Linux's 'everything is a file' idea is 50 years old, and it still explains why the OS feels so different
Unix has its fingerprints all over Linux, and it's why it feels so different compared to Windows ...
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A Linux workaround gives Intel's Arc B580 ReBAR support on older motherboards
A new Linux utility, arc-rebar, enables Resizable BAR on older motherboards for Intel Arc GPUs without requiring BIOS ...
Linux 7.4 Block Updates Range From Floppy Disk Driver Fixes To Apple M4 NVMe Support
The Linux 7.4 block/storage and IO_uring updates were merged today for the ongoing merge window. With the breadth of Linux ...
This 5-minute setup lets me permanently share a Linux folder with my Android phone
I regularly need to move files between my Linux PC and my Android phone, but there are surprisingly few good options. You can ...
Googlebook Adds Linux Developer Tools: What You Can Do With the New Terminal Preview
Google's Linux Terminal Preview brings AI agents and developer tools to Googlebook. Explore its features, security controls, ...
These 3 Linux apps replaced all my favorite dead Windows apps
WordPad is one of the most recent classic Windows apps to be discontinued, so it only makes sense to start the list with it.
I tried the free Adobe Acrobat clone – and finally have a pro PDF editor on Linux
If you've been frustrated over the lack of a good PDF editor in Linux, the developers at ArtCraft have delivered exactly what you need.
My favorite Xfce-based Linux distros – because your desktop shouldn’t be boring
Life's too short for dull desktops, and Xfce is so customizable that there's no excuse.
Linux's 'everything is a file' idea is 50 years old, and it still explains why the OS feels so different
Unix has its fingerprints all over Linux, and it's why it feels so different compared to Windows ...
OT Asset Management: One Trusted Record for Every OT Asset & Change Management - Industrial Defender
You cannot secure what you cannot see, and you cannot manage what you have not documented. Industrial Defender shows how its OT Asset Management solution builds a single, trusted record of every asset in your OT environment, from workstations and servers to PLCs, RTUs, relays, and firewalls. Most organizations still manage OT assets with spreadsheets, manual walk-downs, and tribal knowledge. That data goes stale within days. Industrial Defender replaces it with an automated, always current
Purdue Level 1 Visibility: See Every PLC, RTU & Relay: Industrial Defender
What does your OT security platform actually see at Purdue Level 1? Most OT visibility tools stop at the network. They infer what is on the wire and leave the device itself as a black box. Our agentless active collection talks to Level 1 devices in their own languages, including DNP3, Modbus, IEC 61850, S7, EtherNet/IP (CIP), and DeltaV, to pull firmware versions, configurations, ladder logic changes, and device details that network traffic alone cannot reveal. WHAT YOU WILL SEE IN THIS VIDE
Show HN: Kavela – AI Automations that do not fail silently
Kavela’s closed beta is out. AI agent automations that do not fail silently.There are now 216 unique users in our closed-beta tests! It is my belief that Kavela will be a winner in the vertical of scaling the consumption of artificial intelligence.Most of our workflows today are manual, in Claude/Codex CLIs. Every workflow that works deserves a harness that can consume the intricacies, rulebooks and guidance it requires to succeed reliably, every single time.Kavela is that: a platform to sc
Show HN: Loudwalk – Review your Anki deck out loud on a walk
Hey HN,Loudwalk (https://loudwalk.com/?from=hn) is an app I built for myself to review my Anki flashcards out loud on a walk, and am excited to share today.Anki has changed my life and is probably the best habit I've managed to stick with. Apart from helping at my tech day-job and remembering random things I find interesting (relatives' birthdays, quotes, poetry), it allowed me to become conversational in Russian in 2 years and complete the first year of a French univers
Show HN: Cryptex Vault – A password manager designed to outlive its creator
Hello everyone!About four years ago, a password manager I've used and depended on has been acquired and soon after, it was shut down. If anyone remembers MYKI, it was a password manager that stood out at the time. It didn't require an email address and a password for registration and it synchronized credentials peer-to-peer. It was quite handy so a couple of my friends and I got hooked, and were using it up until the last day it was online.The thing was, I didn't want to change pa
Show HN: Ployz – a Rust imperative orchestrator and cloud-like UX
Hi HN, I'm Nick. Ployz (https://ployz.dev) gives you Railway's UX on Linux servers you rent - start with a single server and grow from there. The code is at https://github.com/getployz/ployz.I've always wanted a self-hosting solution that can deliver a top-tier experience rivalling or beating what cloud platforms offer. By being opinionated, I believe it delivers on this:- A single flat mesh (any service can contact any other service, simply) - Start
Ask HN: Qualcomm Atheros driver issues on Linux firmware?
Have people been experiencing Qualcomm Atheros related AER messages or device issues on Linux based machines lately?
Ask HN: What do you think about lightweight default games on Linux distros?
Is it a good idea? I am working on these 21 games for this purpose https://github.com/abakh/nbsdgamesNow that most repos host the package, I think that including them in distros could be considered. I also wrote a text which takes 2-minutes to read and describes why I think it is a good and important decision to include them https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abakh/nbsdgames/refs/heads/master/mail.txtI think this is a zero-cost decision
Tell HN: Steamcmd doesn't work on Apple Silicon
steamcmd is the official command line tool from Steam. Gamedevs work with it to get builds uploaded to Steamworks. And it doesn't support Apple Silicon.To upload games to Steam, devs either go through Steamworks website, or use steamcmd. The web upload on Steamworks website mostly works for small zips, just it is unreliable. At bad times one can stare at the web upload for 10 minutes of failure, errors, "did not receive the entire file" after timeout.I have finally decided to migr
Kernal.org Compromised?
It might give some of you a Friday laugh - but it nearly gave me a heart attack. I'm building a kernel appliance and while it was building I thought to check the kernel website, but autocomplete sent me to kernal.org instead of kernel.org. I had a moment of sheer panic - with all these CVE's recently anything is possible.<p>I wonder what the history behind kernal.org is? It is some kind of troll for linux heads?
Unix Philosophy in Agentic AI: Do one thing well and pipe structured state
Unix Philosophy in Agentic AI: Do one thing well and pipe structured state The greatest operating system principles established in 1971 are the exact solutions to 2026 AI hallucination problems. In 1978, Doug McIlroy articulated the Unix philosophy: *Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams.* When applied to autonomous agent swarms: - Don’t ask an LLM to generate code, verify test coverage, and deploy to prod in