When a Linux command reads text you type, sends results to the terminal, or prints an error beside them, it is using a set of connections prepared before the program starts. These connections are standard input, standard output, and standard error, usually shortened to stdin, stdout, and stderr. The shell can connect these streams to…
I burned through half of my E2B sandbox budget in just two weeks by spinning up containers for AI agents that often ran for only eight seconds. I had been integrating AI coding agents into a few automation scripts on TecMint’s backend. These agents would generate a draft, run a command, check the output, and…
Linux Mint has taken the slow road to Wayland while everyone else rushed ahead, and it looks like that paid off. Cinnamon’s Wayland session is dropping the experimental label with Mint 23 this Christmas, shipping alongside X11 as a fully supported option. And Wayland is not really as slow as some people think. That’s what…
The idea that Wayland has worse input lag than X11 has been floating around Linux gaming circles for years. Some numbers backing the claim did come up back in 2025, when a developer measured GNOME’s Wayland session against X11 and reported some considerable extra latency. More recently, Marco Nett decided to test the same question…
The Ubuntu Kernel Team issued a statement this morning to proactively warn Ubuntu Linux users on Ubuntu 26.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS HWE users that the next kernel point release will contain a performance regression for AMD GPUs in compute-heavy workloads with up to a 42x performance hit. The positive news is that due to…
Valve launched the latest update to Proton Experimental to bring more fixes for running Windows games on SteamOS / Linux including Steam Deck and Steam Machine. In case you missed it – Valve also recently launched the latest stable version with Proton 11. Proton Experimental is like their testing ground for future stable numbered version…
The Forgejo project has released version 16.0 of its lightweight, self-hosted development platform for hosting Git repositories and collaborating on software projects. A key addition is granular repository watch options. Users can now select notifications for issues, pull requests, releases, or any combination of these, rather than receiving all activity updates. Additionally, the notification backend…
Artur Stetsko discovered that the .NET did not properly validateauthentication data. An attacker could possibly use this issue to elevateprivileges. (CVE-2026-47300) Levi Broderick discovered that .NET did not properly handle XML encryptionduring parsing. An attacker could possibly use this issue to consumeexcessive resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-47302) Pham Quang Minh discovered that…
Since Ubuntu 17.10, networking is configured with Netplan rather than the old /etc/network/interfaces file. You write a short YAML description of how each interface should behave, and Netplan translates it into configuration for the back end that actually manages the network. This keeps the configuration in one place and makes it easy to read, but…
In reply to a developer on one of the Linux kernel mailing lists, Linux creator Linus Torvalds firmly put a foot down to push back against anti-AI comments. There’s a lot of negativity surrounding generative AI including its use for making images, videos, code and now quite often for video games too. I don’t think…
