Don't think that this move came out of the blue. Nitrux has been busy building this up since last year, when it swapped out KDE Plasma for Hyprland and told everyone that they were headed towards 'a new beginning' that was not for everyone.The project now has a name for what it has been creating, the "Workspace Environment." It ties together four new in-house developed components as pieces of a five-layer architecture, presenting a very different desktop experience for Nitrux than we are used to...
There's something satisfying about watching a Linux project everyone assumed had quietly died come back with a fresh commit. It happens more often than people expect, and it's usually worth celebrating when it does.One of those revivals has been the return of LightDM, the display manager Canonical built more than a decade ago.LightDM is aliveReleased last week is LightDM 1.33.0, which rolls out a bunch of improvements as well as introduces the two new maintainers who are taking over. The last re...
Linux Mint is getting automatic old kernel cleanup in the next release, a feature Fedora has handled through DNF's installonly_limit for years. And I did not even know that Mint doesn't do it.The Document Foundation has put up a write-up (part 1 for now) of how the Austrian Military migrated 16,000 PCs from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. The part worth noting is that ~8,000 users installed it on their own before it was mandated. Now that's a pleasant surprise.CachyOS released their August upda...
The world of open source is split when it comes to AI, while a big project like Linux is seeing its leader warming up to it, telling those who object on the mailing list that Linux "is not one of those anti-AI projects."Projects like Rust, GCC, and Codeberg are going the other way, banning AI from writing meaningful chunks of their code, though none of them draw that line in quite the same place.Omarchy doesn't care about any of that. Its upcoming release, Quattro (4.0), is skipping the debate o...
It all started with a tweet by video game designer Jonathan Blow. Blow is the developer behind games like Braid and The Witness.He mentioned that he had stopped using VLC on Windows because it took about 33 seconds to start playing a simple MP3, and he had switched to Microsoft Media Player instead.Finally switched *away* from VLC *to* Microsoft Media Player, because VLC now takes 33 seconds to start playing an mp3 after clicking on it.A large sector of open source software is in a truly embarra...
The world is in a messed-up state where surveillance and eroding people's rights are rewarded, and those who oppose are labeled unpatriotic, anti-national, radicals, criminal sympathizers, and what not.Yet, that doesn't stop people from investing time and money in securing their data by opting for open source mobile operating systems like GrapheneOS and taking steps to improve their privacy in the online world.One of those steps is to go for a private messaging app that doesn't give out your dat...
Xbox Game Pass has never really worked on Linux beyond laggy cloud streaming, but an open source project called Xodus is trying to change that.Earlier this week, replying to a thread on Reddit, Paweł Lidwin (imLinguin), project lead of Xodus, confirmed that the hardest parts of running those games on Linux, Xbox authentication, and game downloads are already working.The project is attempting to reverse engineer Xbox's entire authentication, licensing, and delivery pipeline well enough to run Xbo...
Welcome to the first issue of Local AI Weekly. A lot of It's FOSS readers have been curious about local AI but didn't want it mixed into FOSS Weekly. So here we are. A separate space for people who want to explore AI but the open source ones.I'll be sharing experiments from my own hardware, open model news, tools worth your attention, and will keep an eye on the AI related news worth knowing. Let's get into it.🧪 Experiment: Hermes on a Raspberry PiHermes is the buzz of the AI town so I decided t...
My agent harnessing journey started with Nanoclaw. Which is super simple to setup and use. It works for a few simpler tasks through Telegram.But I wanted something to work on my main computer. Out of all claw like agents, I find Hermes the most suited. So I installed Hermes on a Raspberry Pi running on Pironman 5 Pro Max. And I installed Hermes desktop on my Asus Zenbook laptop, my primary system. The advantage is that the Raspberry Pi remains the always-on Hermes machine. I can close Hermes Des...
The Linux Mint project regularly puts out monthly news that gives us a look at what the developers are working on and where the overall project is headed towards.Their July update has shown us how the distribution intends to handle kernels going forward, moving the entire job out of the Update Manager and into a different tool altogether.A new feature?Source: The Linux Mint BlogYes, and no. Kernel management isn't new, as in the past, Update Manager has let users view and remove individual kerne...
