The Era of Vibe-Coded Operating Systems is Upon Us
Postgres was recently rewritten in Rust in a month. Someone vibe-coded their own OS in the same period of time. The, um, bright and shining future is here?!?
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Re-Enabling AES-NI on VPSes That Don’t Pass the Feature Through
LowEndTalk member @forest shared an interesting technique to enable AES-NI even when the provider doesn't pass it through.
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Yeee-ouch! Guest-to-Host Escape Vulnerability in Linux KVM/x86
There's a pretty grisly CVE making the rounds. It's being marketed as Januscape (CVE-2026-53359), and if you're a hosting provider, it's a headache.
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Vaya con Dios, strncpy
A common misconception is that strncpy() was invented as a "safe" replacement for strcpy(). It wasn't. Please don't spit on its grave.
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How to Speed Up Your Software RAID Resyncs – Thanks, LowEndTalk!
I'm in the middle of a loooooong RAID resync. But it's not as long as it was going to be thanks to LowEndTalk.
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Will x86 Become a “Big Iron” Server-Only Chip?
Back in the 90s, there was a company named Tadpole that sold laptops with pretty exotic processors. You could get a Tadpole laptop running SPARC, Alpha, or PowerPC. We might be going back to that kind of world.
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Linux From Scratch: The Best Way to Learn Linux the Hard Way
Linux From Scratch is a project that teaches you how to build a complete Linux system from source code. You begin with an existing Linux system, create a clean build environment, compile a temporary toolchain, enter a chroot, and then build the real system piece by piece.
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Swap Is Back: High RAM Prices Are Bringing Back an Old Technology
Surging RAM prices may mean that we all need to refamiliarize ourselves with an old friend: swap.
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That Was a Fun Read! Pondering Cosmological UUIDs
UUIDs are fine for Earth. But what if you need UUIDs that can span the stars?
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2026: The Breakthrough Year for Rust
The Rust programming language is coming on strong in 2026, and one key development could see its adoption explode.
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Looking Back at 2025: What a Wild Year! Our Recap of the Year’s Biggest Moments
Satellites crashing to Earth. Providers expanding and deadpooling. Everyone getting sick of AI. And the launch of ServerVerify. What a year!
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Ten Cool Linux Command Line Tricks for the Journeyman Practitioner
Here's some creature comforts for the budding Linux practitioner to make your life easier.
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How to Stretch a 10GB VPS Disk: Compressed Folders, tmpfs, and Space-Saving Magic
Running a VPS with a tiny 10GB disk can feel like living in a studio apartment: you need to get creative with every bit of space. Whether you’re working with budget plans or just want to maximize efficiency, Linux offers powerful tools to stretch limited storage without compromising functionality.
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What Happens When You Run a VPS with Zero Swap?
Do you need swap? Maybe. What happens if you don't? You'll meet the OOM Killer. Is that the end of the world? Let's look at the whole virtual memory landscape.
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Before You Format: ext4, XFS, and btrfs Differences Explained (And Which One You Should Pick)
Like every other subsystem, Linux can't decide on just one filesystem. Which one (ext4, XFS, btrfs) is best for you?
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The End of Uniprocessor Configs on Linux – It’s a Multicore-Only Kernel Now
Back in the day - waaaay back in the day - unicore systems were the norm. Today, they're a rarity. The Linux kernel is being updated to reflect that.
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Five Times When Updating Your OS Would Have Saved You From Being Hacked
Every checklist you've ever seen for securing your VPS includes "update your system regularly". But is that one of those "best practices" that is more theoretical than a real-world necessity? To be honest, it's easy to not get around to running "apt update && apt upgrade". In my experience, at least with Debian, updates rarely break things but it's always a small risk. Nevertheless, it requires remembering to do it, spending the commands run, maybe rebooting, etc. Unfortunately, history has shown time and time again that skipping OS updates can leave even the best admins wide open to disaster.
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“OMG! I Never Knew That!”: The Simply Linux Tip That Has Got Me More Thanks Than Anything I’ve Ever Shared in 30+ Years
If you work in Linux or write shell scripts, I have a tip for you that is going to make your life a lot easier.
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Need a Laugh? Read the Linux Kernel List’s Foam-Mouthed Responses to Russian Programmers Banned from Contributing to the Linux Kernel
Apparently, President Kennedy taking the U.S. off the silver standard in 1963 was the beginning of this plot.
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Nontechnical Nonsense: Rust Stirs Up a Storm of Drama in the Linux Kernel: Ted T’so Shouting, Maintainer Quits
On one side, you have devs trying to bring a memory-safe language into the kernel. On the other, you have C grognards with their pitchforks and torches.
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RedHat Prepares to Give Bootloaders the Boot
Do we still need GRUB? RedHat says no and they're working on a project to replace GRUB by moving everything it does into the kernel itself.
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Irritation Removed: You Do Everything As Root And Hate Manually Removing Sudo From Copy-Paste Commands
You don't use sudo, but you're constantly coming across commands that are prefixed with sudo. Tired of having to first edit them to remove the sudo? We have a one-time solution for you.
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Has the Itanic Finally Hit Its Last Iceberg? It’s Been Removed From the Linux Kernel After a Little Drama
Remember Itanium? I recently had a close encounter with it. Linux has finally dropped support from it in the kernel, with a bit of drama.
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LowEndBoxTV: Is Windows or Linux Faster on a Hetzner Dedicated Server?
Is Windows or Linux faster on a server? The answer is, naturally, "it depends". But what it depends on might surprise you, and the benchmarks will definitely surprise you!
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Now on LowEndBoxTV: “The Deprecated, Bloodstained Code in the Linux Kernel” Documentary
One of our most popular posts ever was a piece we ran last year entitled The Deprecated, Bloodstained Code in the Linux Kernel. Now we've got a YouTube version of the story for you to watch, including some new audio of Hans commenting on his marriage from a prison phone call. It's just just a word-for-word reading of our story but a fresh script, and we think you'll enjoy it.
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Turbo-Charge Your Linux Shell With These Easy Tricks!
Recently I had some folks watching my shared screen and they were constantly saying "oh, that was cool, I didn't know you could do that in the shell". Here's some shell tricks I showed them.
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The Deprecated Bloodstained Code in the Linux Kernel
Many wonderful people have contributed to the Linux kernel. But one particular codebase has a dark past, and is scheduled to be removed in 2025.
Read MoreNo, ‘airforce’ is Not a Good Password: Check Out This Honeypot
LowEndTalk user htop setup a honeypot to trap ssh passwords. Watch skiddies in real time!
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