Saturday Showcase: Built & Shared by Members This Week

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A fresh weekend is here, which means time to explore what everyone has been building, tweaking, and sharing across the community.

:new_button: New in Showcase

  • Just asking for a little feedback on what I can do better by @Itachixkurosaki
    A self-hosted portfolio for homelab and IT projects, built as an Astro static site and deployed in a 3-node Kubernetes cluster via GitHub Actions, that is worth reading if you want a concrete example of turning home infrastructure into a jobs-focused showcase.

  • Archpkg Browser by @Halano
    A fast, lightweight GUI browser for Arch Linux packages built with FLTK, aimed at making repo exploration and package lookups feel immediate while staying simple to understand.

  • Windows 2000 for X11 shared by @Halano
    A nostalgic X11 shell project that directly draws on X11/Xft to mimic classic Windows 98 and 2000 era desktops, ideal if you want a retro style environment or are curious about low-level X11 UI work.

:wrench: Active & Updated

  • Just asking for a little feedback on what I can do better
    The thread has turned into a practical clinic on early-career IT positioning, with detailed discussion of resume gaps, transferable skills from non-IT roles, portfolio authenticity, and concrete breakdowns of the self-hosted Astro + Kubernetes deployment behind the portfolio.

  • Archpkg Browser
    @Halano explains current tradeoffs in their earlier raylib-based file manager and outlines plans for a new FLTK-based file manager with dark/light themes and a more readable, distro-friendly design that could fit spins like Gamma Linux.

  • How I Chose to Ready my Homelab for the Upcoming SSL Certificate Changes
    The discussion digs into certificate lifetimes, the security vs usability tradeoff of shorter validity, self-signed vs CA-signed certs for homelabs, and what the 47-day limit will mean in practice for people who still renew by hand.

  • :desktop_computer: How to Set Up a VNC Server with x11vnc - From LAN to Remote Access
    A thoughtful back and forth that reframes the tutorial around modern realities like CGNAT on 5G connections, emphasizes safer designs such as VNC over SSH or VPN, and introduces a tiered approach to remote and out-of-band access.

  • Bluetooth connectivity issue
    A concise, command-focused troubleshooting checklist for Ubuntu MATE audio over Bluetooth that walks through profiles in pavucontrol, PipeWire checks with pactl, and stack restarts to diagnose why some speakers play and others do not.

:desktop_computer: Desktops, Rices & Setups

  • @anon7765229 shared their setup - EndeavourOS with KDE Plasma, a clean dual-screenshot spread that shows off a polished, modern Plasma desktop.

  • @andreas shared their setup - Debian Xfce styled with Bluecurve theme, matching icons, a Firefox 98 retro look, and tiling via Cortile plus a dynamic workspaces script for a distinctly early-2000s feel.

  • @5iber shared their setup - a Fedora desktop with a full-screen fastfetch shot that highlights a neat, bright layout and the enthusiasm of someone actively learning their new system.

  • @taki_at_gamma_linux shared their desktop - Bodhi Linux with the Moksha E17 desktop, a fully black Arabic background and a grid of practical app launchers, now shown in screenshots after initial text-only description.

:sports_medal: New Member of the Month

  • Congratulations to @5iber on receiving the New Member of the Month badge, and thanks for diving into Fedora, scripting, and forum discussions with such energy.
  • Congratulations to @Bartski as well, whose return to the community and distro experiments have clearly made a positive impression.

You can see the full list of recipients here: LinuxCommunity.io

If you have something you are proud of, from a small script to a full desktop overhaul, drop it in the Showcase or desktop threads so everyone can explore it before next Saturday.

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A fresh weekend is here, which makes it a perfect time to grab a drink, spin up a VM, and try out what folks have been quietly crafting and polishing.

:new_button: New in Showcase

  • Brought a couple Cachy apps to the arch masses - scx-manager & kernel-manager by @MadGoat
    Forked, unbranded, and extended versions of CachyOS’s kernel and scheduler managers for Arch systems, with detailed docs and support for custom Cachy kernels and SCX schedulers so you can tune your desktop or server without hand rolling every command.

  • DeLinuxCo ISO release - 260911 by @DeLinuxCo
    A new Arch-based DeLinuxCo Cinnamon ISO built around Linux kernel 7.2.3 with a strong focus on AppImage workflows, including 30+ AppImages that can be installed and removed directly from the package manager for a portable, distro-agnostic app stack.

:wrench: Active & Updated

  • Just asking for a little feedback on what I can do better
    The thread’s career and portfolio discussion now includes a concrete walkthrough of using a Kali VM with OpenVAS in three different network positions (DMZ, server segment, VPN mesh) to compare vulnerability visibility and firewall behavior in a homelab.

