Developer patches Wine to make Photoshop 2021 & 2025 run on Linux — Adobe Creative Cloud installers finally work thanks to HTML, JavaScript and XML fixes

Linux can now handle Adobe Creative Cloud-era installers thanks to a series of patches built by PhialsBasement, an open-source developer who has fixed longstanding HTML and JavaScript rendering issues, alongside XML parsin…

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I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows
 I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows

It was an overcast January morning in 2025 the day I decided to delete my operating system. The Ubuntu installer warned me that it would remove everything on my hard drive, permanently wiping the entire Windows 10 installation I’d been running for years at that point. I hesitated for a second – maybe I should […]

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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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