Love them or hate them, rolling release distros have managed to take a slice out of the Linux desktop market share. They provide a bleeding-edge experience that stays quite stable if cared for and bites a user's a** if handled poorly.CachyOS is one of those options that has been only getting more popular as the days go by. Offering a rebuilt Arch package stack with CPU-specific optimizations and a custom kernel tuned for responsiveness, it is a distro that delivers some good performance.You migh...
Over the past two years, the AI agent space has gone through wave after wave of "engineering paradigm shifts". From Prompt Engineering to Context Engineering, and on to Harness Engineering, each iteration has focused on making individual agents smarter and more reliable.However, complex tasks in the real world are never completed by a single person. For example, multi-disciplinary medical consultations require experts from various fields working in tandem. Similarly, large-scale software enginee...
The Rust project has implemented a formal LLM policy, which pushes people to use LLMs to analyze/think through code, not write it.With how it is written right now, the policy only covers the core code repo for Rust. It lays out many rules around what's restricted, what's allowed, and a circuit breaker that pauses AI-authored merges once they cross half of all merges in a six-week window.Just so you know, the core repo hosts the compiler and standard library for the entire language. Every Rust pr...
I sat down with Bianca Lewis of OpenSearch at Open Source Summit India, right after the project's second OpenSearch Con in the country. Bianca Lewis is the executive director of the OpenSearch Software Foundation.OpenSearch started life in 2021 as a fork of Elasticsearch, born out of Elastic's move away from an open source license. Five years on, I wanted to know how much of that origin story still holds, and how the project sees itself now that it's an AI data infrastructure layer with its own ...
Illinois has become the latest U.S. state to pull operating systems into the age verification pool. Governor JB Pritzker has signed HB5511, the Children's Online Social Media Safety Act, putting forward a new age verification framework for every device sold or used in the state.The bill imposes age check on "covered manufacturers," a category that lumps device makers, operating system providers, and app stores together.Protect the children!By January 1, 2028, these manufacturers have to build an...
Virtualization is basically load-bearing infrastructure for any serious data center in 2026. Enterprises lean on it to run more workloads on less hardware, isolate services cleanly, and keep uptime high without buying a rack of extra servers.Proxmox has built a name for itself in this space over the years with its range of products.Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) handles virtualization, Proxmox Backup Server covers data protection, and Proxmox Datacenter Manager ties it all together as a soluti...
Greg Kroah-Hartman just deleted a Linux driver that hasn't mattered to anyone in years.The reason for removal wasn't a bug report or a user complaint. It was AI agents poking around dead code and turning up findings nobody asked for.That sounds like another "AI is reshaping open source" piece. It mostly isn't. This driver was already on its way out, Moxa said so years ago. What changed is the removal finally happening at a time when AI is scraping away at the kernel codebase.What's happened?On A...
The entire debate in the Linux and open source world these days is if AI generated code should be used or not.As Linus told AI critics to fork the project or walk away, GKH took a more surgical approach. AI patches are fine elsewhere in the kernel, but drivers/staging is off limits.The GNOME extensions review queue is still flooded with AI slop months after the no-AI rule went in. The latest attempt to slow it down is a guide written directly for the bots doing the generating, covering the bad p...
For years I thought I had strong opinions on Linux distros. Ubuntu was too heavy or it felt. Arch was too fiddly. Kali was surprisingly practical (don't judge me). Looking back at nearly a decade of distro hopping, I realize I had the whole thing wrong.It was never really about the distro. It was about what desktop environment sat on top of it.My Linux story starts with MintThe first Linux distribution I ever installed was Linux Mint Cinnamon, around 2017. Linux Mint is what made me think Linux ...
Office suites have changed a lot since the first ones landed on desktops decades ago. What began as basic tools for typing letters and totaling numbers has turned into sprawling software loaded with templates, cloud sync, and now, AI.It's 2026, and that last part has split the office suite market into two camps.Microsoft has leaned into pushing AI everywhere, with Copilot showing up across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint whether you want it there or not. Others have gone the calmer route, building A...
Greg Kroah-Hartman's "clanker" branch started as his own experiment, where an AI-assisted fuzzing tool turned up real bugs in the ksmbd and SMB code. These days, he isn't the only one using it, as other contributors have started sending in patches of their own, tagged the same way.So when he posted a new AI policy a few days ago, restricting use of AI, it wasn't him turning against a tool he's comfortable with. It was a restriction that applied to one part of the kernel, the one place he doesn't...
