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The Lunduke Journal of Technology

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December 2022

  1. Funny Programming Pictures Part XVIII
  2. Lunduke's Favorite Stories of 2022
  3. CIA & FBI can neither confirm nor deny they know about these Operating Systems
  4. The CIA invests in these Tech companies
  5. The incredibly boring, totally reasonable finances of the GNOME Foundation
  6. The Lunduke Journal Predictions for 2023
  7. BREAKING: The Lunduke Journal predicts 37% more buzzwords in 2023
  8. Animated ASCII fireworks in your Terminal for New Years
  9. Help The Lunduke Journal "Speak Truth to (Tech) Power"
  10. The Fork Bomb: What it is, how it works, and where it originated
  11. Haiku Beta 4 -- The Definitive Review
  12. Report: Over 33 Million Desktop Linux users, worldwide
  13. Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla
  14. Animated ASCII Christmas Tree and Hanukkah Menorah in your Shell
  15. BREAKING: Red Hat CEO admits he "has no idea what Kubernetes is"
  16. Apple has changed... and not in a good way.
  17. The Linux Foundation launches map foundation to compete with Google
  18. Commercial Dev Tool vendor adds ARM64 and "Dark Mode" for Linux
  19. "The Sidecar" -- Adding advanced networking, and a Linux shell, to a Psion palmtop
  20. BREAKING: EU orders Apple to add RS-232 port to iPhone
  21. AltaVista Search Engine turns 27 years old
  22. PDA Week Wrap-up!
  23. What was the first PDA?
  24. The Tech Bullies vs. Raspberry Pi
  25. Haiku becomes viable for daily use (right on schedule)
  26. The Tandy Zoomer -- The x86 PDA before the Palm Pilot
  27. Will A.I. like ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot replace human programmers?
  28. PDA Week begins!
  29. Links to everywhere you can find Lunduke on the Internet
  30. Evil A.I. made in evil ways: ChatGPT & GitHub Copilot
  31. Pondering on Mastodon and the Fediverse
  32. How to Pronounce Tech Words (part 2)

November 2022

  1. Sideloading is the most important feature of any SmartPhone
  2. The SCREAM Test
  3. TempleOS lives on... in a very weird way.
  4. A Smalltalk SmartPhone: The "SqueakPhone"
  5. BREAKING: Ubuntu expands in-Terminal advertising program
  6. How to pronounce Open Source & Linux words
  7. Firefox version 107
  8. Unity 7.6... for Arch Linux!?
  9. LibreOffice going Blockchain?!
  10. Interview: Brian Hall (veteran PalmOS dev)
  11. Fedora Linux 37 released!
  12. FBI seized Backpage.com in 2018 - and their replacement website is WEIRD
  13. RedoxOS (microkernel OS written in Rust)
  14. Android vs iOS: Which spies on you more?
  15. Lunduke's Normal Computing News - Nov 9, 2022
  16. Haiku Week begins at The Lunduke Journal
  17. Microsoft declares ownership of all Open Source software
  18. Lunduke's Weird Computing News - Nov 6, 2022
  19. Random numbers aren't truly random!
  20. Funny Programming Pictures Part XVII
  21. Lunduke's Normal Computing News - Nov 2, 2022

October 2022

  1. The Lunduke Journal Live Call-in Show + Discord Server
  2. Lunduke's Weird Computing News - Oct 30, 2022
  3. Ever notice how many Linux nerds are Scandinavian?
  4. 2017 interview with Haiku's full time developer
  5. Lunduke's Normal Computing News - October 26, 2022
  6. The Lunduke Journal Video Interview Series!
  7. Programmer dies after washing hair for 72 straight hours
  8. Who (really) created the "Byte"?
  9. Lunduke's Weird Computing News - Oct 23, 2022
  10. The Million Monkeys Theorem of Programming
  11. Lunduke Journal Community Weekly Highlights - Oct 21, 2022
  12. "Command Line Week" Wrap-up!
  13. Lunduke's Normal Computing News - Oct 19, 2022
  14. Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Oct 16, 2022
  15. Microsoft Windows predicts the end of the world...
  16. Advertising is killing Tech Journalism
  17. The first UNIX Shell: 1971's Thompson Shell
  18. Command Line Week starts... now!
  19. Microsoft apologizes for Windows, returns to DOS
  20. "Command Line Week" starts tomorrow!
  21. That time the creator of UNIX built a Trojan Horse that let him log in to any UNIX machine.
  22. "macOS Sucks" - Saturday, November 12th
  23. Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Oct 9, 2022
  24. Interview with creator of OS/2-based ArcaOS
  25. Pirate Networking!
  26. The History of the First Computer Shell
  27. DVD-RAM Drives, Classic Macs, Rhapsody, Copland, and angry Mac Devs.
  28. FAQ: Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscription
  29. The Lunduke Journal hits 1,000 paid subscribers!
  30. Hands on with 1998's Rhapsody DR2 (the precursor to MacOS X)
  31. Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Oct 2, 2022
  32. 25th Anniversary of FreeDOS -- with the creator of FreeDOS
  33. I heard COBOL devs get paid a ton...

