Announcing the second publication in The Lunduke Journal family.
Listen now (15 min) | The Lunduke Journal of Technology Podcast - Jan 16, 2023 ⌘ Read more

Developer abandons his 1,000th empty GitHub Repository
“This is what GitHub was created for,” says CEO. ⌘ Read more

Two Wild Soviet Personal Computers of the 1980s
The Agat 4 and the Iskra 1256. The height of Soviet-styled, Sci-Fi inspired personal computers. ⌘ Read more

Funny Programming Pictures Part XIX
It’s Friday! So let’s look at some funny, nerdy pictures! ⌘ Read more

The War on Physical Media
Listen now (31 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - January 12, 2023 ⌘ Read more

8-Bit Week: The Grand Finale
Listen now (28 min) | Scheduled: BSD Week, Linux Games Week, Serenity OS Week, & Plan 9 Week! ⌘ Read more

BREAKING: Farmer moves router to barn. Now has stable WiFi.
“Another idea I had was to add running water. But that’s probably just a pipe dream.” ⌘ Read more

BREAKING: Gizmodo stuns world by publishing Tech article
“We won’t let computers distract us from our core mission…complaining about Elon Musk” ⌘ Read more

No Backup: The demise of physical media
From “Backup Floppies” to “No Physical Media” in 40 years. ⌘ Read more

Commodore SX-64 – The first color, portable computer
Bonus: The (real) story of the portable Amiga! ⌘ Read more

8-Bit Week – Days 3 & 4 Roundup
More 8-Bit fun than you can shake a stick at. ⌘ Read more

Intel 8008: The wild tale of the first 8-Bit CPU
Not technically the first… and not actually designed by Intel. ⌘ Read more

8-Bit Week – Day 1 & 2 Roundup
Listen now (27 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - January 5th, 2023 ⌘ Read more

The 10 Best Commodore 64 Games… Ever.
(According to Lunduke) ⌘ Read more

8-Bit Week begins at The Lunduke Journal
Listen now (21 min) | Apple II. Commodore 64. Atari 400. NES. Sega Master System. And so many others… all week long! ⌘ Read more

Funny Programming Pictures Part XVIII
Because it’s the end of 2022, and we deserve a good laugh. ⌘ Read more

Lunduke’s Favorite Stories of 2022
Listen now (38 min) | News, history, & satire. The computer-y articles that Lunduke found the most interesting over the last year. ⌘ Read more

CIA & FBI can neither confirm nor deny they know about these Operating Systems
Gentoo Linux, OpenBSD, and even Windows Vista are hush-hush. ⌘ Read more

The CIA invests in these Tech companies
Video games. Search engines. Social Media. Open Source. Even SQL databases. Seriously. ⌘ Read more

The incredibly boring, totally reasonable finances of the GNOME Foundation
Frugal. Transparent. Focused on their core business. ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal Predictions for 2023
Listen now (41 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - December 27, 2022 ⌘ Read more

BREAKING: The Lunduke Journal predicts 37% more buzzwords in 2023
“Imagine a sharknado… but with buzzwords instead of sharks. Horrifying.” ⌘ Read more

Animated ASCII fireworks in your Terminal for New Years
Lunduke’s Holiday BASH Animations now has a “Fireworks” option. ⌘ Read more

Help The Lunduke Journal “Speak Truth to (Tech) Power”
This publication is unique, and needs your support. ⌘ Read more

The Fork Bomb: What it is, how it works, and where it originated
The idea started in 1969… and it’s been causing computers to crash ever since. ⌘ Read more

Haiku Beta 4 – The Definitive Review
With the latest Beta, the open source Haiku Operating System becomes viable for daily usage. ⌘ Read more

Report: Over 33 Million Desktop Linux users, worldwide
A detailed analysis of all available Desktop Linux market share metrics. ⌘ Read more

Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla
Payments to nonexistent companies? Funding politics? Reliance on a single customer? And that’s just for starters. ⌘ Read more

Animated ASCII Christmas Tree and Hanukkah Menorah in your Shell
Because your Terminal deserves to feel festive during the holidays. ⌘ Read more

BREAKING: Red Hat CEO admits he “has no idea what Kubernetes is”
“Pretty sure it’s like, Rust, I think,” stated Canonical CEO. ⌘ Read more

Apple has changed… and not in a good way.
Apple of 2022 is not the same company it used to be. It has, to be frank, lost its way. ⌘ Read more

The Linux Foundation launches map foundation to compete with Google
And, you know what? It’s actually pretty well licensed! ⌘ Read more

Commercial Dev Tool vendor adds ARM64 and “Dark Mode” for Linux
The multi-platform Xojo IDE (Mac, Windows, iOS) keeps beefing up their Linux support. Which pleases Lunduke. ⌘ Read more

“The Sidecar” – Adding advanced networking, and a Linux shell, to a Psion palmtop
One of the coolest designs I’ve seen for extending older computers via the serial port. ⌘ Read more

