On October 1, Microsoft open-sourced the Postgres MCP Server, a tool that lets AI coding agents like GitHub Copilot or Claude Code talk directly to a PostgreSQL database. It’s written in Rust, released under the MIT license, and despite coming from…
KDE Plasma 6.8 is due on October 14, and the project has just shipped a second beta to get there. In the weekly “This Week in Plasma” report published on October 3, KDE’s Nate Graham and John Veness said the…
On September 29, Cloudflare announced that it is applying to become a public certificate authority (CA). It has submitted applications to the Chrome, Apple, Microsoft, and Mozilla root programs, signed a deal to buy an established root certificate from GlobalSign,…
On September 25, 2026, systemd introduced systemd-report, a new reporting system that collects Linux system information and runtime metrics into a single, timestamped JSON report. The idea is simple: instead of collecting information with a long list of commands, Linux…
If you’ve been anywhere near social media lately, you’ve probably seen them: ink-wash landscapes blooming across the screen, data charts unfolding like movie trailers, short clips that look straight out of a film festival. All “made with Opus 5.5.” So…
Background Containers aren’t magic. They’re ordinary Linux processes with a limited view of the system. Here’s how that works, with commands you can run yourself. The first time I ran ps aux inside a Docker container, I got two lines of output.…
For most of its history, Kubernetes has assumed that the important parts of a Linux node run as root. The kubelet mounts volumes and manages cgroups. The container runtime creates namespaces. CNI plugins build network interfaces and routes. kube-proxy writes…
If you manage Linux servers, you’ve probably had to deal with systemd more times than you can remember. For most Linux administrators, systemd is just part of the infrastructure. You use systemctl, journalctl, and systemd-analyze every day without thinking much…
If you work as a system administrator, you’ve probably run into this situation before. A security vulnerability is announced, a kernel fix becomes available, and suddenly you have another maintenance window to plan. You need to test the new kernel,…
If you spend a lot of time in a Linux terminal, you probably already know the commands you use dozens of times a day: cd, ls, grep, find, ssh, and systemctl. But some of the most useful shell features are easy to overlook. A command gets…
