Open source contributions are flooding in faster than ever, but are they knowledgeable or just vibe-checking? In this episode, Ritvi Mishra, Program Manager at CodeRabbit, joins the We Love Open... Read More The post Inside Frenzy Works: The maker space where being bad at things … | Continue reading
I decided it was time to explore a distribution I had no experience with, so I downloaded Manjaro Cinnamon. I regularly listen to podcasts and read blogs where people discuss... Read More The post My first experience with Manjaro Cinnamon as a Linux Mint user appeared first on A … | Continue reading
Remember LAN parties? Low latency, direct server access, no complicated security policies, just plug in and play. In this presentation at All Things Open, Allen Vailliencourt from Tailscale shares how... Read More The post Stop opening firewall ports and start using identity app … | Continue reading
Communities thrive when people feel connected — when they know what’s happening around them, who shares their interests, and where they can contribute. Whether you’re organizing a charity drive, joining a local meetup, or simply... Read More The post Getting started with Communi … | Continue reading
The Linux community has long judged distro hoppers, but what if all that “indecision” is actually making you a better sysadmin? In this video from Learn Linux TV, you’ll learn how... Read More The post Stop feeling guilty about Linux distro hopping appeared first on All Things O … | Continue reading
AI coding tools promised unlimited access for $20 a month, then introduced $200 tiers that still hit rate limits four months later. In this episode, Brandon Mathis, Engineering Lead at... Read More The post The AI slop problem threatening open source maintainers appeared first o … | Continue reading
Joplin has become my default note-taking app. I use it for everything—whether it’s short notes on what to pick up at the store or saving articles I intend to read later... Read More The post Essential shortcuts and tips for faster note-taking appeared first on All Things Open. | Continue reading
Everyone’s vibe coding now, using Cursor, Claude, and GitHub Copilot to generate code faster than ever. But does it work for heavy-duty software? In their presentation at All Things Open,... Read More The post Introducing the blue-red framework for effective viable coding appear … | Continue reading
Jessica Garson, senior developer advocate, sat down with the All Things Open team to share how she discovered that code could do more than light up shoes or send tweets,... Read More The post Turning code into music with Sonic Pi appeared first on All Things Open. | Continue reading
VirtualBox works, but it’s clunky on Linux and comes with licensing headaches if you want to use it at work. In this video from Learn Linux TV, you’ll learn how GNOME... Read More The post Getting started with GNOME Boxes: Run Linux VMs without the hassle appeared first on All T … | Continue reading
Headlines scream about tech layoffs at Netflix, Amazon, and Microsoft, but what’s happening beneath the surface tells a different story. In this episode, Taylor Desseyn, VP of Global Community at... Read More The post Tech hiring in the AI era: Why everyone’s at zero appeared fi … | Continue reading
A trip to Denver and the System76 factory in 2018 afforded me a chance to meet their technology team and look at the products they were building. One of those... Read More The post Meet the Meerkat: A compact Linux PC with surprising power for developers appeared first on All Th … | Continue reading
DevOps professionals are invisible until something breaks. In this presentation at All Things Open, Kedar Kulkarni, Senior DevOps Architect at Apple, shares why the real pain in DevOps isn’t just... Read More The post How LLMs and AI agents eliminate DevOps toil with intelligent … | Continue reading
Sustainable leadership for open source projects is something that we all know is important, but it’s also one of those topics that can be neglected for far too long within... Read More The post The leadership gap threatening open source projects—and how to fix it appeared first … | Continue reading
Most Linux users default to Firefox or Chrome, but what if you want something simpler that just works without the bloat? In this video from Learn Linux TV, you’ll learn how... Read More The post Getting started with GNOME Web browser: Basics for Linux users appeared first on All … | Continue reading
Technology powers everything from getting jobs to interacting with government, but 1.3 billion people with disabilities face barriers when that technology isn’t accessible. In this episode, Ed Summers, blind developer... Read More The post Why 1.3 billion people depend on progre … | Continue reading