September 2022

  1. Maybe the Internet wasn't such a great idea.
  2. TRS-80 Model 102 - Hands on with one of the 1st "laptops"
  3. Down the rabbit hole: Making my life private and secure
  4. Ask Lunduke Anything!
  5. Google, Apple partner with Elmers to produce "Tinker-Proof Glue"
  6. The Lunduke Journal - State of the Journal - September, 2022
  7. MORE truly epic BYTE magazine covers by Robert Tinney
  8. Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - September 25, 2022
  9. Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Sep 24, 2022
  10. Funny Programming Pictures Part XVI
  11. "DOS Week" Roundup!
  12. Why Javascript is Retarded: Part 1
  13. The (very real) history of :-)
  14. Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - September 18, 2022
  15. Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Sep 17, 2022
  16. Multitasking, Desktop PalmOS? Yes. It's real.
  17. "DOS Week" begins at The Lunduke Journal!
  18. "DOS Week" subscription sale
  19. Breaking: Google announces new messaging service it cancelled three days ago
  20. Quick and Dirty: The story of 86-DOS & MS-DOS
  21. The "Live in DOS for a Week" Challenge!
  22. Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - September 11, 2022
  23. Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Sep 10, 2022
  24. Funny Programming Pictures Part XV
  25. How Lunduke handles conflict, personal attacks, & political differences in the Tech industry
  26. Breaking: Linux company SUSE sold to Taco Bell
  27. May back-issue of The Lunduke Journal Monthly PDF now available for download
  28. Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - September 4, 2022
  29. Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Sep 3, 2022
  30. Make Linux look like IRIX from an SGI workstation
  31. The first smartphone: 1994's IBM Simon
  32. When was the peak of computing awesomeness? 1987? 1999? 2022?

August 2022

  1. Breaking: Linus steps down, Oscar named new Linux maintainer.
  2. Before Chromebooks: The 2009 "litl webbook"
  3. Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - August 28, 2022
  4. Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Aug 27, 2022
  5. Correcting the myths and lies in computer history
  6. The Lunduke Journal of Technology PDF Magazine
  7. Apple abandons M1 CPU, moves to RISC-V.
  8. The 1948 precursor to the hard disk
  9. Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - August 21, 2022
  10. Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Aug 20, 2022
  11. Funny Programming Pictures Part XIV
  12. The story of the first "computer bug"... is a pile of lies.
  13. 1980s & 1990s BBSing, PDFs, and stuff.
  14. The BBS is back On-Line, with more games a-comin'!
  15. Apple Police arrest man for "malicious sideloading of DOOM"
  16. Lunduke's History of Computers - Volume 2
  17. Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - August 14, 2022
  18. Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Aug 13, 2022
  19. Make Linux look like Star Trek LCARS
  20. The History of Ctrl-Alt-Delete
  21. Tech Journalism Roundtable - July 25, 2016
  22. Rejected Slogans for Ubuntu's 2022 Marketing Campaign
  23. ManaGeR - The forgotten UNIX Window System of the 1980s
  24. Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Aug 7, 2022
  25. Funny Programming Pictures Part XIII
  26. Ask Lunduke - August 3, 2022
  27. Microsoft unveils sneak peak at Windows 12
  28. The story of the 1991 HP DOS Palmtop

July 2022

  1. Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - July 31, 2022
  2. Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - July 30, 2022
  3. xscorch : A faithful Scorched Earth clone for Linux
  4. Microsoft's "Revenue Bomb" of the early 1980s
  5. The Linux Laptop Makers - Dell, System76, Purism, & HP
  6. Microsoft Announces "Start Menu as a Service"
  7. Remembering the (very) funky Holborn computers of the early 1980s
  8. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - July 23, 2022
  9. Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - July 23, 2022
  10. Funny Programming Pictures Part XII
  11. 1982's Canon AS-100 Computer Workstation
  12. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - July 20, 2022
  13. Linus Torvalds says VBA coming to Linux Kernel "like, right away"
  14. Traf-O-Data: The company before "Microsoft"
  15. A new, Linux-powered Pocket PC has started production
  16. Exclusive: Microsoft revealed to be creator of Snap Packaging for Ubuntu Linux
  17. Scan QR codes right from your Linux Terminal
  18. How to Make Linux Hate You
  19. There is a project to recreate the Prodigy online service
  20. Watch as the "Microsoft + Open Source" apologists push a narrative
  21. Linux for Hank - the video book
  22. Funny Programming Pictures Part XI
  23. Brendan Eich Interview - Jan 9th, 2018
  24. Microsoft: "Using an open-source solution may introduce risks"
  25. The World Wide Web Sucks
  26. Net Neutrality. No big deal.
  27. HTTPS is Dangerous
  28. FreeBSD outlaws virtual hugs
  29. "Linux Sucks 2022" is now free for all to watch!
  30. Microsoft begins "Extinguish" phase of dealing with Open Source.
  31. Upcoming Live Streams on The Lunduke Journal
  32. Microsoft's growing control of Linux
  33. Funny Programming Pictures Part X
  34. Linux process monitoring with... DOOM. Seriously.
  35. Ladybird: A truly new Web Browser (with a from-scratch engine) comes to Linux
  36. 1985's C64 "Computer Fireworks Celebration Kit" from Activision

June 2022

  1. W3C announces Web 3.11 "Web for Workgroups"
  2. duf: Check free drive space from the terminal
  3. New Beta Release of Amiga-inspired Icaros OS
  4. Funny Programming Pictures Part IX
  5. A Linux Kernel Module written in Scratch (a visual programming language for kids)
  6. Convincing a Linux guy to use FreeBSD
  7. The Lunduke Journal Handy-Dandy Subscription Info-Graphic
  8. Linus Torvalds threatens to punish developers by putting Rust in the Linux Kernel
  9. Google pulls plug on "Sentient A.I." after it begins using Arch Linux
  10. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - June 22, 2022
  11. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - June 21, 2022
  12. Funny Programming Pictures Part VIII
  13. Browsing the World Wide Web via E-Mail. 1990's Style.
  14. "2299: Act 1" -- Comedy Sci-Fi with spaceships and stuff
  15. TUIFI Manager: A file manager, in the terminal, with file icons made out of ascii characters.
  16. How to play the first text adventure game... in style.
  17. Microsoft's Biggest Product in 1980: the Z-80 SoftCard for the Apple II
  18. FSFE open letter: "The universal right to install any software on any device"
  19. Apple: “Sideloading is the DEVIL!”
  20. Funny Programming Pictures Part VII
  21. A new "Pokemon"-type game for the Command Line
  22. Is this what they call the "Mandela Effect"?
  23. People will forget what you said...
  24. A 2001 documentary on Linux is available in full for free
  25. Lunduke.Locals.com community hits 4,000 members
  26. Linux is Freaking Weird
  27. The best terminal emulator for games: Cool-Retro-Term
  28. Calendar & To-Do lists in the Shell with calcurse
  29. Re-AOL: A reverse-engineered AOL 3.0 server written in Python
  30. Chaucer on Dynamically Loading Web Pages

