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In January I finally made good on my threat/promise to install Linux on my desktop. I wanted to see how far I could get using ...

I set up this Linux 'Watchdog' and now my system auto-reboots when it locks up ...

The new kernel's number ends in zero, but it's not a milestone release. Linux 7.0 boasts improvements in Rust, its scheduler - and it's further embracing AI. More than half a dozen distros will let ...

Five useful Flatpak apps that deserve more attention—so I’m giving them some.

There’s something nice about not having to over-explain things to an AI anymore. With Claude Code’s new computer use feature, you can just let it see what you’re doing. I’m not a proper coder, so half ...

Lightweight Linux distributions offer an effective way to rejuvenate older computers, allowing them to perform everyday tasks efficiently despite hardware limitations. As highlighted by ...

France is trying to move on from Microsoft Windows. The country said it plans to move some of its government computers currently running Windows to the open source operating system Linux to further ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Make your Linux system reboot itself and fix crashes automatically.

Hackers hijacked the npm account of the Axios package, a JavaScript HTTP client with 100M+ weekly downloads, to deliver remote access trojans to Linux, Windows, and macOS systems. One malicious ...