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GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems
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The best Linux distribution doesn't exist - Here's yours
Good news folks, I just published a Linux distribution selector [FR] !! 35 distributions in the mix, up to twenty questions, and at the end, the name of the Linux you actually need!
Because yes, the "best" Linux distribution doesn't exist in absolute terms. The right choice depends on your machine, your use case, and how much time you're willing to invest. Ask two people, one will say Linux Mint, the other CachyOS, and they'll both be right!
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Hackaday ☛ The PC OS That Would Have Blown Your Mind Back In 1984
os8088 is a single-floppy OS that provides preemptive multitasking and fully loadable software alongside that GUI, unlike other similar projects we’ve seen it’s not an all-in-one compiled application that just looks like an OS. There’s a second floppy with a suite of software that would have been seriously impressive back in the day, with games, graphics, and demos. It’s a shame that this thing appeared in 2026 when there is little need of it.
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Andrew Nesbitt ☛ Shared Code Between Package Managers
Writing up the package manager CWEs list and then the --end-of-options survey, both of which come down to the same bug being fixed independently in tool after tool, left me wondering how much code these tools share with each other in the first place. So I went through the direct dependencies of twenty package managers1, each with at least two same-language peers in the set, looking for package-management libraries reused between them and setting aside the general-purpose stuff any CLI would use (serde, clap, requests).