I don’t like repeating news you can read everywhere anyway. I’d rather write how-tos I’ve worked through myself, reviews and my take on what’s happening in the Linux world. I care less about being complete than about you actually solving your problem after reading. The blog is written in German; here in the English edition I translate selected articles. Comments, emails or a hello on the Fediverse are always welcome.
How it all started
The first article went online on January 11, 2006, and was about a Wi-Fi stick: 3Com WL-305 unter Ubuntu Breezy (in German). Back then my computer ran Ubuntu, and the blog was mostly a notepad for fixes I would otherwise have had to dig up again the hard way. Over the years, that turned into more than 1,600 articles and around 22,600 comments from you.
The topics grew along with me. At some point Ubuntu became Arch Linux, then came Android, the Raspberry Pi, a small homelab and, most recently, local AI on my own hardware. For a living I write for TUXEDO Computers; before that I was with LinuxUser and Raspberry Pi Geek. Through all of it, Linux und Ich has stayed what it was from day one: my own blog.
What the blog looks like today
Today’s design is a block theme I built myself. The fonts live on my own server instead of Google’s, there’s a dark color scheme and a reading aid for larger text and more line spacing. New articles show up on the front page, older ones you’ll find through the topics at the top of the page or via search – on the desktop just as well as on your phone.
What it used to look like
Since 2006 the blog has worn quite a few outfits. In the very beginning it still ran on Drupal and only later moved to WordPress. In 2010 it was green on black and called itself “Ein Blog über Ubuntu, Linux, Android und IT” (a blog about Ubuntu, Linux, Android and IT); 2012 brought the light design with the big penguin banner. From 2017 Linux und Ich looked like a magazine with large lead images, and in 2024 much calmer. The front pages come from the Internet Archive.
What it’s all about
Most of it revolves around Linux itself: in the German original, more than 1,000 articles sit in the GNU/Linux category, 281 are tagged Ubuntu and 149 GNOME. Add 189 articles on Android, 67 on hardware and 42 on the Raspberry Pi. The newest corner is the homelab: whatever runs on the small server under my desk has made it into 58 posts so far. The English edition picks the articles that are most useful beyond the German-speaking world.
Projects
Alongside the blog, I build programs and websites that I first made for my own everyday use. Everything is open source and free of charge, and the software lives on GitHub. Bug reports, ideas and translations are welcome, whether as an issue on GitHub or simply as a comment. For every project you’ll also find an article here on the blog with the background and the first steps.
Software
Websites
Planet FOSS
News from the Linux and open-source world, collected in magazine style, in German and English.
Tuxsucht
A search engine for the German-language Linux web: blogs, forums, wikis and magazines.
Follow and contact
If you don’t want to miss a new article, the RSS feed is your best bet – no algorithm deciding what you get to see. On Mastodon and Bluesky I announce new posts and share finds from the open-source world, for now mostly in German. For questions about an article the comments are the best place; for everything else there’s the contact form.
Mastodon
The blog shares new articles and finds as @linuxundich (in German); personally I’m around as @toff.
Happy reading!
Christoph