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Lots of people asked me to write another piece about the internals of well-known Unix commands. Well, actually, nobody asked me, but it makes for a good intro. I'm sure you’ve read the previous parts about `yes` and `ls` — they are epic.
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The road to Unix as we know it today is a long and winding one. Turbulent times meant that the core of UNIX was split between two factions that went to war. In this article, we tell the story of these UNIX wars and their outcomes.
The latest Plasma release dropped a few desktop effects: the cube family, CoverSwitch and FlipSwitch. All of those effects were written back in 2008, the early days of KDE 4.x and the early days of…
My goal of KDE Plasma World Domination is not a secret at this point. But what does it truly take to get there? Let’s look at the existing market leaders in the OS space: Microsoft’s Wi…
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JSON output must become the norm for application pipelining. Until then, jc can help.
A few days ago, a friendly face joined the Pine64 Development chat room, where developers meet to talk about creating software for many of Pine64’s more complex consumer products (the PinePhone, PineTab, PineBook, and similar). They had a question that sparked days of debate and research: Is it possible to perform Verified Boot on a PinePhone? The question seemed simple enough. Verified Boot – sometimes called or trademarked Secure Boot – verifies that the owner of a system approved a piece of software to run, or boot, on that system.