The Amiga 3000 UNIX and Sun Microsystems: deal or no deal?
Amiga lore is full of exciting tales. Many of them are retold to demonstrate how the incompetence of Commodore’s management destroyed a platform that, by rights, was destined for success. Coulda, shoulda, and the Amiga woulda risen as rightful ru...
GPD MicroPC 2: Souped-Up Successor to the OG Pocket PC
The GPD MicroPC 2 is a 7-inch mini laptop with a 'retina' quality rotating touchscreen, and an Intel N250 CPU - but will Linux love it much as the original model? You're reading GPD MicroPC 2: Souped-Up Successor to the OG Pocket PC, a blog post from O...
GPD MicroPC 2 is a Big Improvement Over the Original
The GPD MicroPC 2 is a 7-inch mini laptop with a 'retina' quality rotating touchscreen, and an Intel N250 CPU - but will Linux love it much as the original model? You're reading GPD MicroPC 2 is a Big Improvement Over the Original, a blog post from OMG...
GPD MicroPC 2: Souped-Up Successor to Original Pocket PC
Everything receives a sequel eventually, and so it is so for the GPD MicroPC. A souped-up, second-gen successor to the small, serial-port-packing original goes on sale this summer. It boasts a bigger, brighter screen that rotates, a beefier Intel-based...
Bcachefs Fixes Merged For Linux 6.16-rc5
A handful of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted yesterday to Linus Torvalds for merging ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc5 release due out on Sunday. Today they were merged...
Travel Support Available for openSUSE.Asia Summit
The openSUSE.Asia Summit 2025 will take place from August 29 to 31 at MRIIRS in Faridabad, India, and we’re excited to welcome community members from across Asia and around the globe. To make the summit more accessible, the Travel Support Program (TS...
Developing JavaScript apps with AI agents
There is a phenomenon in low-code and 4GL systems called the inner platform effect. Essentially, you take a tool and build an abstraction on top designed to make it simpler and end up creating a less powerful version of the same underlying system. Art...
Risk management in the public cloud is your job
I was excited to speak at a regional cloud computing summit hosted by one of the major cloud providers. My presentation focused on the many opportunities of public cloud and the essential need for risk management. Just before the event, I received an ...
Redis 8.2 Preparing More Performance Optimizations, SVS-VAMANA
The first release candidate of Redis 8.2 is now available for testing of this popular in-memory key-value database. Redis 8.2 is building off the recent Redis 8.0 release that ended up going tri-licensing with the AGPLv3 stemming from developer/communi...
Bash 5.3 Released With Many Improvements
Three years since the Bash 5.2 release and one year since the first alpha release, GNU Bash 5.3 was released overnight as the newest step forward for this popular shell used on Linux and other operating systems...
GIMP 3.2 Adds New Painting Mode, Photoshop Patterns + More
GIMP 3.2 will include a new Overwrite painting mode, support for Photoshop pattern files, and expanded file format support. You're reading GIMP 3.2 Adds New Painting Mode, Photoshop Patterns + More, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewh...
GIMP Dev Release Adds New Painting Mode & Text Outline Settings
GIMP 3.2 will include a new Overwrite painting mode, support for Photoshop pattern files, and expanded file format support. You're reading GIMP Dev Release Adds New Painting Mode & Text Outline Settings, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce e...