May 2022

  1. Linux Sucks (As Usual) - 2012
  2. Linux Sucks 2011
  3. Pictures of some weird computer keyboards.
  4. Dragons Lair 1 & 2 for Apple IIgs has been released... with source code!
  5. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - May 31, 2022
  6. "Upscale" Sierra adventure game backgrounds in high resolution
  7. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - May 30, 2022
  8. Every Linux Sucks Video. In order.
  9. Linux Sucks 2009
  10. Linux Does Not Suck 2012
  11. Linux DOESN'T Suck 2013
  12. Linux Sucks 2013
  13. Linux Sucks 2014
  14. Linux Sucks 2016
  15. Linux Sucks 2020
  16. Linux Sucks 2021
  17. What's happening at The Lunduke Journal in June?
  18. Awesome Masculinity, Computers, & You
  19. "GameShell" interactive game for learning Linux shell commands
  20. Linux Sucks. Forever.
  21. Stories from inside Microsoft (1998 - 2003)
  22. What video games are burned into these CRTs?
  23. The Definitive History of Screensavers - Part 1
  24. They're Watching You
  25. The Internet of Things is Going to Destroy Us All
  26. Funny Programming Pictures Part VI
  27. Linux Sucks 2019 - "The Lost Recordings"
  28. Linux Sucks "For the Last Time" (2017)
  29. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - May 24, 2022
  30. Wendin-DOS : The forgotten multi-tasking, multi-user DOS clone from the 1980s.
  31. My 3 Desert Island Retro Computers
  32. Lunduke Journal adds premium videos
  33. Windows is AWESOME!
  34. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - May 23, 2022
  35. The Complete History of Linux (Abridged)
  36. TRS-80 Model 100 emulator for the DevTerm
  37. programmers_are_evil()
  38. My final verdict on NFTs...
  39. mprocs: A new way to run multiple shell applications in one shell
  40. Remembering MUD1 - The first multiplayer role playing game on the Internet
  41. Liven up your Linux Shell with random colorful ASCII art
  42. Lotus 1-2-3 for UNIX (from 1990) ported to Linux
  43. A thin, flexible 6502 processor has been created!
  44. "Typioca" - A terminal-based typing speed tester
  45. Atari ST Book - The 1991 laptop with 10 hour battery life
  46. LundukeFest Part 2 scheduling update!
  47. Who is the (real) first Computer Programmer?
  48. Remembering Gary Kildall on what would have been his 80th birthday
  49. Welcome to "Asciiville" -- a massive collection of Ascii art and Linux terminal utilities
  50. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - May 18, 2022
  51. "Linux Sucks 2022" now available for standalone purchase
  52. Linux Sucks 2016 - "The Commentary Track"
  53. "Snark Barker" - Build your own 1989 Sound Blaster card
  54. The one about the overworked SysAdmin.
  55. What does a Reverse Engineer do?
  56. Funny Programming Pictures Part V
  57. The Turbo Encabulator -- The best technobabble... ever.
  58. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - May 16, 2022
  59. The Framedeck - A modern, DIY, Linux powered slabtop
  60. The "Activate Windows" watermark ported to Linux... because... why not?
  61. Early reviews for "Linux Sucks 2022" are in!
  62. Linux Sucks 2022 is now available!
  63. Linux Sucks 2022
  64. Linux Sucks 2022 at 3:30pm Pacific today!
  65. LudukeFest & Linux Sucks - Updated schedule and how to watch live
  66. Linux Sucks 2022 is tomorrow!
  67. The Lunduke Journal Podcast -- May 12, 2022
  68. Scientists discover Ubuntu Linux at center of Milky Way galaxy
  69. Microsoft Word... for UNIX? Yes. It's real.
  70. How to use a website in 2022
  71. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - May 11, 2022
  72. Q&A time! Ask Lunduke some nerdy questions!
  73. 3 Days Until Linux Sucks 2022!
  74. Atari Coin Executive -- the 1982 answer to managing a video game arcade
  75. A Retro-Modern Linux Terminal with a Round Screen
  76. Genode - Sculpt : The weirdest Operating System?
  77. See "Linux Sucks 2022" - with an annual Lunduke Journal sub - for $1/month
  78. The Lunduke Journal Podcast -- May 09, 2022
  79. The biggest "Linux Sucks" ever... is just 5 days away!
  80. The time SUSE, the German Linux company, banned mentioning Jewish holidays.
  81. An optimist, a pessimist, and Microsoft Excel.
  82. We did it! We hit our goals for May in the first week!
  83. 3 Linux distributions that fit on a floppy. Seriously.
  84. Funny Programming Pictures part IV
  85. Live Stream: Let's chat about how much Linux Sucks
  86. Reminder: Only a few hours left to get your name included in "Linux Sucks 2022"
  87. Happy 30th Birthday, Wolfenstein 3D!
  88. The SGI IRIX Audio Panel had a "Spinal Tap" Easter Egg.
  89. Deadline for multiple Lunduke Journal subscriber perks is Friday night!
  90. The Lunduke Journal Podcast -- May 5, 2022
  91. "Linux Sucks 2022" is just 10 days away!
  92. Tails 5.0 -- The portable, anti-surveillance Linux distribution
  93. AppImage-Builder 1.0 released
  94. What is The Lunduke Journal?
  95. Join the Lunduke Journal "May the Fourth" Livestream
  96. Commodore 64 remake of Atari 2600 classic "Empire Strikes Back"
  97. Microsoft open sources 1995's "3D Movie Maker"
  98. The Lunduke Journal Podcast -- May 3, 2022
  99. Ratpoison: The worst Linux Desktop Environment of all time
  100. Unity Desktop Environment has first major release in 6 years.
  101. Two tools for translating text between languages... from a Linux Shell.
  102. What would you do if you owned Lunduke for one hour?
  103. Lunduke Journal hit 40% of our monthly goals in just 3 hours! Let's take it all the way, baby!
  104. The Lunduke Journal Stream-a-Thon is live!
  105. The Lunduke Journal stream-a-thon: May 2nd @ 9am Central Time
  106. Two Mac-like desktops for the Apple II, from 1985.
  107. Computers should make Computer Noises -- beep, boop, click, clack, & whir!

