Michael Catanzaro is stepping away from managing GNOME’s security issue tracking, a role he has held largely by himself since November 2020, with support from Red Hat. He calls the work mostly administrative, following each report from the moment it lands to
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It’s been nearly five years since Alacritty made its debut and became a favorite of many power terminal users. By power users, I mean people who configure Vi mode everywhere, even in graphical IDE. Personally, I prefer Kitty and I have written
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Our brains are not meant to be locked in for eight straight hours during a work/school day. That’s not how these little pink sponges work, no matter what hack productivity gurus on YouTube might try to sell you. What works is cutting
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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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Linux Mint has taken the slow road to Wayland while everyone else rushed ahead, and it looks like that paid off. Cinnamon’s Wayland session is dropping the experimental label with Mint 23 this Christmas, shipping alongside X11 as a fully supported option.
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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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I recently bought an external Dell keyboard that came with a dedicated Copilot key. Since I don’t use Microsoft’s Copilot, the key was doing nothing useful. My new Dell Keyboard comes with a CoPilot key So, I decided to map it to
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