“Snark Barker” - Build your own 1989 Sound Blaster card
Because some times you just need to build your own ISA sound card! ⌘ Read more

The one about the overworked SysAdmin.
And the record collection that may or may not be related. ⌘ Read more

What does a Reverse Engineer do?
Inquiring minds want to know! ⌘ Read more

Funny Programming Pictures Part V
“The Quickening” ⌘ Read more

The Turbo Encabulator – The best technobabble… ever.
The first time an ambifacient lunar waneshaft was used to prevent side fumbling. ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal Podcast - May 16, 2022
Listen now (19 min) | How (and why) to watch Linux Sucks 2022 ⌘ Read more

The Framedeck - A modern, DIY, Linux powered slabtop
With a trackball. And a mechanical keybard. Oh, my. ⌘ Read more

The “Activate Windows” watermark ported to Linux… because… why not?
“Go to Settings to activate Linux.” ⌘ Read more

Early reviews for “Linux Sucks 2022” are in!
(Spoiler: It’s a hit.) ⌘ Read more

Linux Sucks 2022 is now available!
“This time it’s personal.” ⌘ Read more

Linux Sucks 2022
Watch now (68 min) | “This time it’s personal.” ⌘ Read more

Linux Sucks 2022 at 3:30pm Pacific today!
Here’s all the details on how to watch and join the chat! ⌘ Read more

LudukeFest & Linux Sucks - Updated schedule and how to watch live
LundukeFest broken into two days due to Invasion of the Snot Monster. ⌘ Read more

Linux Sucks 2022 is tomorrow!
3:30pm Pacific Time! Wooooo! ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal Podcast – May 12, 2022
Listen now (60 min) | Lunduke Q&A - Linux, Amiga, Mac, SNES & Genesis ⌘ Read more

Scientists discover Ubuntu Linux at center of Milky Way galaxy
“We were all pretty sure the galaxy ran Arch.” ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Word… for UNIX? Yes. It’s real.
And it all dates back to… Microsoft Xenix. ⌘ Read more

How to use a website in 2022
A step-by-step guide. ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal Podcast - May 11, 2022
Listen now (48 min) | On the Future of Tech Podcasting & Journalism ⌘ Read more

Q&A time! Ask Lunduke some nerdy questions!
Anything at all! (As long as it’s good and nerdy.) ⌘ Read more

3 Days Until Linux Sucks 2022!
May 14th. 3:30pm (Pacific). ⌘ Read more

Atari Coin Executive – the 1982 answer to managing a video game arcade
Powered by an Atari 800. Plus a handheld 6507 computer. And it was even open source. Seriously. ⌘ Read more

A Retro-Modern Linux Terminal with a Round Screen
It’s like a 1960s design of a “Computer of the Future”… running modern Linux. And I love it. ⌘ Read more

Genode - Sculpt : The weirdest Operating System?
Certainly the weirdest one currently in development… ⌘ Read more

See “Linux Sucks 2022” - with an annual Lunduke Journal sub - for $1/month
Linux Sucks is just 4 days away! Four! Day! Le gasp! ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal Podcast – May 09, 2022
Listen now (27 min) | The time SUSE, the German Linux company, banned mentioning Jewish holidays. ⌘ Read more

The biggest “Linux Sucks” ever… is just 5 days away!
People are going to be talking about this for a long, long time. ⌘ Read more

The time SUSE, the German Linux company, banned mentioning Jewish holidays.
And then punished the Jew who objected to that action. ⌘ Read more

An optimist, a pessimist, and Microsoft Excel.
(Those three are the start of all great jokes.) ⌘ Read more

We did it! We hit our goals for May in the first week!
The Lunduke Journal subscribers are the best nerds in entire the world. ⌘ Read more

3 Linux distributions that fit on a floppy. Seriously.
Anything over 1.44 MB is just bloat, am I right? ⌘ Read more

Funny Programming Pictures part IV
With 3 about Johnny Depp. How timely. ⌘ Read more

Live Stream: Let’s chat about how much Linux Sucks
(And help get The Lunduke Journal to 100% of the months subscription goals!) ⌘ Read more

Reminder: Only a few hours left to get your name included in “Linux Sucks 2022”
Along with a few other fun Lunduke Journal Founding Member perks. ⌘ Read more

Happy 30th Birthday, Wolfenstein 3D!
Plus: ECWolf, an enhanced port of Wolfenstein 3D for Linux, Android, and other platforms. ⌘ Read more

The SGI IRIX Audio Panel had a “Spinal Tap” Easter Egg.
It goes up to 11. ⌘ Read more

