Linux maintainers "have ruled that people no longer have to declare their LLM usage," reports XDA Developers, "as Torvalds himself calls a ban on AI 'utterly stupid.'" The first part of this story comes via a message sent to the Linux mailing list

Now Dahl and 12 of his Deno colleagues "will work to build out Cloudflare's Workers platform," explains The Register, "expanding it for potential open-source use. He feels this approach is the way to go." "Right now, every other server is really operating at the Linux VM layer

Valve has released a new Steam Client beta that finally moves the Linux client to 64-bit architecture, while also placing it inside a containerized Steam Runtime environment

Epic wants to work with developers and maintainers to find the best solution to making anti-cheat work seamlessly on Linux.

The year of Corporate Compliance on the Linux desktop is here

Linus Torvalds posts his first LLM-assisted patch to the Linux kernel after issuing clear pro-AI directives, the bossman makes use of AI tooling himself

prisoninmate shares a report from 9to5Linux: Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) has been released today, and it is now available for download for those eager to update their Ubuntu systems to a newer release

"Starting today, Linux desktops are now officially supported by Microsoft Defender," reports Neowin

"The updated client also lets players aggregate external PC game libraries, toggle between grid or list views, and monitor storage write rates alongside download queues," reports Neowin. Epic Games says Fortnite will finally come to Linux through this new client once Easy Anti-Cheat is rebuilt and kernel-level security agreements are established with major Linux distros

Torvalds says contributors must understand their code, whatever tools they use

DDR4 makes a comeback as component costs rise, while Linux offers an escape from forced upgrades

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: The Netherlands' Tax and Customs Administration has abandoned its planned Microsoft 365 public-cloud rollout. Why? The reasons were clear at the Open Source Summit Europe conference, where the Linux Foundation (LF) released the 2026 State of Open Source in Europe

GNOME merupakan persekitaran desktop yang tidak asing lagi bagi kebanyakkan pengguna sistem operasi berasaskan Linux, dan digunakan meluas oleh pelbagai variasi sistem operasi, termasuk Ubuntu dan Fedora

The latest example is System76 banning AI-generated content from its COSMIC desktop. At Open Source Summit Europe, Linux creator Linus Torvalds offered a different take: "I actually really like using AI," Torvald told Dirk Hohndel, his good friend and head of Ericsson Software Technology, in their latest discussion

Googlebook is becoming a more capable development machine.

Convert images, video, audio, and PDFs offline on Mac, Windows, or Linux with a Morphjet lifetime subscription for $40

You'll have to wait a little longer if you want an Android phone that can also run Windows 11.

Now it looks like the distro's OpenPGP implementation is next, with Sequoia PGP coming preinstalled in Ubuntu 26.10. Canonical wants it to eventually replace GnuPG [the dominant Linux implementation of PGP, written in C] as the default toolchain, though that switch has not happened yet..

Phoronix reports on a presentation this week by Meta engineer Gregory Price at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague: With today's memory shortages, high prices, and ever increasing memory capacity needs, Meta engineers have been working on Compressed RAM ("CRAM") for Linux

Spotifast is a native and lightweight Spotify app that uses much less RAM, resulting in a speedier listening experience.

Terminal app getting you down on Android and Googlebooks? Then you should download Breadsticks Linux on the Play Store.

The new method allows access using standard memory semantics instead of as a block device, drastically improving performance.

GNOME merupakan salah satu persekitaran desktop yang popular pada sistem operasi berasaskan Linux

Some Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) have trouble running too.

This new PC gaming app even lets you install Linux apps and run a desktop mode.

According to a Meta source, as well as internal security documentation and internal posts viewed by 404 Media, at least one of the vulnerabilities could have allowed an outside attacker -- that is, a normal Muse user -- to access data in sensitive internal Meta databases. At least one of the vulnerabilities was related to an exploit found in Linux kernel-based virtual machine code in July

To accelerate innovation and provide the robust support our global users require for production-grade simulation, we are consolidating our efforts." It was Brian Clemens. founder/VP Rocky Linux and the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation who launched the community fork of OpenRadioss to be called OpenCourant

The team itself is around 60 developers in a Discord channel, among them a "few [Python] core developers" and a "delegation from the Rust project". The team has experience with previous projects integrating Rust into existing codebases, such as Android and the Linux kernel, and is "excited by the work and keen to support [the project] if we proceed"

GNU Boot is only a distribution: it reuses existing software projects like Coreboot, GRUB, SeaBIOS, etc. So it's not very different from 100% free GNU/Linux distributions like Trisquel or Guix

It carries no upstream browser engine: no Gecko, no WebKit, no Blink. It is free software under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later, and it runs on Linux, macOS and Windows..

Phoronix reports: Steam on Linux use in March hit an all-time high of around 5.33% marketshare

Post-launch Geekbench 7 runs show Debian Linux instead of the leak's Ubuntu.

Kerajaan Belanda memulakan ujian rintis menggantikan penggunaan sistem operasi dan perisian Microsoft kepada sistem operasi NixOS yang dibangunkan sendiri. NixOS adalah berasaskan Linux dengan ia kini diuji oleh lapan pihak dengan versi stabil pertama platform tersebut dijangka siap menjelang akhir tahun 2027

BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Microsoft has made WSL Containers generally available, giving Windows 11 developers a built-in way to build, run, and deploy Linux containers through Windows Subsystem for Linux

DAWO combines a Linux-based client with open source tools for cloud, communications, and collaborative work

It wont be long until Linux enthusiasts will be able to complete a clean kernel build in under 10 seconds thanks to advances in PC hardware and the AI-assisted optimization of compilers.

"Finding vulnerabilities faster also puts pressure on Linux distributions to fix and deliver patches faster," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli AI has transformed bug discovery from "a manual, time-intensive process into a highly automated engine," notes Canonical's blog, leading to a "recent explosion in the volume of CVEs"

Traditional PS5 emulators attempt to recreate the console's hardware and software environment, but AnyPS5 is experimenting with a compatibility layer that translates PlayStation 5 executables into formats that can run on Windows and Linux.

Coding agents helped two developers build an accelerated desktop and graphics driver in weeks

During the second day keynote, one of the topics that came up during talks about the Snapdragon X2 Series and the new X2 Plus was support for Linux on the platform

Security researchers report that Microsoft considers the side-channel leak of file events to be by design

Snapdragon X2 Series processors feature a neural processing unit (NPU) delivering 80 trillion operations per second and allowing advanced AI features to run locally. And Snapdragon X2 Series "is expanding to Linux," Qualcomm announced today, calling it one of their most-requested capabilities: Qualcomm Technologies is a top contributor to Linux development at a kernel level, and now we're embracing support for Snapdragon X2 Series as a platform directly

Whether you want a beast of a machine with dedicated graphics or a light, easy-to-upgrade PC, we have the perfect rig for you.

Obscura VPN has launched a native Linux app with official packages for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch, plus a GPLv3 re-license and a launch discount.

Bringing this powerful operating system to the very latest in mobile computing hardware.

ExpressVPN has released version 14.3.1 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, bringing Advanced Protection to every protocol, a faster speed test, and better accessibility.

Recent changes to AMD's Linux drivers to enable GDDR7 memory and other graphics IP blocks could indicate that that enablement work on its RDNA 5 GPUs is under way.

Two flaws have available mitigations, too, but it's best to patch up.

"In April this year, we saw Andy Nguyen turning the PS5 into a Linux-powered gaming PC," writes the blog It's FOSS