April 2022

  1. The PalmOS powered wristwatch from Fossil
  2. "Linux Sucks: The Book" publishing has resumed with a new, in-progress PDF
  3. The First Lunduke Journal Founding Member Hangout... a success!
  4. Microsoft attempts to block Elon Musk purchase of Linux
  5. The Lunduke Journal Podcast -- April 28, 2022
  6. Pixelorama -- a truly spectacular pixel art editor for Linux, Mac, & Windows
  7. Working with Mac Files via Linux
  8. The Lunduke Journal Podcast -- April 27, 2022
  9. Developer of popular password manager to drop Ubuntu Snap packaging
  10. What alternative / retro Operating System could I live in (happily)?
  11. 10 funny pictures about computers and programming
  12. Help old computers use the web with FrogFind.com & 68k.news
  13. 6 Dirty Secrets of the Linux and Open Source Industry
  14. Annual Lunduke Journal subscriptions drop to $1 / month!
  15. Microsoft Write - The First Word Processor for Windows (also released for Mac and... Atari ST?)
  16. "Lunduke's Quest" -- a new (nerdy) adventure game for Linux, Mac, Haiku, Amiga, & more.
  17. The nerdiest wristwatches of all time
  18. The Lunduke Journal Podcast -- April 25, 2022
  19. Ask Lunduke some questions! (Just make 'em good and nerdy.)
  20. Make Linux Shell scripts declare "Success" or "Failure" using the Super Smash Bros announcer voice
  21. Naming kids is hard for us computer nerds.
  22. Ubuntu, facing declining marketshare, doubles down on most hated feature
  23. 10 reasons every nerd wants to become a Lunduke Journal Founding Member subscriber
  24. A new (free) racing game for DOS has been released!
  25. The wild events that nearly took down the QB64 project (but, thankfully, didn't)
  26. The Lunduke Journal Podcast -- April 21 2022
  27. NiceOS -- a Linux distribution that uses packages from whatever Linux distro you want
  28. LundukeFest is back on the schedule! May 14th, 2022!
  29. Three ways to subscribe to The Lunduke Journal -- Substack, Locals, & Patreon
  30. W: The Window System before X... that nobody seems to remember
  31. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - April 19, 2022
  32. Run a full, desktop Linux distro on your Android phone with UserLAnd
  33. First Founding Member group hangout next week!
  34. The BookMac -- The 1984 Macintosh Laptop... that never got released
  35. Chrome : RAM :: Dog : Bed
  36. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - April 18, 2022
  37. Richard Stallman - "The state of the Free Software movement" - April 13, 2022
  38. Ubuntu market-share is in a nosedive (and that's ok)
  39. Web Devs are not real programmers.
  40. Pronouncing computer words can be tricky.
  41. The Lunduke Journal about to hit our subscription goal for end of April! Awesome!
  42. FreeGEM/XM -- The open source version of the unreleased, multi-tasking GEM
  43. Remembering the "Tempest Lunduke Edition" tower from Pogo Linux
  44. "Linux Tycoon 3 - The OS Wars" update released for Linux & DOS
  45. Lunduke explains ways to hide your activity on the Internet... using an iced coffee.
  46. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - April 11, 2022
  47. The many Operating Systems of the Commodore 64
  48. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - April 10, 2022
  49. The Lunduke Journal has now published 10 eBooks. 10 very, very nerdy eBooks.
  50. HOTDOGbuntu - Make Ubuntu look like classic Mac, Atari ST, Win 3.1, & Amiga systems
  51. New Book: "Lunduke's History of Computers - Volume 1"
  52. TradeWars and LORD BBS Tournament begins!
  53. Ground Zero for the Personal Computer Industry: 1977's West Coast Computer Faire
  54. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - April 6, 2022
  55. Lunduke Journal subscription price lowered thanks to Founding Member subscribers!
  56. The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII... in 1996.
  57. The "Burn-My-Windows" extension for GNOME is *glorious*
  58. Lunduke Journal Events for April - BBS Game Tournament, Linux Sucks, Hangout
  59. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - April 5, 2022
  60. Former Ubuntu Snap advocate develops "Unsnap" to help people stop using Snap.
  61. Mozilla responds to Google Chrome version 100 by releasing Firefox version "1,000,000"
  62. Announcing Lunduke Journal Founding Member subscriptions
  63. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - April 4, 2022
  64. Miss Winamp? Try Audacious + the Winamp Classic skin.
  65. Make Linux look exactly like Windows XP
  66. Ron Gilbert returns to Monkey Island! New game coming this year!
  67. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - April 3, 2022
  68. Apple Silicon (M1) Mac owners can now say "BTW, I run Arch"
  69. Emulate a Classic Macintosh... in your web browser. Seriously.
  70. Elementary OS reduces staff to 1, warns "less features" for next release
  71. "Linux Tycoon 3 - The OS Wars" now available for download
  72. It's Friday. Here's 12 funny, nerdy pictures about computers.
  73. Massive price slashes to Lunduke Journal subscriptions... because inflation sucks
  74. State of The Lunduke Journal - Q1 2022

