Linux's contemporary filesystem mount API has been missing documentation since 2019,

From COBOL and C to Linux and SQL, the unglamorous software that keeps the world running refuses to disappear Opinion COBOL turned 66 this year and is still in use today

From the report: I go to a lot of tech conferences -- 13 in 2025 -- and many of those I attend are outside the U.S.; several are in London, one is in Amsterdam, another in Paris, and two in Tokyo. Wherever I went this past year, when we weren't talking about AI, Linux, the cloud, or open-source software, the top non-tech topic for non-Americans involved the sweeping changes that have occurred since President Donald J

Phoronix's Michael Larabel is "reliving some of the best moments for Fedora Linux in 2025" by highlighting the year's most popular news around the distro

It restored a version of the traditional Start menu, rolled out as a free upgrade to Windows 7 and 8 users, and ran on virtually all the same hardware as those older versions. Microsoft introduced the Windows Subsystem for Linux during this period and eventually rebuilt Edge on Chromium

"You still have a real-time microcontroller, and you still write code the way Arduino developers are used to. What we added is compute, without forcing people to change how they work." Uno Q combines a Linux-based compute system with a real-time microcontroller from the STM32 family

Meta is testing a Steam Deck Linux scheduler on servers, betting that latency-driven design scales beyond gaming into production infrastructure

Arch Linux is one of the first Linux distros to officially axe Pascal GPU support after Nvidia cancelled support in July

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite's latest Linux benchmarks show significant regressions

Alternative apps to empower older versions of macOS or Windows Part 2 There's a wealth of highly usable free software for the big proprietary desktop OSes

Practical steps to make an aging operating system usable into 2026 Part 1 You can switch to running mostly FOSS without switching to Linux

Phoronix's Michael Larabel writes: An interesting anecdote from this month's Linux Plumbers Conference in Tokyo is that Meta (Facebook) is using the Linux scheduler originally designed for the needs of Valve's Steam Deck..

Linux 6.19 drops legacy Radeon DRM driver for the modern AMDGPU kernel driver, ushering performance uplifts up to 30% for AMD GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 graphics cards

In a recent talk, Meta engineers detailed how they've been deploying a low-latency Linux scheduler originally developed by Valve for the Steam Deck across production servers

Surfshark has added dedicated IP support to its Linux GUI app, extending a feature its been focusing on since 2023

The Steam Machine is basically a tiny gaming desktop for your TV, running the Steam Deck's SteamOS. That platform is a Linux distribution optimized for emulating Windows titles

Linux's share of the desktop market has climbed to as much as 11% by one count, but that figure includes Chromebooks, and the traditional Linux desktop remains hamstrung by the same fragmentation that killed Unix decades ago

No. Answers on a Christmas card Opinion I've run Linux desktops since the big interface question was whether to use Korn or Bash for your shell

The headless package is available on GitHub, promoting transparency across the open-source community

Seuss can write a new book: "How the Geeks Stole Christmas." Because this newfound interest in the geek demographic seems to have spread to the largest sites of all. Google searches on "Gifts for Programmers" now point to a special page on Amazon with suggestions like Linux crossword puzzles

Quilters AI designed a Linux computer with 843 components in one week, reducing human workload and accelerating mini PC innovation

An anonymous reader shared this report from the site It's FOSS: Linux gives you plenty of ways to install software: native distro packages, Flatpak, Snap, AppImage, source builds, even curl-piped installers

"Yet another distro is making the move to the KDE Plasma desktop," writes Linux magazine

AMD's answer to Nvidia's DLSS 4 seemingly works on older hardware but is currently not officially supported

HPs 1972 GPIB bus finally receives stable Linux support, allowing vintage lab instruments to connect seamlessly with contemporary systems

Revived distro returns on Arch with KDE Plasma, global menus, and a familiar macOS-style sheen The new pearOS distro is a Romanian project that picks up the concepts behind the original Pear Linux from 2011 and updates them

ExpressVPN is overhauling its desktop apps with a new Qt-based framework. The update is now live on Linux and macOS and Windows is next

Longtime Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced that the Linux kernel has received its first CVE tied to Rust code

Linux users rejoice! Proton VPN has officially released its new command-line interface for Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora

A software engineer and E-ink enthusiast recently set up a remote E-ink secondary display, upcycling an old E-ink tablet and setting up an awesome Linux DIY project for all those with the need to read on bespoke screen hardware

LA-based startup Quilter has outlined Project Speedrun, which marks a milestone in computer design by AI

Want to back up an iPhone locally without iCloud fees? A small Linux-powered device offers encrypted USB backups but you've got to put in the work to set it up

Powered by the original mobile Linux OS with crowdsourced specs hands on After successful crowdfunding, the latest release of the original handheld Linux distro will power a new handset coming in mid-2026.

