Ubuntu releases come and go, but long-term support (LTS) versions stick around for years. In this video from Learn Linux TV, you’ll learn what makes Ubuntu 26.04 worth upgrading to and... Read More The post Should you upgrade your Linux desktop to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS? appeared fir … | Continue reading
AI tools promise to speed up development, but can they handle real system administration without creating disasters? In this video from Learn Linux TV, you’ll learn what happened when Jay... Read More The post Can AI handle real system administration tasks? appeared first on All … | Continue reading
Staying stuck on your laptop means never solving deployment, secrets, or configuration. In this episode, Calvin Hendryx-Parker, CTO at Six Feet Up and AWS Hero, joins the We Love Open... Read More The post Spawning parallel AI agents with git subtrees and meta prompts appeared f … | Continue reading
In our small public library, where I volunteer weekly, we have several ten-year-old all-in-one desktops with i5 CPUs and 8 GB of RAM. They’re currently running Windows 10, and the... Read More The post How immutable Linux can save libraries thousands on Windows 11 upgrades appea … | Continue reading
Learning Linux feels overwhelming when every topic branches into endless subtopics. In this video from Learn Linux TV, you’ll learn five unconventional strategies to learn faster, stay motivated, and actually retain... Read More The post 5 practical tips for learning Linux tools … | Continue reading
The first real bug you solve delivers dopamine that makes you want to climb the next mountain. In this episode, Bree Hall, Senior Developer Advocate at Atlassian, joins the We... Read More The post Building a D&D productivity tracker with generative music appeared first on All T … | Continue reading
In traditional top-down employment structures, if a manager asks an employee to do something, there is an expectation that they will do what was asked. In the manager / employee... Read More The post Power vs. influence: What open source teaches that business school doesn’t appe … | Continue reading
Apache Grails has powered tens of thousands of production Java apps for nearly two decades. Until May 2024 it lived under single-organization stewardship. At Community Over Code 2025, I shared... Read More The post How we migrated a 20-year-old open source project to the Apache … | Continue reading
Large language models look incredibly reliable in demos. You type a prompt, get a response, and everything feels fast, clean, almost effortless. It is easy to think the hard problem... Read More The post The hard part of LLMs isn’t the model. It’s everything around it appeared … | Continue reading
During a visit to Phoenix, AZ, I had my first Waymo ride. A friend’s suggestion came after I’d seen dozens of Waymo vehicles whizzing by. Initially, I felt some trepidation,... Read More The post My first Waymo ride: How open research shaped autonomous driving appeared first on … | Continue reading
Logging into a server and immediately seeing system information beats running commands manually to check what’s running. In this video from Learn Linux TV, you’ll learn how to build a custom... Read More The post Replace Neofetch with your own Linux MOTD system appeared first on … | Continue reading
A Raspberry Pi can run 4 billion parameter models, democratizing AI beyond proprietary APIs and paid services. In this episode, Cedric Clyburn, Senior Developer Advocate at Red Hat, joins the... Read More The post From specialized coder to orchestra conductor: How AI changes dev … | Continue reading
Recovering a WordPress site from the Internet Archive is not a single-step operation. While tools exist to download archived content, turning that data into a WordPress-importable state requires additional processing:... Read More The post From Wayback to WordPress: Designing a … | Continue reading
Protein research once took months or years of intensive lab work. Today, transformer-based models can predict protein structures and provide functional insights far more quickly. In this lightning talk at... Read More The post You don’t need a biochemistry degree to analyze prot … | Continue reading
Protein research used to require months or years of lab work. Now transformer models can predict protein structures and functions in minutes. In this lightning talk at All Things AI,... Read More The post You don’t need a biochemistry degree to analyze proteins appeared first on … | Continue reading
CachyOS is a popular, performance focused Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. CachyOS has been gaining a lot of popularity lately for its speed and modern hardware support, which has drawn the attention... Read More The post How to install CachyOS manually, the Arch Linux wa … | Continue reading
