Dear #linuxaudio enthusiasts and such who'd like to eventually become #linuxmusician (s). 🤗

I've just published a new #developer #interview.

This time, I spoke with Steffen Langenfeld about his #linux port of the MT-PowerDrumKit #plugin—a story I'd love to see repeated by other developer/vendor collaborations. 🥰

linuxaudio.dev/manda-audio

On another note, I'm planning to reach out to a few "in consideration" #vendor (s) to see whether they might be interested in porting their products to #linux via #crowdfunding. I'll keep you posted. 😎

#linuxaudio

Transient Shaper statt Kompressor

Transient Shaper sind eine gute Alternative zum Kompressor, wenn es um die Bearbeitung der Dynamik geht.
gearnews.de/transient-shaper-s…

#PeaceLoveMusic #MusicProduction #TransientShaper #Kompressor #DAW #LinuxAudio #Linux #vst #AuburnSounds #Couture

Transient Shaper: Mehr als eine Alternative zum Kompressor

Um die Dynamik eines Audiosignals zu bearbeiten, bieten Transient Shaper in einigen Situationen Vorteile gegenüber einem Kompressor.

^{Dirk (gearnews.de)}

#Sécurix et #Bureautix. Ce ne sont pas de nouveaux personnages de la BD Asterix, mais les distros #Linux que le DINUM déploiera sur les postes de travail de ses 250 employés.

Les deux distros sont dérivées de #NixOS

clubic.com/dossier-609418-secu…

#France #FOSS #souverainetéNumérique #DigitalSovereignty

Sécurix et Bureautix, voici à quoi ressemble vraiment le Linux qui va remplacer Windows en France

Début avril 2026, la DINUM officialisait sa migration vers Linux. Derrière cette décision, deux projets open source portent des noms qui fleurent bon Astérix : Sécurix et Bureautix.

^{Guillaume Belfiore (Clubic.com)}

hi, i'm Nicoleta - never used a microblogging platform so this is all new to me :)

i love:
* computers - but the hacker culture / free software / sustainable tech parts, not the hypergrowth dark pattern stuff that plagues our existence nowadays
* writing, which i should do more of, over at nicoleta.bearblog.dev
* art & creative expression
* music, esp. electronic
* rhythm games
* dancing, i dance lindy hop!

i'm looking for a community of like-minded people, who feel the same about tech, which is why i joined here :)

if you're local (from Bucharest/Romania), let's get connected, and form a local group for FOSS enthusiasts/hackers/tinkerers!

see you in the cyberspace :)

#introduction #foss #romania #bucharest #linux

"France Is Ditching Windows for Linux"
Video by Mental Outlaw:
youtube.com/watch?v=ThTJAlYGqk…

Could this be an early sign of an emerging "Post-American Internet" like the one envisioned by @pluralistic ?
pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c…

#France #Linux #digitalsovereignty

That's wonderful! Hopefully they will hit that magic 0 soon! ;)

Same as the license costs could be if the gov switched to #Linux eh

RE: social.bitwig.community/@polar…

Remember, this cool plugin supports Linux!!

#LinuxAudio #Plugins #VST #Linux

polarity :wig: (@polarity@social.bitwig.community)

Attached: 1 image This Free Plugin Shouldn’t Be Free, But It Is 👉 https://youtu.be/pRHCocVgpGk #plugins #musodon #musicproduction #bitwig

^{polarity :wig: (Bitwig Community)}

RE: mastodon.social/@rekkerd/11641…

Linux development is currently in the works!

#LinuxAudio #Linux #MusicProduction #Audio #Plugins #VST #CLAP

Ronnie / Rekkerd.org (@rekkerd@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image Ash Taylor updates SFLT free SoundFont player plugin to v0.9 (incl. macOS support) https://rekkerd.

^{Ronnie / Rekkerd.org (Mastodon)}

32 years ago I started working on my first browser, Opera. I left Opera in 2011, but two years later I co-founded Vivaldi. Thus I have been making browsers now for 32 years, with a short break there between 2011 and 2013.

I have always felt that this work is important and no less today than before as more and more of you see the importance of alternatives to Big Tech.

Vivaldi is a European company with headquarters in Norway, servers in Iceland and team in Norway, Iceland, across Europe, Japan and a couple in the US.

We try our best to adapt to your needs. We build powerful browsers, with a lot of flexibility.

I welcome you to try us out and share with your friends!

#Windows #Macos #Linux #Android #iOS #TEchnology #EU #Europa #Norway #Iceland #Browser #Vivaldi #BigTech

vivaldi.com

Vivaldi Browser | Powerful, Personal and Private web browser

It’s a web browser. But fun. It comes with a bunch of clever features built-in. It’s super flexible and does not track you. Get the Vivaldi browser for desktop, mobile, and your car!

