4+ day, 37+ min 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…...

1+ week, 1+ 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, 5+ day 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, 5+ hour 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…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (554+ words) Linus Torvalds just used AI to help fix a Linux kernel bug. Let me tell you that this is a rare event. Not because Torvalds is using AI. Last Christmas holidays, Torvalds used AI for the first time for a…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (586+ words) Canonical has committed funding to a three-year PhD project focused on building a system that can automatically translate large C codebases into Rust. And they are not alone; UK Research and Innovation is matching their funding for the project, which…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (744+ words) LightDM 1.33.0 is out after a four-year gap, now under community maintainership rather than Canonical's. Two new maintainers, one behind Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix and the other a long-time Fedora and openSUSE contributor, have stepped up. Nitrux has given a name to…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (903+ words) Even Linus Torvalds is fine with AI being used in Linux kernel development these days, and it's everywhere else in the Linux and tech world too. The time has come to stop ignoring AI and start using it as a…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (953+ words) Atomic distros work differently from the Fedora or Ubuntu install you're probably used to. Instead of layering individual packages on top of each other, the entire base system ships as one image, and updates land as a whole swap rather…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1067+ words) Whether you're a developer, system administrator, or simply someone who spends a lot of time in the terminal, juggling multiple terminal sessions can be messy and frustrating. A terminal multiplexer helps you keep everything organized, letting you manage several sessions…...