A story of Ice and Code

It all started with an obscure operating system

When this site began, Linux was still something you had to explain. It lived on shelves of homemade CDs, in mailing lists, and on machines that asked more of you than most people wanted to give. That was part of the appeal. You could look under the hood, learn how things worked, and make the machine yours.

We were there because we wanted other people to find the tools that made that feeling possible. We have never stopped looking, testing, writing, and making room for the people building software in the open.

Then Linux became the place the internet grew up

As the internet moved from a curiosity to part of everyday life, Linux moved with it. The LAMP stack gave people a practical way to build and run websites without asking permission from a handful of vendors. Small teams could publish, learn from one another, and build services that reached far beyond their own desks.

Open source grew alongside that web. Projects shared their work, improved through use, and found unexpected futures. KDE's KHTML became part of the lineage that led to WebKit and the browser engines that power much of the modern web. A project that once seemed niche helped shape how billions of people communicate, learn, build and work online.

From servers to pockets

Linux kept going. The quiet infrastructure became everywhere. Linux became a dependable foundation for servers, cloud platforms, embedded devices, and the world's most powerful supercomputers. When smartphones emerged, Android built its platform on the Linux kernel and carried that open source foundation into the pockets of people who might never have called themselves Linux users.

None of this happened in one dramatic leap. It came from maintainers, translators, testers, documenters, contributors and developers who kept showing up. That steady work is what has always moved Linux forward, and it is the kind of work we respect most.

Still a place for the people making the tools

We have kept promoting Linux an Open Source Software through every one of those periods. The site has changed, the audience has changed, and the definition of a computer has changed. The purpose has stayed close to the original one: help people discover useful software, and give open source developers a place where their work can be seen by someone looking for it.

We do not believe every project needs a marketing machine. Sometimes it needs a clear description, a current release, a useful screenshot, and a reader willing to try it. We try to provide that starting point, with editorial care and respect for the people who build things in public.

If Winter might not come any time soon, local AI is already there

Local AI seems like one of these moments for Linux. It's already the first-class platform for local inference. CUDA, ROCm and Vulkan were all designed for it first. And Linux-native tools like llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM have already built themselves a solid reputation.

Running capable models on your own hardware gives power users more control over their data, their tools, and the way they work. It is still changing quickly, and the rough edges are part of what makes it worth following.

Over the next few months, we will probably publish more about running local AI on Linux. We are doing it for the same reason we stayed with Linux through all the other big shifts: because we care about the work, and because we want to help people find their way into it.

That is simply what our motto means when it talks about
Standing on the edge of Tomorrow

SEE YOU THERE!