Kernel 7.3 finally lets NVMe drives run at the speed they advertise
Kernel releases come and go, and most of the time I do not notice. The 7.3 cycle looks like one I will notice. The merge window is still open, but the patches…
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mklinux multikernel strips the hypervisor out of bare metal
Most Linux stories are about features. This one is about removing a layer you forgot you were paying for. The mklinux v7.0-mk2 tree from Multikernel Technologies is the first public release of…
tether brings apple continuity to linux without a mac
If you switched your daily computer to Linux but kept your iPhone, you probably noticed the seams within a week. The little things you stopped noticing on macOS, like copying a code…
How per-second sandbox pricing punishes short agent jobs
My AI agent sandbox bill was off by a factor of ten after two weeks. The agents themselves were doing nothing strange. They generated text, executed one command, examined the output, then…
the linux kernel git server burns compute on ai scrapers
Roughly one in seven CPU cores serving git.kernel.org exists for one purpose: rendering commit pages on behalf of software that never reads them. The Linux Foundation’s Konstantin Ryabitsev finally published the math…
Setting up PrestaShop on Ubuntu 26.04 the boring right way
PrestaShop (a long-running PHP shopping cart you run on your own server, instead of renting from a SaaS) has earned a reputation as one of the more painful e-commerce installs. Most of…
Debian’s AI vote splits maintainers in three directions
Anyone who sponsors a small package into Debian (or sits downstream of one) ends up watching every patch land in front of a human reviewer before it ships. Two months into using…
One open-source Android app replaced my four-app photo editing stack
Every content creator has a moment. You finish the post, you go to publish the image, and suddenly you are bouncing between four apps to crop, resize, convert, watermark, and re-export. Each…
A pragmatic audit script for any no-cloud office suite claim
The most useful thing in the LibreOffice 26.8 release announcement is not a feature. It is a sentence that says what is not there. The Document Foundation put that absence at the…
Linux patches the CPU steal problem your hypervisor never mentioned
I lost a Saturday to a VM that was supposedly sized for the workload. Throughput had been flat for a week, latency climbed every afternoon, and the on-call dashboards told me nothing…