Rhythmbox is one of those applications that you will find lurking on a GNOME-equipped desktop. If you are someone who has fully moved on to streaming music/podcasts online, then it doesn't have much purpose for you.Even with the rise of streaming, many people do prefer hosting media locally, and that is partly why the GStreamer-powered music player refuses to die.The GNOME project just pushed out Rhythmbox 3.5.0, the newest release in about nine months. The last one, 3.4.9, mostly patched up plu...
I have argued this in the past as well. RSS feeds are the simplest way to get out of the algorithm's web. Every platform wants to decide what they think you should read. RSS feed is the resistance. You have a list of your own favorite websites that you trust (like It's FOSS), you add these sources in the feed reader and you get to see all the newly published articles from the sources you want.There are several feed readers for Linux desktop. Even email clients allow you to read from RSS feeds.Bu...
The lone developer behind GNOME Boxes, Felipe Borges, has shown off a complete rewrite of the app as a Flatpak-only beta, featuring a modern interface foundation.Balancing his day job at Red Hat and his usual GNOME Settings maintenance duties, Felipe says that he has been working on this by himself for the past two years, talking about his efforts at community events.The first design call was going Flatpak-only. Boxes is a front end for libvirt and QEMU, so a lot of its behavior depends on what ...
GNOME Shell Extensions are usually sourced from extensions.gnome.org, or "EGO" as the GNOME folks call it. Every submission on this portal is manually reviewed, and that review process has been under strain for months now.We covered this back in December when GNOME added a rule to its EGO review guidelines rejecting AI-generated slop.They did allow the use of AI for learning and code completion purposes, but generating the entire extension where the developer can't explain or debug it convincing...
Kitty is a popular terminal emulator that supports many modern features. Focused on power users, it offers a wide range of customization that other terminals often lack.For example, it includes a functional image display protocol and smooth cursor animations. I have shown Kitty tweaking in the past, and in the regards, I would like to discuss Kittens today.Kittens are functional units that extend the features of the Kitty terminal or work as standalone programs. They have direct access to the ru...
Keychron has introduced ZGM, short for Zephyr Gaming Mouse, an open source firmware project built for gaming mice.It is built on Zephyr RTOS, the same real-time operating system that already powers ZMK for keyboards. In its announcement, Keychron portrayed the launch as a philosophy rather than a marketing angle, stating, "Open source isn't marketing for us. It's the default."Keyboards have QMK. They have ZMK. Mice have… nothing. 🔒Every gaming mouse on the market runs firmware you can't read, ca...
Let's see what's happening in the Linux and open source world this week.Ubuntu 26.04 quietly stopped notifying users about available updates, and it turns out that was intentional. The tray icon was switched off by design, and without it, the notifier never fired. Security patches kept installing themselves in the background, but non-security updates just sat there waiting.Collabora Online turns 10 with the 26.04 release, pulling in the same AI, Calc, Writer, and Impress improvements from CODE 2...
Starling is a new open source Linux desktop environment. One developer built it by directing Claude for about six months, ending up with a working desktop that boots into its own session with a compositor and window manager.Don't think of this as a themed shell bolted onto GNOME or KDE either. It brings its own X11 server, so apps like Chrome, Slack, and Zoom run on it without requiring any special modifications.🚧This is a vibe-coded desktop environment, still an early preview built mostly throu...
Starling is a new open source Linux desktop environment. One developer built it by directing Claude for about six months, ending up with a working desktop that boots into its own session with a compositor and window manager.Don't think of this as a themed shell bolted onto GNOME or KDE either. It brings its own X11 server, so apps like Chrome, Slack, and Zoom run on it without requiring any special modifications.🚧This is a vibe-coded desktop environment, still an early preview built mostly throu...
Running local AI models has become surprisingly accessible. Install Ollama, pull a model, and you can start chatting with it in minutes. That's exactly how I began my journey with local AI.Using an LLM directly in terminal is okayish but it limits your ability. That's why there are so many frontends available for Ollama, providing you with a graphical, chatGPT-like interface. This way, you can easily revisit an earlier answer, copy code snippets, or have an extended discussion with a model.Of th...
Open source projects have mostly split into two camps on AI. Some keep a human in the loop, letting contributors use whatever tools they want as long as they take responsibility for the result.Others have gone further and banned AI-generated contributions outright, no matter who reviews them. GCC has now weighed in, and it's leaning toward the stricter camp.It's the compiler at the heart of building software across GNU and Linux systems, so its stance on AI carries weight well beyond its own rep...
