Yearly Archives: 2026

I’ve been in this industry long enough to have installed Slackware from 20 floppies on a 486 with 8MB RAM just to prove a point. I compiled kernels at 3 a.m. because I wanted to learn. I’ve watched every “Year of the Linux Desktop” prediction crash and burn harder...

Mainframes just posted their best revenue in 20 years. Email keeps growing fast. The bold replacement stories? They rarely match reality. Back in 2013 Slack launched with big promises. Many headlines called it the tool that would kill email for good. Around the same time cloud platforms, containers, and orchestration...