^{Vivaldi Technologies}

I don’t use Twitter or Microsoft Edge, but my network logs tell a different story.

Following my post on why I’m skipping the proprietary "Little Snitch" port for Linux, I spent Saturday evening watching the "invisible conversation" between my family’s idle devices and Big Tech servers. Even with no one actively online, the telemetry never stops.

The receipts are now on the blog:

the.unknown-universe.co.uk/pri…

#Privacy #FOSS #HomeLab #Linux #SelfHosted #AdGuardHome

I Don’t Use Twitter. My Logs Disagree - The Unknown Universe

It’s 21:45 on Saturday and the house is quiet. But my DNS logs show a massive invisible conversation between my family’s idle devices and Big Tech servers.

^{TheIPW (The Unknown Universe)}

Un lot de 17 livres à propos de Linux pour 83$, environ 5$ du livre. Format .pdf et .EPUP.

DIX-SEPT LIVRES!! 83$!!

Au profit de la Electronic Frontier Foundation pour qui travaille Cory Doctorow et qui défend la vie privée et la liberté d'expression en ligne.

Les livres. Ils m'ont eu par mon point faible...

#Livre #EFF #CoryDoctorow #Linux

🖨️

My new printer stopped working under #LinuxMint the other day. Re-adding it resulted in a general error message.

Finally found the solution:

In the printer's "location" field, I had specified "Mein Büro" ("My office" in German). And Cups does not like umlauts in that field. 😶

After removing the "ü", the printer worked.

Maybe this information will be helpful to someone, at some point. 🙂

#printer #linux #cups #problemSolving #debugging #umlaut

🔎 Je ne crois pas qu'il existe un #GUL à #Malakoff ? Des Malakoffio·tes intéressé·es ?

Plus largement, dans les Hauts-de-Seine, quelles sont les assos actives d'utilisateurs·trices de Linux ?

Je connais un peu l'association "Le Libre Vanvéen" (@llv ou @llv92 ) mais pas grand chose d'autre dans le sud du département 🤔

@aprilorg, des infos quelque part ?

#Linux #TeamMalakoff #PlusOnEstDeFous

Linux has an AI policy in place.

itsfoss.com/news/linux-ai-codi…

#linux

AI Code Gets Approved in the Linux Kernel… But With Strings Attached

The kernel's stance on AI-assisted patches is now official.

^{Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)}

France is replacing 2.5 million Windows desktops with Linux - and I mapped out its new stack zdnet.com/article/france-leave… via @ZDNet & @sjvn

Here's what France's new #Linux desktop will look like.

France is replacing 2.5 million Windows desktops with Linux - and I mapped out its new stack

Officially, we don't know what France's forthcoming Linux desktop will look like, but this is what my sources and experience tell me to expect.

^{Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)}

[$] Development statistics for the 7.0 kernel

Linus Torvalds released the 7.0 kernel as expected on April 12, ending a relatively busy development cycle. The 7.0 release brings a large number of interesting changes; see the L [...]

lwn.net/Articles/1066723/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #SUSE #RedHat #XFS

New #Linux #kernel #policy: when writing code, humans can be "assisted" by "#AI", but they have to disclose it, and take full responsibility, as contributors.

While this gets celebrated as a "pragmatic stance", it simply delegates responsibilities to individual contributors that no one in good conscience can reasonably take.

Would you be willing to guarantee, legally binding, with all consequences, that your "AI" "assistant" didn't copy-paste code that's under an incompatible license? Or even proprietary, stolen one?

This is a cop out, not a responsible policy. Basically the dirty #subcontractor pattern: Everybody knows that nobody can actually guarantee what they're promising, but hey, wink wink here's their signature, they "promised" it wink wink

tomshardware.com/software/linu…

This take on LLMs that "Torvalds and the maintainers are acknowledging reality: developers are going to use AI tools to code faster, and trying to ban them is like trying to ban a specific brand of keyboard." is a straw man fallacy.

A more appropriate comparison would be "trying to ban them is like trying to ban copy pasting code from other projects" (which is indeed banned).

tomshardware.com/software/linu…

#LLM #Linux #TomsHardware

thedefensenews.com/news-detail…

#linux #france

I recently switched to #Linux Mint. I mean, the reasons are obvious so I will save that for a different time. What really struck me was just how easy it was to actually do it. Problems were minor and mainly due to the fact that I have an Nvidia card in my laptop.

Aside from that, I was up and running quickly. Apps I wanted, (including Steam,) were easy to find and install. There were a couple apps that I needed to find replacements for, like Notepad++.

