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
Forty-Seven Seconds of National Darkness
One misplaced line of Cisco configuration took New Zealand's internet offline. Twenty-five years later, the same architectural failure is crashing AI deployments worldwide.
Linux.co.nz and a Number Plate: Betting on the Future
When owning your namespace was worth every cent on a maxed-out credit card
Ten Minutes to Technical Manager: The ICONZ Gamble
How a ten-minute interview in 1996 proved that demonstrated competence beats credentials, and why that principle defines the AI era