March 2022

  1. 3 tools to make your computer look like it is busy hacking and coding... while doing absolutely nothing.
  2. Run x86 Windows games...on a Raspberry Pi. Not kidding. It really works.
  3. Penkesu Computer - A DIY, Linux-powered palmtop with a mechanical keyboard
  4. Controlling the mouse with your keyboard using "warpd"
  5. 2022: The Year of the Haiku and Serenity Operating Systems
  6. SerenityOS Web Browser passes Acid3 Test
  7. Linux Tycoon 3: The OS Wars
  8. New Book of Nerdy Satire: "The Lunduke Journal Quarterly - Volume 2"
  9. Vegan, Arch-using, Steam Deck owner who programs in Rust banned from the Internet
  10. Microsoft announces "Total Darkness Mode" for Windows 11
  11. Tech firms ban usage of words "bug" and "debug" as part of "Insect Inclusivity" efforts
  12. Twitter user reminds followers that "the Steam Deck runs Linux" for third time today
  13. 6 excellent looking top (& htop) alternatives
  14. Apple: From "open hardware" to "rent your computer"
  15. Google reportedly planning subscription service for your personal data
  16. Ubuntu maker, Canonical, announces new employment interview process
  17. The USENET Cookbook: One of the earliest digital publications
  18. Nushell 0.6 is the coolest shell. Maybe ever.
  19. Make Linux look like Amiga OS
  20. "Linux for Hank" - the children's book about Linux
  21. 1970's BASIC Computer Games compiled for Linux
  22. "Lunduke's Dad Jokes About Computers"
  23. Remember when Apple built a Mac OS running on top of Solaris and HP-UX? Seriously. It happened.
  24. Happy Friday. Here's some funny programming pictures.
  25. South Park's parody of War Games is epic
  26. The first RISC-V portable computer is now available
  27. Blender + LibSM64 = Play Mario64... inside your own 3D world
  28. The 1980s: When PC game box art used pictures of real people
  29. The Pockit modular, handheld computer
  30. The Lunduke Journal welcomes all nerds -- including Russians
  31. Man celebrates 20 years of telling people, "BTW, I run Arch"
  32. Have computers become bloated and over complicated?
  33. That time I worked for Amazon.com -- in a haunted insane asylum
  34. Make Linux look like BeOS
  35. elementary OS is imploding
  36. AppleWorld 1987 -- when the Mac got color and expandability
  37. Can an Internet connected computer be unhackable?
  38. Why I won't be buying a Steam Deck.
  39. Unlimited Cell data for working on the road.

February 2022

  1. Wordle ported to Windows 3.1, PalmOS, DOS, Linux Terminal... and much more.
  2. Make Linux look like MacOS 9.
  3. Make Linux look exactly like Windows 95... I mean *exactly*.
  4. The world is scary. Here's some funny, nerdy pictures.
  5. FreeDOS 1.3 has landed! Let's take a visual tour!
  6. Run the Commodore 64 OS on the NES: "NES 64"
  7. Maybe we should just let Firefox die
  8. Everywhere Lunduke Hangs Out, On-Line
  9. Documenting Microsoft's funky attempts at porting software to UNIX
  10. Funky Linux code names make me smile
  11. CDC issues warning as man dies after being trapped in Vim for 34 days
  12. The best Linux Kernel release code names -- from "Greased Weasel" to "Sheep on meth"
  13. (Computer Nerd) Meme Monday
  14. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... the Coleco Bowlatronic
  15. SUSE buys itself a "COVID 19 Hero" award. Not joking.
  16. Internet Explorer... for UNIX? Yes. It's real.
  17. The Lunduke / Stallman Interviews
  18. Nintendo Game Processor - The lost Nintendo game creation PC
  19. RoboCop runs DOS, Terminator runs MacOS & Apple II.
  20. Lunduke interviews nerdy musicians
  21. What If: Nintendo never released the Game Boy?
  22. Tiny Core Linux 13.0 - full Linux desktop in 22 MB.
  23. Lunduke's Proverbs of Programming #3
  24. The Lunduke Journal now has a SubReddit
  25. LundukeFest delayed (again) due to illness & weather
  26. Ubuntu Linux sued by McDonald's for copying trademark "garish orange color scheme"
  27. Retro Computer Trading Card orders end at midnight

