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
Mike Donovan, VP of product at Docker, sat down with the All Things Open team to share why agent workflows and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) are reshaping how developers... Read More The post Building smarter AI workflows: How MCP helps agents work with real developer tools a … | Continue reading
It’s been a while since I tried a new Linux distribution, so I was game for a new experience when an edtech blogger I follow suggested giving Zorin OS a try. I... Read More The post Zorin OS 18 review: The Linux distro designed for Windows users appeared first on All Things Open … | Continue reading
This presentation explores how software developers, UI designers, and testers will evolve in the next five years as Generative AI becomes deeply integrated into technology workflows. Rather than replacing jobs,... Read More The post How developers, designers, and testers are evo … | Continue reading
Open source communities have long shown how people solve problems by sharing insights and improving systems together. The same lessons apply to organizations, although human systems are far more complicated... Read More The post Why human systems break: Lessons from battle tanks … | Continue reading
A friend of mine has several tattoos on their legs and arms, and one of them reads “Faith without works is dead,” from the Bible Book of James. The tattoo... Read More The post How to turn any phrase into another language instantly appeared first on All Things Open. | Continue reading
It’s December, and that means it’s “DOScember.” If you don’t know DOS, it was a popular desktop operating system through the 1980s and into the 1990s. In 1994, several developers... Read More The post 26 commands to get started with FreeDOS appeared first on All Things Open. | Continue reading
Want to master file transfers between Linux servers? Your answer is rsync, offering far more control than basic tools like SCP. In his video from Learn Linux TV, Jay shares... Read More The post The one rsync mistake that could destroy your backups appeared first on All Things O … | Continue reading
Ben Ilegbodu, senior software engineer at Netflix, sat down with the All Things Open team to share how generative AI is shaping the future of developer productivity and why teamwork and... Read More The post Build, struggle, learn: Why hands-on learning beats theory in the age o … | Continue reading
Digital sovereignty is an ambition that many organizations have eyed for years. Yet few have turned it into a practical strategy that meaningfully shapes IT infrastructure decisions and day-to-day operations.... Read More The post Digital sovereignty: Achieving independence thro … | Continue reading
In Enabling Community Education with a Little Help from AI, Dagster Labs developer advocate Colton Padden shared how a small team supports a fast-growing open source community around Dagster, a declarative... Read More The post Scaling documentation without scaling your team: Da … | Continue reading
As enterprises race to adopt agentic AI across their business, the demand for context engineering will surge because relevance and reliability from AI agents will hinge on their ability to... Read More The post The unstructured data challenge: Why context is key for scaling AI a … | Continue reading
I’ve observed a growing interest in “retrocomputing” over the last several years. Sometimes, people use “retro” technology for work, like how Robert J. Sawyer uses WordStar 7 to write his... Read More The post Turn off acceleration for an authentic retrocomputing experience appe … | Continue reading
Learn Linux TV reveals how ‘cut’ is the fast path to clean data extraction in this crash course. Text manipulation in Linux can feel tedious when you’re stuck manually editing... Read More The post Why ‘cut’ belongs in your Linux text processing toolkit appeared first on All Thi … | Continue reading
Sriram Raghavan, vice president of AI research at IBM, sat down with Mark Hinkle, co-founder All Things AI, to share why open collaboration is essential to shaping the next era... Read More The post Why small models are making a big impact in AI accessibility appeared first on A … | Continue reading
Growing up, I watched my grandmother struggle with dementia, and later Alzheimer’s disease. As a child, I didn’t fully understand what was happening, but I could see the toll it took on... Read More The post Democratizing Alzheimer’s diagnosis: How interpretable AI brings early … | Continue reading
Your prototype works perfectly in the lab: clean signals, precise measurements, controlled environment. Then someone asks: “Can we deploy this at hundreds of remote sites?” That’s when you discover whether... Read More The post Scaling methane detection with open source FPGA app … | Continue reading
Understanding the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL) can be confusing. These terms are often used interchangeably, but they represent distinct concepts with specific... Read More The post AI vs ML vs DL: A practical g … | Continue reading
My family bought our first IBM PC in late 1981 or early 1982, when “PC” or “personal computer” was still a generic term that also included the Apple II and... Read More The post Why FreeDOS is a modern DOS appeared first on All Things Open. | Continue reading
Managing Linux servers from anywhere sounds great in theory, but trying to remember IP addresses, typing long commands, and worrying about security vulnerabilities quickly becomes a headache. SSH solves all... Read More The post Getting started with SSH: Your complete guide to u … | Continue reading
Kevin Blanco, senior developer advocate at Appsmith, sat down with the All Things Open team to share how open source and AI can work together to empower developers, strengthen communities,... Read More The post Why empathy might be the missing ingredient in open source AI appear … | Continue reading
I started using VirtualBox many years ago, and it quickly became my go-to virtualization platform. What drew me in first was its open source foundation. The base package, source code... Read More The post Getting started with VirtualBox on Linux: From hobbyist tinkering to produ … | Continue reading
Most companies are still experimenting with AI agents while Block already has 12,000 employees using them across 15 different job functions. In her presentation at All Things Open, Angie Jones,... Read More The post How Block scaled MCP across 12,000 employees in two months appe … | Continue reading
Why is securing the supply chain important? In my mind’s eye, the “electric sheep” are the products we build and sell to generate revenue. To create “electric sheep”, we build... Read More The post Supply chain robots, electric sheep, and SLSA appeared first on All Things Open. | Continue reading