Linux Stories

The Story Behind Google's In-house Desktop Linux 60
Fedora Sours On Creative Commons 'No Rights Reserved' License 29
T2 SDE Linux 22.6 Released - and an AI Bot Contributed More Revisions Than Humans 18
Red Hat's Next Steps, According to Its New CEO 26
The Dell XPS Developer Edition Will Soon Arrive With Ubuntu Linux 22.04 31
Linux Distro For Apple Silicon Macs Is Already Up and Running On the Brand-New M2 129
Can a Fork Save Cutefish OS (or Its Desktop)? 109
Red Hat Names New CEO 16
Six Ground-Breaking New Linux Laptops Released in the Last Two Weeks 84
Alder Lake-Powered Linux Laptop Arrives With 14 Hours of Battery Life 48
Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft 209
Microsoft's xCloud Game Streaming Looks Worse On Linux Than Windows 35
PulseAudio and Systemd Creator, Lennart Poettering, Reportedly Leaves Red Hat 148
First RISC-V Laptop Announced 28
BMW Is Switching Gears From Linux To Android Automotive Next Year 54
Linus Torvalds Is Cautiously Optimistic About Bringing Rust Into Linux Kernel's Next Release 123
How a Turkish Municipal District Switched to GNU/Linux 76
New Linux Foundation Podcast: 'Untold Stories of Open Source' 13
Linux Kernel Signature Verification Code Adds FIPS Compliance 20
Linus Torvalds Says Rust For The Kernel Could Possibly Be Merged For Linux 5.20 157
A Linux Botnet That Spreads Using Stolen SSH Keys 40
Ubuntu Core 22 Brings Real-Time Linux Options To IoT 22
Ubuntu Working To Provide Good Support For The VisionFive Low-Cost RISC-V Board 39
Symbiote: A New, Nearly-Impossible-to-Detect Linux Threat 43
'I Love the Linux Desktop, But That Doesn't Mean I Don't See Its Problems All Too Well' 197
Apple Will Allow Linux VMs To Run Intel Apps With Rosetta In macOS Ventura 35
Linux Mint Takes Over Development of Backup Tool 'Timeshift' 14
'The Cynic's Guide to Desktop Linux' 181
Older iPads May Soon Be Able To Run Linux 47
HP Dev One Laptop Running System76's Ubuntu Linux-based Pop!_OS Now Available 54
Lotus 1-2-3 Ported To Linux 91
New Linux-Based Ransomware Targets VMware Servers 36
How CentOS Stream and RHEL 9 Led to AlmaLinux 9 33
Newest Version of Systemd Includes Experimental Feature for A/B-Style Updating 182
Microsoft Brings 'Windows Subsystem for Linux 2' to Window Server 2022 23
AmigaOne X1000/X5000 Remains Well Supported With PowerPC Linux 117
Linux 5.19 Adds 500K Lines of New Graphics Driver Code 79
Rust For Linux Kernel Updated, Uutils As Rust Version Of Coreutils Updated Too 40
Microsoft Warns of 'Stealthy DDoS Malware' Targeting Linux Devices 76
Surprise: Microsoft Has a Second Internal-Use-Only Linux Distro 59
Red Hat CEO: Remote Working is 'Just Another Day' to the Open Source World 35
CentOS Successor Rocky Linux Gets $26M to Fund Push Into Enterprise Space 27
Nvidia Transitioning To Official, Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Driver 102
Will JavaScript Containers Overtake Linux Containers? 94
This Week Saw New Releases of 'Ubuntu Unity' and 'Ubuntu Cinnamon' 74
Fedora's Lead Speaks on the Popularity of Linux and the Importance of Open Source 68
Microsoft Finds Linux Desktop Flaw That Gives Root To Untrusted Users 75
Concerns Raised Over The 'New' NTFS Linux Driver That Merged Last Year 90
Wolfire Games Open Sources 'Overgrowth' After 14 Years of Development 15
Dirk Hohndel, Early Linux Contributor, Joins Foundation Supporting Blockchain Platform Cardano 38
Razer's First Linux Laptop Called 'Sexy' - But It's Not for Gamers 45
Fedora Plans To Drop Support For Legacy BIOS Systems 122
Google Proposes Shutdown Changes To Speed Linux Reboots 50
'Rolling Rhino' Tool Converts Ubuntu Into a Rolling Release 48
Asahi Linux Is Reverse-Engineering Support For Apple Silicon, Including M1 Ultra 46
How Do You Like Ubuntu's New Logo? 132
Linux Random Number Generator Sees Major Improvements 80
Linux For M1 Macs? First Alpha Release Announced for Asahi Linux 108
Nasty Linux Netfilter Firewall Security Hole Found 53
Debian Developer Demoted, Quits After Two Decades With Project 218
Arch Linux Turns 20 29
Red Hat Is Discontinuing Sales and Services In Russia and Belarus 49
Linux Has Been Bitten By Its Most High-Severity Vulnerability in Years 110
Bungie Rejects Steam Deck's Linux, Threatens To Ban Destiny 2 Players There 61
Linus Torvalds Prepares to Move the Linux Kernel to Modern C 114
Intel Ramps Up Linux Investment By Acquiring Linutronix 3
ReiserFS Proposed To Be Removed From Linux In 2022 217
Linux Developers Patch Bugs Faster Than Microsoft, Apple, and Google, Study Shows 43
Linux Malware Attacks are Increasing, and Businesses Aren't Ready 63
