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…
Thinking about venturing into the world of Arch-based Linux distributions? Be sure to check out EndeavourOS’s latest release, ‘Galileo’. Like Arch Linux, EndeavourOS uses a rolling release model, issuing a constant stream of updates. You install it once, and then update forever. Like other rolling release Linux distributions, EndeavourOS releases updated installers semi-regularly. These help…
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…
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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….
Origin is Brave’s stripped-down browser, built for people who never touch most of what the company packages with Brave Browser. It drops the AI assistant, the rewards program, the crypto wallet, and the VPN, leaving the ad and tracker blocking in place. Don’t let that fool you into thinking that this is some half-baked browser;…
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…
For those of you who stick by your guns and only go for Native Linux games – here’s some gems that you should be looking to pick up. All of these games should work on SteamOS machines including Steam Deck / Steam Machine, since they’re actually built for Linux. Not just that, but everything on…
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…
