Microsoft has had a complicated relationship with the open source world. VSCode, TypeScript, and .NET are all projects it created, and its acquisition of GitHub put it in charge of the world’s largest code hosting platform. But it is also the same
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Linus Torvalds created two of the most widely used tools in modern computing: the Linux kernel and Git. Git, of course, is a version control system primarily used by programmers. But Theena makes a strong case that Git and plain text are
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APT, or Advanced Package Tool, is the package manager on Debian and its derivatives like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and elementary OS. On these, if you want to install something, remove it, or update the whole system, you do it via APT. It
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Anthropic has handed the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) a $1.5 million donation. The money is earmarked for build and security infrastructure, project services, and community support. If you have used the internet today, you have almost certainly touched something the ASF maintains.
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The PyTorch Foundation has taken on two new projects: Helion, a tool for writing machine learning kernels contributed by Meta, and Safetensors, a secure model file format contributed by Hugging Face. Both were announced at PyTorch Conference Europe in Paris, and the
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If you did not know already, Puter is an operating system that runs inside a web browser. It is open source and you can self-host it if you like. It has everything you would expect in a desktop. A file system, app
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I have been gaming (not to be confused with gambling ☠️) for quite some time now. In that time, I have seen my fair share of gaming-centric platforms, storefronts, and applications, ranging from the genuinely useful to the elaborate solutions to problems
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Another morning, another moderately (but pleasantly) surprising move in the Linux development storyline. In the big 2026, Linux is definitively fixing its support for the GD-ROM driver, which is used by Sega Dreamcast. Sega what? For context, Sega Dreamcast is a gaming
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Plenty of CPU architectures have come and gone over the last few decades. The x86 family alone has seen a long line of chips rise to prominence and fade away as newer generations took over. The i486 is one such chip, and
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KDE Plasma’s two classic themes, Oxygen and Air, are making a comeback. A group of KDE contributors is actively restoring both ahead of the Plasma 6.7 release, which is scheduled for June 16, 2026. Both themes trace their roots back to the
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