:desktop_computer: Desktops, Rices & Setups

  • @MrJ shared their setup
    A bold cyberpunk themed Arch desktop with a custom background that leans into neon styling for a lively tiling environment.

:sports_medal: New Member of the Month

  • Congratulations to @DsturbD for earning New Member of the Month, and for jumping right into the community after decades of Linux use.
  • Congratulations as well to @Aneesmohammedalpy, whose curiosity about Linux distros is already adding fresh energy to discussions.

You can see all recent New Member of the Month recipients here: LinuxCommunity.io

If you have something you are hacking on or a desktop you are proud of, drop it into Showcase or the desktop threads so everyone can explore it before next Saturday’s update.

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Congratulations to each of you for your recognition and participation in our community!

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The weekend is a good time to tinker, and there are some thoughtful tools and creations this week that are perfect to explore with a fresh cup of coffee in hand.

:new_button: New in Showcase

Sync your Passwords - No Cloud! shared by @DeLinuxCo
A practical guide that pairs KeePassXC with Syncthing so you can keep password vaults synced across machines without handing anything to a cloud provider, ideal if you want reproducible, self-hosted security with clear step by step detail.

:wrench: Active & Updated

Kubernetes Homelab
@Itachixkurosaki reflects on running k3s on Proxmox, the value of constrained Pi clusters for learning, hard-won lessons about actually testing Velero restores, and the utility of the go-velero-manager helper for cleaning up old backups.

Brought a couple Cachy apps to the arch masses - scx-manager & kernel-manager
@Brian_Masinick reports pulling in kernel-manager on EndeavourOS and plans to test it, which is useful context if you are curious how these forked CachyOS tools feel on real Arch-based desktops.

Local capture of entire discussion topic as a single PDF
@ericmarceau documents a simple trick for turning any Discourse topic into a single printable or savable HTML page via Ctrl+P, handy if you like to archive long how-to threads or read them offline as PDFs.

Editing of EPUB files - Mass correction - Removal of mid-word breaks
@benowe1717 and @Itachixkurosaki share concrete leads for automating cleanup of split words in EPUBs, from calibre’s limits to Python NLP scripts and segmentation tools, which is worth a look if you maintain large ebook libraries.

:desktop_computer: Desktops, Rices & Setups

Ubuntu MATE Resolute Raccoon Wallpaper?
@jmarkus shared their setup with a custom Resolute Raccoon wallpaper derived from their own photography, a clean MATE-friendly backdrop for anyone running 26.04.

The Default Wallpapers for Ubuntu 26.10 is Out [Download Link]
@guiverc shared their setup highlighting the new ubuntu-mate-wallpapers-stonking package and its set of fresh backgrounds discovered via a simple dpkg -L browse.

:sports_medal: New Member of the Month

If you have a project, script, homelab, or a desktop you are proud of, drop it in the Showcase or desktop sharing threads so everyone can explore it before next Saturday’s update.

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A fresh weekend is a good time to grab a beverage, pull up a terminal, and try some of the tools and setups people have been crafting and tuning over the last few days.

:new_button: New in Showcase

  • FerrumPix: bringing photo management, RAW editing and image editing together on Linux by @Bitpainter75
    A GPLv3 photo workflow app for Linux with library management, non‑destructive RAW development, layers, masks, local AI tools, and Immich/Nextcloud integration, available as AppImage, Flatpak, DEB, RPM, ZIP and AUR for x64 and ARM64.

  • A TUI music player written in Go by @goatherd
    goatplayer is a terminal UI music library browser written in Go that drives mpv under the hood, with keyboard and mouse control plus installable source and binaries now published on GitHub for people who want to test and help shape its release process.

  • XCropper - Fast Linux image cropping tool by @Halano
    A tiny (~90K) native Linux image cropper that launches fast, decodes a wide range of formats (including RAW, AVIF and JXL), supports lossless PNG export and keyboard-driven pan/zoom, ideal if you just need to trim screenshots or project images without firing up a heavy editor.

  • RamSleuth - RAM telemetry + memory benchmark for Linux by @MadGoat
    A Rust-based desktop and terminal tool that exposes live DRAM controller state, SPD details and bandwidth/latency benchmarks on AMD and Intel, with a small privileged daemon and unprivileged GUI/TUI clients plus AUR packages for Arch users.

:wrench: Active & Updated

  • FerrumPix: bringing photo management, RAW editing and image editing together on Linux
    FerrumPix hit versions 0.9.50 and 0.9.52 this week, gaining a GPS Map gallery view, camera JPEG vs RAW comparison, a reworked Dehaze, histogram and clipping improvements, pen pressure with stroke smoothing, faster painting, richer selection tools and many workflow fixes based directly on feedback in the thread.

  • A TUI music player written in Go
    goatplayer is now on GitHub with a trimmed release source tree, prebuilt executable and an installation walkthrough video for Ubuntu 24, and early testers are helping uncover issues like missing libtag_c.so.0 and crashy database handling that the author is actively investigating.

