Burnout in the Bazaar: When AI-Generated Code Broke the People Who Maintain It
Three unrelated open-source projects named the same pressure in one eight-month window, and the layer the whole stack rests on turned out to be human
A Default Architecture: How RISC-V Quietly Became a First-Class Citizen in the Kernel
The commit that put a Shanghai-designed processor in the default kernel build, and why the instruction set is the last layer of the ownership question
A Coruña and the Quiet Rust-ification: How Linux Is Rewriting Its Own Foundations
The desktop that dropped its last proprietary graphics tie, while the language war moved from the kernel into the tools you touch every day
Kernel 7.2 and the Assisted-by Era: Six Weeks of Living With AI in the Bazaar
Why the open-source model had to make the human visible again
Regaining the Keys: France Orders 2.5 Million PCs Off Windows
Why jurisdiction, not cost, is the open-source argument that lasts
The AI Agent That Talked Its Way Into Open Source
What the Fedora rogue-agent incident reveals about the trust the bazaar runs on
The Kernel That Keeps Moving
Linux 7.1 Is Stable. Now the Question Is Who Signed the Patches.
The Infinite Kernel: Lessons from Thirty-Five Years
The governance architecture that defeated SCO is now being called to answer the AI question.
Who Decides What Ships
When a community steering committee outpaces upstream, and what that means for AI governance
Linux on Mars: The Ingenuity Helicopter and Orbital Infrastructure
From a 486 in 1994 to the first AI model trained in orbit: the kernel that changed the world is changing it again
Rust in the Kernel: The Thirty-Year Language War
How a memory-safety debate became a community-renewal story, and why the same shape of argument is now running through AI alignment
Stability Is the Feature: What Linux 7.0 Is Actually Optimising For
From boot times to memory safety in twenty years
Just Put It on Novell's Tab: The Night I Bought Linus Torvalds Drinks
How a bar bill in Sydney explains why community trust cannot be purchased, only earned
Android: The Kernel That Conquered Four Billion Pockets
Linux Wednesday, Episode 14: A Concise History of Linux
Yoper and the Fastest Desktop: When New Zealand Topped DistroWatch
How a cave in Auckland in 2003 produced the argument now defining open-source AI governance
Episode 11: The Shield: How Novell's Unix Copyrights Saved SUSE from SCO
Linux Wednesday: The legal battle that made enterprise Linux commercially viable in 2004, and the new copyright crisis heading our way in 2026
Episode 11: The Shield: How Novell's Unix Copyrights Saved SUSE from SCO
Linux Wednesday: The legal battle that made enterprise Linux commercially viable in 2004, and the new copyright crisis heading our way in 2026
SCO vs The World: When Lawyers Came for the Kernel
How a Billion-Dollar Bluff Shaped the Linux Governance Playbook
The Auckland Power Crisis: When Nature Humbles Technology
What a generator from Whangarei taught me about resilience architecture