Yesterday, at approximately 5:05pm, a Seattle area man installed Arch Linux on his home computer and has yet to tell anyone. “This appears to be the first occurrence of failing to tell someone that you run Arch,” stated a representative of the Seattle Sheriff’s Department. “We are actively investigating whether or not this is a crime. It definitely is a violation of norms.” ⌘ Read more
Yesterday, at approximately 5:05pm, a Seattle area man installed Arch Linux on his home computer and has yet to tell anyone. “This appears to be the first occurrence of failing to tell someone that you run Arch,” stated a representative of the Seattle Sheriff’s Department. “We are actively investigating whether or not this is a crime. It definitely is a violation of norms.” ⌘ Read more
I only know 10 binary jokes. Here's half of them. ⌘ Read more
(One very snarky picture.) ⌘ Read more
Because it's December. And why not. ⌘ Read more
The last major FreeDOS version (1.2) was released in December of 2016... five years ago. ⌘ Read more
So many ways to die. ⌘ Read more
Where does the Linux Foundation spend the rest of its $177 Million in revenue? Let's take a look. ⌘ Read more
Seriously. ⌘ Read more
Time to see what this NFT fuss is all about. ⌘ Read more
The legendary company behind VisiCalc produced a graphical desktop for PCs that shipped before Windows or the first Macintosh. ⌘ Read more
Which is better? ⌘ Read more
... ⌘ Read more
You’re welcome. Hey, want to support The Lunduke Journal? There are ways. Oh, yes. There are ways. ⌘ Read more
Multiple ways to support this nerdy publication and become part of the community. ⌘ Read more
One language for: C64, VIC-20, NES, Gameboy, ZX Spectrum, Atari 2600, 8086AT, Amiga 500, Atari 800, BBC Micro, SNES, Apple II & Atari ST + MORE ⌘ Read more
This Operating System was the last project that Bill Gates played a major role in programming... and it's actually pretty amazing. ⌘ Read more
The original, EGA adventure game from Sierra... turned into a movie. Seriously. This is worth checking out. ⌘ Read more
None of these are real... but if they were... I would buy each and every one of them. ⌘ Read more
Multitasking. Virtual Memory. Tiled window manager. Turns out the very first version of Windows (from 1985) actually has some good points. ⌘ Read more
X11 client and server. DOS. Windows 3.1. All with preemptive multitasking. ⌘ Read more
It's for use in VMWare. You know. So you don't need to grab and ungrab the mouse. ⌘ Read more
DevOps takes ultimate form as "Developer + Tester + Janitor + Operations". ⌘ Read more
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That’s a comic strip. You like it very much. You probably want to send it to everyone you know. If you aren’t currently a subscriber to The Lunduke Journal, I highly recommend it. It is so choice. The free edition is great. If you pitch in a few bucks you get ⌘ Read more
"We kind of all saw it coming, you know?" says one fellow YouTuber. ⌘ Read more
Linux users applaud the move... until Germany switches back to Windows in a few months. ⌘ Read more
Prosecution makes case that Seattle area man travelled between states with clear intention to "tell people he uses Arch". ⌘ Read more
Lovelace has not submitted a single line of code to the GNOME project. ⌘ Read more
Listen now (59 min) \| Lunduke & Hartley talk about happy nerdy things for a full hour. ⌘ Read more
Listen now (59 min) \\| Lunduke & Hartley talk about happy nerdy things for a full hour. ⌘ Read more
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Listen now (16 min) \| ⌘ Read more
An artist named "Bush" drew some adorable computer comic strips in the 80s. But who was "Bush"? ⌘ Read more
As advertised in the May, 1987 issue of "Puget Sound Computer User". ⌘ Read more
Use the exact same software to dial BBSes at 28.8 in 1995... and to telnet to BBSes in 2021. ⌘ Read more
The desktop environment from Gary Kildall's Digital Research is worth admiring... even more than 30 years later. ⌘ Read more
Because... because... why not? ⌘ Read more
This may not be about computers... but it's Back to the Future. So it's cool. ⌘ Read more
Listen now (5 min) \| After Covid derailed my publishing schedule, things are finally fully back on track! My voice is now totally back to normal and everything! Huzzah! For the paying subscribers to The Lunduke Journal you will now start receiving audio book chapters of “Linux Sucks” regularly (this is Chapter 1, with Chapter 2 to follow). New text chapters will also be posted to the ⌘ Read more
Listen now (5 min) \\| After Covid derailed my publishing schedule, things are finally fully back on track! My voice is now totally back to normal and everything! Huzzah! For the paying subscribers to The Lunduke Journal you will now start receiving audio book chapters of “Linux Sucks” regularly (this is Chapter 1, with Chapter 2 to follow). New text chapters will also be posted to the ⌘ Read more
