I heard COBOL devs get paid a ton…
You probably want to share this with everyone you know. Because, you know, you’re a nice person. The Lunduke Journal Community — About the Lunduke Journal — Subscriber Perks The Lunduke Journal Weekly Schedule: Monday - Computer History Tuesday - Computer & Linux Satire ⌘ Read more

Maybe the Internet wasn’t such a great idea.
Watch now (22 min) | Kinda joking. But kinda serious. ⌘ Read more

TRS-80 Model 102 - Hands on with one of the 1st “laptops”
Watch now (37 min) | The Model 102 was a minor update to the original Model 100. ⌘ Read more

Down the rabbit hole: Making my life private and secure
From E-Mail and Cloud Storage… to Operating Systems and Traffic Cameras. ⌘ Read more

Ask Lunduke Anything!
Members of The Lunduke Journal Community had some questions. I have answers. ⌘ Read more

Google, Apple partner with Elmers to produce “Tinker-Proof Glue”
“That oughta keep ‘em out,” stated Google CEO Sundar Pichai. ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal - State of the Journal - September, 2022
A look at the (awesome) state of The Lunduke Journal, as a publication, over the last year. ⌘ Read more

MORE truly epic BYTE magazine covers by Robert Tinney
Time to admire some of the greatest, illustrated computer magazine covers of all time. ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - September 25, 2022
Listen now (26 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - September 25, 2022 ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Sep 24, 2022
New Virtual Boy game, Arch drops Python2, TRS-80 Model 100 retrofit, & Firefox and GNOME get big version numbers ⌘ Read more

Funny Programming Pictures Part XVI
It’s Friday! Let’s have some fun and look at some funny pictures about programming and Linux and stuff! The Lunduke Journal Community — About the Lunduke Journal — Subscriber Perks The Lunduke Journal Weekly Schedule: Monday - Computer History Tuesday ⌘ Read more

“DOS Week” Roundup!
A (more or less) complete look at what happened during the amazing “Week in DOS”! ⌘ Read more

Why Javascript is Retarded: Part 1
Four reasons why Javascript is just… lol… absolutely ridiculous. ⌘ Read more

The (very real) history of :-)
On the 40th anniversary of :-) and :-( let’s tell the story of how the emoticon came into existence. ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - September 18, 2022
Listen now (33 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - September 18, 2022 ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Sep 17, 2022
KDE on your TV, Godot Engine news, & SerenityOS browser officially becomes own project ⌘ Read more

Multitasking, Desktop PalmOS? Yes. It’s real.
It’s like a desktop operating system made up of a dozen Palm Pilots. Wild. ⌘ Read more

“DOS Week” begins at The Lunduke Journal!
Listen now (27 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - September 14, 2022 ⌘ Read more

“DOS Week” subscription sale
Huge, bonkers discounts. Take advantage of the deal and join us for “DOS Week”! ⌘ Read more

Breaking: Google announces new messaging service it cancelled three days ago
“This new product was so good that it was worth cancelling even before we announced it.” ⌘ Read more

Quick and Dirty: The story of 86-DOS & MS-DOS
How a Seattle computer company made the DOS that would become MS-DOS. ⌘ Read more

The “Live in DOS for a Week” Challenge!
7 Days of DOS. As a community. DOS games. DOS productivity. Absolutely glorious. ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - September 11, 2022
Listen now (36 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - September 11, 2022 ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Sep 10, 2022
Haiku approaches Beta 4, Apple II Desktop updated, GNOME Shell Mobile, Quake ported to Apple Watch, and OpenStreetMap for Amiga. ⌘ Read more

Funny Programming Pictures Part XV
Best viewed on a second monitor. ⌘ Read more

How Lunduke handles conflict, personal attacks, & political differences in the Tech industry
Listen now (51 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - September 7, 2022 ⌘ Read more

Breaking: Linux company SUSE sold to Taco Bell
SUSE had previously been owned by Micro Focus, Novell, Attachmate, EQT, and Phil Collins. ⌘ Read more

May back-issue of The Lunduke Journal Monthly PDF now available for download
Clocking in at over 200 pages of Linux, Alternative OS, and Computer History goodness. ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - September 4, 2022
Listen now (34 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - September 4, 2022 ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Sep 3, 2022
Thunderbird fork to improve quality, convert Arch to AppImage, & Serenity OS tackles… Emoji? ⌘ Read more

Make Linux look like IRIX from an SGI workstation
Because those SGI, UNIX workstations from the 1990s were awesome. ⌘ Read more

