If you run a lightweight distro and you do not like the fact that Wayland will probably become the default, PeppermintOS has some news you should know about. It’s switching its display server from the soon-to-be-retired Xorg to XLibre for its next
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That’s very interesting to see considering OpenSearch began as a fork. When Elastic relicensed Elasticsearch and Kibana in 2021, AWS built an open alternative, keeping it under the Apache 2.0 license. Three years later, the project moved to neutral governance after the
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Signal is an end-to-end encrypted messenger that doesn’t really need an introduction in this age of authoritarian overreach. Since the beginning, it has required a phone number at signup, even after it gained username support. It’s been quite weird to see, given
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Something that flew under the radar a while back is getting attention again. A post on the r/selfhosted subreddit reminds us that the Raspberry Pi 5 will refuse to boot if it detects RAM that doesn’t match the memory configuration recorded at
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No Starch Press is one of my favorite indie tech publishers. I am a fan of their Linux titles like How Linux Works and System Programming in Linux. This is why I get excited when I see a new book from them.
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Portainer’s Community Edition has been open source for a decade now, and that run has now hit a wall. Portainer 3.0, the upcoming ground-up rebuild of the platform around Kubernetes, will not be the base for CE. This was announced by the
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Garuda Linux has started nudging its userbase toward Nix. The distro’s maintainers have just renamed the Garuda Nix Subsystem to Garuda Nix, and you will find that the move is more nuanced than something purely cosmetic. What used to be a side
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Ubuntu 26.10 is changing what your machine kills when memory runs out. Applications are meant to go first, and the services that hold the session together now sit behind them. Thirty-nine of those services move to an OOM score of -500, with
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I have been (mostly) happily running Home Assistant in my homelab for a while now. There is a tiny issue, though. While my wife and I can manage most devices through the companion app, kids or guests cannot. Reaching out for a
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Google’s September 2026 Pixel Update Bulletin contains patches beyond what’s in that month’s regular Android Security Bulletin. According to GrapheneOS, some of those extra patches touch standard Android platform code, the kind that runs on non-Pixel devices, not just Pixel-branded hardware. None
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