Creating Windows boot disks is a common task, even for those of us who run Linux full-time. In one case, I needed to create Windows Server 2022 and Windows Server... Read More The post How to create Windows boot disks on Linux without special tools appeared first on All Things O … | Continue reading
What is Mautic, and why are smart marketers making the switch? If you’re tired of paying $2,000+ monthly for marketing automation and tools, you’re not alone. Recent data shows 43%... Read More The post Your 2026 guide to Mautic: The ultimate developer’s automation guide appeare … | Continue reading
Open source communities often celebrate visible success: spikes in stars, forks, and mentions across social platforms. These are encouraging signs, but they only describe what can be seen from above... Read More The post Measuring what really works in open source appeared first … | Continue reading
Keeping your Proxmox server updated is critical for security, but manually checking for updates can easily fall through the cracks when you’re juggling multiple responsibilities. In this video from Learn Linux... Read More The post Automate Proxmox security updates the right way … | Continue reading
Edge computing promises cost savings, privacy, and speed, but most developers still approach it with cloud-first thinking. In this episode, Roja Eswaran, PhD, Senior Engineer on the Cloud Infrastructure team... Read More The post Why edge computing isn’t just cloud at the networ … | Continue reading
Back in October we held the inagural OpenSSL Conference in Prague. During my keynote talk I shared the story of my beginnings with OpenSSL. This was a story of small... Read More The post Getting started with open source: Lessons from my OpenSSL journey appeared first on All Thi … | Continue reading
One winter evening, a local nonprofit organized a food drive at the community center. Flyers were pinned to bulletin boards, emails were sent, and a few social media posts went... Read More The post Community Connect: Creating a digital town square with Flutter and open source a … | Continue reading
Medicine affects human life so profoundly that we need to consider the morality of medical technology differently to other industries. In other tech areas the consumer usually has more choice... Read More The post Open source is the only way for medicine appeared first on All Th … | Continue reading
Imagine running Fedora packages on Debian, or Arch User Repository applications on Ubuntu, all without dual-booting or virtual machines. In this video from Learn Linux TV, you’ll learn how DistroBox makes... Read More The post Get started with DistroBox in minutes appeared first … | Continue reading
Git was built for human-to-human collaboration, but what happens when a thousand engineers each spin up a hundred AI agents? In this episode, Lee Faus, CEO and founder of Atomic... Read More The post What version control looks like when AI agents write the code appeared first on … | Continue reading
Open source communities are built on trust, attribution, and transparent contribution history. But what happens when AI agents start submitting patches alongside human contributors? How do we preserve the social... Read More The post Open source for the age of agent-native devel … | Continue reading
System76 is celebrating 20 years, and they’re marking the occasion with the official release of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS and the COSMIC desktop environment. As Carl Richell, System76’s CEO, explained in the announcement:... Read More The post System76’s COSMIC desktop: A hands-on tour … | Continue reading
Is your analytics platform selling your users’ data while giving you sketchy, sampled reports? This Matomo review breaks down whether it’s the privacy-first alternative that dev teams and content creators... Read More The post Your 2026 guide to Matomo: Privacy-first analytics … | Continue reading
This article explores technical approaches to improving RAG systems through rationale-guided retrieval. Implementation details and specific performance metrics may vary based on domain, model choices, and infrastructure. Readers are encouraged... Read More The post Chain-of-thou … | Continue reading
Your WiFi stopped working after an update. SSH connections keep failing with cryptic errors. GNOME feels sluggish for no apparent reason. Sound familiar? Linux problems often look mysterious until you... Read More The post 10 common Linux issues and the fast fixes you need appea … | Continue reading
Most companies create developer content and documentation but struggle to measure whether any of it actually works. In this episode, Jono Bacon, CEO of Stateshift, joins the We Love Open... Read More The post Stop guessing, start measuring developer engagement appeared first on … | Continue reading