The first smartphone: 1994’s IBM Simon
A DOS powered, touch-screen smartphone from 1994? Yes, please. ⌘ Read more

When was the peak of computing awesomeness? 1987? 1999? 2022?
Listen now (33 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - August 31, 2022 ⌘ Read more

Breaking: Linus steps down, Oscar named new Linux maintainer.
“When a grouch gets asked, by the king of grouch himself, to yell at people on a mailing list? You say yes!” ⌘ Read more

Before Chromebooks: The 2009 “litl webbook”
A look back at the failed, Linux “Web-book” that paved the way for Chromebooks. ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - August 28, 2022
Listen now (27 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - August 22, 2022 ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Aug 27, 2022
Linux’s birthday, Windows 95’s birthday, NetBSD, Zelda 3 in C++, & new Dell Linux laptop ⌘ Read more

Correcting the myths and lies in computer history
Listen now (22 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - August 24, 2022 ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal Monthly PDF Archive
DRM Free, PDFs packed full of Lunduke Journal goodness. ⌘ Read more

Apple abandons M1 CPU, moves to RISC-V.
“I mean, come on. We’re Apple. Changing CPU architectures is kinda what we do.” ⌘ Read more

The 1948 precursor to the hard disk
A brass rotating, magnetic drum… inspired by a voice dictation machine. ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - August 21, 2022
Listen now (21 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - August 21, 2022 ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Aug 20, 2022
Debian, GNOME, Apple I, & John Deere DOOM ⌘ Read more

Funny Programming Pictures Part XIV
The Great Funny Nerdy Picture-inating! ⌘ Read more

The story of the first “computer bug”… is a pile of lies.
A fun, endearing, delightful pile of lies. ⌘ Read more

1980s & 1990s BBSing, PDFs, and stuff.
Listen now (34 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - August 17, 2022 ⌘ Read more

The BBS is back On-Line, with more games a-comin’!
One of the chief goals of The House of Lunduke BBS is to preserve the best of 1980’s and 1990s BBS gaming — in all its ANSI, colorful text art glory. With that goal in mind, I recently took the BBS Off-Line for a much needed retro-fit… in order to properly accommodate a wider selection of classic BBS “Door” Games. ⌘ Read more

Apple Police arrest man for “malicious sideloading of DOOM”
If convicted of “Malicious, Intentional Sideloading” he faces life in Apple Prison ™. ⌘ Read more

Lunduke’s History of Computers - Volume 2
Free for all subscribers to The Lunduke Journal. ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - August 14, 2022
Listen now (20 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - August 14, 2022 ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Aug 13, 2022
Haiku, Myst on 2600, ScummVM adds games, & Neofetch themese ⌘ Read more

Make Linux look like Star Trek LCARS
That’s one seriously next generation desktop environment right there… ⌘ Read more

The History of Ctrl-Alt-Delete
How the “Three Fingered Salute” came to be. ⌘ Read more

Tech Journalism Roundtable - July 25, 2016
Watch now (67 min) | With some of the most prolific Tech Journalists working at the time. ⌘ Read more

Rejected Slogans for Ubuntu’s 2022 Marketing Campaign
Number 9 will *shock* you! ⌘ Read more

ManaGeR - The forgotten UNIX Window System of the 1980s
Lightweight, open source, and portable – with versions for Mac, Atari, and a whole slew of UNIX’s. ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Aug 7, 2022
Prodigy Reloaded, Nala, & Linux released from M1 Macbook Air ⌘ Read more

Funny Programming Pictures Part XIII
The “Because I’m sick and this is easier than writing an article” edition. ⌘ Read more

Ask Lunduke - August 3, 2022
Listen now (45 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - August 3, 2022 ⌘ Read more

Microsoft unveils sneak peak at Windows 12
Screenshots show the direction Microsoft is taking for the next Windows release. ⌘ Read more

The story of the 1991 HP DOS Palmtop
Evolving from an enhanced calculator… to a full DOS compatible PC in your pocket. ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - July 31, 2022
Listen now (26 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - July 31, 2022 ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - July 30, 2022
NsCDE, homemade 6502 computer, KDE Latte Dock, & Steam Deck ⌘ Read more

xscorch : A faithful Scorched Earth clone for Linux
The Mother of All Games… for the Mother of All Operating Systems ⌘ Read more

Microsoft’s “Revenue Bomb” of the early 1980s
The plan: Develop the same software for every computer platform they could find (including C64, Apple II, and UNIX). ⌘ Read more

