Practical Linux tips and tricks – terminal shortcuts, productivity hacks, and configuration tweaks for Ubuntu and other distros.
I manage my project boards in Fizzy, Basecamp’s clean, opinionated kanban tool, and I got tired of the same ritual: open the browser, navigate to the board, drag a card, close the tab, back to work, repeat. The board lives in one app, my actual work lives somewhere else, and that context switching chips away…
You’ve just deployed a service, opened a firewall rule, or configured a reverse proxy, and now you want to confirm that a specific port is actually reachable. The problem is that telnet isn’t installed, and installing an extra package just for a quick connectivity test feels unnecessary. The good news is that you don’t need…
Brave has rolled out Containers with the Brave Browser 1.92 release, giving its Chromium-based browser something Firefox users have had for years now. And no, it is not some pre-installed extension doing the work; this functionality is built right into the browser for Linux, Windows, and macOS. In this implementation, each container keeps its own…
A set of patches to the Linux kernel’s Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) scheduler that is shared among different kernel graphics drivers is showing the potential of delivering much lower job submission latency when the system is loaded with many runnable CPU processes. Tvrtko Ursulin of Igalia sent out the request for comments (RFC) on Thursday…
Ubuntu’s transition to Rust Coreutils has encountered another compatibility issue, this time affecting the essential Unix cp command. In the latest Ubuntu Foundations team update, Canonical engineer Benjamin Drung reported that the team validated fixes from Zellic’s Rust Coreutils audit against version 0.8 on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. However, Ubuntu has reverted cp to GNU Coreutils…
Flock to Fedora is more than a conference – it’s where the Fedora community comes alive. As part of the In the CommitHistory campaign, we sat down with confirmed Flock 2026 speakers to hear their stories: what brought them to Fedora, what Flock means to them personally, and what they’re hoping for in Prague this…
Canonical wants ntpd-rs, a Rust rewrite of NTP (Network Time Protocol), to become Ubuntu’s default time sync client. To help get there, Canonical has become a Gold Sponsor of the Trifecta Tech Foundation, the non-profit behind ntpd-rs, committing €40,000 a year to help fund its memory-safe software projects. The goal is to make the Rust-based version the…
15 Liam’s Desktop Brief: Setting up a printer on Linux used to mean hunting for obscure driver packages and praying the vendor still cared about open-source. In 2026, the story is completely different. CUPS handles the heavy lifting across Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch, and most network printers work out of the box with driverless IPP….
You connect to a server you have used many times, and instead of a password or shell prompt SSH stops with a loud warning that the remote host identification has changed, followed by Host key verification failed. SSH blocks the session before authentication begins. It does this on purpose: it remembers the public key of…
I spent time evaluating these across personal homelab setups, team documentation workflows, and AI-augmented note-taking, filtering down to 11 tools that solve real problems that cloud-only solutions like Notion and Confluence leave unaddressed. There’s a reason self-hosted knowledge bases are surging in interest right now: local AI integration. Tools like Claude (via MCP), Ollama-backed local…
