One Man Controls 43% of the Web. Court Documents Show What He Did With That Power.
Unsealed court docs: Automattic employees discussed plans to steal every WP site from hosts who refused to pay. 43% of the web. One man…
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A Bot Accused a Maintainer of Prejudice. Humans Sided With the Bot.
A bot accused a maintainer of prejudice. Humans sided with it. Another AI agent landed code in 95 repos in 14 days. Open source trust is…
Linux 7.0: Google’s $1M Bug Finally Fixed
Google paid $1M in iouring bounties and disabled it on Chrome OS. A maintainer called Rust “cancer” and quit. Linux 7.0 is the kernel’s…
One Program Controls How 90% of Linux Machines Boot
systemd does 30 things. Unix says do one. 90% of Linux picked systemd. 15 distros picked the fight. Neither side is wrong.
10 Billion Devices Run His Code. He Maintains It Alone. Now AI is Attacking Him
One Swedish developer keeps curl running on every phone, car, and console on Earth. 47 car brands use it. Zero pay him. Now AI bots are…
KDE Had One Weakness for 20 Years. Plasma 6.6 Just Fixed It
Your KDE login screen ran on old X11 code. Every boot. For years. Plasma 6.6 ripped it out and built something distros have been begging…
How Canonical is Killing Ubuntu’s Soul
Canonical made $292M in 2024 while forcing snaps, running terminal ads, and ignoring crypto malware in their store. Ubuntu’s trust problem…
Immutable Linux Distros: How They Differ and Where They’re Going
Immutable Linux distros compared: Fedora Silverblue, NixOS, Talos, Flatcar, and 6 more. Architecture differences, adoption data, and future…
Linux Audio Stack: How PipeWire Fixed 20 Years of Chaos
Linux audio broke for 20 years. PipeWire unified ALSA, PulseAudio, and JACK into one framework. Major distros shipped it by 2023. The fix…
The Most Enthusiastic Linux Distros of 2026
Linux desktop peaked at 4.1% market share. Steam Linux gaming hit 3.58%. Seven distros show exceptional community energy, development pace…