This walks through what a Claude Code Skill actually is, how to install pre-built skills from Anthropic’s marketplace, how to drop a custom SKILL.md file into place by hand, and how to write your own skill from scratch on Linux. Most people assume Claude Code figures out every task the same way, by reading your…
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 fourth weekly release candidate of the Linux 7.2 kernel is now available for testing. It’s been another brisk week of fixes for the Linux kernel, many of which continue to be uncovered by AI/LLMs. A wide variety of different fixes were merged though not many particularly notable. Linus Torvalds wrote in the 7.2-rc4 announcement:…
The first Brigador game from Stellar Jockeys was fantastic for stomping around blowing everything up – and Brigador Killers looks much bigger and better. Just revealed is that it will enter Early Access on August 20th. Set on the world of Mar Nosso, Brigador Killers casts players as part of Team Anchor, an insurgent crew…
Welcome to Week 29 of Linuxiac’s 2026 Weekly Roundup, your source for Linux and open-source news. Below are the key Linux and FOSS highlights from July 13 to 19. Linux Distributions On the distro release front, this week brought just one update in the Linux world, which I covered in the article below. Software Updates…
The Desktop Icons NG (aka DING) GNOME Shell extension Ubuntu uses to put icons on your literal desktop, has been busy – it finished its port to GTK4, patched memory leaks and improved a few of its lesser-known features. The GTK4 port landed in v51.0.0, released this month, alongside early support for GNOME 51 (since…
37 Arjun’s Systems Brief: FreeBSD 16 just killed the last piece of GPL code in its base system. The dialog utility is gone, the GNU subtree is deleted, and the entire OS core now runs on pure BSD licensing. I spent the last few days digging through the Phabricator tickets, the GitHub commits, and the…
DistroWatch.com: Arcris Last Update: 2026-07-19 18:56 UTC Arcris is a live Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. It comes with an intuitive and beginner-friendly graphical installer that can be used to build a complete Arch Linux system. AcrisGUI, as the installation program is called, is built with the GTK toolkit and libadwaita interface library; it…
Running out of disk space normally means that a filesystem has no free bytes left. Sometimes, however, a command fails with “No space left on device” while df -h still shows available space. One possible cause is inode exhaustion: the filesystem can store more data, but it has no free metadata records for new files….
After the usual silence we’ve come to expect from Valve on everything, they gave a short blog post on the upcoming MvM update for Team Fortress 2. You be be forgiven for completely forgetting it was happening, as it was originally announced back in June 2025. The last they gave an official update was all…
