Linux for Beginners: How to Choose Your First Distro
Linux comes in many flavors called distributions. For a first install, Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Fedora are friendly, well-supported choices you can test from a USB stick.
Open Source
Open Source Licenses Explained: MIT, Apache 2.0 and GPL
Permissive licenses like MIT and Apache 2.0 let you reuse code almost anywhere. Copyleft licenses like the GPL require you to share your changes. Here is how to choose.
What Is the Fediverse? Social Media Without a Single Owner
The fediverse is a network of independent social servers that can follow and reply to each other, built on the W3C's ActivityPub standard. Even Meta's Threads has joined in.