January 2022

  1. Substack or Locals - Which is best for subscribing to The Lunduke Journal?
  2. Trading Card order deadline is tomorrow.
  3. The FreeBSD-based macOS clones: airyxOS & helloSystem
  4. AOSC OS/Retro: A Linux Distro for 486 & PPC Macs
  5. When Atari shipped UNIX: 1992's Atari System V
  6. The Lunduke Journal - 2022 "State of The Journal"
  7. 2 Days Left to Order the Retro Computer Trading Cards
  8. LundukeFest delayed one week due to illness
  9. LundukeFest is two days away!
  10. Nerdy color by number - Commodore PET
  11. A new text-mode "Psuedo-3D Engine" written in BASH
  12. DOS + Windows 3.11... on a single floppy!
  13. Why the computer mouse was created...
  14. Is the Web made for Computers? Or are Computers made for the Web?
  15. Happy 38th Birthday, Macintosh 128K!
  16. Nerdy Cross Stitch - MS DOS
  17. Deadline for Retro Computer Trading Cards & LundukeFest approaching!
  18. Ways to get 40 year old computers talking to new computers
  19. Nerdy Color-by-Number: Bill Gates posing seductively
  20. Syllable : The long abandoned Amiga OS clone
  21. Lunduke & Hartley - Jan 21, 2022
  22. Physical "Retro Computer" Trading Cards now available for order!
  23. LundukeFest final schedule announced!
  24. On NFTs, Retro Computer Trading Cards, and Goofiness
  25. Microsoft Buys Zork (and Kings Quest)... and I have thoughts about it.
  26. Introducing "Nerd Cards" - Retro computing, digital trading cards
  27. Lunduke's Proverbs of Programming #2
  28. If Linux is not magic...
  29. Some recently sold Lunduke Journal NFTs
  30. Microsoft's bad history disrespecting classic video games (a firsthand account)
  31. Microsoft now owns: Zork, Kings Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, and After Dark
  32. Microsoft acquires Daniel Radcliffe in historic $73 Billion deal
  33. The most magical words in all of computing...
  34. "Turn Your Android Phone Into the Ultimate Retro Computing Battlestation" - Jan 29 at LundukeFest
  35. "The early days of Unix at Bell Labs" presented by Brian Kernighan
  36. Lunduke's Proverbs of Programming #1
  37. Remembering the Linux-based Commodore OS
  38. Elon Musk decides to make his own Linux distro
  39. Webamp : Winamp... as a webpage
  40. NFTs: The Good, The Bad, & The Goofy
  41. Finding our Nerdy Happy Place
  42. daedalOS - the crazy Desktop environment in the browser
  43. "Weird Tales of Linux Weirdness" at LundukeFest, Jan 29
  44. Long time Linux YouTuber tries to use Windows.
  45. Windows XP was named after Leonardo da Vinci?!
  46. The House of Lunduke BBS
  47. Whoever named "NFTs" really missed a great opportunity...
  48. Real men don't comment their code...
  49. Lunduke Journal about to hit subscriber goals... for NEXT month.
  50. "The (True) Untold History of the Internet" -- only at LundukeFest
  51. New Free Adventure Game for all Lunduke Journal Subscribers
  52. Most outstanding! The Lunduke Journal smashes subscription goals in just 3 hours!
  53. Linux Tycoon Classic for Windows & Linux
  54. Linux Tycoon for DOS
  55. Just for today: $15 for one year of The Lunduke Journal
  56. Linux Sucks 2022 - Jan 29, 4pm Pacific
  57. Pine64's e-Paper tablet now booting mainline Linux
  58. Game Boy gets WiFi... and video streaming! Seriously!
  59. Announcing the first LundukeFest - "Make Computers Fun Again"
  60. Lunduke's Nerdy New Years Resolutions
  61. Compiling QuickBASIC's Gorillas on Linux... surprisingly tricky

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December 2021

  1. How did the programmer escape from prison?
  2. 2021 is over! Huzzah! Get Lunduke Journal yearly subscription for $15.
  3. Laptops Powered by AA Batteries (Seriously)
  4. The History of the Graphical User Interface -- 1945 to 1980
  5. The CDE-look-a-like desktop gets a 2.0 release
  6. NFTs, Net Neutrality, & Emotional Reactions to Technology
  7. Lunduke's Dad Jokes About Computers, vol. 1
  8. Make the Linux shell look like DOS.
  9. Why is "Spaghetti Code" called "Spaghetti Code"?
  10. First NFT sold for "Tux on Tour"? The Amiga one. Naturally.
  11. "Operating System Not Found" - a nerdy Choose Your Own Adventure
  12. Tux on Tour - Raising money for Open Source projects using nerdy NFTs
  13. Christmas Demos of the 1980s (for C64, Atari, Apple II, DOS, & Amiga)
  14. 10 Stories that Rocked the Tech Industry in 2021
  15. The 10 Awesomest Linux stories of 2021
  16. "Road-Sign Hank & The Aliens" available for free to all Lunduke Journal subscribers
  17. Linux Foundation releases Linux as NFT
  18. Creator of Javascript apologizes for "screwing up a good thing and ruining, like, basically everything"
  19. Local man switches to Arch, tells no one
  20. Binary 101
  21. My thoughts on log4j summed up in one picture...
  22. 50% off Lunduke Journal subscriptions until the 26th
  23. FreeDOS 1.3, the first major release in 5 years, edges closer to a full release
  24. Man. Life on the Oregon Trail was rough!
  25. Linux Foundation spends just 3.4% of its money on Linux
  26. Sonic the Hedgehog for the C64
  27. I have no idea what I'm doing... let's sell some NFTs!
  28. Visi On : The failed 1983 GUI that came before Windows or Macintosh
  29. "Small Team Closed Source" vs "Large Team Open Source"
  30. GitHub is the hub of the entire Open Source world?
  31. Give your programming career a boost by moving to Mexico
  32. How to support The Lunduke Journal (& where to buy Lunduke's books)
  33. Turbo Rascal : Pascal Compiler & IDE for tons of classic systems
  34. The last programming project from Bill Gates: Microsoft BASIC for TRS-80 Model 100
  35. Space Quest: The Movie
  36. The amazing, fake Macintoshes of NanoRaptor
  37. Microsoft Windows 1.0 : Not as bad as you'd think