GOG built its whole brand around selling DRM-free games and providing offline installers that work without requiring an internet connection or any kind of verification from their side.They even encourage people to download installers and copy them over to physical media like discs, and treat the copy as theirs. This is something the big players in the space, Steam and Epic Games, just cannot do, since both keep your library tethered to their clients.And don't even get me started on account stand...
Ubuntu is one of the most stable Linux distros out there, provided you're running its LTS release. Now imagine giving that up for a rolling release model. Feels exciting, right? Stop fantasizing then, as today's not the day that happens.Instead, Canonical's latest announcement introduces a rolling release approach for the virtualization stack, which swaps the usual LTS cycle for a faster, six-month upgrade cycle.Confidential computing is the driving force behind this move, as Canonical's Ijlal L...
An Atlanta resident, Samuel Tunick, is fighting a federal indictment that treats a privacy feature on his phone as evidence destruction. A grand jury charged him under 18 U.S.C. § 2232(a), a statute that covers destruction of property to block seizure by a government agent.The root cause of all this was the deletion of a Google Pixel smartphone's contents during a border search, and the case itself sits in the Northern District of Georgia under case number 1:25-CR-499, before District Judge Elea...
From the Git repo's README to blogs, Markdown is everywhere in the tech world in general.I have been using Markdown for years. That's what I use for writing the articles here. While I often write directly in the CMS, I also manage personal notes, drafts and work on documentation in dedicated Markdown editors on my computer.Over the time, I have used a number of Markdown editors on my Linux system. But I keep on exploring new ones, a force of habit, as it keeps me aware of the new tools in the fi...
OpenUK recently published its AI Openness report, and buried inside the 40-page document is a big ask from the UK government. Build Britain its own foundation that holds code, governance, and standards the way the Linux Foundation (LF) does in the US.If you are hearing that name for the first time, OpenUK is a UK-based (obviously) non-profit that advocates for open technology and is led by Amanda Brock. They first put out this call in a report titled "Making the UK the Home of Open Source," whic...
FireDragon is the default browser on Garuda Linux, the Arch-based distro known for its polished KDE Plasma spins and reliability despite riding the bleeding edge. It has traditionally run on a Floorp base, giving it Firefox's extension support wrapped in Garuda's privacy defaults and Dr460nized branding.Now the developers have flipped the playbook, changing its base and delivering a v13 release that's packed with many usability-focused improvements.What's new?This overhaul gets you a better sear...
Pro Max is the fourth case in SunFounder's famed Pironman 5 case series. These tower cases turn your regular, naked, Raspberry Pi boards into a miniature tower PC.So here, you get RGB fans and tower cooler for colling, RGB lights for asthetics, small OLED display for stats, full HDMI ports, GPIO pins exposed, NVMe HAT for adding SSDs and AI accelerator.That's what more or less these cases offer. Only the Pironman Mini has fewer options.I have used all of these cases so far, thanks to SunFounder ...
Have you ever wished for a file manager that shows you nothing but audio files that you can play, and then play them within the manager itself? Yeah, I haven't either. But if you had, I might have discovered the application for you. Here comes SonicTree.SonicTree: The Simple Music PlayerSonicTree is an as-simple-as-it-gets kind of music player in the middle of all the fancy, all extensive ones we've recently seen (like the high-fidelity player Astra). It offers you an easy experience: a file-exp...
Every two years, Canonical puts out a Long Term Support release that gets five years of security updates, which can be stretched further with Ubuntu Pro. In between those LTS releases, Canonical ships an interim version every six months, and each one is supported for nine months.Those releases don't carry the same importance as an LTS, but that's the point. They give Canonical room to test newer kernels, toolchains, and design changes with a smaller user base before those changes get baked into ...
If update notifications have stopped showing up on your Ubuntu 26.04 LTS install, that isn't some random glitch. OMG Ubuntu's Joey Sneddon has traced it back to a Launchpad bug report and a Discourse thread that both point to the same root cause.The issue is that update-notifier only sends a desktop notification when its tray icon is visible, and that icon was switched off in Ubuntu 26.04, with nothing in the Settings menu to switch it back on.Guillaume Michaud, who filed the bug on July 5, foun...
