Practical Technology

There have been many great open-source and Linux sites over the years. Linux Weekly News (LWN) for deep Linux kernel news; Phoronix for down, dirty, and detailed Linux benchmarking; and I’ve been known to write a thing or two about Linux worth…Read More

I love Chromebooks, but there’s always been one annoying thing about them. While they can run for years and years — I have several over ten years still running — officially, Google and Chromebook vendors only support them until their Auto Update…Read More

OpenSUSE, SUSE’s community Linux distribution family, is at a crossroads. With SUSE transitioning from its traditional enterprise distribution to its Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) container approach, openSUSE Leap’s stable base is set to disappear.…Read More

The best live TV streaming services let you cut the cord and watch your favorite shows, news, and sports in real time. Here’s how to choose the right one for you. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor; Sherin Shibu,…Read More

A decade ago, Solomon Hykes founded Docker. The container revolution this sparked is still burning bright to this day. Its trilogy of a long-running daemon process server, dockerd; application programming interfaces (API); and command line interface…Read More

With the right plugins, ChatGPT 4 — the latest version of OpenAI’s language model system — can be very useful for helping you with various tasks. But even the most mature plugins are still, at best, beta quality. Used carefully, however, they’ll…Read More