Shanios is an immutable desktop Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. It provides optimised builds of the GNOME and KDE Plasma desktop environments. Like most immutable Linux systems, Shanios features rollbacks for instant system recovery, atomic updates through a custom deployment tool called shani-deploy, and Flatpak integration. The distribution's other main features include a blue-green deployment strategy using Btrfs subvolumes, preservation of system integrity with a read-only root partition, and enhanced security through AppArmor profiles, firewalld configurations, and full-disk encryption.

A big update to Ghostty terminal emulator has dropped, delivering a raft of new features like scrollback search, native scrollbars and and process completion notifications. Ghostty 1.3.0 packs in 6 months of development effort: 2,800+ commits from 180 contributors. That means hundreds of performance tweaks, bug fixes and platform optimisations for those using it on macOS, Linux and FreeBSD (Ghostty isn’t available on Windows). But since it’s the new features that most of you care about, and this update to the Zig-based open-source terminal adds a couple of long-requested ones. Ghostty 1.3.0: Highlights Text search/match You can now search your […]

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