Richard Brown - @[email protected] retweeted
Hi! In case you missed, my #FOSDEM talk about creating a #rootless #container manager from scratch is available!
We'll talk about the basic principles to build your own container manager, using #lilipod as an example:
fosdem.org/2025/schedule/eve…
#opensource #linux #distrobox
Richard Brown - @[email protected] retweeted
Hi All!
New release of #distrobox is on the way!
1.8.1 brings lots of improvements and refinements all over the place, in pkg manager handling, nvidia integration and in performance department! 💪
Also many many new contributors! 🎉
Check it out! github.com/89luca89/distrobo…
Richard Brown - @[email protected] retweeted
Join us in the @FOSDEM Distributions DevRoom in Brussels on February 1-2, 2025!
It's a unique space where #Linux distro communities converge to share ideas, learn, and grow together: almalinux.org/blog/2024-11-1… #AlmaLinux #OpenSource #fosdem
Richard Brown - @[email protected] retweeted
New on Hetzner: openSUSE & CentOS Stream 10!
✅ @openSUSE: Flexible, powerful, now on our #HetznerCloud & dedicated servers!
✅ @CentOS Stream 10: Latest enterprise Linux for your VPS, packed with new features and enhancements.
Built for performance. Backed by reliability. 💻
Richard Brown - @[email protected] retweeted
I’m not a fan of VLC.
It’s got:
- huge attack surface (anyone remember the arbitrary code execution from a malformed subtitle?)
- bad tone mapping
- bad subtitle rendering
- high resource usage
It's 2025. Use a MPV derivative, or madVR if you want to go wild.
Richard Brown - @[email protected] retweeted
And for the ones using #Distrobox on #Aeondesktop or #Bluefin (or anywhere else), here's a small new year gift:
github.com/nunix/config/blob…
@LucaDiMaio11 @sysrich assemble 😇
The appsvenger Corsair 🏴☠️
#Ghostty on WSL featuring Fedora Remix by @PengwinLinux 💙
Thank you @mitchellh and the crew for this great end-of-year gift 🎁
The terminal collector Corsair 🏴☠️
Richard Brown - @[email protected] retweeted
🔒💻 #Discover the future of #system management with immutable OS products like #openSUSE MicroOS & @AeonDesktop! Emphasizing automation & self-care, these systems revolutionize the "never touch a running system" concept. #sysadmin youtu.be/AqQ2eodtZOM?si=tL5u…
Richard Brown - @[email protected] retweeted
"That's the deal. That's open source. I give you a gift of code, you accept the terms of the license. There cannot be a second set of shadow obligations that might suddenly apply, if you strike it rich using the software. Then the license is meaningless." world.hey.com/dhh/automattic…
Richard Brown - @[email protected] retweeted
Just to add some additional clarity to the whole WordPress situation: Matt has publicly stated that WP Engine either had to give 8% of their revenue (which would be tens of millions of dollars per year) to his for profit corporation that’s raised nearly $1 billion dollars in venture capital, or hire a legion of developers to be paid by WP Engine but essentially report to Matt to do whatever he wants them to work on at no cost or expense to him.
His so called “offer” to WP Engine was either an 8% tax, or buy him developers that he can dictate what they work on.
These were his demands, either pay his mafia fee or give him equivalent resources to control just to exist.
While I do believe companies should contribute to open source projects, they should never be forced to do so under threat of extortion.
Does this seriously sound reasonable to anyone? Is there any open source project in the world who demands anyone who uses their open source project pay an 8% tax? Didn’t think so.
Richard Brown - @[email protected] retweeted
I've been using #WordPress for a really long time. Since about 2004 I think. Never have I seriously thought about moving to a different CMS...until today and this BS with blocking WP Engine sites. Matt is an existential threat to WordPress and the community.
Richard Brown - @[email protected] retweeted
Have your tried @AeonDesktop and feel like you're living in the future? 🚀 aeondesktop.org
Richard Brown - @[email protected] retweeted
Please don't buy into the "you never need to reboot Linux" meme, if you actually care about security, apply regular updates and reboot your system. Especially for a publicly facing server, every single system accessible with a public IP is constantly being attacked
When your #openSUSE Leap server runs more than 500 days without a reboot. 🛠️💚 How long has your #Linux system been going without a #reboot? get.opensuse.org/leap/
Richard Brown - @[email protected] retweeted
Replying to @todaywasawesome
Yeah, this is where people go wrong in OSS. They assume people are acting altruistically and should give freely of their time and resources. When in fact most people are more selfishly doing what interests them for their purpose and then sharing it, often to further their purpose or to get recognition. There's a lot of selfishness being exploited for the common good.
Richard Brown - @[email protected] retweeted
And what that is basically assuming you can fork and beat the community. Assuming you will build a new community. Assuming you have the resources to reinvent the wheel. @rawkode
Richard Brown - @[email protected] retweeted
Ugh, trying out the cosmic alpha. It's fine, I guess. It's hard to watch a team do what many, many teams have done in the past and failed at. I should be encouraging, I hope it works. But y'all are doing the same thing that has failed many times before.
Richard Brown - @[email protected] retweeted
A bit more than 6 months later:
- Still daily driving @AeonDesktop (RC3)
- Did a talk during OpenSUSE Community in Berlin
- Continue to love the collaboration between immutable distros
- "helping" Distrobox with ideas (😇)
- PaperWM > pure tiling (😈)
The linuxing Corsair 🏴☠️
Richard Brown - @[email protected] retweeted
Aeon Desktop RC3 is here with Full Disk Encryption by default. A BIG Thanks to everyone who made this possible! #opensource #FDE #Linux news.opensuse.org/2024/07/28…
Richard Brown - @[email protected] retweeted
It's official, @AeonDesktop RC3 is now Released!
Now with Full Disk Encryption (FDE) with strong "Measured Boot" verification of your whole boot chain on supported hardware
Download it NOW from aeondesktop.org
More info on our subreddit: reddit.com/r/AeonDesktop/com…
Richard Brown - @[email protected] retweeted
There is now an official @AeonDesktop subreddit community
reddit.com/r/AeonDesktop/
Feel free to join us there!
Richard Brown - @[email protected] retweeted
Vanilla OS continues to innovate, building on Ubuntu, but bringing an immutable base and atomic updates. It’s great to see it alongside @ProjectBluefin, @Fedora Atomic, @AeonDesktop, @Ubuntu Core Desktop, and @nixos_org.






















