, Qubes OS is. I like to call Qubes OS a meta operating system, because it is not a Linux / BSD / Windows ...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 3rd, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for August 3rd, 2025, brings news about Audacious 4.5, GNU Linux-libre 6.16 kernel, 4MLinux 49.0, PorteuX 2.2, NetworkManager 1.54, and more. The post 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 3rd, 2025 appeared first on 9to5Linux ...
“AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning”
AWS: Not even once. This prominent Ruby developer lost his entire test environment – which, ironically, was pivotal to AWS’ own infrastructure – because of a rogue team within AWS itself that apparently answers to no one and worked hard to cover ...
Apple HFS/HFS+ File-System Drivers See Many Fixes In Linux 6.17
Earlier this year there was talk of Linux potentially dropping its Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers as they had been orphaned for a decade and proving to be a maintenance burden. Following that some developers stepped up to better maintain the co...
wget Removed from Ubuntu Server 25.10 Default Install
Ubuntu Server 25.10 removes wget from its default installation, in favour of the wcurl tool. Here's why the change was made and if it'll affect you. You're reading wget Removed from Ubuntu Server 25.10 Default Install, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do ...
The X11 SECURITY extension from the 1990s
Security isn’t exactly a strong point of X11, and improving it is one of the main reasons why Wayland is such a vast improvement over X11. Just one of the many examples of X11 being inherently insecure is that keyloggers are entirely trivial on X11, ...
PatchworkOS: a 64bit non-POSIX OS where everything is a file
Patchwork is a 64-bit monolithic NON-POSIX operating system for the x86_64 architecture that rigorously follows a “everything is a file” philosophy. Built from scratch in C it takes many ideas from Unix, Plan9, DOS and others while simplifying the...
Vibe-coding your profession into irrelevance
Claude Code has considerably changed my relationship to writing and maintaining code at scale. I still write code at the same level of quality, but I feel like I have a new freedom of expression which is hard to fully articulate. Claude Code has decoup...
