I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great
 I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great

Greetings from the year of Linux on my desktop. In November, I got fed up and said screw it, I’m installing Linux. Since that article was published, I have dealt with one minor catastrophe after another. None of that has anything to do with Linux, mind you. It just meant I didn’t install it on […]

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Linux’s contemporary filesystem mount API went without documentation for six years — latest man-page package finally adds content for 2019 code

Linux’s contemporary filesystem mount API has been missing documentation since 2019,

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Recovered Unix v4 tape quickly yields a usable operating system — nostalgia addicts can now boot up Unix v4 in a browser window

Nostalgia addicts can now get their Unix v4 fix in a browser

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52 years later, only known copy of Unix v4 recovered from randomly found tape, now up and running on a system — first OS version with kernel and core utilities written in C

The only known complete copy of Unix v4 has been recovered from a tape found at the University of Utah.

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Facebook deploys the Steam Deck’s Linux scheduler across its data centers — Valve’s low-latency scheduler perfect for managing Meta’s workloads at massive data centers

In a recent talk, Meta engineers detailed how they’ve been deploying a low-latency Linux scheduler originally developed by Valve for the Steam Deck across production servers.
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Engineer turns E-ink tablet into computer monitor in Linux — perfect secondary reading screen to reduce eye strain over the network

A software engineer and E-ink enthusiast recently set up a remote E-ink secondary display, upcycling an old E-ink tablet and setting up an awesome Linux DIY project for all those with the need to read on bespoke screen har…

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