November 2021

  1. DESQview/X : The forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future
  2. A brand-spanking-new Windows 3.1 mouse driver. Seriously.
  3. DevOps thrown out in favor of DevTesJanOps.
  4. Using Perl and RegEx is like riding a bike...
  5. Tigers and Bears and Programmers.
  6. Linus Sebastian attempts to install Linux video editor, entire universe implodes
  7. Germany planning to start using Linux, then stop using Linux again. Again.
  8. Man charged with "telling people he uses Arch across state lines"
  9. Ada Lovelace accused of not collaborating well with GNOME Project
  10. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - #12 - Lunduke & Friends
  11. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - #11 - GEM was cool
  12. Who is this computer comic strip cartoonist from the 1980s?
  13. A 286, EGA PC from 1987.
  14. Connecting to Telnet BBSes the most awesome way: Via Telemate in DOSBox
  15. Looking at 1980's GEM in 2021
  16. How to run Windows 3.1 software on Windows 10 & 11 (64bit) & Linux
  17. Happy 'Back to the Future' Day!
  18. Linux Sucks - Audio Book - Chapter 1
  19. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - #10 - System76 & GNOME drama
  20. Echo Chambers are Awesome
  21. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - Episode 9
  22. How much power and influence do Open Source foundations have?
  23. The two problems in software development. [COMIC]
  24. A tour through computing in 1961... 60 years ago
  25. Linus Torvalds interviews with Linux Journal Magazine: 1994 - 2019
  26. Red Hat to hire less experienced engineers, pay less going forward
  27. Maemo Lestse update brings Tor, Wireguard, and more device support
  28. "Browservice" brings modern web browsing to 1990s computers
  29. 7 Features Linux Should Borrow From Mac, Amiga, Haiku
  30. Who really coined the term 'Open Source'?
  31. If Lunduke ran Microsoft...
  32. Some Big Tech companies are fleeing China
  33. CDE and Dwarf Fortress running on the Out-of-Stock DevTerm

October 2021

  1. Source code released for Little Big Adventure 1 & 2!
  2. A new commercial RPG for the Commodore 64!
  3. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - Episode 8
  4. We need a DRM-free console game ROM store like GoG
  5. New, spooky, multi-retro-platform text adventure released!
  6. Prince of Persia ported to the Atari 8-bit computers!
  7. Computing on My Own Terms
  8. The beauty of computer games on Amber screens
  9. A new Amiga 1200 accelerator board has appeared
  10. Play DOOM. Via Twitter. Seriously.
  11. Pine64 Community Manager answers questions on the PinePhone Pro
  12. The PinePhone Pro leapfrogs the Librem 5... for less than half the price
  13. DOOM. Rendered with checkboxes. Played on a webpage.
  14. Worst color palette: ZX Spectrum or CGA?
  15. How to: Set up your own BBS Server on Linux
  16. How to: Run a DOS-based Web Server (seriously)
  17. The Linux-powered Nokia N810 from 2007 -- still awesome in 2021
  18. In honor of Windows 11... here's a comic about Windows 10.
  19. The Linux Foundation's 3D Game engine... still doesn't support Linux
  20. Mozilla Firefox now shows advertisements as you type in URLs
  21. Rounding the bend on my case of Covid
  22. Password managers are wicked hard [COMIC]
  23. Facebook can be offline for you, everyday.
  24. The Web Dev gets a raise [COMIC]
  25. C Programming Languages Removes Pointers
  26. The 1985 online service for 48k Atari computers: Games Computers Play Network
  27. Thinking abaout the great Gary Kildall
  28. Lunduke on the History Channel

September 2021

  1. Quake. In 13k of Javascript.
  2. Say GNU/Linux One More Time. I dare ya.
  3. If everyone on Earth drives a 1993 Toyota Corolla... nobody has an awesome car.
  4. Lunduke still sick, but some new goodies!
  5. The challenge of sourcing ethical computer hardware
  6. Devils Advocate: Here's how ChromeOS is the future of Linux
  7. "Linux Sucks: The Book" - Chapter 2
  8. Maybe I'm too hard on modern smartphones...
  9. Bring back removable batteries!
  10. The Lunduke clan is sick.
  11. A few hours left to get 50% off Lunduke Journal subscriptions
  12. TUI (Text-based) Windowing environments and desktops?
  13. Tux the Penguin... as a Paper Doll!
  14. Perks for Lunduke Journal Subscribers
  15. Send in your nerdy questions for Ask Lunduke!
  16. The Linux Distributions of 1993
  17. The best ScummVM games
  18. The DevTerm - the TRS80 Model 100 reincarnated
  19. 50% off Lunduke Journal subscriptions
  20. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - Episode 7
  21. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - Episode 6
  22. Run Linux... on DOS. Seriously.
  23. "Linux Sucks" The Book begins rolling out!
  24. "Linux Sucks: The Book" - Chapter 1
  25. 13 Computer Nerd Comics
  26. In This House We Believe (Linux edition)...
  27. British computer users are WEIRD. [COMIC]
  28. Free (open source) is good. Free (cost) is bad.
  29. Lunduke & Friends - Sep 16, 2021
  30. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - Episode 5
  31. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - Episode 4
  32. New Lunduke & Friends records tonight!
  33. BREAKING: Twitter CEO Grigori Rasputin casts curse on the entire Internet [SATIRE]
  34. Sir Clive Sinclair, creator of the ZX Spectrum, has passed away
  35. The Best Linux Marketing Campaigns
  36. The Linux Distributions of 1992
  37. Apple announces new iPhones, says old iPhones "total garbage" [SATIRE]
  38. The 10 Best NES Games of All Time (according to Lunduke)
  39. The "Linux Sucks" Videos collection
  40. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - Episode 3
  41. Giving up. Exiting Vim. [COMIC]
  42. "Linux Sucks: The Book" getting a publisher!
  43. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - Episode 2
  44. The Lunduke Journal Podcast - Episode 1
  45. The Best Command-Line-Only Video Games
  46. Without a GUI -- How to Live Entirely in a Terminal
  47. The one about the Unsigned, 8-Bit Genie [COMIC]
  48. The truly epic BYTE magazine covers by Robert Tinney
  49. DOSBox-X: DOS Emulation on steroids
  50. The very first issue of the very first Linux magazine
  51. The Lunduke Journal is almost self sustaining!
  52. Lunduke Journal subscriber exclusive books!
  53. Missouri man fighting for right of computers to hold patents [NEWS]
  54. The best knock knock joke of all time [COMIC]
  55. Got fired from the keyboard factory [COMIC]
  56. Linux Sucks: The Book & Audiobook
  57. The Best VGA DOS Games. Period.
  58. Firefox adds "OK Google" support [SATIRE]
  59. Commodore 64 ads from the 1980s still make me want a C64 in 2021
  60. Ode to the Clamshell iBook G3 - aka "The Toiletseat" [OPINION]
  61. The Lunduke Journal massive Labor Day subscription sale
  62. LibreOffice X adds Gamification, Office Assistant, VR, Ribbon Toolbar [SATIRE]
  63. Peertube, LBRY, & RSS [ASK LUNDUKE]
  64. Linux for Apple Silicon Macs getting closer to reality [NEWS]
  65. Do Star Trek transporters clone you? [COMIC]
  66. "Rants" and "Ask Lunduke" articles
  67. Desktop Linux companies stopped talking about Desktop Linux [RANT]
  68. Turn your Android phone into a pocket Mac Plus [HOW-TO]
  69. The nerdiest, friendliest community on the Net is now over a year old
  70. Did you know Mortal Kombat is a religious game? [COMIC]

