Hackaday [Unofficial]5d ago

A Brief History of Unix Commands On Windows: CoreUtils (Again)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/06/16/a-brief-history-of-unix-commands-on-windows-coreutils-again/

135d ago
A Brief History of Unix Commands On Windows: CoreUtils (Again) https://hackaday.com/2026/06/16/a-brief-history-of-unix-commands-on-windows-coreutils-again/
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A Brief History Of Unix Commands On Windows: CoreUtils (Again)

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, …

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Hackaday [Unofficial]Jun 14

Why not yserver? It’s Xserver, but Rust-y.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/06/14/why-not-yserver-its-xserver-but-rust-y/

13Jun 14
Why not yserver? It’s Xserver, but Rust-y. https://hackaday.com/2026/06/14/why-not-yserver-its-xserver-but-rust-y/
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Why Not Yserver? It’s Xserver, But Rust-y.

If you’re not into Wayland as a display manager, it seems like your options are slowly dwindling. Xorg isn’t exactly a hotbed of activity, and the one fork everyone knows about is best …

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Hackaday [Unofficial]Jun 9

Custom FM Radio Station Powered by Shell Scripts

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/06/09/custom-fm-radio-station-powered-by-shell-scripts/

13Jun 9
Custom FM Radio Station Powered by Shell Scripts https://hackaday.com/2026/06/09/custom-fm-radio-station-powered-by-shell-scripts/
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Custom FM Radio Station Powered By Shell Scripts

[Trwmato] wanted to spend more time listening to a normal radio to cut back on phone use. But the programming wasn’t quite right so, of course, the solution was to spin up a custom radio stat…

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Hackaday [Unofficial]Jun 3

Linux Fu: Fake Webcams, GUI Edition

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/06/03/linux-fu-fake-webcams-gui-edition/

13Jun 3
Linux Fu: Fake Webcams, GUI Edition https://hackaday.com/2026/06/03/linux-fu-fake-webcams-gui-edition/
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Linux Fu: Fake Webcams, GUI Edition

Previously, I looked at using the Linux video loopback system from the command line. The basic trick was simple enough: capture video from a real camera, process it with something like ffmpeg, and …

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13Jun 2
Linux Fu: Taming Strace https://hackaday.com/2026/06/02/linux-fu-taming-strace/
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Linux Fu: Taming Strace

While many operating systems seem to try to prevent you from peeking under the hood, Unix and Linux positively encourage it. One great tool that we’ve looked at before is strace. Using this t…

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13May 28
Linux Fu: Fake Webcams Have Many Uses https://hackaday.com/2026/05/28/linux-fu-fake-webcams-have-many-uses/
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Linux Fu: Fake Webcams Have Many Uses

Dealing with text streams is a fundamental skill for the Linux power user. You can sort, merge, and search text files easily from the command line. What if you could do the same thing with video? W…

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