There’s only one major regret I have about switching from Windows to Linux for my personal computers, and that regret is that I no longer have Winamp.

Lunduke’s Normal Computing News - Oct 19, 2022
Listen now (40 min) | Microsoft kills “Office”, iPads get USB-C, and Firefox wants to know your feelings. ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Oct 16, 2022
Listen now (32 min) | Haiku Beta 4, Serenity’s 4th Birthday… and a new AmigaOS SDK release! ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Oct 9, 2022
Listen now (30 min) | Happy birthday, Free Software! + A hard drive noise maker & Ubuntu Pro ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.5.2
Gajim 1.5.2 brings another performance boost, better emojis, improvements for group chat moderators, and many bug fixes. Thank you for all your contributions!

Generating performance profiles for Gajim revealed some bottlenecks in Gajim’s code. After fixing these, switching chats should now feel snappier than before.

Did you know that you can use shortcodes for typing emojis? Typing :+1 for example will ope … ⌘ Read more

The History of the First Computer Shell
BASH? PowerShell? It all traces back to 1963. And the work of an amazing Frenchman, CTTS, and Multics. ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Oct 2, 2022
Listen now (47 min) | The Article & The Podcast – all in one place! Fancy! ⌘ Read more

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

Video: C Programming on System 6 - VCF Midwest, Wikipedia Reader, and Subterm
I attended the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 17 and wrote two new programs. ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: Voicemail Changes, Opt-in Jabber ID Discoverability
Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client.  Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone number … ⌘ 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

Tillitis Key 1
The secret project I’ve been mentioning in my gemlog is out!

This week we presented the Tillitis Key 1 at the Open Source Firmware\
Conference (OSFC). What we unveiled is a new kind of USB security
stick and a new company, a sister company to Mullvad VPN: Tillitis.

The stick is a small computer that can load and run small programs
uploded to it from a host computer. It always measures … ⌘ 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

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

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

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

@mckinley@twtxt.net We need to make something like computer time or something like that so people using a computer can say like lets have a chat thursday at 7:00 and no timezone things.

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

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

JMP: Newsletter: New Employee, Command UI, JMP SIM Card, Multi-account Billing
Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client.  Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone … ⌘ 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

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

Scientific Field Prefixes
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meet lol, my new website generator!

2022-08-08

I’ve been pretty busy lately, so I haven’t had a lot of time to explore
computers, which is what I love doing. In the last few months, I’ve been trying
to fight back against busyness by writing a new website generator after everyone
goes to bed. I can’t recommend doing this, because it gets exhausting after a
while, but it gives me my kicks and makes me happy.

My old website generator, [wg](https://git.m455.casa/w … ⌘ Read more

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

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

JMP: Newsletter: Multilingual Transcriptions and Better Voicemail Greetings
Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client.  Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numb … ⌘ 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

Computing with Soft Robots - Computerphile ⌘ Read more

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

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

1985’s C64 “Computer Fireworks Celebration Kit” from Activision
Who needs real fireworks when you have a Commodore 64? ⌘ Read more