Whenever I see a “rice my Arch #Linux w/hyprland” video, I’m like:

You think that’s badass? You should’ve tried getting X11 running on a Linux machine in the mid-90s. You needed your monitor & video card manuals & a calculator (seriously) so you could calculate “modelines” for your X11 config file.

If you got the math wrong you’d fry your monitor by driving it at too high a frequency (back then nearly all monitors were fixed-frequency).

Typing “startx” for the first time was *so* stressful.

@landley Equinix Metal is shutting down by mid-2026 and they are terminating all remaining sponsored infrastructure by end of December.

@briankrebs yeah, well, they put Stalin's name on Lenin's mausoleum, too, and then quietly ripped it out when it was politically okay to do so.

Saying our last goodbyes to Equinix servers. First as packet.net and then as Equinix Metal, they served kernel.org wonderfully over the past 7 years. With the deadline looming on Dec 31, we're powering them off today. They've been replaced by Akamai and servers.com, (though we had to downscale our mirrors service from 4 worldwide nodes to just two, one in NA and one in EU).

Just as I was getting over jet lag, I come down with something. Flu, probably, judging by Canada-wide numbers. Both of my kids were sick with it as I came home, and the poor sleep definitely didn't help my immune system.

Stephen Rothwell is "stepping down as #Linux-Next maintainer on Jan 16, 2026. Mark Brown [@broonie] has generously volunteered to take up the challenge.":

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/20251218180721.20eb878e@canb.auug.org.au/T/#u

To quote: ""It seems a long time since I read Andrew Morton's "I have a dream" email and decided that I could help out there - little did I know what I was heading for.""

Many many thx Stephen for all your really hard work on this over all those years, it helped a tremendous lot!

#LinuxKernel #kernel

@monsieuricon worst Christmas post so far...

@dme Keeping things distributed, for the most part. AKA "returning to the original ARPANet design goals."

I won't lie, some of my infrastructure decisions are driven by the consideration that by 2030 large parts of the world will be in a hot war, with nation states specifically aiming to knock out each-other's energy and computing infrastructure for economic disruption.

I am, hopefully, completely off my rocker on this one.

I know nobody asked me, but I do quite happily use Vivaldi.

Me: 0, jetlag: 3

Me: 0, Jet lag: 2

*Sigh*

I haven't seen my brother since I left Western Australia.

We were separated at Perth.

Through the magic of timezones, I landed in Montreal and hour before I even left Tokyo.

I enjoyed Tokyo, but will probably enjoy it more closer to spring. Till next time!

#StarTrek

Always nice when the kernel TAB thanks you by name.

[$] Toward a policy for machine-learning tools in kernel development

The first topic of discussion at the 2025 Maintainers Summit has been in the air for a while: what role — if any — should machine-learning-based tools have in the kernel developmen [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1049830/ #LWN

"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.

https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI