Why the Ubuntu LTS upgrade is a habit, not a version
I skipped the last Ubuntu LTS upgrade on my main laptop. Not because of a bug report, not because I had read something scary on a forum, and not because I was…
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Why Canonical Stopped Worrying About the Linux Desktop
Twenty years of “year of the Linux desktop” essays have taught me to ignore the headline. The thing I do not ignore is when the company that actually ships Ubuntu starts sounding…
Pull the Ubuntu 24.04 Linux 7.0 HWE kernel on your terms, today
I have been running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on a ThinkPad X1 Carbon since the week it shipped, and the only times I have had to think about the kernel have been the…
ARM64 Ubuntu servers finally skip the reboot for kernel patches
The on-call rotation got paged at 11:47pm a few months ago because a critical kernel CVE dropped. We had three hours to either patch fifty Ampere Altra boxes (a 64-bit ARM server…
Seven Ubuntu tweaks I run on every fresh install
I have installed Ubuntu on at least thirty machines in the last three years. Laptops for clients, a few home lab machines, two of my own. The first thing I do on…
Weathr: Check the Weather From Your Terminal With ASCII Art Animations
Weathr: Check the Weather From Your Terminal With One Command I live in a terminal. I live in the terminal the way some people live in their email inbox: it is the…