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libfetch is a GNU/Linux port of the FreeBSD userland utility similar to Wget.

Tools and recommendations get updated over time, services change hands, get acquired, get audited (or stop publishing audits), so check the date above and don’t treat this as gospel six months from now.

The HTTP/2 Bomb dropped this week.

Colorado almost forced age verification on your Linux laptop.

The Numbers First Wine 11 shipped in January 2026 with NTSYNC support—a kernel-level rewrite of how Wine handles Windows thread synchronization.

Look, we all know the deal with Arch Linux.

Running services at home without a firewall is like leaving your front door wide open and hoping nobody walks in.

Colorado is considering a bill that would require your operating system to ask your age before you can use it.

Disclaimer: All factual claims in this post are sourced and linked.

There’s a persistent myth in the Linux community that you need to start with Ubuntu or Mint before you’re “ready” for something real.

BeyondTrust Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access have a critical pre-authentication RCE bug.

Frigate has long been positioned as a privacy-first, self-hosted camera solution.

Remember when Notepad was just… Notepad?

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