Issue #302 / Jan 2026

When I heard that an AI-generated song called "Walk My Walk" had climbed to number one on the country music chart, I knew that it was my professional responsibility as an IT journalist to tune it in and listen.

Another Linux Malware Discovered; TUXEDO Computers Announces a New InfinityBook; SUSE Dives into the Agentic AI Pool; Linux Now Runs Most Windows Games; Fedora 43 Has Finally Landed; KDE Unleashes Plasma 6.5; Xubuntu Site Possibly Hacked; LMDE 7 Now Available.

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the little links that bring us closer within the Linux kernel community.

The best indie games are fun, substantial, and well designed. And because they are Free software, curious programmers can view the source code to learn about game development.

Nate explores FunOS 25.10, Peppermint OS 2025-10-12, Clonezilla Live 3.3.0-33, and Voyager Live 25.10.

CachyOS promises lighting fast speed and optimized performance for experienced users and newcomers alike.

Linux is in constant flux, which naturally affects the boot process. Bootloaders such as GRUB are slowly being replaced with a faster, more secure boot process.

SSH brute-force attacks are still a major threat to Linux servers in 2025. Learn how to block them with key-only logins, Fail2ban, iptables, knockd, and more.

Py7 combines seven Python lint tools to deliver a comprehensive check of your Python source code.

AppImage packages are highly portable and don't require dependencies. A tool called appimagetool will bundle your Python application into a single AppImage executable.