July, 2026

Teredo was supposed to be the way to give every IPv4-only user behind a NAT box a globally routable IPv6 address. In 2026 it’s basically a museum piece — Microsoft ships it disabled by default, public Teredo servers have all but disappeared, and Linux support is gone. This article explains what Teredo was, how it... » read more

Arch is the smallest of the major RISC-V Linux distributions, but it’s the most up-to-date — and the one rolling-release enthusiasts who want their RISC-V box to feel like mainline Arch are running in 2026. This article covers what’s officially supported, what works in practice, and what doesn’t. The short version: Arch RISC-V is a... » read more

The one-paragraph summary Pick rime-frost if you do plain full-pinyin typing for work and care about word recognition accuracy above all else. Pick rime-ice if you want the longest-maintained, most-documented, lowest-trouble config and don’t want to ever bother with a .gram model. Pick rime-wanxiang if you actively want the upstream .gram language model and the... » read more

RIME has had sync_dir for a long time (since librime-1.5 era, ~2017). The mechanism is well-documented in rime/home/wiki/UserGuide and github.com/Mintimate/oh-my-rime‘s English guide. But the docs assume you’ve been a RIME user for a while — they skip some “first-time installer” gotchas. This article covers the three-device workflow on Linux / Mac / Windows in 2026,... » read more

The four-tool mental model Job 1 — Open and read a PDF, fill form fields, add annotations, sign. Use Okular. It’s the xdg-open default on KDE / Kubuntu / Linux Mint / Tuxedo, ships in every distro’s main repo, and was designed specifically for the “review a PDF” workflow. Job 2 — Merge, split, rotate,... » read more

Three pieces: librime — the engine. Written in C++, library form. On Debian 13 / Ubuntu 26.04 it ships as librime1t64 plus the librime-data metapackage (which drops a stock default.yaml with schema_list: [luna_pinyin, cangjie5] at /usr/share/rime-data/default.yaml). That’s all you need for the engine itself. fcitx5-rime — the binding into the fcitx5 IM framework. Pulls librime... » read more

Most blogs will tell you to apt install fcitx5-wbpy. Don’t. That package doesn’t exist in 2026. The “Wubi Pinyin” IME is bundled with fcitx5-chinese-addons. This guide tells you what’s actually true. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) is the first release where GNOME has dropped the X11 session entirely — Wayland is the only game in... » read more

Three Chinese-made desktop Linux distros compared: Deepin vs openKylin vs Tongwandou (ATZ). Three systems, three different audiences.

When your system breaks and your disk has important data on it: Parted Magic, Hiren's BootCD PE, and SystemRescue each shine in different scenarios.

title: “Ubuntu vs Linux Mint vs Zorin OS: Three Easy Linux Distros Compared” date: 2026-07-14 categories: [“operating-system”] tags: [“ubuntu”, “linux-mint”, “zorin-os”, “linux-distro”, “comparison”, “windows-10-eol”, “gnome”, “cinnamon”, “snap”, “desktop-linux”] Ubuntu vs Linux Mint vs Zorin OS: Three Easy Linux Distros Compared Why these three make sense to compare side by side All three are Ubuntu-based, all... » read more

Walk into any 2026 developer’s terminal and you’ll find at least one AI coding agent already configured. The space moved faster than most people tracking it could follow: terminal-native agents have overtaken IDE plugins for serious engineering work, open-source caught up to commercial tools feature-for-feature (mostly), the Model Context Protocol is the de facto standard... » read more

Goose started as Block’s internal coding agent, then moved to the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) in late 2025. Apache-2.0, written in Rust, distributes as a single static binary with no Node runtime, no Python runtime, no Electron. The latest stable is v1.42.0 (2026-07-13). Where Claude Code is for solo power users and Cline... » read more

Cline is an open-source (Apache-2.0) autonomous coding agent that runs inside VS Code. It edits files, runs commands, and asks for approval at every meaningful step. The latest stable VS Code extension is v4.0.8 (2026-07-11); the parallel CLI build is at v3.0.40 (2026-07-13). Compared to Claude Code and OpenCode (which are terminal-first), Cline lives where... » read more

Aider is the OG terminal-native AI pair programmer — Apache-2.0, runs on Python, mapped your repo for context long before “agentic loops” became the marketing term, and commits its own changes to git by default. The latest release is v0.86.0 (2025-08-09); the project is in maintenance mode but still functions. This article shows the install... » read more

OpenCode (formerly sst/opencode, now anomalyco/opencode) is a provider-agnostic, open-source terminal coding agent. It’s MIT-licensed, has provider adapters for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Bedrock, Vertex, Groq, and any OpenAI-compatible API (Ollama, LM Studio, OpenRouter), and at v1.17.20 it ships with a polished TUI, multi-session support, and an LSP-aware edit pipeline. This article shows the install, the minimum... » read more

Claude Code is Anthropic’s terminal-native coding agent. It reads your project, edits files, runs commands, and handles git — all via natural language. The latest stable release as of writing is v2.1.209 (2026-07-14). This article walks through installation on Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, the recommended daily-driver workflow, and the configuration patterns that show up most often in... » read more

Hermes Desktop is the Electron GUI companion to the Hermes Agent CLI. It launches the same agent/ core that runs in your terminal, just wrapped in a chat window with a sidebar, file previews, and provider settings. If you’ve already installed Hermes CLI (see the companion article), the desktop is one command. This piece covers... » read more

Hermes Agent is Nous Research’s open-source assistant that runs the same agent core across a CLI, a TUI, an Electron desktop, and ~20 messaging platforms (Telegram, Discord, Slack, Feishu, and others). It learns across sessions via memory and skills, runs scheduled jobs, delegates to subagents, and drives a real terminal and browser. This article walks... » read more

curl -i vs curl -I vs curl -v: The Three Flags That Confuse Everyone If you\’ve ever searched \”how do I get just the headers from curl?\” you\’ve seen this mess: One Stack Overflow answer says curl -I Another says curl -i A third says curl -v A fourth recommends curl -X HEAD -i (which... » read more

title: “Chaos Reborn on Linux in 2026: Julian Gollop’s Wizard Duel Game Is Still Worth Playing” date: 2026-07-14 categories: [“linux-gaming”] tags: [“chaos-reborn”, “snapshot-games”, “linux-gaming”, “turn-based-strategy”, “indie-rpg”, “julian-gollop”, “xcom-creator”, “steam”, “native-linux”] Chaos Reborn on Linux in 2026: Julian Gollop’s Wizard Duel Game Is Still Worth Playing In 2015, Julian Gollop — the designer of the original... » read more