Enabling system-wide DNS over TLS
This article will guide you to enforcing DoT (DNS over TLS) on your running system and at boot time. Support is avaliable in Fedora 42. It will also guide you to set up encrypted DNS for system installation, if you want to try it with current Fedora Ra...
COSMIC Desktop Alpha 7 Brings More New Features
System76 has just announced the 7th alpha release of its Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment. As with earlier alphas, the focus remains on adding the features planned for inclusion in its first stable release (dubbed Epoch 1). It’s always worth tem...
Oddly, in defense of Google keeping Chrome
As much as I’m a fan of breaking up Google, I’m not entirely sure carving Chrome out of Google without a further plan for what happens to the browser is a great idea. I mean, Google is bad, but but things could be so, so much worse. OpenAI would be...
A tour inside the IBM z17
Welcome to a photo-driven tour of the IBM z17. I’ve scoured the image library to pull dig deep inside these machines that most people don’t get an opportunity to see inside, and I’ll share some of the specifications gleaned from the announcement ...
TacOS: an x86_64 UNIX-like OS from scratch
TacOS is a UNIX-like kernel which is able to run DOOM, among various other smaller userspace programs. It has things like a VFS, scheduler, TempFS, devices, context switching, virtual memory management, physical page frame allocation, and a port of Doo...
The hitchhiker’s guide to infrastructure modernization
One of my favourite authors, Douglas Adams, once said that “we are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.” Whilst Adams is right about a lot of things, he got this one wrong – at least when it comes to infrastruc...
Micro front ends on the Microsoft web platform
Breaking up monolithic code into clusters of services and microservices has been a good thing. It has allowed us to refactor our code and find the bottlenecks and blockers. In some cases, that’s led us back to new, streamlined monoliths, in other ca...
Microsoft touts AI Dev Gallery for Windows
Microsoft is championing its AI Dev Gallery, now available as an open source app intended to help Windows developers integrate AI capabilities within their own projects and apps. Initially announced as a project in December 2024, AI Dev Gallery was hi...
The wonderful world of Linux package managers
One of the strong points of Linux has always been how solid the experience of installing and managing software is. Contrarily to what happens in the Windows and macOS world, software on Linux is obtained through something called a package manager, a pi...
Puppet devsecops updated to deal with security maladies
Perforce has updated its Puppet Enterprise Advanced platform for devsecops to offer more advanced remediation options with the goal of reducing risk in an era of AI-powered security threats. Announced on April 22, the 2025.2 release of the platform fo...
