The weekend is a great time to build something small, tweak a setup, or dive into a project thread that sparks a new idea.
New in Showcase
- Transforming My Debian 13 Home Server: GNOME to Cockpit by @Sanjana_Rathnayake
A clean headless conversion that drops the desktop for Cockpit-based administration on Debian 13, with an in-progress monitoring dashboard built in Next.js and Node.js that makes this a practical home lab learning path.
Active & Updated
- Distro Fighter: Find your Linux distro & desktop — a player reports campaign rebuild slots block starting a fresh run, and the maintainer is looking into the flow.
- Distro Fighter: Find your Linux distro & desktop — a correction notes Slackware’s shipped desktops are Xfce and KDE plus classic WMs, not the larger list previously shown, and the maintainer acknowledged the fix path.
- Peakload benchmarks for operating systems — the author details their PVZ machine model atop System V semaphores, points to a GitHub directory you can compile with gcc, and outlines next steps toward FPGA prototyping.
- Noctalia-shell - minimal desktop shell for Wayland — real world notes pairing Noctalia with Niri highlight launcher workflow tradeoffs and raise a good question about the best VM companion.
Desktops, Rices & Setups
- @andreas shared their setup — Debian with Plasma, a tidy panel and a fresh switch-from-another-DE vibe.
- @ClaudioDC shared their setup — Debian XFCE with Yamagi Quake II 8.50 running, retro action on a lean desktop.
- @Jymm shared their setup — a vanilla Ubuntu look that keeps it clean and readable.
- @DenalB shared their setup — Fedora 44 KDE fastfetch card with a crisp, info first presentation.
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