📋TLDR:- Codeberg e.V. members voted on two AI-related proposals at their annual assembly, and both passed.- The first formalizes that Codeberg will never use project or user code and data to train AI models.- The second amends the Terms of Use to ban projects that mostly consist of AI-generated code.- Codeberg cites server strain from AI crawlers, rising hardware costs, and eroding contributor trust as its motivations.Codeberg's annual member assembly has tackled two important votes this week, a...
Collabora Productivity has spent the past decade proving that an open source office suite can compete directly with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace without asking organizations to give up control of their infrastructure or their documents.All of that is backed by a team of open source engineers whose work has made Collabora a trusted name when enterprises go shopping for a collaborative document platform.Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Collabora Online, they have now released Collabora...
Collabora Productivity has spent the past decade proving that an open source office suite can compete directly with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace without asking organizations to give up control of their infrastructure or their documents.All of that is backed by a team of open source engineers whose work has made Collabora a trusted name when enterprises go shopping for a collaborative document platform.Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Collabora Online, they have now released Collabora...
Ready for another round of latest happenings in Linux world? Here, we go.Vocalinux 0.14 beta adds custom recording shortcuts, fixes Wayland text injection on GNOME, and handles CPU usage better on hybrid laptops. It didn't run cleanly during testing, but it's pre-release software, so that's a given.GNOME's entire security tracking operation has been one person since 2020. That person is leaving in December. There's space for a replacement, but they will have to modernize the current system. Noth...
Jellyfin, the local media server solution that makes people forget that Plex even exists, is going through a major shakeup in its development team's organizational structure.In a forum post published a few days ago, founder Joshua Boniface confirmed that he is departing as Project Leader, while Anthony Lavado is stepping down as a core team member.Their exit comes just days after the other founder, Andrew Rabert, announced his own voluntary departure.Joshua and Anthony describe their exit as bei...
Jellyfin, the local media server solution that makes people forget that Plex even exists, is going through a major shakeup in its development team's organizational structure.In a forum post published a few days ago, founder Joshua Boniface confirmed that he is departing as Project Leader, while Anthony Lavado is stepping down as a core team member.Their exit comes just days after the other founder, Andrew Rabert, announced his own voluntary departure.Joshua and Anthony describe their exit as bei...
People who used Windows 7 and earflier version would remember "My Computer". It's called "This PC" now a days but does the same job.You click on the icon, and it opens the file explorer and shows you the meta folders (Documents, Pictures, Downloads, etc.) and all the drives on the system and any other mounted devices.Windows 8 My ComputerThis is useful for many people to see all the locations in the system at a glance. On the Linux side, GNOME used to have Other Locations page in Nautilus file m...
People who used Windows 7 and earflier version would remember "My Computer". It's called "This PC" now a days but does the same job.You click on the icon, and it opens the file explorer and shows you the meta folders (Documents, Pictures, Downloads, etc.) and all the drives on the system and any other mounted devices.Windows 8 My ComputerThis is useful for many people to see all the locations in the system at a glance. On the Linux side, GNOME used to have Other Locations page in Nautilus file m...
When OpenClaw hype was at its peak in the beginning of 2026, a lot of people bought Mac Mini just to keep an agent running around the clock. I never understood why people would spend $500 on a device to run OpenClaw like agents that are merely inferences to a commercial LLM like Claude and ChatGPT. But these 'claws' are here to stay, and people are utilizing them to run their agent on dedicated hardware. And that's why we have dedicated hardware built around these agents.Autonomous is a company ...
When OpenClaw hype was at its peak in the beginning of 2026, a lot of people bought Mac Mini just to keep an agent running around the clock. I never understood why people would spend $500 on a device to run OpenClaw like agents that are merely inferences to a commercial LLM like Claude and ChatGPT. But these 'claws' are here to stay, and people are utilizing them to run their agent on dedicated hardware. And that's why we have dedicated hardware built around these agents.Autonomous is a company ...
The MPEG-4 Visual Patent Portfolio License has been in effect since January 1, 2000, covering essential patents behind the MPEG-4 Part 2 Visual standard from more than 30 licensors, including Canon, LG, Microsoft, Panasonic, Sony, and Toshiba.As of July 19, 2026, every one of those patents has expired. The very last one standing belonged to Siemens AG, active only in Brazil. VIA Licensing Alliance, the body that administers the portfolio, has already taken down the webpage for it, which was arou...
