The Linux job market has reached unprecedented heights in 2025, with demand for professionals who possess Linux expertise continuing to surge across multiple technology sectors. Organizations worldwide are prioritizing candidates who can leverage Linux systems in cloud-native environments, AI operations, … Read more
Linux provides the KMS (Kernel Mode Setting) API to let applications query and configure display settings. It’s used by Wayland compositors and other programs that need to configure the hardware directly. I found the C API a little verbose and … Read more
This post describes my experience using Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729. The tl;dr is that it’s a delightful laptop, and Linux runs flawlessly, and all the hardware things I’ve needed run OOTB. The only difficulty I had was in … Read more
It finally happened. Linux gamers on Steam as of the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for October 2025 have crossed over the elusive 3% mark. The trend has been clear for sometime, and with Windows 10 ending support, it was … Read more
Linux Tidbits And Collecting Pebbles March 2, 2025 Leave a comment Well, my journey with Linux1 and Open source2 becoming quite astonish way of moving forward in life. I have been hugely influenced by the UNIX3 luminaries work and try to … Read more
Saturday. October 25, 2025 – 15 mins Part 1 — From power button to the kernel’s first breath You press the power button. A second later a wall of text scrolls by, or a logo fades in, and eventually Linux … Read more
Description Linux Disk I/O subsystem diagram This diagram represents Linux disk I/O subsystem components and the corresponding commands on each layer. Linux disk I/O diagram consists from the: Application layer VFS (Virtual Filesystem): Direct I/O or Buffer+Page Cache Filesystem Layer … Read more
Let’s say you’re writing a long running multi-threaded application, on Linux. Maybe it’s a database or a server of some sort. Let’s also imagine that you’re not running on some managed runtime (maybe the JVM, Go, or BEAM), but rather … Read more
E: apparently it needs to be said that I am not suggesting you switch to Linux on your phone today; just that development needs to accelerate. Please don’t be one of the 34 people that replied to tell me Linux … Read more
2023-04-16 in linux, backup, networking, wireshark, ruby, wake-on-lan, efficiency, homelab It began with what seemed like a final mundane touch to my home server setup for hosting Time Machine backups: I wanted it to automatically sleep when idle and wake … Read more