5+ day, 21+ min ago   (1054+ words) Seeing all the hype surrounding AI in the Linux ecosystem, you might've asked yourself, What makes a Linux distro "AI-focused"? If you go looking for an answer, you will get all kinds of results depending on which project you look…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1503+ words) There is no dearth of note taking apps for Linux. There are tools like Obsidian that are local first, tools like Joplin that are both local and cloud but not encrypted. There are also collaborative tools like Etherpad that put…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (562+ words) It's been a while since I last wrote about Bottles. For anyone new to it, Bottles runs Windows software on Linux by hiding most of Wine's configuration work behind a straightforward interface. Its feature list has been growing consistently too....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1463+ words) Most Linux users benefit from GNU Readline without realizing it. It is the library responsible for Bash's interactive command-line editing, providing familiar features like cursor movement, command history, and basic tab completion. While Readline is highly configurable, Readline's completion remains…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (522+ words) Debian has gotten some good press thanks to Federico Vaga and Nikos Tsipinakis, who presented a talk at MiniDebConf Winterthur this past weekend. The two CERN engineers laid out why the organization is moving its particle accelerator control computers onto…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (581+ words) Auke Kok spent eight years working on Clear Linux OS at Intel. Now he thinks he knows exactly what broke it, and he's trying to fix that by himself. In a LinkedIn post this week, Auke, now a Linux Distribution…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (705+ words) In a very low-key manner, Firefox 155 has arrived as the latest stable release for the popular privacy-focused web browser. While there are a range of refinements with this release, we will be focusing on two technical ones that change how…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (542+ words) Zack Bartel is a developer who switched to Linux full time and hasn't really looked back at his earlier daily driver, macOS, as something he would return to. There is, however, an exception. That is Apple's catch-all term for how…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago   (722+ words) If the past few weeks are any indication, more and more open source projects are drawing lines around how much AI they will let into their workflow and codebases before it's too much. Debian just voted to allow generative AI…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (609+ words) Debian has now officially voted to allow the use of generative AI in project contributions. And as you can expect, such a decision doesn't go well with everyone. There are people who are indifferent to the decision, and then there…...