BREAKING: EU orders Apple to add RS-232 port to iPhone
“We’re… super… excited to add a serial port to the iPhone,” stated Apple CEO Tim Cook, in a not at all forced tone of voice. ⌘ Read more

AltaVista Search Engine turns 27 years old
Before Google was even an idea… there was AltaVista. ⌘ Read more

PDA Week Wrap-up!
Spending a week reminiscing and marveling at the glory of the PDA. ⌘ Read more

What was the first PDA?
It wasn’t the Palm Pilot. Nor the Newton. Let’s keep going back to find the answer… ⌘ Read more

The Tech Bullies vs. Raspberry Pi
The mob of Tech Bullies has chosen a new target this week. ⌘ Read more

Haiku becomes viable for daily use (right on schedule)
Listen now (24 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - December 9, 2022 ⌘ Read more

The Tandy Zoomer – The x86 PDA before the Palm Pilot
A 1992 handheld, with multitasking, that could access AOL. Wild. ⌘ Read more

Will A.I. like ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot replace human programmers?
An in-depth analysis. ⌘ Read more

PDA Week begins!
Listen now (20 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - December 6, 2022 ⌘ Read more

Links to everywhere you can find Lunduke on the Internet
RSS feeds, social media, video sharing… all of it. ⌘ Read more

Evil A.I. made in evil ways: ChatGPT & GitHub Copilot
Listen now (26 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - December 4, 2022 ⌘ Read more

Pondering on Mastodon and the Fediverse
Listen now (24 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - December 3, 2022 ⌘ Read more

How to Pronounce Tech Words (part 2)
Watch now (6 min) | Some computer words are hard to say. Let Lunduke help you. ⌘ Read more

Sideloading is the most important feature of any SmartPhone
You heard me. Most important feature. By far. ⌘ Read more

The SCREAM Test
One of Lunduke’s Super-Amazing™ Programming Tips ⌘ Read more

TempleOS lives on… in a very weird way.
Watch now (20 min) | The new “ZealOS” looks to continue the work of Terry Davis. Sorta. ⌘ Read more

A Smalltalk SmartPhone: The “SqueakPhone”
Watch now (18 min) | An alternate universe of what a smartphone OS could be like. ⌘ Read more

BREAKING: Ubuntu expands in-Terminal advertising program
Users can now enjoy advertisements right from their Command Line. ⌘ Read more

How to pronounce Open Source & Linux words
Watch now (7 min) | Think you know how to say “GNOME” and “Ubuntu”? Think again. ⌘ Read more

Firefox version 107
Watch now (17 min) | The most boring Firefox… ever. ⌘ Read more

Unity 7.6… for Arch Linux!?
Watch now (16 min) | Because, why not? ⌘ Read more

LibreOffice going Blockchain?!
Watch now (16 min) | Seriously. LibreOffice met with Ethereum to talk about this. ⌘ Read more

Interview: Brian Hall (veteran PalmOS dev)
Watch now (63 min) | On: Newtons, Sony Clie PDAs, the end days of PalmOS, and emulating old consoles & computers. ⌘ Read more

Fedora Linux 37 released!
Watch now (25 min) | It may be late, but it’s sweet. ⌘ Read more

FBI seized Backpage.com in 2018 - and their replacement website is WEIRD
Watch now (16 min) | And it remains fascinatingly weird several years later. ⌘ Read more

RedoxOS (microkernel OS written in Rust)
Watch now (61 min) | A classic Lunduke Hour episode from March 13, 2017 ⌘ Read more

Android vs iOS: Which spies on you more?
Watch now (25 min) | (This is a classic video originally produced back in 2018. It is presented here exactly as it originally was – including original ad spots. Many of the details discussed (links, stats, etc.) may have changed in the years that followed.) Which mobile operating system spies on you the most? Android or iOS? In other words: Does a Google-powered Android… ⌘ Read more

Lunduke’s Normal Computing News - Nov 9, 2022
Listen now (35 min) | Apple worth more than Google + Facebook + Amazon, Microsoft sued for GitHub Copilot, Canonical shows future of Ubuntu ⌘ Read more

Haiku Week begins at The Lunduke Journal
November 9 through November 16 – Haiku Operating System goodness. ⌘ Read more

Microsoft declares ownership of all Open Source software
Using the “Finders Keepers clause” of the GitHub Terms of Service. ⌘ Read more

Lunduke’s Weird Computing News - Nov 6, 2022
Listen now (30 min) | Haiku Beta 4 inches closer, Ladybird web browser can run Linux, GNU Make drops OS/2, Amiga, Cray, & Xenix. ⌘ Read more

Random numbers aren’t truly random!
They’re so predictable! ⌘ Read more

Funny Programming Pictures Part XVII
Because larger roman numerals are more betterer. ⌘ Read more