Protecting your data has never been more crucial. With the rise of hybrid work, cloud-native applications, and ransomware threats, reliable backup solutions are indispensable for individuals and organizations alike. Open... Read More The post 15 open source backup solutions to p … | Continue reading
Places of worship are evolving beyond physical spaces. They’re becoming cultural hubs, nonprofit foundations, and community gathering centers that need digital tools to serve their communities effectively. To make temple... Read More The post Building the Temple App: How Flutter … | Continue reading
Open source has always advanced by establishing shared languages. When APIs needed consistency, the community created OpenAPI. When infrastructure required reproducibility, Terraform and Kubernetes YAML emerged. When containers needed interoperability,... Read More The post Agen … | Continue reading
Building a desktop environment from scratch sounds impossible. Canonical tried with Unity 8 and abandoned the project. Yet System76 just shipped the first production-ready version of COSMIC Desktop in Pop!_OS... Read More The post Pop!_OS 24.04 review: Was the two-year wait for … | Continue reading
Recently, I had a client who, despite my recommendation for Linux or macOS, chose instead to opt for Microsoft Windows 11. They purchased a nice Windows 11 laptop, and of... Read More The post Your 2026 quick guide to free Office alternatives appeared first on All Things Open. | Continue reading
David Both, Linux enthusiast and author, sat down with the All Things Open team to share his thoughts on what artificial intelligence means, why beauty matters in technology, and how... Read More The post Why today’s AI isn’t intelligent (yet) appeared first on All Things Open. | Continue reading
Your marketing budget keeps climbing while your control over the stack keeps shrinking. Most development teams are trapped paying $500-$2,000 monthly for SaaS platforms that limit customization, lock away data,... Read More The post New download: The ultimate guide to open sourc … | Continue reading
In the coming year, the transformation of software development will accelerate. This transformation will fully incorporate artificial intelligence, which is rapidly becoming critical for planning, development, testing, and deployment. Beyond the escalating use of AI in 2026, huma … | Continue reading
Despite the widespread AI fatigue many of us are experiencing, there’s genuine value in using AI tools to boost your Linux career, especially when it comes to troubleshooting and system... Read More The post 10 ways to use AI for Linux troubleshooting and productivity appeared f … | Continue reading
Rachel-Lee Nabors, software engineer and open web advocate, sat down with the All Things Open team to share why the agentic web matters, how open source fits into this next... Read More The post Inside the agentic web: What developers should know now appeared first on All Things … | Continue reading
As 2025 comes to a close, the open source community continues to inspire with innovation, reflection, and even nostalgia. This year’s standout stories remind us that open source is more... Read More The post 6 must-read Linux and open source tutorials of the year appeared first … | Continue reading
AI moved from abstract concept to practical tool in 2025, but cutting through the noise to actually understand the capabilities and limitations, took some work. These five tutorials form a... Read More The post The 5 best AI tutorials that take you from basics to building agents … | Continue reading
Open source Linux distributions such as AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux promise freedom, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. That’s especially true for organizations migrating away from legacy distributions like CentOS Linux. However, that... Read More The post Why open source security … | Continue reading
Programming should be fun. I got “into” programming years ago because writing my own programs on the Apple II was something I enjoyed. I continued with programming even though my... Read More The post Tiny programming with FreeDOS: Just a kernel, shell, editor, and compiler appe … | Continue reading
In the very early days of DOS, the standard editor was a no-frills line editor called Edlin. Tim Paterson wrote the original Edlin for the first version of DOS, then... Read More The post Edlin on FreeDOS: When a simple line editor is all you need appeared first on All Things Op … | Continue reading
Ever found yourself staring at a log file with 20,000 lines, wondering where to start? In this video from Learn Linux TV, Jay demonstrates how the head and tail commands... Read More The post How to tame 20,000-line log files with two Linux commands appeared first on All Things … | Continue reading