Classic Unix tools (ls, cat, ed, cal, dc) and games show modern OS lineage ...

To see a real (non-slop) image one must go about half a year back, only to find some puff piece about slop, i.e. the usual: It is sad to see someone who devoted many years of his life producing ...

Got time for a final blast through smaller Linux app updates to round out 2025? There will be plenty of big new releases to ...

Open source video editor Shotcut 25.12 adds 10-bit CPU pipeline support, linear color processing, and better hardware ...

Dinky is GUI-like with tabs and themes; Ne is keyboard-forward. Replace Nano with a modern alternative.

Built by Sensia Technology, it was thin enough to hang like a tapestry or slip under bedding. Volume was modest, audio ...

For instance, we use Jeena's TextEd instead of Apple's text editor. For browsers, email, chat, productivity, writing, and so on, we use FOSS and freeware apps, and wherever possible, ones that also ...

For Linux and MacOS, Fresh is the best of both worlds - a terminal text editor with GUI-like options. I'm all for it.

The new pearOS distro is a Romanian project that picks up the concepts behind the original Pear Linux from 2011 and updates them. It's not going to turn the distro world upside down, but it's fun, ...

This is my Zig text editor. It is under active development, but very stable and is my daily driver for almost everything. Zig will by default build a binary optimized for your specific CPU. If you get ...

The rise of artificial intelligence has produced serial writers to science and medical journals, most likely using chatbots to boost the number of citations they’ve published. By Gina Kolata Letters ...