📰Linus T tells The Reg how Linux solo act became a global jam session
Ts'o, Hohndel and the man himself spill beans on how checks in the mail and GPL made it all possible If you know anything about Linux's history, you'll remember it all started with Linus Torvalds posting to the Minix Usenet group on August 25, 1991, that he was working on "a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/linus_torvalds_and_friends/
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GopherTube
GopherTube is a terminal-based YouTube client that lets you search, preview, play, and download videos without opening a browser. It presents results in a keyboard-driven TUI, shows inline ASCII/ANSI thumbnails via chafa, plays streams through mpv, and uses yt-dlp for downloads. Suitable for local shells and SSH sessions, with minimal external dependencies.
🔗 Links:
- İnstallation
- Screenshots and video
- Features
- Source code
Developer: KrishnaSSH
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🏷 Tags: #Linux#Media