At a local library volunteer shift, five Dell Optiplex All-in-One computers were being replaced by newer All-in-One PCs running Windows 11. The library’s tech support does not support Linux, so... Read More The post How Linux Mint gave five “obsolete” library PCs a second life a … | Continue reading
Finding the right notes app feels impossible when sync constantly breaks or sharing isn’t an option. In this video from Learn Linux TV, you’ll learn how Notesnook became Jay’s go-to solution... Read More The post Notesnook review: Is this the best notes app for Linux? appeared … | Continue reading
Open source program managers are the wheel greasers who make sure developers have the resources they need to get stuff done, whether that’s inbound integration, outbound contributions, or upstream projects.... Read More The post Inside an OSPO: What open source program managers … | Continue reading
I perform live regularly as Messica Arson, and I create experimental electronic music with code and modular synthesizers. I’ve been creating visuals for my music as a form of world-building.... Read More The post Creating live concert visuals in React with Shaders appeared first … | Continue reading
NASA faced a problem in 1961 when Kennedy declared the United States would put a man on the moon by decade’s end. They needed to design and test spacecraft for... Read More The post How synthetic data accelerates AI development without privacy risk appeared first on All Things O … | Continue reading
It’s Monday morning and like many of my colleagues, I open my inbox and get a report from a business partner as an attachment. And like every morning, I find... Read More The post Your documents aren’t really yours: The case for decentralized document management appeared first o … | Continue reading
Random terminal jokes might seem pointless, but what if they could actually make logging into servers more enjoyable? In this video from Learn Linux TV, you’ll learn how the fortune command turns mundane... Read More The post The completely useless fortune command on Linux appea … | Continue reading
Open source has always been about learning from what others build, but what happens when maintainers run out of resources to keep critical projects alive? In this episode, Erik Thorelli,... Read More The post The million dollar question: What do open source maintainers actually … | Continue reading
When the sugar first hits your bloodstream everything feels awesome. You’ve got energy, an almost hyperactive level of activity, and even a sense of euphoria. Then, inevitably, the crash. A... Read More The post How open source projects need to adapt to the AI coding era appeare … | Continue reading
For years, I thought Open Source Software (OSS) just wasn’t for me. I had no plans to join any OSS communities on top of my existing developer community obligations. Curious... Read More The post Pull request therapy: How contributing to npmx made code reviews enjoyable appeared … | Continue reading
Security incidents tied to transitive dependencies often trigger intense postmortems focused on response speed. How fast did teams react? How long did systems remain exposed? While those questions matter, they... Read More The post Designing software that can be patched before i … | Continue reading
Most Linux distros let you install packages and tweak settings one step at a time. In this video from Learn Linux TV, you’ll learn how NixOS flips that model completely by... Read More The post Is NixOS the most powerful Linux distro in 2026? appeared first on All Things Open. | Continue reading
State AI regulations aren’t differentiating between developers and deployers, impacting open source contributors who could be held responsible for downstream uses they don’t control. In this episode, Katie Steen-James, Senior... Read More The post How to engage with policy maker … | Continue reading
The standard guidance for participating in open source development is to find a project, identify a “good first issue,” correct a typo or document something, and submit a pull request.... Read More The post How to make your first meaningful open source contribution (that isn’t j … | Continue reading
Co-author: Nnenna Ndukwe Open source software has always depended on human judgment. Maintainers review pull requests not just to catch bugs, but to preserve architectural intent, enforce project norms, and... Read More The post How to add free AI code review to your open source … | Continue reading
Co-author: Carlos Eduardo Arango Gutierrez When OpenClaw took over the internet by storm, the first thing that came to mind was. Wow! Followed by, are we really just going to... Read More The post How to secure agentic AI with Agent Identity Protocol (AIP) appeared first on All … | Continue reading