The MPEG-4 Visual Patent Portfolio License has been in effect since January 1, 2000, covering essential patents behind the MPEG-4 Part 2 Visual standard from more than 30 licensors, including Canon, LG, Microsoft, Panasonic, Sony, and Toshiba.As of July 19, 2026, every one of those patents has expired. The very last one standing belonged to Siemens AG, active only in Brazil. VIA Licensing Alliance, the body that administers the portfolio, has already taken down the webpage for it, which was arou...
I already shared my experience with the Niri window manager in another post. Its scrollable workspace model is clever.Then I stumbled across MangoWM, and I couldn't leave it alone because it offers a similar scrolling mode as compared to Niri, plus more, while still being simple to build from source code.MangoWM is a Wayland compositor built on top of wlroots and heavily inspired by dwl (which itself draws from dwm). On paper, it sounds like yet another minimal tiling compositor. But when I actu...
I already shared my experience with the Niri window manager in another post. Its scrollable workspace model is clever.Then I stumbled across MangoWM, and I couldn't leave it alone because it offers a similar scrolling mode as compared to Niri, plus more, while still being simple to build from source code.MangoWM is a Wayland compositor built on top of wlroots and heavily inspired by dwl (which itself draws from dwm). On paper, it sounds like yet another minimal tiling compositor. But when I actu...
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 whenever it gets fixed or the clock runs out, and requesting a CVE once that happens.Come November 1, 2026, Michael will stop tracking newly reported security issues, only focusing on issues that were already in the pipeline before that date...
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 whenever it gets fixed or the clock runs out, and requesting a CVE once that happens.Come November 1, 2026, Michael will stop tracking newly reported security issues, only focusing on issues that were already in the pipeline before that date...
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 some tutorials on Kitty. But whenever we share our Kitty articles, someone would mention Alacritty. And that kind of forced me to try Alacritty.But this article is not about comparing Kitty and Alacritty. It's merely me sharing my experience and exploration ...
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 the friction around your workflow, and staying on top of the mental nerfs you already carry, plus the ones that pile up over the day. There's a whole ecosystem built around fixing that, ranging from break reminder apps, Kanban boards, to Pomodoro timers and phone-to-...
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 kernel mailing list hears about it, and so do we, the ones who use Linux. For the past few years, his opinion on AI was quite simple, being that it was mostly noise, and he was not interested.But something changed; Linus has gone from calling AI "90 percent marketing" to publicly t...
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 one of the most trusted technical book publishers. This bundle leans on some of their strongest Linux titles, including Learning Git, Linux Pocket Guide, and Practical Linux System Administration, alongside a h...
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 one of the most trusted technical book publishers. This bundle leans on some of their strongest Linux titles, including Learning Git, Linux Pocket Guide, and Practical Linux System Administration, alongside a h...
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 whole thing without holding anything back.Further stating that they are inviting third-party reviewers to confirm that what gets published actually matches what's running in production.Once we have completed our review for security vulnerabilities, we will make the entire codebase of 𝕏 open source, with no exceptions. Moreover, we w...
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 whole thing without holding anything back.Further stating that they are inviting third-party reviewers to confirm that what gets published actually matches what's running in production.Once we have completed our review for security vulnerabilities, we will ma...
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, users were stuck with the default toggle or push-to-talk bindings for recording audio during transcriptions.Now, it is possible to set keyboard shortcuts via the Settings menu, allowing you to create a diverse...
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.And Wayland is not really as slow as some people think. That's what a recent benchmark study found out.Most microcontroller boards support Lua as an afterthought. The ELM11-Feather from BrisbaneSilicon builds around it. A GOWIN FPGA runs the who...
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 keySo, I decided to map it to the YouTube Music web app. There is no such app, but I created it as a PWA using Vivaldi. In theory, it seems like a trivial thing, but making the Copilot key launch that web app came up as a decent challenge. And hence this tutorial.My first attempt was using KDE's Syste...
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 considerable extra latency.More recently, Marco Nett decided to test the same question (along with a few others) on his gaming rig, and instead of using a mobile phone camera to calculate latency, he cooked up a DIY device to measure it himself.What do th...
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 loads. Cursor checks several locations for git, and one of them is the workspace itself.Plant a file called git.exe at the root of a repository, and Cursor runs it the moment that project opens. This happens because the execution is inte...
