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  1. Just a Hobby: Thirty-Five Years of Linux and the Fortune Nobody Collected

    Thirty-five years ago this week Linus Torvalds shipped Linux 0.02 and called it a hobby. Fourteen years later he gave away Git too. A tour of the world we'd be living in if he had sent an invoice instead.

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  2. LINUXexpert.org Is Now a Mastodon Server

    The old LINUXexpert.org site has been retired and its articles live here now. The domain has a new job as a small, moderated Mastodon server for the Linux community, and you're invited to join.

    linuxopen sourceLinux communityMastodon

  3. Get Over Yourself and Support the Distro

    Arch at home, Debian in the lab, RHEL and Ubuntu at work. I don't love IBM or Canonical either, and it changes nothing about what I run on a Monday morning — letting a corporate grudge pick your skill set isn't…

    LinuxArchLinuxDebianRHEL

  4. ihasmail Goes Immutable: No Volume, No Database, Nothing Left Behind

    Most "stateless" software still hides a config directory somewhere. ihasmail's IMMUTABLE=1 mode runs read-only with no volume at all — here's the trade-off, and two commands to verify it yourself.

    AGPLCloudNativeContainersDevOps

  5. Announcing ihasmail: a JMAP Webmail Built for Stalwart

    Mail, calendar, contacts, files and a visual Sieve builder — one JMAP protocol, credentials never in the browser. AGPL-3.0, runs in a container, ships with a mock server so you can try it without touching real mail..

    AGPLDockeremailserverFOSS

  6. Google Borg

    Before Kubernetes, Google ran everything on Borg — quietly, for over a decade. Here's how Docker forced its hand, and how it reshaped AWS, Azure, and VMware.

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  7. A New Look for LINUXexpert.org

    We just shipped a full redesign — a dark-first, terminal-inspired look built for how sysadmins actually read. Same content, same URLs, better filtering, and the password generator is back.

    DarkModeDevOpsLinuxOpenSource

  8. Thirty-Three Years of Debian

    Debian turns 33 this August. A look at why the free, stable, community-governed OS still anchors the Linux world — and how to give back on Debian Day.

    APTDebianDebianDayDebianTurns33

  9. A Debian Veteran Tries CachyOS

    After more than 20 years using Debian as a daily desktop, I tried CachyOS on a System76 Pangolin Pro. I expected Arch elitism. I found speed, polish, gaming performance, and a surprisingly practical Linux desktop.

    AMD LinuxArch LinuxBlizzardCachyOS

  10. Perl, the Strange Language That Built the Early Web

    A deep dive into Perl’s history, its role in building the early web, and how it influenced modern programming languages, package ecosystems, and developer culture.

    apacheCGICPANEarly Web

  11. Everything You Should Know About Being a Linux Sysadmin, But Probably Don't

    A tongue-in-cheek look at veteran Linux sysadmins, the deprecated tools we refuse to give up, the culture we built that scares newcomers off, and the truce both sides need.

    sysadminhumorlinuxculture

  12. Supercharge Your Workflow

    A free, GPL-licensed set of Bash scripts for the jobs Linux admins repeat every week, backups, log rotation, updates, users, services and a basic security audit, written to work across distributions. What's in it and…

    automationbashsysadminlinux