E ver since I could use a computer, I used Windows. And for a good number of decades, that didn't change. I went from Windows 95 all the way to 11, upgrading whenever I could and shunning other ...

Fedora 43, after a week-long delay, is out of beta today. It includes several updates to the community fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and all of its derivative distributions. Namely, GNOME got a ...

When I first started using Linux in the late 90s, there was really only one way to install an application. You would download the app, unpack the archive, run the ...

Astral's uv utility simplifies and speeds up working with Python virtual environments. But it has some other superpowers, too: it lets you run Python packages and programs without having to formally ...

Over the past year, several Windows-like Linux distributions have been given the spotlight. A couple of those distributions were nothing more than malware in disguise, which has made me a bit ...

bugIssue identified by VS Code Team member as probable bugIssue identified by VS Code Team member as probable bug When dealing with local Python kernels we can use the Python interpreter to ...

Want to make a Python user grind their teeth? Just recite three words: Python is slow. In many of the ways that matter, it’s true. “Pure” Python, without external libraries written in C, is nowhere ...

In a previous article, I looked at Flatcar, a lightweight, Linux-based 0S designed specifically for running containers. It emerged in 2018 as a successor to CoreOS Container Linux after Kinvolk forked ...

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