HP's GBIP interface will finally receive stable drivers for Linux (6.19 kernel release), 53 years after its debut

This week System76 launched the first stable release of its Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment. Announced in 2021, it's designed for all GNU/Linux distributions and it shipping with Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS (based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS)

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols files this report from Tokyo: At the invitation-only Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit here, the top Linux maintainers decided, as Jonathan Corbet, Linux kernel developer, put it, "The consensus among the assembled developers is that Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental it is now a core part of the kernel and is here to stay

The world's leading AI firms are collaborating on a new Agentic Artificial Intelligence Foundation managed by the Linux Foundation to build open standards around AI agents

New submitter emangwiro shares a report: The HDMI Forum, responsible for the HDMI specification, continues to stonewall open source

OpenAI, alongside Anthropic and Block, have launched the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, describing it as a neutral home for standards as agentic systems move into real production

Ini adalah bagi membolehkan kesemua ejen AI di masa hadapan bekerjasama antara satu lain menggunakan protokol standard. AAIF kini diletakkan di bawah Linux Foundation

The Agentic AI Foundation launches to support MCP, AGENTS.md, and goose

An attempt to provide vendor-neutral oversight as the agent train barrels on The Linux Foundation on Tuesday said it has formed the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) to provide vendor-neutral oversight for the development of AI agent infrastructure.

Qualcomms recent acquisition of Arduino has introduced the Arduino Uno Q, a board that combines a Linux SBC powered by Qualcomms Dragonwing with an STM32 microcontroller

Will a unique software experience be enough to overcome the lack of a key hardware feature?

Firefox 146 has been released with native fractional scaling support on Wayland -- finally giving Linux users crisp UI rendering

Founded in 2013, the Finnish company is largely known for its Sailfish OS. After a long hiatus, it is introducing the Jolla Phone as an “independent European Do It Together (DIT) Linux phone”

Berapa ramai dalam kalangan pembaca masih ingat tentang kewujudan Jolla dengan mereka pernah menawarkan telefon dan tablet pintar dengan sistem operasi Sailfish OS berasaskan Linux? Jika anda dalam golongan yang meminati peranti Jolla, tahun depan Jolla Phone baharu akan dilancarkan dengan sistem operasi Sailfish OS 5

FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE arrived this week, notes this report from The Register, which calls it the latest release "of the Unix world's leading alternative to Linux." As well as numerous bug fixes and upgrades to many of its components, the major changes in this version are reductions in the number of platforms the OS supports, and in how it's built and how its component software is packaged

Tiny Core Linux is a true example of just how small a functional desktop operating system can be, even in 2025

The Caligra c100 Developer Terminal is a brand-new computer platform with retro-licious metal wedge case and productivity focused Linux OS

"Homebrew, the package manager for macOS and Linux, just got a handy new feature in the latest v5.0.4 update," reports How-To Geek

Jolla is "trying again with a new crowd-funded smartphone," reports Phoronix: Finnish company Jolla started out 14 years ago where Nokia left off with MeeGo and developed Sailfish OS as a new Linux smartphone platform

Finnish company Jolla has announced a new smartphone after a long hiatus from launching new models. It is called the Jolla Phone and is advertised by Jolla as an "independent European Do It Together (DIT) Linux phone." Jolla says the Jolla Phone is a "real Linux phone" because it runs "actual Linux" on the inside, "not a pseudo-Linux." But that's at the core

Umpteen other distros just put out new versions, but this one is our favorite Kernel 6.18 has already been designated the new LTS release just as we predicted and Alpine Linux 3.23 has arrived carrying it ahead of a flurry of other year-end distro updates.

Nvidias Linux 590 driver drops support for GTX 900 and 10-series GPUs, ending Game Ready updates but quarterly security ones continue

Linus Torvalds new PC build highlights his preference for reliable hardware, strong kernel compatibility, and quiet high-performance components chosen for serious development work

It also has a name: Lepton. As reported by GamingOnLinux, Lepton is supposedly the name of the bridge, which sounds about right

Pada pertengahan tahun ini, ia telah diumumkan bahawa NVIDIA akan mengehadkan sokongan kemaskini perisian untuk siri kad grafik NVIDIA GeForce GTX 900 dan GeForce GTX 1000 kepada kemaskini sekuriti dan prestasi umum sahaja. Terkini, dengan pengenalan kemaskini perisian 590 untuk sistem operasi Linux, orang ramai sudah mengatakan bahawa NVIDIA akhirnya sudah menghentikan sokongan untuk siri […]

There is no official Android version of Hollow Knight: Silksong, one of the best games of 2025, but that doesn't have to stop you anymore. Thanks to a stack of open-source technologies, including a compatibility layer called Proton and an emulator called Fex, games that were developed for x86-based Windows PCs can now run on Linux-based phones with the Arm processor architecture

Nvidia 590 drivers cut support for GTX 900- and 10-series

Bye-bye bcachefs, but hello there bhyve The last new kernel release of 2025 is here, and it's looking likely this will be the new LTS kernel release.

Linux usage has hit an all-time high in the latest Steam hardware survey, indicating the small but growing popularity of SteamOS and its derivatives

ExpressVPN, one of the best VPNs , is launching two brand-new features that sound confusingly like things it already does. Users on Android, Mac and iOS (but apparently not Windows, Linux or smart TVs) can now use Fastest Location to automatically pick the VPN server with the fastest download speed and lowest latency

Steam's November 2025 survey shows Linux gaming climbed to its highest share in a decade "thanks to the success of the Steam Deck, the underlying Steam Play (Proton) software, and now further excitement thanks to the upcoming Steam Machine and Steam Frame," writes Phoronix's Michael Larabel

Whether you want a studio rig or a featherweight desktop, MX Linux spins have you covered AV Linux and MX Moksha are a pair of distros tweaked for audio and music production, each using a different branch of the Enlightenment family of desktops.