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Echoes #202621: y2026, w21

Weekly Echoes #2026W21: IT news, round-up, week 21; from 05/18 to 05/24.

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Agenda

⇒ (05/29) Securing low level code: NGINX rift

Finding vulnerabilities in low level code (C, C++, and beyond) is uniquely hard and remains a major, under defended attack surface. In this live session, Kal and Leo will walk through how depthfirst’s automated detection techniques surface real, remotely exploitable issues in low level code at scale, and will share a technical breakdown of NGINX rift.

App

⇒ (05/19) OpenBSD 7.9 released!

⇒ (05/23) Game of Trees 0.126 released

Hardware

⇒ (05/19) zunzunbee joins Works with Home Assistant

We are often asked if we prioritize “Big Tech” firms in the Works with program, but we’ve always been clear that newer companies are just as important to our certification as household names. Start-ups are innovators, and have their fingers on the pulse of community needs much more than brands that are only at the mercy of their investors. That’s just one reason we’re thrilled to welcome zunzunbee to the program!

⇒ (05/24) You can run Forza Horizon 6 on an unsupported AMD RX 400/500 series GPU on SteamOS

This post serves as a personal bookmark and a mirror of this fantastic guide by Ok-Pace-1900 on /r/linux_gaming to ensure that this information does not get lost. I learned the hard way that the GPU I have in a DIY Steam Machine PC, the AMD RX 480, is strictly unsupported by Forza Horizon 6. Forza Horizon 6 will not work for AMD users with GPUs based on the Polaris or Vega architectures and older (for example Radeon 400 and 500 series players). These architectures are below our minimum supported specification.

IT

⇒ (05/18) Let’s Learn Linux: Customize and use the shell environment — Lesson 2/3

Learn how to customize and use the shell environment in Bash — this is lesson 105.1 from the LPIC-1 exam curriculum (102-500).

⇒ (05/18) FediMeteo, HAProxy, and the art of not wasting snac threads

How FediMeteo uses HAProxy caching, static pages, and small FreeBSD jails to keep snac quiet and serve ActivityPub traffic efficiently.

⇒ (05/18) Why Debian Stable Is Still King in 2026

Honest question: what would a Linux distribution have to do to earn 30 years of your loyalty?

⇒ (05/18) mdo on FreeBSD 15: Base-System Privilege Delegation with mac_do

FreeBSD 15 ships mdo(1) and the mac_do(4) policy module in the base system. It replaces sudo and doas for most of my hosts, needs no ports, and configures with a single sysctl. This article walks…

⇒ (05/18) Sylve on FreeBSD

⇒ (05/19) dhcpd and unbound in FreeBSD jails

The other day, I used FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi card to get a redundant DHCP server and DNS resolver working together with an OpenBSD server. It works great. But another FreeBSD server is available and I don’t really need yet another gadget powered on. So I moved both the DHCP and DNS services to this machine. While I was there, I took the opportunity to put them into their own jails. Because, you know, privilege escalation…

⇒ (05/20) OpenBSD stories—Writing a Firefox OS

Near the end of march 2002, Wim Vandeputte was contacted for a possible VAX hardware donation in Delft, in the Netherlands. The description of the hardware was a bit vague, it was supposed to be a VAXstation, in a large deskside cabinet. What’s the relationship between a VAX and Firefox, you may already be wondering. Please bear with me, you will see in a few paragraphs.

⇒ (05/20) Enable tethered internet access to your Pocket PC PDA using OpenBSD

Nostalgia for a more relaxed era of computing can drive one to resurrecting ancient protocols, breathing in solder fumes, and exploring old-new networking technologies on OpenBSD.

⇒ (05/20) Linux Gaming Didn’t Happen By Accident

Valve is about to ship the Steam Machine. We don’t have a date yet, we don’t have a price yet, but it’s coming. First half of 2026. Maybe next week, maybe next month, but it’s coming. And everyone is going to tell you the same story. Valve saved Linux gaming. Valve made this possible. Isn’t Gabe Newell wonderful…

⇒ (05/21) BSD Now—664: No one misses SPARC

The NetBSD/FreeBSD Merge announcement, the rise and fall of SPARC, GhoseBSD 26.2 and more…

⇒ (05/21) This blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

This blog has been running on a Digital Ocean VPS for over ten years. A machine hosted in New York City, running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. An LTS that hasn’t been in support for at least 5 years. It was about time to change it. After some considerations, I migrated to a Hetzner virtual machine that is way better than my old Ubuntu one, less than half the price of what I used to pay, and just across the country from me. Not only that, but I took the challenge to move my stack to FreeBSD. It’s a long text, but stay for a cool introduction of FreeBSD Jails with Bastille and some interesting site load benchmarks.

⇒ (05/21) Listing block devices on FreeBSD

FreeBSD newcomers regularly ask me “what’s the equivalent to this Linux command?”. The most common of said commands is lsblk(8) that lists block devices.

⇒ (05/21) Anticheat check - which competitive games actually work on Linux?

Want to switch from Windows to Linux / SteamOS but concerned about games with anti-cheat on Linux? Here’s all you need to know on what you can play.

⇒ (05/24) NGINX with Automatic HTTPS Using Let’s Encrypt and Active24 DNS Challenge

This blog post is run-book how to deploy NGINX web server with Automatic TLS certificate issuance and renewal leveraging Let’s Encrypt DNS Challenge via Active24 DNS provider.

Society

⇒ (05/18) Taking Stock of the State of European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Compliance: An Urgent Wake-up Call for the Open Source Ecosystem

For the better part of two years, discussions surrounding the European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) have been somewhat theoretical: mapping requirements, debating definitions, and analyzing how the requirements will impact our amazing ecosystem. But folks, it’s mid-2026, and the CRA is live. Theory is officially in the rearview mirror as implementation milestones roll out over the next two years.

⇒ (05/20) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 and 9.8 are here: The intelligent evolution of enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.2 and 9.8 are here, evolving the operating system from a foundation to a powerful engine for critical applications, security, and innovation. These updates enhance the core strengths of RHEL to help IT leaders, developers, and administrators accelerate time-to-market, simplify hybrid cloud management, and proactively defend against advanced threats, including quantum computing risks. This integrated strategy enables your organization to innovate, simplify, protect, and trust with the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform.

⇒ (05/20) Fedora: Microsoft is all aboard, but Deepin is dumped

Microsoft has announced a new, Fedora-based Linux distro for Azure VMs, while Fedora has consigned the Deepin desktop to the bin. Fedora decided to remove a component maintained outside Red Hat. In the same week, another external company - granted, a slightly better-known one - decided to rebase one of its projects onto Fedora as its upstream distro. It’s the circle of life, or something.

⇒ (05/22) Good News! After Lenovo and Dell, Now HP Pledges to Support Linux Vendor Firmware Service

Things have been getting better recently, though, especially with LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service) on the scene now, providing hardware vendors a portal to upload firmware updates, which can then be downloaded and installed by users through clients such as GNOME Software or fwupdmgr.

Security

⇒ (05/18) Torvalds: AI Tools Great When Not Causing Unnecessary Pain & Pointless Make-Believe Work

With yesterday’s Linux 7.1-rc4 release are some additional comments by Linux creator Linus Torvalds around AI tooling and the surge in security bug reporting to the Linux kernel due to said LLM-powered tooling…