Pick Your Linux Desktop First, Then the Distro Around It
The Linux world has spent the last decade arguing about which distro is best, and almost nobody is arguing about the part that matters. The desktop environment is the program that draws…
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Linux users finally get the FSMonitor speedup that macOS already had
Git 2.55 has a quiet feature that the people who need it most have been waiting on for years. If you push commits into a real codebase, the kind that has hundreds…
Rebuilding the Debian secure boot chain when a BIOS update wipes it
A BIOS update that resets secure boot keys is one of the most disorienting hardware events a Linux user can run into. You boot the machine, the BIOS loads, and suddenly every…
Turn VLC into a free live TV player with a playlist link
VLC is one of those tools that does a lot more than it advertises. If you point it at a public IPTV playlist (a plain text file listing live TV stream URLs…
When VirtualBox NAT resolves DNS but blocks every browser session
VirtualBox NAT networks are supposed to be the boring default. You install a guest OS, leave the network mode on NAT, and the guest reaches the internet through the host’s interface. Most…
How to vet an AI first open source desktop app before you commit
Office software has been getting heavier for years, and most of that weight is AI features nobody asked for, bolted onto apps that worked fine without them. A new open source office…
Linux’s drivers/staging tree just banned AI patches
Greg Kroah-Hartman runs the part of the Linux kernel where new developers are supposed to learn the craft by submitting real work. This week he banned AI-generated patches from that specific subsystem.…
GNOME’s extension rules shifted from rejecting AI to coaching the bots
If you maintain any kind of public submission queue, GNOME’s week is going to be on your reading list. The project that runs one of the most visible open source desktop environments…
Linux weekly triage: seven FOSS stories worth your attention
Most Linux weeklies are link dumps. The question I find more useful is whether this week’s news changes what you do at the keyboard, what you buy, or what boring infrastructure quietly…
A Debian 13 kernel update with 68 CVEs: what to actually patch
A Debian 13 Trixie kernel update landed recently with sixty-eight CVEs in the changelog. I have been on the receiving end of those changelogs for about a decade, and my first instinct…