That text before your command prompt? It’s more useful than you think. In this video from Learn Linux TV, you’ll learn how customizing your Bash prompt (PS1) can give you quick... Read More The post Make your Bash prompt actually useful on Linux appeared first on All Things Open … | Continue reading
Model parameters have grown three times in 10 years, creating computational challenges and ethical concerns around transparency, bias, and how models make decisions. In this episode, Shashank Kapadia, Machine Learning... Read More The post Model parameters grew 3x in 10 years: H … | Continue reading
When a friend’s ten-year-old Windows 10 laptop became unusable, Linux tools provided an unexpected rescue for her important Microsoft Publisher files. All her important files had been backed up by... Read More The post Repairing a corrupted Windows drive with Linux Mint tools ap … | Continue reading
The Linux Foundation Member Summit kicked off in Napa (Feb. 24-25, 2026), bringing together leaders from across the open source ecosystem. This was my first time attending, and it comes at a... Read More The post Open source is critical infrastructure, not just a development mod … | Continue reading
Building AI projects shouldn’t cost hundreds of dollars before you even know if your idea works. Most platforms make you pay upfront just to test basic models. The bills pile... Read More The post Hugging Face review: Powering the future of open source AI appeared first on All … | Continue reading
Arch Linux is powerful but intimidating to install. In this video from Learn Linux TV, you’ll learn how EndeavourOS removes the friction while keeping you surprisingly close to pure Arch. Jay... Read More The post EndeavourOS review: Still the best Arch Linux installer? appeared … | Continue reading
App stores were the biggest step backward in software distribution, trading openness for convenience and giving companies the power to flip switches on features based on wealth. In this episode,... Read More The post Trading openness for convenience: From app stores to AI assist … | Continue reading
The economy is tough right now, and many Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) are feeling the pinch. We’ve been seeing layoffs and downsizing that have impacted quite a few OSPOs,... Read More The post How to scale OSPO work when budgets shrink and teams get smaller appeared firs … | Continue reading
In just a few short months, OpenClaw went from a side-project to one of the fastest-growing repositories in GitHub history, with over 200,000 stars. Its creator, Peter Steinberger, was recruited... Read More The post OpenClaw: Anatomy of a viral open source AI agent appeared fir … | Continue reading
We’re at a really interesting point in our interactions with AI models. Sure, they’re integrated into our developer environments to help write code (or vibe code, if you live on... Read More The post Everything you need to know about running LLMs locally appeared first on All Th … | Continue reading
Ever catch yourself typing ls immediately after cd, every single time, whether you actually need to see the directory contents or not? In this video from Learn Linux TV, you’ll learn... Read More The post Automate ls after cd on Linux with this Bash trick appeared first on All T … | Continue reading
Companies are abandoning open source licenses for closed models, threatening the freedom that transformed computing from vendor lock-in to choose-your-own-adventure. In this episode, Dave Stokes, Community Manager at DBeaver, joins... Read More The post The open source threat br … | Continue reading
Recently a friend asked me if I could help him map his walks around the area where he lives. I use a pedometer to track my steps and have tried... Read More The post QGIS meets mobile: A practical guide to field mapping with MerginMaps appeared first on All Things Open. | Continue reading
Over the past year, autonomous, task-executing assistants have been making clear headway from concept to serious infrastructure AI agents. Tools like Cursor and Codex have shown developers what AI can... Read More The post Getting started with OpenClaw: Complex tasks from a simp … | Continue reading
The world of software development is changing rapidly, and the implications for how governments share technology are only beginning to come into focus. For two decades, the vision for reducing... Read More The post How AI Is changing government technology collaboration forever a … | Continue reading
Tired of windows cluttering your screen and hiding behind each other? In this video from Learn Linux TV, you’ll learn how the COSMIC desktop’s tiling system puts every application front... Read More The post Getting started with COSMIC desktop tiling appeared first on All Things … | Continue reading