There are plenty of online PDF tools that let you edit documents without installing anything on your computer. You just open a website, upload your file, make the changes, and download the edited document. But there is a catch. You are handing
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How does an operating system that isn’t proprietary or powered by the Linux kernel manage to run Docker, you ask? Well, it would need features like namespaces and cgroups. That’s exactly what Vinix did, adding its own implementations of those plus overlayfs
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Firefox has a new look that brings it up to 2026 web browser standards, where having a clean, minimal user experience is a growing phenomenon. Called “Nova,” the redesign leaked before an official announcement was ever made, with Mozilla playing catch-up a
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iXsystems put TrueNAS CORE into what it called a sustaining engineering phase back in 2024. Under this, the open source NAS operating system would only receive security and stability fixes, with new features going to the Linux-based SCALE branch instead. Even its
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Starling is a new open source Linux desktop environment. One developer built it by directing Claude for about six months, ending up with a working desktop that boots into its own session with a compositor and window manager. Don’t think of this
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Terramaster F4-425 Plus was the first NAS I ever used in my hoemlab setup. It’s a solid device for a NAS. Not too expensive, silent and has a decent operating system. The hybrid HDD+SSD model along with TRAID and built-in backup tools
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Origin is Brave’s stripped-down browser, built for people who never touch most of what the company packages with Brave Browser. It drops the AI assistant, the rewards program, the crypto wallet, and the VPN, leaving the ad and tracker blocking in place.
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When KDE announced that Plasma 6.8 would be dropping the X11 session entirely, not everyone was happy about it. Wayland has been the default on most major distributions for a while now, but there’s still a significant chunk of users with reasons
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Passwords are one of those things everyone knows they should handle better but rarely do. The bare minimum is not reusing them across sites, and beyond that, you really want a password manager doing the heavy lifting for you. If you have
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Mozilla has received plenty of flak for adding AI features to Firefox, like a chatbot in the sidebar, automatic alt text in PDFs, AI-powered tab group suggestions, and whatnot. It’s been one thing after another, and while people might appreciate that these
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