By now, you must know that Linus Torvalds, the leader of the Penguin army, uh, I mean the Linux kernel project, does not shy away from being blunt, especially when it comes to making a point. When he has one, the Linux
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Humble Bundle and O’Reilly have put together a pay-what-you-want Linux collection called Linux: All the Things (partner link), and it’s built to take you from basic command-line comfort to container orchestration across fifteen eBooks. O’Reilly doesn’t really need an introduction. They are
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No! It will take quite some time, and you will perish before that happens. Elon Musk has announced that X’s entire codebase will go open source once xAI wraps up an internal review for security vulnerabilities. He says they will publish the
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An open source, speech-to-text tool for Linux called Vocalinux has just introduced its 0.14 beta release, bringing about a mix of refinements that touch keyboard shortcuts, remote transcription, and Wayland reliability. We kick things off with the most important usability addition. Earlier,
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The idea that Wayland has worse input lag than X11 has been floating around Linux gaming circles for years. Some numbers backing the claim did come up back in 2025, when a developer measured GNOME’s Wayland session against X11 and reported some
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Mindgard just disclosed an unpatched 0-day in Cursor yesterday, where a poisoned repository could trigger arbitrary code on Windows systems without the developer needing to do anything on their end. The bug lives in how Cursor resolves Git binaries when a project
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Testing experimental software is a hassle right now. You either wait for a stable release, or you dive into the pit of nightly builds hoping the whole thing doesn’t fall on your head. That gets worse on image-based systems like GNOME OS,
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Slack is the solution most teams think of first when they are in the market for a chat application. It is known for being feature-packed, fast, and consistently updated, making it a go-to for millions of teams across the world. But no
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Back in 2020, I wrote about Open Book: a DIY, open source e-reader project from developer Joey Castillo that you could solder together yourself… at least in theory. It had a 4.2 inch e-paper screen, seven physical buttons for navigation, and the
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Most microcontroller boards on the market today rely on Python, usually in the form of MicroPython or CircuitPython. If you’ve ever wanted something leaner without giving up that no-compile, REPL-driven workflow, Lua is the option worth considering. But then most microcontroller boards
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