The Linux Laptop Makers - Dell, System76, Purism, & HP
Listen now (35 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - July 27, 2022 ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Announces “Start Menu as a Service”
The company is also reportedly considering a free, ad-supported option. ⌘ Read more

Remembering the (very) funky Holborn computers of the early 1980s
The company may have been doomed… but the computers sure were cool. ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal Podcast - July 23, 2022
Listen now (37 min) | Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - July 23, 2022
Wordperfect for UNIX comes to Linux, Xbox Live 1.0 recreated, & Lego Atari 2600 ⌘ Read more

Funny Programming Pictures Part XII
Blockbuster Movie Edition ⌘ Read more

1982’s Canon AS-100 Computer Workstation
Big. Weird. Customizable. And wonderful. With a jog dial controller. ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal Podcast - July 20, 2022
Listen now (50 min) | Preserving On-Line Services of the Past ⌘ Read more

Linus Torvalds says VBA coming to Linux Kernel “like, right away”
“This is way better than that Rust junk,” stated one Kernel contributor. ⌘ Read more

Traf-O-Data: The company before “Microsoft”
Before Windows… Before DOS… Before BASIC… there was… Traf-O-Data ⌘ Read more

A new, Linux-powered Pocket PC has started production
A 5” slab computer that fits in your pocket? Yes, please. ⌘ Read more

Let’s lower the cost of Lunduke Journal subscriptions!
And have some fun in the process. ⌘ Read more

Is the Lunduke Journal a Tech Publication or nerdy book/video subscription service? Yes.
Definitely “all of the above”. ⌘ Read more

Exclusive: Microsoft revealed to be creator of Snap Packaging for Ubuntu Linux
“See? I told y’all we love Linux,” snickered the Microsoft CEO. ⌘ Read more

Scan QR codes right from your Linux Terminal
… you can export the QR codes as images… or even ASCII art! Neat! ⌘ Read more

How to Make Linux Hate You
Watch now (14 min) | Three ways to make Linux just a little more abusive towards you. Because… why not? ⌘ Read more

There is a project to recreate the Prodigy online service
Because… why not? ⌘ Read more

Watch as the Microsoft / Open Source apologists push a narrative
The Register says, “stop being so harsh on Redmond.” ⌘ Read more

Linux for Hank - the video book
Watch now (4 min) | The Audio / Video version of the kids book about Linux. ⌘ Read more

A few hours left to lock in the lower Lunduke Journal pricing
Subscription price goes up in a few hours – but current rates will be locked in. ⌘ Read more

Funny Programming Pictures Part XI
Because it helps to laugh. ⌘ Read more

Brendan Eich Interview - Jan 9th, 2018
Watch now (57 min) | Creator of JavaScript. Co-founder (and ex-CTO & CEO) of Mozilla. CEO of Brave. ⌘ Read more

Microsoft: “Using an open-source solution may introduce risks”
Remember how Microsoft used to warn against using Open Source? Turns out… they still are. ⌘ Read more

Lunduke Journal price going up later this week!
All existing subscription prices will be grandfathered in – lock in your sub price now! ⌘ Read more

The World Wide Web Sucks
Watch now (53 min) | Preach it, Lunduke! Preach it! ⌘ Read more

Net Neutrality. No big deal.
Watch now (33 min) | Back in 2017, this video caused some people to get very, very grumpy. ⌘ Read more

HTTPS is Dangerous
Watch now (24 min) | The most hated show I’ve ever done. Enjoy. ⌘ Read more

FreeBSD outlaws virtual hugs
Watch now (21 min) | An open source classic from 2018. ⌘ Read more

“Linux Sucks 2022” is now free for all to watch!
“Lunduke’s enthusiasm is infectious!”, “I laughed so many times” ⌘ Read more

Microsoft begins “Extinguish” phase of dealing with Open Source.
Embrace? Check. Extend? Check. ⌘ Read more

Upcoming Live Streams on The Lunduke Journal
Live Streams of Ultimate Nerdiness! ⌘ Read more

Microsoft’s growing control of Linux
Embrace… Extend… what was that next part? I forget. I think it rhymes with “Shmextinguish”. ⌘ Read more

Funny Programming Pictures Part X
The X stands for XTREME! ⌘ Read more

Linux process monitoring with… DOOM. Seriously.
Shoot a monster. Kill a process. This is the UNIX-y way. ⌘ Read more

Ladybird: A truly new Web Browser (with a from-scratch engine) comes to Linux
The mad scientist behind Serenty OS brought the Serenty OS Web Browser to Linux. And you can watch the video of him doing it. ⌘ Read more