Lunduke’s Normal Computing News - Nov 2, 2022
Listen now (48 min) | EU tells Apple how to make iPhones, Chromebook sales crash, & Ubuntu’s Lunar Lobster. ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal Live Call-in Show + Discord Server
November is a big, big month for The Lunduke Journal ⌘ Read more

Lunduke’s Weird Computing News - Oct 30, 2022
Listen now (29 min) | Haiku Week is coming, FreeBSD 12.4 & financial woes, Ladybird browser improvements, and running classic Mac Software… without MacOS. ⌘ Read more

Ever notice how many Linux nerds are Scandinavian?
(The definitive study on the topic.) ⌘ Read more

2017 interview with Haiku’s full time developer
Watch now (55 min) | In this classic episode of the Lunduke Hour (Feb-6-2017) I got to chat with one of the long time developers of Haiku OS – an Open Source operating system inspired by BeOS. This developer, known as “Waddlesplash” would go on to become the first (and so far, only) full time, paid developer of Haiku. ⌘ Read more

Lunduke’s Normal Computing News - October 26, 2022
Listen now (43 min) | macOS Ventura, Ubuntu 22.10, Microsoft looking to control how Linux boots, Windows ARM dev box, and… Linux dropping 486 support? ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal Video Interview Series!
Lunduke talks to someone interesting in the world of computing… every week. ⌘ Read more

Programmer dies after washing hair for 72 straight hours
“Lather. Rinse. Repeat.” ⌘ Read more

Who (really) created the “Byte”?
And what is the REAL definition of term? ⌘ Read more

Lunduke’s Weird Computing News - Oct 23, 2022
Listen now (34 min) | Z80 Computer, Solitaire via Gopher, OpenBSD, PumpkinOS file browser, and Ladybird Web browser. What a week! ⌘ Read more

The Million Monkeys Theorem of Programming
It’s science. ⌘ Read more

Lunduke Journal Community Weekly Highlights - Oct 21, 2022
Listen now (37 min) | From “Command Line” shenanigans to 8-Bit fantasy VMs. So much fun stuff happened this week. ⌘ Read more

“Command Line Week” Wrap-up!
With pictures and links to a bunch of the community posts. ⌘ Read more

Lunduke’s Normal Computing News - Oct 19, 2022
Listen now (40 min) | Microsoft kills “Office”, iPads get USB-C, and Firefox wants to know your feelings. ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Oct 16, 2022
Listen now (32 min) | Haiku Beta 4, Serenity’s 4th Birthday… and a new AmigaOS SDK release! ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Windows predicts the end of the world…
OR DOES IT?! ⌘ Read more

Advertising is killing Tech Journalism
And I should know – I’ve seen it from every angle. ⌘ Read more

The first UNIX Shell: 1971’s Thompson Shell
Over 50 years old and still surprisingly usable! ⌘ Read more

Command Line Week starts… now!
Listen now (26 min) | Shells. Terminals. Text User Interfaces. All week long. ⌘ Read more

Microsoft apologizes for Windows, returns to DOS
“We’re really sorry about that whole GUI thing.” ⌘ Read more

“Command Line Week” starts tomorrow!
Schedule of events and how to get yourself ready. ⌘ Read more

That time the creator of UNIX built a Trojan Horse that let him log in to any UNIX machine.
And nobody knew about it for years. ⌘ Read more

“macOS Sucks” - Saturday, November 12th
The guy who told you “Linux Sucks” is about to give macOS the business… ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Oct 9, 2022
Listen now (30 min) | Happy birthday, Free Software! + A hard drive noise maker & Ubuntu Pro ⌘ Read more

Interview with creator of OS/2-based ArcaOS
Watch now (54 min) | He licensed OS/2 from IBM… and updated it for modern hardware… without the source code! ⌘ Read more

Pirate Networking!
Is it a comic strip… or an Info-graphic?! ⌘ Read more

The History of the First Computer Shell
BASH? PowerShell? It all traces back to 1963. And the work of an amazing Frenchman, CTTS, and Multics. ⌘ Read more

DVD-RAM Drives, Classic Macs, Rhapsody, Copland, and angry Mac Devs.
Listen now (44 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - October 5, 2022 ⌘ Read more

FAQ: Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscription
Since the Lifetime Subscription option was launched, for The Lunduke Journal, there have been a few common questions people have had. To make things easier for all of us, here are some of the most Frequently Asked Questions about Lifetime Subscriptions. In no particular order. ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal hits 1,000 paid subscribers!
One of the largest Linux (and Retro Tech) publications is thriving… without any advertising or sponsorships. ⌘ Read more

Hands on with 1998’s Rhapsody DR2 (the precursor to MacOS X)
And how to run it yourself via emulation. ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Oct 2, 2022
Listen now (47 min) | The Article & The Podcast – all in one place! Fancy! ⌘ Read more

25th Anniversary of FreeDOS – with the creator of FreeDOS
Watch now (47 min) | I spent some time with Jim Hall, talking about the open source MS-DOS compatible system. ⌘ Read more