Independent · Linux · Open source · Privacy
Serious coverage of the systems you actually run.
Uptime is a publication for people who live in a terminal: Linux, open source, privacy, self-hosting and security — tested on real hardware, sourced to primaries, dated, and written by named people.
The promise
01Testedon real hardware, with the versions stated.
02Sourcedevery claim links a primary source.
03Datedand re-tested — guides flag when they go stale.
04Namedevery byline is a real, accountable person.
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Eight ways in
However you got here, there’s a section for what you do — from the daily news desk to original research, deep guides, and honest reviews.
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News
Distro and kernel releases, security advisories and governance — sourced to primaries.
Enter News → 02Research
Original investigations: package ecosystems, telemetry audits, supply-chain and FOSS health.
Enter Research → 03Guides
Deep, versioned how-to guides. Every one states what it was tested on, and when.
Enter Guides → 04Reviews
Hands-on only — VPNs, password managers, backup, hosting and hardware, tested on Linux.
Enter Reviews → 05Tools
Free, client-side utilities. Nothing you enter is ever transmitted.
Enter Tools → 06Privacy
Threat models for real people: encryption, hardening, de-Googling, self-hosting.
Enter Privacy → 07Opinion
Signed analysis on licensing, governance and the sustainability of free software.
Enter Opinion → 08Heritage
The history of Linux and FOSS, told properly — including this domain’s CrunchBang story.
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Utilities that never phone home
Every tool runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type is transmitted, logged, or stored — for a privacy publication, that’s the whole point.
Heritage
This domain has a history. We tell it straight.
CrunchBang Linux (#!) was a minimalist Debian distribution by Philip Newborough. It ended in 2015, and its creator asked that the name not be carried forward. We are not CrunchBang — we hold the domain, credit the people who built it, and point you to where the community lives now.
Looking for the distro?
BunsenLabs →
CrunchBang++ →
Both are active continuations of the CrunchBang experience.