1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1767+ words) A laptop fingerprint sensor unlocks the laptop and usually stops there. Immurok wants to do quite a bit more than that. It is a tiny wireless box that can unlock your desktop session, approve a sudo command, authenticate via polkit,…...

4+ day, 18+ hour 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…...

4+ day, 22+ 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…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (551+ words) iXsystems put TrueNAS CORE into what it called a sustaining engineering phase back in 2024. Under this, the open source NAS operating system would only receive security and stability fixes, with new features going to the Linux-based SCALE branch instead. Even…...

5+ day, 19+ 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....

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (494+ words) Ikey Doherty is out of retirement, and Omarchy's funding is why. Omarchy's Omacom Foundation has already crossed $13 million in pledges since its August launch, when eight tech executives, including Michael Dell, put in a million each. The run has drawn…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago   (566+ words) Switzerland's federal government has launched a pilot program to replace Microsoft 365 with open source alternatives across 3,000 workstations. That's about 7% of the federal workforce. The target is to complete the migration by end of 2027. This move follows a successful proof-of-concept and…...

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, 3+ 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, 4+ day ago   (566+ words) Gaming on Linux keeps getting better, Wine and the Proton compatibility layer keep opening up more of the Windows catalog, and community projects continue filling the gaps that big publishers leave behind. Take Xodus, for instance. The open source effort…...