Deadline for multiple Lunduke Journal subscriber perks is Friday night!
Get included in the credits of “Linux Sucks” (and two video games)… but only if you sign up by Friday at midnight! ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal Podcast – May 5, 2022
Listen now (22 min) | Linux Sucks 2022 is only 9 days away! ⌘ Read more

“Linux Sucks 2022” is just 10 days away!
Plus a chance to get your name included in the credits of the show! ⌘ Read more

Tails 5.0 – The portable, anti-surveillance Linux distribution
A Linux distribution with a focus on… not remembering anything. Seriously. ⌘ Read more

AppImage-Builder 1.0 released
Tool for packing applications (and all of their dependencies) inside an AppImage ISO file. ⌘ Read more

What is The Lunduke Journal?
(Quite possibly the nerdiest, happiest publication of all time.) ⌘ Read more

Join the Lunduke Journal “May the Fourth” Livestream
(And help The Lunduke Journal hit its subscriber goals for the month of May while having some good, nerdy fun.) ⌘ Read more

Commodore 64 remake of Atari 2600 classic “Empire Strikes Back”
Fan-made, 40 years after the original. And it is gorgeous. ⌘ Read more

Microsoft open sources 1995’s “3D Movie Maker”
Including the BRender 3D engine used in games like Carmageddon. ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal Podcast – May 3, 2022
Listen now (25 min) | Unity & Ratpoison (two Desktop Environments I don’t use) ⌘ Read more

Ratpoison: The worst Linux Desktop Environment of all time
Ratpoison should be sent to The Hague and put on trial for crimes against humanity. ⌘ Read more

Unity Desktop Environment has first major release in 6 years.
Apparently the old Ubuntu Unity Desktop isn’t dead after all! Huh! Who knew! ⌘ Read more

Two tools for translating text between languages… from a Linux Shell.
Because sometimes you need to translate a quote without leaving the terminal. ⌘ Read more

What would you do if you owned Lunduke for one hour?
(Ok. Not “owned”. But… a video chat. And you can do whatever you want with the recording of it. That’s kinda similar… right?) ⌘ Read more

Lunduke Journal hit 40% of our monthly goals in just 3 hours! Let’s take it all the way, baby!
Join us for another live-stream… starting… NOW. ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal Stream-a-Thon is live!
Come hang out, chat, and help The Lunduke Journal hit all its monthly goals… in one day. ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal stream-a-thon: May 2nd @ 9am Central Time
Come hang out, chat, and help The Lunduke Journal hit all its monthly goals… in one day. ⌘ Read more

Two Mac-like desktops for the Apple II, from 1985.
“Quark Catalyst” and “Mouse Desk” (which would later be purchased by Apple). ⌘ Read more

Computers should make Computer Noises – beep, boop, click, clack, & whir!
The sounds a computer makes are part of its soul. No sound? No soul. ⌘ Read more

The PalmOS powered wristwatch from Fossil
Imagine a smartwatch you could load any PalmOS app you wanted onto. We had that… about 20 years ago. ⌘ Read more

“Linux Sucks: The Book” publishing has resumed with a new, in-progress PDF
“The rise, and inevitable fall, of the world’s greatest Operating System” ⌘ Read more

The First Lunduke Journal Founding Member Hangout… a success!
So much fun. We’re definitely going to be doing more of these! ⌘ Read more

Microsoft attempts to block Elon Musk purchase of Linux
“Hey! We already bought Linux,” says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadela ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal Podcast – April 28, 2022
Listen now (46 min) | 6 Dirty Secrets of the Linux and Open Source Industry ⌘ Read more

Pixelorama – a truly spectacular pixel art editor for Linux, Mac, & Windows
Open source, gorgeous user interface, easy to use animation tools… Pixelorama is one of the best pixel art editors I’ve ever used. ⌘ Read more

Working with Mac Files via Linux
How to work with Mac-specific files (DMG, HQX, SIT & others), even ones from 30 years ago. ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal Podcast – April 27, 2022
Listen now (45 min) | Wayland or X11? BBS tips? VR remakes of classic games? ⌘ Read more

Developer of popular password manager to drop Ubuntu Snap packaging
KeePassXC developer refers to praise of Snap as “a bad joke.” ⌘ Read more

What alternative / retro Operating System could I live in (happily)?
Not modern Windows, macOS, or Linux… but something else… ⌘ Read more

10 funny pictures about computers and programming
Because it’s Wednesday. And these pictures made me smile. ⌘ Read more

Help old computers use the web with FrogFind.com & 68k.news
Because getting retro computers on “The Web” is tricky. We can use all the help we can get. ⌘ Read more

