When Flathub banned AI-coded app submissions last month, some critics warned the platform was denying the future by dismissing a new wave of “vibe-coded” software as out-and-out “slop”. Well, new data suggests otherwise, as nearly three-quarters of the rejected apps are already dead, existing only a few months. Linux developer Evangelos Paterakis, developer of Tuba, Turntable…
15 Marcus’s AI Brief: Claude Desktop just hit Linux in beta. I spent a day across three distros to figure out what actually works, what breaks, and whether Anthropic’s AI is worth your time on the penguin. Here’s everything I found. What Is Claude Desktop for Linux and Why Should You Care Claude Desktop is…
Running a large language model does not require sending every prompt to a hosted API. Ollama packages models so you can run them on your Ubuntu machine, use them offline after downloading, and access them from terminal commands or local applications. When you select a local model, inference and prompt processing stay on your machine….
Open source firm Collabora who work with Valve (Steam), just announced a preview of Holo Core – the aarch64 port of Arch Linux for Steam Frame. Valve’s SteamOS is based on a snapshot of Arch Linux along with a bunch of their own patches, and to get it all working on Arm it needed a…
Humble Bundle and O’Reilly have put together a pay-what-you-want Linux collection called Linux: All the Things (partner link), and it’s built to take you from basic command-line comfort to container orchestration across fifteen eBooks. O’Reilly doesn’t really need an introduction. They are one of the most trusted technical book publishers. This bundle leans on some…
Bilal Teke discovered that Ubuntu Advantage Tools exposed the Pro bearertoken in command-line arguments when validating APT credentials. A localattacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive informationand gain unauthorized access to Ubuntu Pro repositories. (CVE-2026-9494) Frederick Jerusha discovered that Ubuntu Advantage Tools did not properlyvalidate data received from the contract server when writing…
With reviewing hardware for more than 22 years, when it comes to cooling products there are few brands that can still get me intrigued like Noctua. With their recent launch of the NL-LC1 all-in-one liquid coolers, I decided to try out the Noctua NL-LC1-36 360mm AIO cooler that is working out well for cooling high-end…
While most Linux desktop development is shifting to Wayland, developer Geir Isene has released Frame, a new X11 server for Linux written entirely in x86-64 Assembly. The server is built from scratch and is not based on X.Org. Instead, it uses direct Linux system calls, DRM/KMS for display output, evdev for input, and the X11…
DistroWatch.com: Netdeep Secure Firewall Last Update: 2026-07-17 20:16 UTC Netdeep Secure Firewall is a comercial Linux distribution designed for firewalls, developed by Neetdeep Tecnologia Ltda in Brazil. It is built from scratch on top of a Linux kernel and GNU utilities. The distribution provides a web-based interface for configuring various services, including network, Unified Threat…
3 Liam’s Desktop UX Brief: Boot managers have not changed in decades. GRUB works but looks like it belongs in 2005. systemd-boot is minimal but invisible. rEFInd offers graphics but feels dated. Visor changes everything with a fluid, modern interface that supports mouse navigation, theming, and Secure Boot, all from a single config file. I…
