Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - September 25, 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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