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After months of debate, the Nix community might be coming to a resolution. We'll examine what happened, what's changing.

Three revelations from Red Hat Summit. Our on-the-ground report will separate fact from hype.

A few of our go-to tools for one-liner web servers, sharing media directly from folders, and a much needed live Arch server update, and more!

The first LinuxFest is back and better than ever. We share stories and friends from one of the best Linux gatherings of the year: LinuxFest Northwest.

We're back from Austin, with interviews and stories to share. Plus, it's Gentoo week and we take our first look at Fedora 40.

We asked, and you answered: Your top 5 Linux app essentials and post-install rituals. Plus, some news to better cope with "extreme file-system damage."

We're building a completely hidden Linux OS inside an existing system—with no trace left behind.

We're breaking down the attack: how it works, how it was hidden, and why time was running out for the attacker.

We test the Linux-first, all-AMD Sirius 16 laptop, discuss the new Hyprland release, and share a few stories from our recent trip.

We're on the ground live at NixCon and SCaLE. We catch up with old friends, and discover how Nix is devouring the Linux world one function at a time.

We each bring surprise topics, a mix of hardware and software, as we prepare to hit the road for NixCon and SCaLE.

Plasma 6 is out, and we've been giving it a go. What's new, our thoughts, and the lessons other desktops should learn.

Corporate AI is a hot mess, but open-source alternatives can be open-ended chaos. We’ll test some of the best ways to get local AI tools under your control.

Chris spends the week in a VR desktop, revealing the glitches, gains, and VR's open-source future.

Deploying Nextcloud the Nix way promises a paradise of reproducibility and simplicity. But is it just a painful trek through configuration hell? We built the dream Nextcloud using Nix and faced reality.

Some uncomfortable truths about using Linux, and then we introduce a new segment: Will it Nix?

Data-hoard with purpose and manage your audiobooks and podcasts with one application, plus the lone Linux box that remains on Mars.

Trying NixOS can be fraught with complexity, half-completed guides, and boring videos. Even if you never plan to switch to NixOS, we invite you to come along for a hype-free ride that digs into one of the most rapidly developing areas of Linux.

Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole.

This challenge gets ugly as we slowly realize we've just become zombie slayers. We load Linux on three barely alive systems, and it takes a turn we didn't expect.

We make our big Linux predictions for 2024, but first, we score how we did for 2023.

It’s the fourth annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, and desktops of 2023.

The stories that kept us talking all year, and are only getting hotter! Plus the big flops we're still sore about.

We test two popular methods to run local language models on your Linux box. Then, we push the limits to see which language models will toe the line and which won't.

This week, our embarrassment is your entertainment. Then, we check the age and health of all our disks with one app.