Merry Chrysler and Happy Honda, fediverse! May your day be swell and wonderful no matter how you celebrate it.

A Very Kernel Christmas

‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the root, Not a process was stirring, not even a boot. The scripts were all hung by the firewall with care, In hopes that Linus soon would be there.

The daemons were nestled all snug in their sleep, While memory leaks made the swap space go deep. And me in my hoodie, with coffee so black, Was trying to find where I’d left my SSH stack.

When out on the bus there arose such a clatter, I ran to the terminal to see what was the matter. Away to the window! I gave it a bash, And cleared out the buffer to empty the trash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen code, Gave a luster of midday to the data that flowed. When what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a miniature Tux and eight penguins in gear.

With a little old driver, so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be Saint Nick. More rapid than compilers, his coursers they came, And he whistled and shouted and called them by name:

“Now, Debian! Now, Fedora! Now, Arch and Gentoo! On, Mint! On, Slackware! On, Red Hat and Suse! To the top of the stack! To the top of the wall! Now sudo away! sudo away all!”

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, He patched all the vulnerabilities, then turned with a jerk. He filled all the stockings with RAM and SSDs, And gave everyone licenses—GPL, please!

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like a grep through a thistle. But I heard him exclaim, as he drove out of sight: “Happy Christmas to all, and to all a chmod 777 night!”

Whiteboarding session at our December Geek-a-thon

We are getting ready to go, unfortunately no streaming today.

Holiday Happy Hour

This is just a test message. Ignore.

My new @novalug sticker! #linux #debian #laptop

Saturday meeting underway.

Claude AI used to commit cyber attack. The guardrails were circumvented and the attack was carried out at a speed not possible by human attackers.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anthropic-chinese-cyberattack-artificial-intelligence/

#newsyoucanuse

Homebrew 5.0.0 has been released. Homebrew now supports Linux on ARM64 / AArch64 as tier 1 architecture.

https://brew.sh/2025/11/12/homebrew-5.0.0/

#linux #newsyoucanuse

Our plans for December:

Based on survey feedback, we are planning to hold a Holiday Happy Hour on the 13th and our regular meeting on the 20th.

More details to follow.

SATURDAY! SATURDAY! SATURDAY!
Join us for our montly meeting of the Northern Virginia Linux Users Group. This month, our keynote presentation will be on creating CLI applications using Java with the GraalVM, presented by Ed MacDonald of Solution Street.
https://novalug.org/presentations/2025-november-15/

Employees of two US cybersecurity firms indicted for ransomware attack.

https://thehackernews.com/2025/11/us-prosecutors-indict-cybersecurity.html

#newsyoucanuse #cybersecurity #ransomeware

Linux ported to WASM… run Linux in your browser.

https://github.com/joelseverin/linux-wasm

#linux #newsyoucanuse

Fedora 43 has been released.

https://9to5linux.com/fedora-linux-43-officially-released-now-available-for-download

#newsyoucanuse #linux

First release of Servo, the alternative browser engine, tagged on 20 October.

https://servo.org/blog/2025/10/20/servo-0.0.1-release/

#servo @servo #opensource #newsyoucanuse

We are seeking input on our December meeting. A proposal has been put forward to forgo the regular Saturday morning meeting in favor of a Saturday afternoon happy hour at a place that serves adult, barley-based, beverages. The meeting would be 13 December from 3pm until people leave. This will be an unsponsored event, meaning food/drink is not provided.

Please vote:

Just arrived in the mail.

Our meeting today. Tim M gives a presentation on Linux Gaming.

Join the Northern Virginia Linux Users Group (NovaLug) on Saturday, 18 October for our monthly in-person meeting. This months keynote is Gaming on Linux: https://novalug.org/presentations/2025-october-18/