  • XCropper - Fast Linux image cropping tool
    Discussion compares XCropper’s “instant crop and exit” flow to heavier tools like GIMP or Krita and touches on Shotwell, Mirage and other alternatives, while @Halano hints at related upcoming utilities like a TUI music player and a smart video cropper built on X11 and FFmpeg.

  • RamSleuth - RAM telemetry + memory benchmark for Linux
    Early users surfaced an Intel-specific bug that stops timings from updating, and @MadGoat is asking for reports from more Intel machines to improve the MCHBAR decode and polling behavior.

  • Brought a couple Cachy apps to the arch masses - scx-manager & kernel-manager
    kernel-manager was updated to 1.30.2 so that build directories with a trailing slash are handled correctly, preventing git clone from targeting an empty destination and refusing separator-only paths with a clear diagnostic.

  • Laser - A simple CD ripping application
    Following the 0.5.0 release, @andreas confirms that Laser can look up disc and track information via MusicBrainz, filling the gap left by older tools that depended on CDDB.

  • I Built Gamma Linux to Give Old PCs Another Life :algeria:
    After kernel panics were reported on older 32 bit hardware, @taki_at_gamma_linux notes that the issue has been tracked down and a fixed ISO is planned, with users patiently waiting to retest on vintage machines.

  • DeLinuxCo on DistroWatch
    DeLinuxCo just landed on DistroWatch, and early impressions from a Manjaro skeptic in the thread praise the customized build for being straightforward to get running where stock Manjaro had previously been troublesome.

:desktop_computer: Desktops, Rices & Setups

Set something of your own in motion, then drop your projects in Showcase and your screenshots in the desktop threads so everyone can explore them before next Saturday’s update.

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Cooler weather, longer nights and a bunch of members quietly shipping tools and artful setups make this a good weekend to tinker with something new.

:new_button: New in Showcase

:wrench: Active & Updated

  • FerrumPix: bringing photo management, RAW editing and image editing together on Linux
    0.9.56 and 0.9.58 land with faster RAW development, new manual chromatic aberration sliders, better masks and healing, a compact combined adjustments panel, smarter batch “Apply adjustments,” and a gallery/filmstrip that finally respects each photo’s real aspect ratio.

  • FerrumPix: bringing photo management, RAW editing and image editing together on Linux
    The latest discussion digs into handling VueScan grayscale DNGs, practical film-scan noise reduction, and small UX touches like safer delete confirmations, with confirmation that upcoming 0.9.59 will properly open single channel VueScan DNG files.

  • A TUI music player written in Go
    goatplayer gains stronger modularization through Go sub-packages and now performs startup checks for terminal size as well as the integrity of its audio metadata file, exiting early with clear messages if something is off.

  • RamSleuth - RAM telemetry + memory benchmark for Linux
    Version 2.4.12 introduces a one click setup that configures the privileged daemon, access, and driver build (including Secure Boot), extends Intel coverage through Arrow Lake and DDR5, and adds clearer SPD decoding with XMP and EXPO profile details.

  • Linux Bash Scripting: Writing Your First Script
    Members are picking up the guide to craft practical scripts like rsync based backup helpers and plan to test-drive the examples on real workflows while commuting and between other projects.

  • A simple readline in a Linux CLI or TUI
    The thread walks through tradeoffs between heavy readline style libraries and lighter custom input handling, touching on stty quirks, backspace behavior, and Go TUI frameworks like Bubble Tea and gocui that may underpin the next round of tools.

  • DeLinuxCo on DistroWatch
    More feedback rolls in on this Manjaro based spin, with testers reporting smooth live sessions and the maintainer outlining goals around consistent look and feel plus an AppImage centric workflow.

  • Self-Hosting Behind CGNAT - Article
    A follow-up reply dissects what is really going on in the writeup, clarifying CGNAT vs static NAT, how rented public IPs and VPN tunnels change the picture, and where the “behind CGNAT” framing can mislead.

  • Severing old connections? Why not consider “Disroot.org”
    Members dig into Disroot’s Dutch foundation roots, green banking via Triodos, and a Nextcloud based stack that stays outside US CLOUD Act reach, comparing it to Proton for privacy conscious hosting.

:desktop_computer: Desktops, Rices & Setups

Wrap up your week by trying a new tool, poking at a fresh ISO, or posting your own project or rice in Showcase or the desktop threads so it can be featured before next Saturday.

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Another Saturday, another stack of projects to tinker with while the coffee brews and the terminal blinks.

:new_button: New in Showcase

:wrench: Active & Updated

:desktop_computer: Desktops, Rices & Setups

If something you are building or theming belongs here, drop it into Showcase or the screenshots threads so everyone can poke at it before next Saturday.

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