Say the name “Chromium” out loud in Linux circles, and you will soon see what a mob looks like. Many people don’t like how much of the web rests on one engine led by Google, and they prefer to keep it away
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kitty is a GPLv3-licensed, GPU-based terminal emulator for Linux and macOS that uses OpenGL for rendering and is written in C, Python, and Go. It can organize work into tabs and windows across seven layouts, supports small terminal programs called kittens that
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Sharing a login with a teammate often means pasting it into a chat, dropping it in a spreadsheet, or pinning a note somewhere everyone can see. That works until a password changes, someone leaves the team, or your credentials get leaked thanks
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Fedora 45 arrived about two weeks late, but it’s packed. You get Linux 7.2, GNOME 51, and Plasma 6.7, plus kmscon replacing the old text console and a QR code that now leads to a page for kernel panics. Could Ubuntu go
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Every Linux user has done the three-step dance at least once. You want to swap two files, so you move the first one to a temporary name, move the second one into its place, and then move the temporary file back. Ever
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systemd, the init system and service manager that most mainstream Linux distributions use, has merged support for writing its programs in Rust. It landed on the main branch through a pull request of 19 commits. The pull request replaces an earlier proposal
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Google is switching off Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom, and Search for K-12 student accounts by default. They stay off until a school admin turns them on, and each service can be manually enabled on its own. But Search is where
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The story starts when Linus Torvalds opened the Linux 7.4 merge window more than two weeks ago when he was headed out for his annual family vacation, resulting in some temporary disruptions to his work. He warned that his schedule would be
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Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, said it’s “quite terrible” that so much of the world’s limited DRAM sits in personal computers that use it maybe 5% of the time. In his view, it would do more work in a data center. My
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My homelab runs on 5 machines with around 30 Docker containers. For a long time, the way I reached them was a bookmarks folder full of entries like http://100.101.12.4:8096. Tailscale took care of getting me into my network from anywhere, but once
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