I’m pleased to announce the second preview release of xfwl4, Xfce’s Wayland compositor, version 4.21.1.

I was planning to write a little about my usage of LLMs while building xfwl4 as a small section of a larger blog post, but I decided I’d rather get it out of the way on its own.

I’m pleased to announce the first preview release of xfwl4, Xfce’s Wayland compositor.

A few months ago, my venerable NETGEAR ReadyNAS NV+ died. Not sure what happened; it just shut off one day and refused to turn back on again.

I have an old ReadyNAS NV+ v2 (not to be confused with the SPARC-based v1) that has been my workhorse home NAS for a good 7 years now (previously I had an older Netgear NAS that suffered a hardware failure and needed to be replaced). It’s a great piece of hardware, but the software hasn’t seen a major update in many years, and the OS is based on Debian squeeze, which is several releases behind current stable, and is no longer maintained.