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• Ubuntu Engineering in 2025: A Retrospective · Jon Seager
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• LINUX Unplugged 634: Config Confessions
• Hybrid Pick: ncspot
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• sharkdp/hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool

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• Thelio, Devone, X250 - Workstation Benchmark Comparison
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• HP Dev One — From preinstalled Linux Pop!_OS to a tuned Linux keyboard with a Super key, HP Dev One is designed with powerful features and tools to help you code your way.
• Pop!_OS Tutorials
• Phoronix Test Suite for Docker
• Workstation Test Suite - OpenBenchmarking.org
• Timed Linux Kernel Compilation Benchmark - OpenBenchmarking.org
• Unigine Superposition Benchmark - OpenBenchmarking.org
• Superposition benchmark - UNIGINE
• Phoronix Test Suite — Linux Testing & Benchmarking Platform, Automated Testing, Open-Source Benchmarking.
• Geekbench5
• Brent’s Hugo Build Times · Issue #349
• Linux Kernel Build Benchmark Comparison - X250 vs. Dev One
• Workstation Benchmark Comparison - X250 vs. Dev One
• Geekbench CPU - LENOVO X250 vs HP Dev One
• Geekbench Vulkan Score - LENOVO X250 vs HP Dev One
• Unigine Superposition Benchmark - LENOVO X250 vs HP Dev One
• Pointiest Stick — Adventures in Linux and KDE
• dwm — dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts.
• Pick: systeroid — A more powerful alternative to sysctl(8) with a terminal user interface.

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• MBP M1 Max Machine Learning, Sys76-kudu-ML Benchmark Comparison
• Sys76-kudu-amd, Sys76-kudu-nv Benchmark Comparison
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• Pick: Spodcast — Spodcast is a caching Spotify podcast to RSS proxy. Using Spodcast you can follow Spotify-hosted netcasts/podcasts using any player which supports RSS, thus enabling the use of older hardware which is not compatible with the Spotify (web) app.
• Pick: hwatch — A modern alternative to the watch command, that records the result of command execution and can display history and diffs.
• Pick: rnote — A simple drawing application to create handwritten notes.
• Pick: dog dns client — dog is an open-source DNS client for the command-line. It has colourful output, supports the DoT and DoH protocols, and can emit JSON.