Yesterday, I deleted my #Windows drive.

La France abandonne Windows pour Linux et vise la souveraineté

goodtech.info/dinum-abandonne-…

#France #Migration #Windows #Linux #LogicielLibre #Souveraineté

La France abandonne Windows pour Linux et vise la souveraineté

La DINUM sort de Windows pour Linux. 80 000 agents de l'Assurance maladie migrent vers le socle souverain. Chaque ministère devra présenter son plan cet automne.

^{Rédaction (Linagora)}

RE: mastodon.social/@nixCraft/1163…

Microsoft Office is one of the largest #welfare programs in the world. it diverts REAL billions of dollars from the public coffers of governments, into the pockets of Bill Gates and his #EpsteinClass cronies.

Brasil pays for basic universal health care and UBI for kids because it said NO to Microsoft in 2005 & moved to #linux & #LibreOffice.

thanks to Trump, #Microsoft finally lost the 2nd largest economy in the European Union and the 7th largest in the world.

merci a la France.

France is transitioning government desktops to Linux, with each ministry required to formalize its implementation plan by autumn 2026.
linuxiac.com/france-launches-g…

#linux #opensource

JonET releases #MonkSynth (beta), a FREE Delay-Lama-inspired vocal synth plugin

Vocal synth is available for Linux, macOS and Windows.
bedroomproducersblog.com/2026/…

#PeaceLoveMusic #MusicProduction #DAW #LinuxAudio #Linux #vst #JonET #VocalSynth #Lama #BPB

JonET releases MonkSynth (beta), a FREE Delay-Lama-inspired vocal synth plugin

Developer JonET has released the beta version of MonkSynth, a free Delay-Lama-inspired vocal synth for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

^{James Nugent (Bedroom Producers Blog)}

Linus Torvalds, the legend 🔥

#linux

Oh nice! The developers of Little Snitch have made a version for Linux. Like they say at the start of the post, I never found an alternative I was happy with when I switched from macOS to Linux. Although, with vastly more open-source software in my workflow it was also less necessary.

obdev.at/blog/little-snitch-fo…

#Linux

Little Snitch for Linux — Because Nothing Else Came Close

Recent political events have pushed governments and organizations to seriously question their dependence on foreign-controlled software. The core issue is simple and uncomfortable: through automatic updates, a vendor can run any code, with any…

^{Objective Development}

hey so this is probably completely pointless but: looking for a job (NZ or fully remote willing to hire a kiwi) in SRE, security, or linux/Unix system administration. 15 years expereince administering Linux and Unix boxes, intermediate level of experience working with docker compose and containerisation and container security. No prior job experience unfortunately, all those 15 years were mostly personal projects and small-scale stuff for friends. Currently running an entire multi-machine personal cloud infrastructure with a demonstration of all the services I have running at status.highenergymagic.net. Entirely willing to accept entry-level job placements, no expectation of being paid a lot or anything, just want to be doing something and move the needle a little on my current "being broke" status. #fedihired #infosec #cybersecurity #linux #unix #docker #sre #DevOps

Please boost for reach, any job offers please DM me.

Have any of you #linuxaudio enthusiasts heard of StompTones?

They seem to offer an entire range of #guitar pedal #plugin (s) for #linux (#vst3 and #lv2).

See stomptones.com/. 😎

I saved a doomed Windows laptop by embracing Linux

> If your laptop is stranded on Windows 10, the solution isn’t a new laptop. It’s a new operating system.

theverge.com/tech/905946/windo…

> This machine kills forced obsolescence.

#technology #Linux #Foss #environment #plannedObsolence #windows

I saved a doomed Windows laptop by embracing Linux

My laptop was supposed to be obsolete without Windows 11, but Linux helped me rescue it from the landfill — and you can use it to save your laptop, too.

^{Stevie Bonifield (The Verge)}

Ok! Initial build script for writerdeckOS v2.0 is done.

I even coded a menu to allow for easy change of default word processor / text editor.

The Terminal Edition defaults to using wordgrinder, but the follow word processors and text editors are loaded into the system and its easy to swap over to them:

- WordGrinder
- Tilde
- Word Perfect
- Joe
- Emacs
- Vi / Vim
- Nano
- Micro

And it's easy to install and run a custom app (text editor or otherwise!).

Also, I added nmtui - a Terminal User Interface for Network Manager to connect to the internet if needed (eg to install a new app or to configure synced cloud folders).

I need to run a couple more QA tests for this and then I'll start putting together the installation media. After testing that on a couple of laptops, I'll push it out officially!

#writerdeckOS #linux #permaComputing