Give Your Pico a Shell

Running a shell on your Raspberry Pi Pico lets you use it like a classic Unix or MS-DOS workstation. All you need are basic filesystem commands – no C/C++ or Python skills required.
Pure Python

Flet lets you easily build real-time, cross-platform GUI apps using Python. We walk you through installing Flet to building your first interactive graphical application.
Taking Dictation

Vosk lets you embed a simple voice decoder into your homegrown applications.
Programming Snapshot – Video Housekeeping with Go

A GUI application written in Go helps Mike Schilli select videos from his phone using animated thumbnails and get rid of the clutter.

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It’s Time to Test Fedora 45 Beta

Fedora , Gnome , Plasma

Fedora 45 beta has been released with updated Gnome, KDE Plasma, and kernel.
Ubuntu Stonking Stingray Gets Even Rustier

Operating Systems , Rust , Ubuntu

Ubuntu 26.10 has completed its migration to the Rust-based coreutils.
AI Fixes Linux Bottlenecks Using “Hideous” Code

Artificial Inte... , Kernel , LLM

A Linux developer used AI to fix bottlenecks that caused problems when building the kernel. The resulting AI-generated code needed a lot of work.
Advanced Video Coding Still Under Patent

Linux , Operating Systems , Video

Brazilian patent BRPI0109962B1 has expired, which means that DivX and Xvid are no longer problematic for Linux, but it doesn’t mean that video is all of a sudden fully unleashed.
2,000 Vulnerabilities per Linux Release

Artificial Inte... , Kernel , vulnerability

Thanks to AI bug hunters, the Linux kernel is seeing record numbers of vulnerabilities, and it's overwhelming developers.
Linux Exempt from California’s Age Verification Law

Linux , open source , package manager

So long as Linux is distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses, the OS is exempt from being required to verify the age of its users in California.
Roll Out the Cake: Linux Turns 35

FOSS , Linux , Operating Systems

35 years ago, a Finnish student began a humble project that would forever change the course of technology.
Pure Python

Flet lets you easily build real-time, cross-platform GUI apps using Python. We walk you through installing Flet to building your first interactive graphical application.
Distro Zoo – Original & Derivative Distros

This month, we explore Hannah Montana Linux v26.0, RakuOS 2026.07.03, ArchBang Linux 010726, and Galactic Mandate Linux v00.
Doghouse – How to Do IT

The flexibility of FOSS – and its open source nature – means it can address a number of issues, even beyond programming.

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