The UNIX List

Ask HN: Good IMAP Email Clients?

I&#x27;m looking for a good, simple desktop IMAP email client for Windows and Linux and coming up empty handed.<p>Thunderbird absolutely sucks now, it is borderline unusable (it would not connect to our internal email system, and I had no patience with its incomprehensible UI to figure out why).<p>New Outlook is just a web wrapper.<p>It feels like there are far fewer options in this space than existed 20 years ago.<p>Does anyone still use Seamonkey?

Ask HN: How to tune Emacs config for portability: Linux, macOS and Windows?

I&#x27;ve been a GNU&#x2F;Linux-only Emacs user for years, and most of my configuration has naturally evolved around that environment.Now I may need to start using macOS and Windows as well, and I&#x27;m realizing that &quot;Emacs is cross-platform&quot; and &quot;my Emacs configuration is cross-platform&quot; are two rather different things.I&#x27;m curious how people who maintain a substantial Emacs configuration approach this.My config is fairly modular and tries to stay close to vanilla Emac

Show HN: Clinch – Local-first Warp fork built for agent session management

Warp was my daily driver for years, and I still love the core product. But I wanted more privacy, less Oz agent stuff and a better UX experience for managing all my Claude Code&#x2F;Codex sessions, especially across the repos I&#x27;m working on at once.So I forked Warp, gutted all the telemetry, account requirements, Oz agent stuff and have fine tuned the UX over the months to optimize it for session management. The awesome Warp terminal is still first class (auto complete, auto command suggest

Show HN: Pharos – A package manager for MCP servers (like NPM, but for MCP)

Hey HN! Dev here. I built PHAROS, an open-source CLI package manager for MCP servers. Think npm, but for MCP.What it does: - Search across all MCP registries in one place - Install servers with dependency resolution and lockfiles - Audit installed servers against known vulnerabilities - Import your existing MCP client configs - Publish your own serversSingle Go binary, no runtime deps. macOS, Linux, Windows. MIT licensed. There is a second repo for the Agent SDK it has MCP&#x2F;MCP-Apps server f

Show HN: Control AI Agents on Your Old PC at Home from Any Device Anywhere

I built Relay around a simple idea: many of us have an unused PC server at home, or a VPS dedicated to AI-assisted coding, but the coding agents running there are still tied to that machine’s terminal, I just don&#x27;t want to ssh&#x2F;rdp into it every single time. Relay brings Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Hermes into one interface that you can access from your phone, browser, or another computer. Sessions stay alive, so you can start work on one device and continue from another. You can

I tried the new ChatGPT Desktop App for Linux - but I'll stick to my browser for now

I tried the new ChatGPT Desktop App for Linux - but I'll stick to my browser for now ...

OpenAI Now Has a ChatGPT Desktop App for Linux

Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora distributions get first dibs.

CIQ opens direct purchase of Enterprise Linux and removes procurement from the path to production

CIQ, the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux, today announced self-service purchasing in the CIQ portal (portal.ciq.com). Developers, startups, and small businesses can now evaluate ...

Framework Laptop 12 gets Fedora KDE Linux on pre-builts, along with a new Intel Core Series 3 processors

Nice to see an expansion of Linux on devices, with the Framework Laptop 12 getting support for pre-builts to ship with Fedora KDE 44 and Intel Core Series 3.

Epic Games Store Is Coming To Linux With Native Steam Deck Support

Epic has seemingly confirmed plans to bring its Epic Games Store to Linux and emphasizes that it won't stop at a working storefront.

Teleport Brings Infrastructure Identity to Linux Desktops

Developer-preferred desktop operating system now supported in the same unified identity layer as servers, clusters, and databasesOAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 18, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Teleport, the AI Infrastructure Identity Company, today announced support for Linux Desktop as a protected resource within the Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform. Engineering teams can now apply the same cryptographic identity, least-privilege access controls, and session auditability to Linux desktops that they

Ubuntu is growing faster on Windows than on Linux, and it could soon become its biggest user base

Two OSes may become better than one.

AI-enriched Linux 7.2 delivers cache-aware scheduling - here's everything new

The latest kernel also brings filesystem and I/O improvements and substantial new support across AMD, Intel, Apple, Nvidia, USB4, and laptop hardware.

These are the 5 most popular Linux distros in 2026

For users looking to get into Linux, either to use an older machine or get away from Windows, these five distros stand out as ...

Show HN: ponzy.io – I made a casual trading game you can play in the browser

Hey everyone, I made a small browser game where you trade against other players in a 10 minute free-for-all, player with the most cash at the end wins.<p>Here&#x27;s the link: ponzy.io<p>Give it a try and let me know what you think. I&#x27;m currently actively developing the game and am looking for feedback! The most recent update I added was to give bots unique names and tendencies, instead of having them all just be the same, which is an idea I got from a fellow HN user!

Show HN: Sib - Unixy LLM Client using Git to store converastions, instead SQLite

Hi all :)The reason I like git is that the source tree snapshot and the commit structure itself are always immutable, and destructive operations are just renaming a ref file.Once you understand that, no matter how hard the CLI is to make sense of, you never hesitate to run a command. You can always get it back.LLM conversations aren&#x27;t as fragile to change as a source tree, but for me an auto-generated SHA-1 hash is more comforting than an auto-generated session title ^~^The project is in it

Ianal: Woudl the Supreme Court reexamine right to privacy in public?

With so many government cameras, and increasingly shrinking personal life-blogging camera devices (i.e. Meta Glasses), might the Supreme Court feel it necessary to reexamine United States v. Knotts, which laid out the in-public, thus no privacy doctrine?<p>The public concern of cameras, now with AI, may lead to a broader backlash against them, and laws akin to privacy laws in Europe.

Show HN: Tmail – The Mailbox You Own

Access locally or remotely with authenticated service. Encrypt your communications E2E by publishing your PGP key to your node.<p>Minimal distraction free UI.<p>Optional 2FA access for additional security.<p>Host on linux, macOS, or termux<p>Find it here!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;here_forawhile&#x2F;tmail" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;here_forawhile&#x2F;tmail</a>

Show HN: I spent 3 months making desktop automation stop lying to AI agents

That&#x27;s a bold claim. But I genuinely feel like I might have actually solved computer use (demo: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;mdlahfir&#x2F;status&#x2F;2088109763783700827?s=20)For context, I&#x27;ve been building agent-desktop (Inspired by agent-browser by Vercel Labs), an automation CLI for desktop apps. It&#x27;s like Playwright but for desktops, not just native, but for Chromium apps as well. Trust me, yes, Chromium apps whose accessibility tree is dense.MacOS is GA; I&#x27;m almost clos

Show HN: Homelander – free desktop app that applies for apartments in Germany

I built Homelander because searching for apartments in Germany was taking too much time.It collects listings from multiple searches on ImmoScout24 and applies for you. I decided to build it because alternatives were either too techy or too expensive (like 100 euros per months).I originally built it for myself, then released it as a free and open-source desktop app. The first release got much more attention than I expected, and the project is now at 92 GitHub stars.It currently supports Mac, Wind