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Echo Chambers are not a bad thing… they're actually pretty fantastic. Un-Echo-Chambers (like Twitter) are just the worst. ⌘ Read more
Listen now (16 min) \\| Tech companies discriminating against senior engineers ⌘ Read more
Listen now (16 min) \| Tech companies discriminating against senior engineers ⌘ Read more
... and how does that power impact us as users of Open Source software? ⌘ Read more
From the pages of the November, 1961 issue of Datamation magazine. ⌘ Read more
Six interviews with Linus Torvalds that give a peek into the private life of the Linux creator, and provide a history of one of the most important software projects of the last quarter century. ⌘ Read more
The Linux giant plans to keep a "flat budget" while adding 200 employees... by hiring fewer senior programmers ⌘ Read more
The Linux (Debian) based OS now supports a variety of Phones (including Pinephone, Droid 4, N900 and more). ⌘ Read more
Take a look at this: “What am I looking at?” That, right there, is Windows 3.11 (Windows for Workgroups)… loading up the Google Cloud VM manager. A website that requires a modern web browser. But, that isn't a modern web browser. That is Internet Explorer 4.0. On Windows 3.11. Seriously. ⌘ Read more
Linux is awesome... but there are a few things it could learn from other Operating Systems. ⌘ Read more
An in-depth investigation into the origins of one of the most important terms in the computer industry. ⌘ Read more
What would Lunduke do if he were the CEO of Microsoft? Awesome things. That's what. Here's what Lunduke's first week would look like. ⌘ Read more
Yahoo and LinkedIn have left China entirely. Who will be next? ⌘ Read more
I want this gorgeous little slab computer so bad, it hurts. ⌘ Read more
The engines of the classic 1990s 3D adventure games get released under the GPL. ⌘ Read more
"Briley Witch Chronicles" is a brand new, JRPG style game for the C64. ⌘ Read more
Listen now (10 min) \\| New games ported to old computer platforms! ⌘ Read more
Listen now (10 min) \| New games ported to old computer platforms! ⌘ Read more
GoG.com makes buying computer games reasonable and DRM-Free. We need a video game console ROM equivalent. ⌘ Read more
Apple II, C64, DOS, Linux, Windows... with a community port to Amiga! ⌘ Read more
The Atari XL / XE finally get a version of Prince of Persia... in 2021! ⌘ Read more
I don’t make typical, “normal” decisions about how I use computers. And I am quite happy with that. ⌘ Read more
Colors? Colors?! We don't need no stinking colors! ⌘ Read more
New hardware upgrade (with a 68030 CPU) for a nearly 30 year old computer ⌘ Read more
Send commands via Twitter to control the space Marine. Get video results Tweeted back to you. Brilliant. ⌘ Read more
Lukasz Erecinski takes to Reddit to answer questions on Right to Repair, profitability, PinePhone quantities shipped, Android app support and more. ⌘ Read more
$399 for a Linux-powered flagship phone? Yes, please. ⌘ Read more
Sometimes the most ridiculous things are the most worth doing. ⌘ Read more
The two ugliest color palettes in computer history... but which burns your eyes the most? ⌘ Read more
Computing of the 1980s, meet operating systems of the 2020's. ⌘ Read more
(seriously)
Apache and Nginx, eat your heart out. ⌘ Read more
The N810 may be 14 years old... but it's still a rad little handheld computer. ⌘ Read more
And installing updates. ⌘ Read more
O3DE requires Windows. And Visual Studio. ⌘ Read more
Reason #7,852 why I recommend people stay far away from Mozilla. ⌘ Read more
Starting to come out of my bout with the WuFlu. ⌘ Read more
Highway to the password zone ⌘ Read more*
Highway to the password zone ⌘ Read more
One. Simple. Step. Do it. You know you want to. Paradise awaits. ⌘ Read more
You’re welcome. ⌘ Read more
You’re welcome. ⌘ Read more*
Pointing is rude. ⌘ Read more
The game-focused, 8-bit, joystick-driven, Atari-only On-Line service of the '80s. ⌘ Read more
CP/M, DRI, GEM, & The Computer Chronicles. Gary Kildall accomplished so many amazing things. ⌘ Read more
H2 anyway. And mostly in the UK and a few other countries. But it still counts. ⌘ Read more
I repeat: QUAKE. In Javascript. IN ONLY 13 KB! ⌘ Read more
Why putting "GNU/" before "Linux" is just plain dumb. ⌘ Read more
We're not really talking about cars here. We're talking about computer Operating Systems. ⌘ Read more
Linux Sucks chapter 2 is up, and a new exclusive article on Chrome OS. ⌘ Read more
Every laptop and smartphone we can buy right now is tainted in some terrible way. ⌘ Read more
And that kinda makes me cranky. ⌘ Read more
GNU, Minix, and the before times ⌘ Read more
As I (a critic of modern computers) lay here, sick in bed, I'm sure happy I have my Android and iOS gadgets... ⌘ Read more
Every phone, laptop, and handheld game console should have a removable battery. Anything less is downright criminal. ⌘ Read more
So here are some advertisements of handheld computers from the 1980s to keep you company while I recover. ⌘ Read more
This will be the last discount for the foreseeable future. ⌘ Read more