6 Dirty Secrets of the Linux and Open Source Industry
The Linux Foundation, Mozilla, and Open Source Initiative don’t want us talking about these topics. Which is weird. ⌘ Read more

Annual Lunduke Journal subscriptions drop to $1 / month!
All thanks to the generosity of the Founding Member subscribers to The Lunduke Journal. ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Write - The First Word Processor for Windows (also released for Mac and… Atari ST?)
That’s right. Microsoft made Write for Mac and Atari ST. Weird, right? ⌘ Read more

“Lunduke’s Quest” – a new (nerdy) adventure game for Linux, Mac, Haiku, Amiga, & more.
Quite possibly the nerdiest adventure game ever created. ⌘ Read more

The nerdiest wristwatches of all time
Do some programming, watch TV, and play some video games… all from your 1980s watch. ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal Podcast – April 25, 2022
Listen now (38 min) | The QB64 Saga – Drama, Revenge, & Open Source ⌘ Read more

Ask Lunduke some questions! (Just make ‘em good and nerdy.)
Bonus points for questions about Alternative Operating Systems and Retro Computing. ⌘ Read more

Make Linux Shell scripts declare “Success” or “Failure” using the Super Smash Bros announcer voice
… or any other audio files if you want to get creative about it. ⌘ Read more

Naming kids is hard for us computer nerds.
There’s just so many great names to choose from. ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu, facing declining marketshare, doubles down on most hated feature
How long before Ubuntu abandons Snap packaging in order to save the Linux distribution? ⌘ Read more

10 reasons every nerd wants to become a Lunduke Journal Founding Member subscriber
Number 10 will SHOCK you! ⌘ Read more

A new (free) racing game for DOS has been released!
From a developer that has released racing games for Amiga, Linux, Sega Genesis, and… Haiku?! ⌘ Read more

The wild events that nearly took down the QB64 project (but, thankfully, didn’t)
A story of crazy drama within an amazing Open Source project. ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal Podcast – April 21 2022
Listen now (20 min) | LundukeFest 2022 - “Linux Sucks”, Retro Computing, & Good Times ⌘ Read more

NiceOS – a Linux distribution that uses packages from whatever Linux distro you want
No SystemD. No default package manager. NiceOS is… weird. But also nice. ⌘ Read more

LundukeFest is back on the schedule! May 14th, 2022!
“Linux Sucks”, Retro Computing, Internet History & more are on the schedule! ⌘ Read more

You can now subscribe to The Lunduke Journal via Patreon!
Patreon subscribers can now get all the same perks as subscribers on Substack or Locals. ⌘ Read more

W: The Window System before X… that nobody seems to remember
(Nobody seems to even know what it looked like.) ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal Podcast - April 19, 2022
Listen now (16 min) | Why no ChromeOS phone? ⌘ Read more

Run a full, desktop Linux distro on your Android phone with UserLAnd
Just as if it were an Android app. Because… well… you know you want to. ⌘ Read more

First Founding Member group hangout next week!
Thanks to all the Founding Members, we were able to drop the subscription price this month! ⌘ Read more

The BookMac – The 1984 Macintosh Laptop… that never got released
Not “MacBook”… “BookMac”. Seriously. ⌘ Read more

Chrome : RAM :: Dog : Bed
(Assuming the dog has his legs stretched straight out. Which he does.) ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal Podcast - April 18, 2022
Listen now (29 min) | The Ubuntu Marketshare Nosedive ⌘ Read more

Richard Stallman - “The state of the Free Software movement” - April 13, 2022
Free Software founder has choice words for Ubuntu, Apple. Announces a manual for GNU C. ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu market-share is in a nosedive (and that’s ok)
No Linux distribution can remain #1 forever, right? ⌘ Read more

Web Devs are not real programmers.
There. I said it. Shots fired, etc. ⌘ Read more

Pronouncing computer words can be tricky.
Tricky, tricky, tricky. ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal about to hit our subscription goal for end of April! Awesome!
Can we push it over the top today? ⌘ Read more

FreeGEM/XM – The open source version of the unreleased, multi-tasking GEM
Because unreleased, 1980s operating systems are cool. ⌘ Read more

Remembering the “Tempest Lunduke Edition” tower from Pogo Linux
Because it is just so choice. ⌘ Read more

“Linux Tycoon 3 - The OS Wars” update released for Linux & DOS
Release 2 is a lot like Release 1. But more betterer. ⌘ Read more

Lunduke explains ways to hide your activity on the Internet… using an iced coffee.
Incognito Mode… VPN… Tor… what’s the difference? ⌘ Read more