Running Linux on a Mac with an Apple Silicon chip stopped being a laboratory experiment long ago — and it has just taken another leap: the Asahi Linux project has brought USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt to the entire M3 family, and USB4/Thunderbolt support has started its journey into the official kernel. … Read more
Video summary: this article is a detailed summary of “How Linux Took Over the World: 35 Years in 35 Facts” from Jono Bacon, former Ubuntu community leader at Canonical. Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffl2DFHoZdY On August 25, 1991, a 21-year-old Finnish student wrote a sentence that Jono Bacon … Read more
Video summary: this article is a detailed, in-depth summary of “Linux 7.3 Review: AI Chaos, MASSIVE Performance, GPU, CPU, and Rust Upgrades” from SavvyNik, combined with Linus Torvalds’s official announcement closing the merge window. Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ5adDeOGb0 The Linux 7.3 kernel merge window … Read more
Rust began as a hobby in 2006: Graydon Hoare, a Mozilla engineer, was annoyed by his building’s elevator failing because of C software. The name came from the fungus — “over-engineered for survival.” Mozilla sponsored it in 2009. The public 0.1 release came on January 20, 2012. Version 1.0 followed on May 15, 2015. … Read more
On 25 August 1991, a 21-year-old student in Helsinki told the comp.os.minix group he was doing “a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu)”. Thirty-five years later, the kernel born from that hobby runs most of the internet servers, … Read more
On August 25, 2026, Linux turned 35. In 1991, a 21-year-old Finnish student named Linus Torvalds posted a message to comp.os.minix that would become history: Hello to everybody out there using minix — I am making a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional … Read more
