Having a look at a single software or tool.
Spotlight
The name server addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are widely known and used. But, is it a good idea to send basically every web request to google first? What are proper alternatives for public DNS servers? Preferably, with some security and privacy in mind?
Linux
Wait, there is a GNOME OS? Yes, and it is around since GNOME 3.38, already. Should you use it? Is it a good idea to run it daily? What is different to Fedora or Ubuntu? And why isn't every GNOME enthusiast hopping on it like on KDE Neon?
Ansible
Do you use Ansible? Maybe even in a pipeline or across teams? Chances are high that you might want to track your changes and last runs in a nice overview with ARA. Let's check out the nifty tool and investigate how it can help you with keeping on top.
Ansible
Ansible is easy, simple, and powerful, right? Sure, and it is a pain to get it right. There are various tools that are meant to help you with Ansible. Let's take a look at Steampunk Spotter, a quality assurance tool, that makes it easy to improve your Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections.
Ansible
Ansible is a simple, yet proven way to automate your server configuration, cloud deployments and many other things. Yet, most people know Ansible on the command line, which is perfectly fine for CI/CD or if you like to work with text.
Gaming
About a year ago, I received my Steam Deck and wrote an article about the first impressions. The Valve Steam Deck is a nifty gaming console, running on Steam OS (based on Arch Linux). It comes in a portable gaming console format and should make it easy to carry your steam library around.
Spotlight
There was a time when the internet was young, full of enthusiastic people that wanted to connect others. We became the product. Our data is used to sell ad-placements. Are there alternatives?
Fedora
Now that Fedora 37 is in reach, I want to introduce a very special variant to you. Fedora Kinoite is KDE on Fedora, but in an immutable, container centric way. Let's shed some light on "Fedora Silverblue, but with KDE".
Gaming
When it comes to gaming, Linux is somewhat behind other platforms. This does not mean, that you cannot play a game on Linux, but there are limitations. This changed a lot with the introduction of Steam Deck. I got mine 2 weeks ago and want to share my first experiences with you.
Fedora
Fedora is constantly evolving and changing how the GNU/Linux world is looking like. One of the more recent approaches is Fedora Silverblue. The immutable Desktop Linux has the potential to become the new Fedora Workstation Linux. Shall we have a look?
Linux
You may have heard of Flatpaks, maybe even Flathub? The Flatpak community tries to provide a general package format and marketplace / app store for GNU/Linux packages. Since I am using Flatpak for quite some time now, I wanted to share some experience and details about it.
Spotlight
Cirrus CLI is a tool for running containerized tasks reproducibly in any environment. Most commonly, Cirrus tasks are used as part of continuous integration workflows but can also be used as part of local development process as a hermetic replacement of helper scripts/Makefiles.
Linux
Linux is about "using the terminal", right? Maybe not. Cockpit provides an option, so you can operate your GN/Linux based operating system, even if you don't know the correct commands for many tools.
Fedora
The Fedora project provides many flavors of Linux based Desktop operating systems. With Fedora Silverblue, you are getting the option to dip your tows into immutable desktop distributions. But what are the differences? Why have I chosen to use Fedora Workstation after two years of Fedora Silverblue?
Fedora
The Fedora project is maintaining different variants of Fedora Linux to fulfil different use cases. The Linux variant provides some features, specialized for servers and headless systems. Let's have a look at Fedora server and see what is different to CentOS Stream, Alma Linux or Fedora Workstation.
Rocky Linux
CentOS shifted it's support and delivery. Nowadays, you can get CentOS Stream with continuous updates, but that's not everybody's cake. With Alma Linux OS, we already had a look at one of the new distributions, that try to fill this gap. In addition, you may have heard of Rocky Linux.