August 2021

  1. The Beauty of Zip and Magneto Optical Disks [OPINION]
  2. We all test in production [COMIC]
  3. Haiku: The Alternative OS Grows Up [NEWS]
  4. Free services turn us into cattle [OPINION]
  5. Bill Gates announces new project: Turn poop into Taquitos [SATIRE]
  6. Welcome to The Lunduke Journal
  7. Linux turns 30, burned out, decides it's time for a career change [SATIRE]
  8. Facebook launches Virtual Reality "waiting in line at the DMV" [SATIRE]
  9. Lunduke's Guide to Choosing a Linux Distribution [SATIRE]
  10. Elon Musk announces something awesome. Critics complain: Musk has "money", "personality". [SATIRE]
  11. New "Rainbow Cow Fart" Linux vulnerability discovered [SATIRE]
  12. The Lunduke Journal Quarterly - Volume 1
  13. Seattle Tech Company announces "Crypto-As-A-Service via 5G" [SATIRE]
  14. Lunduke's Comprehensive List of Secure Operating Systems [SATIRE]
  15. Perl Creator: "I blew a raspberry into a modem" [SATIRE]
  16. Man tweets: "I am concerned about privacy" from always connected pocket surveillance device [SATIRE]
  17. GitHub announces "Co-CEO" [SATIRE]
  18. Apple bans "whimsy" from iOS App Store [SATIRE]

July 2021

  1. Just one more patch and the entire Internet will be secure [SATIRE]
  2. California outlaws computers that are "too fun" [SATIRE]
  3. Discrimination in Tech solved: "man pages" renamed "persxn pages" [SATIRE]
  4. Microsoft releases Windows 3.1 as Open Source [SATIRE]
  5. Rust evangelists begin proselytizing the programming language door to door [SATIRE]
  6. Valve confirms: Steam Deck handheld will ship with Neofetch [SATIRE]
  7. C programming language removes racist semicolon [SATIRE]
  8. Firefox to remove "rarely used" HTML support [SATIRE]
  9. President vows to remove Online content that says Free Speech is under attack [SATIRE]
  10. Facebook, YouTube ban discussion of "Lizard People" [SATIRE]
  11. Microsoft announces Clippy for Linux (tm) [SATIRE]
  12. systemd announces new version that is totally not an entire Operating System wink wink [SATIRE]
  13. Open Source orgs reject cancel culture, embrace meritocracy [SATIRE]
  14. Senators unveil "AOL for all" legislation [SATIRE]
  15. Internet definitely, totally destroyed by lack of Net Neutrality legislation [SATIRE]
  16. Bitcoin merges with Docker, becomes sentient, vows destruction of world [SATIRE]
  17. Linux and Microsoft announce marriage [SATIRE]
  18. Red Hat offers burned CentOS users a consolation: two stress balls and a coupon to Applebees [SATIRE]
  19. Apple forced to rate repairability of hardware; Gives self High Fives, Fist Bumps [SATIRE]
  20. Google announces 17 new chat services [SATIRE]
  21. FreeBSD bans "friendship", "feelings" in new Code of Conduct [SATIRE]
  22. Google to release new Chrome version every 2.3 hours [SATIRE]
  23. Mozilla to reduce Firefox memory usage to less than 14 GB per tab [SATIRE]
  24. VIM text editor causes California blackouts [SATIRE]

June 2021

  1. Microsoft trolls Internet with "leaked" Windows 11 ... that is actually Linux + KDE [SATIRE]
  2. [PROJECT NAME] IRC Channel leaves Freenode. Outrageous! [SATIRE]

April 2021

  1. systemd announces new version that is totally not an entire Operating System wink wink [SATIRE]

2017 6

November 2017

  1. Lunduke’s Theory of Computer Mockery — no technology is sacred
  2. MINIX — The most popular OS in the world, thanks to Intel
  3. Linux command line tools for working with non-Linux users

October 2017

  1. History of computers, part 2 — TCP/IP owes a lot to Xerox PUP
  2. Server downtime is bad. Server slowness is worse
  3. Time to rethink how much customer data you store

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