At the end of October I switched my gaming machine from Win10 to Linux.1 Not without some 2nd thoughts how the games would perform. This weekend it was finally time to tackle the supposedly toughest one: The Microsoft Flight Simulator. It is likely Microsoft’s flagship product, significantly older than Windows. Read more

Simple: Install Linux! Okay, that might sound too blunt, Tomas, but it’s true: The last bare-metal Windows installation in the household, my dedicated “gaming machine”, has recently been reinstalled with GNU/Linux Debian. Microsoft’s passive-aggressive Windows 10 EOL threat doesn’t work on me, or at least not in intended way. Read more

Next Friday and Saturday (September, 19th + 20th 2025) you find me at the Kiel Open Source and Linux Days, also known as Kielux.1 As guest, I’ll be attending a few talks and workshops. Looking forward, Yours, Tomas Jakobs https://www.kielux.de/ ↩︎

A nice open source project from the industry. The new plant of a medium-sized company needed to be equipped with video surveillance and recording. Usually engineers use ready-to-use CCTV1 systems bought in DIY stores, consisting of a network-attached storage and a streaming server. Nowadays, not that cheap Chinese blackboxes, usually tied together with Apps, Cloud and Online functionality without any chance of customization. Read more