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Bryan Lunduke
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Bryan Lunduke writes The Lunduke Journal of Technology, a personal blog at lunduke.substack.com about programming and culture. Since 2021, 92 different Hacker News readers have linked it 145 times, most often “Linux Foundation spends just 3.4% of its money on Linux”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 2 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link lunduke.substack.com for Linux, open-source and retro computing stories, such as Desqview/X, GEM and Winamp, and as sources for claims about the Linux Foundation.
- Recommended for · 2 comments
- One commenter liked a post on Torvalds and Rust; another says a Nintendo Game Processor piece may be enjoyed.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Linux Foundation spends just 3.4% of its money on Linux5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-12-14
- DESQview/X: Forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-11-30
- The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII in 19964 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-04-07
- Who coined the term 'Open Source'?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-11-05
- /p/elementary-os-is-imploding?s=r3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-03-25
- /p/the-wild-events-that-nearly-took3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-05-17
- Ubuntu market-share is in a nosedive3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-04-18
- Nintendo Game Processor – The lost Nintendo game creation PC3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-02-08
- Linus Torvalds threatens to punish devs by putting Rust in the Linux kernel2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-27
- The Rust Foundation goes to war against people using the word “Rust”2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-12
What Hacker News says?
Sort of. It largely was a copy of Apple, unfortunately. However I think it at least pushed the bar of what might be possible with Linux, and they're no longer around [1]. I'm hoping someone can come and give real high quality work to the FOSS community and take on a wider perspective. They had to basically do their own thing instead of pushing GNOME/KDE along, which may have to be unfortunately the case. It would be…
Comment linking /p/elementary-os-is-imploding?s=r
on “The end of the nice GTK button”Submitted The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII in 1996 as a story · 768 points
HN discussionThat's a funny way to say "they fired staff that vandalized company property, broke into the CEO's office, and used an internal company website to publish and promote anti-company propaganda". That will get you fired from bussing tables or washing dishes, let alone a six-figure job at MS. Edit: Source on the last one; the first two were widely reported on in media: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/fired-microsoft-empl…
Comment linking /p/fired-microsoft-employee-encouraged
on “Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians”Submitted DESQview/X: Forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future as a story · 505 points
HN discussionThey didn’t coin the term: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/who-really-coined-the-term-op...
Comment linking /p/who-really-coined-the-term-open-source?s=r
on “Court finds calling stuff open source when it's not is false advertising”Submitted Make Linux look like Windows 95 as a story · 473 points
HN discussionI think you got this one wrong. The original posted URL was: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/richard-stallman-the-state-of... The grandparent comment says that Lunduke ripped off Slashdot. I don't see that. There is one quote that's the same and several that I see that are different. You claim you changed it to the original source... the original source would be the Libreplanet link here: https://media.libreplanet.or…
Comment linking /p/richard-stallman-the-state-of-the
on “Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement”Submitted Elementary OS is imploding as a story · 386 points
HN discussionOk, we've changed the URL above to that link from https://lunduke.substack.com/p/richard-stallman-the-state-of... . Thanks to both of you! We want original sources here. From the HN guidelines ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ): " Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. " (For the purposes of that guideline, copying and pasting som…
Comment linking /p/richard-stallman-the-state-of-the
on “Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement”Submitted The first RISC-V portable computer is now available as a story · 369 points
HN discussionThe article links to the inspiration in the second paragraph: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-last-programming-project-...
Comment linking /p/the-last-programming-project-from?s=w
on “The first RISC-V portable computer is now available”Submitted Linux Kernel Module written in Scratch (a visual programming language for kids) as a story · 257 points
HN discussionThis seems like an inspiring step in the direction of a device that I want, but which as far as I can tell, doesn't exist, but I have one burning question: How small is it? I've been trying to figure out what I need for comfortable portable writing. I have an Aspire One that's pretty much at the lower limit for key spacing for my hands, with 17 mm × 16 mm keys. I'm typing this on a cheap USB external keyboard with k…
Comment linking /p/the-first-risc-v-portable-computer
on “The first RISC-V portable computer is now available”Submitted The BYTE magazine covers by Robert Tinney as a story · 242 points
HN discussionArdi Executor. There's a recent fork at GitHub. You can run m68k binaries seamlessly. You don't need propietary MacOS parts, just the software. But if you are some software preserver, having a libre option to run legacy media it's always good for historical reasons. I am a daily libre software user but I emulate ancient machines with propietary stuff just for curiosity. As it not a personal computing device I find i…
Comment linking /p/hands-on-with-1998s-rhapsody-dr2
on “System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4”Submitted The Linux Distributions of 1992 as a story · 220 points
HN discussionNever hear of that person before, but before listening to anyone, I like to go through their material to see if they at least give the impression of a balanced and impartial person. > The company made popular by making modular laptops now makes a desktop with soldered-on RAM. Bonus: They appear to support targeting children with Trans cartoons. https://lunduke.substack.com/p/framework-unveils-2000-non-up... > Leftis…
Comment linking /p/leftist-extremists-leave-linux-kernel
on “Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox”Submitted The story of the first “computer bug” is a pile of lies as a story · 189 points
HN discussionDesqview/X ran on a 386 I think. https://lunduke.substack.com/p/desqviewx-the-forgotten-mid-1...
Comment linking /p/desqviewx-the-forgotten-mid-1990s
on “Let's write a video game from scratch like it's 1987”Submitted When Apple Built a Mac OS Running on Top of Solaris and HP-UX as a story · 188 points
HN discussionYou might also enjoy this piece about the Nintendo Game Processor, and its software, the “Mario Factory.” https://lunduke.substack.com/p/nintendo-game-processor-the-l...
Comment linking /p/nintendo-game-processor-the-lost
on “SNES Development Part 1: Getting Started”Submitted Local man switches to Arch, tells no one as a story · 143 points
HN discussionThe original “Toilet Seat” iBook from 1999is the only one I can recall that came with a handle: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ode-to-the-clamshell-ibook-g3...
Comment linking /p/ode-to-the-clamshell-ibook-g3-aka
on “Is a movie prop the ultimate laptop bag?”Submitted Commodore 64 Ads from the 1980s as a story · 138 points
HN discussionCommerical X servers were really something, especially those without an academic/FOSS heritage. Desqview/X [1] was one of those "DOS plus a UI and multitasking" OSes that competed with Windows 2/3.x and GEOS/PC, that windowed with... you guess it, the power of Motif and X. I think twm was the original window manager that came with it, and you could run emulated DOS instances and Windows sessions in X terminal emulat…
Comment linking /p/desqviewx-the-forgotten-mid-1990s
on “Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple”Submitted Linux Sucks 2022 as a story · 120 points
HN discussionMeanwhile, bryan lunduke blogged this today: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/massive-memory-leaks-in-syste...
Comment linking /p/massive-memory-leaks-in-system76s
on “Great things about Rust that aren't just performance”Submitted The PalmOS powered wristwatch from Fossil as a story · 104 points
HN discussionGiven her twitter handle is DaniElainaFore I don't think it's unreasonable that Cassidy calls her Dani in this post, after working closely together for what, 7 years? Is there more context? (edit: nvm, found the tweetstorm from last month https://lunduke.substack.com/p/elementary-os-is-imploding?s=... that goes into some details)
Comment linking /p/elementary-os-is-imploding?s=r
on “Farewell, Elementary”Submitted The time SUSE, the German Linux company, banned mentioning Jewish holidays as a story · 86 points
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