Intel Thread Director Is Headed to Linux for a Major Boost in Alder Lake Performance 38
Valve's Steam Deck Will Run Linux-Based Steam OS - But Won't Have a Fortnite Port 56
No, Linus Torvalds is not Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto 54
System76-Scheduler Is a New Pop!_OS Rust Effort To Improve Desktop Responsiveness 43
Slackware, the Oldest Actively Maintained Linux Distro, Releases Version 15.0 117
Major Linux PolicyKit Security Vulnerability Uncovered: Pwnkit 179
Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Software Development, Linux, and Git Certification 13
Analysts Weigh In: Will We Ever See the Year of the Linux Desktop? 224
The PinePhone Pro Brings Upgraded Hardware To the Linux Phone 23
Linux Malware Sees 35% Growth During 2021 71
Pine64's Newest Linux Smartphone 'PinePhone Pro Explorer Edition' Now Available for Pre-Order 27
Are We Getting Closer to the Year of the Linux Desktop? 296
Humble Subscription Service Is Dumping Mac, Linux Access In 18 Days 37
Linux Mint Sells Out for Mozilla Money 97
What Were Slashdot's Most Popular Stories of 2021? 16
Linux 5.17 To Introduce A New Driver Just To Deal With Buggy x86 Tablets 50
Rare Recordings of 1994 Talks By a 24-Year-Old Linus Torvalds Re-Discovered 34
75% of Steam's Top 1000 Games Work On Linux Now 83
Intel's Mystery Linux Muckabout is a Dangerous Ploy at a Dangerous Time 80
The Linux Kernel's Second Language? Rust Gets Another Step Closer 116
AWS Embraces Fedora Linux for Its Cloud-Based 'Amazon Linux' 71
Nvidia's DLSS Has Come To Linux Gaming 31
A German State is Switching Its 25,000 Computers From Windows to Linux 223
Linux Has a Serious Security Problem That Once Again Enables DNS Cache Poisoning 66
Last of Original SCO v IBM Linux Lawsuit Settled 126
System76 Engineer Confirms Work on New Rust-Written Desktop, Not Based on GNOME 125
OneAPI/L0, OpenVINO and OpenCL Coming To WSL2 For Intel GPUs 6
Red Hat Forced To Hire Cheaper, Less Senior Engineers Amid Budget Freeze 133
Linux Foundation Adds Software Supply Chain Security To LFX 12
Microsoft's Edge Browser for Linux is Now Available for All Users 97
Linux Distros Beat Windows 11 in Phoronix Performance Testing 58
Hive Ransomware Now Encrypts Linux and FreeBSD Systems 26
Intel Core i9 11900K: Five Linux Distros Show Sizable Lead Over Windows 11 82
Indie Dev Finds That Linux Users Generate More, Better Bug Reports 58
Systemd-Free Devuan 4.0 'Chimaera' Officially Released 140
OpenBSD 7.0 Released 12
Pine64 Announces Updated PinePhone Pro Linux Powered Cellphone 30
Canonical Releases Ubuntu Linux 21.10 Impish Indri 24
Microsoft Puts the Windows Subsystem for Linux in Its App Store for Faster Updating 64
New 'FontOnLake' Malware Family Can Target Linux Systems 26
The Best Part of Windows 11 Is Its Linux, Argues Ars Technica 148
Linus Torvalds On Community, Rust and Linux's Longevity 33
Linus Torvalds Recognizes Linux's 'True' 30th Anniversary Date 21
Google Finally Shifting To 'Upstream First' Linux Kernel Approach For Android Features 9
Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 Each Get a Decade of Support from Canonical 32
Is 2021 The Year of the Linux Desktop? 192
Linux For Apple Silicon Macs Gets Closer To Reality 53
Torvalds Merges Support for Microsoft's NTFS File System, Complains GitHub 'Creates Absolutely Useless Garbage Merges' 77
Linus Torvalds Jokes About Celebrations for Linux's 30th Anniversary 21
Torvalds: GPLv2 'A Big Part' of Why Linux Spread, Companies Getting Involved 'Hugely Important' 144
Happy Birthday, Linux: From a Bedroom Project To Billions of Devices in 30 Years 122
Slackware 15.0 RC1 Released 76
Linux Distros are So Much Better Than They Were 30 Years Ago 217
New Linux Syscall Enables Secret Memory Even the Kernel Can't Read 131
Linux Glibc Security Fix Created a Nastier Linux Bug 74
Debian 11 'Bullseye' Released As Stable 40
Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation 2.13 Facilitates Quick Reaction To Kernel/User-space Instrumentation Hits 6
Paragon Is Working To Get Its nfs3 Filesystem Into the Linux Kernel 73
Steam Survey Shows Linux Marketshare Hitting 1.0% 73
AMD and Valve Working On New Linux CPU Performance Scaling Design 10
Microsoft Warns of 'Evolving' LemonDuck Mining Malware Targeting Linux and Windows Machines 18
Nasty Linux Systemd Security Bug Revealed 203
Say Hi To Microsoft's Own Linux: CBL-Mariner 110
Experimental Rust Support Patches Submitted to Linux Kernel Mailing List 55
Linux 5.13 Kernel Released, Includes Apple M1 Support, Clang CFI, and Landlock's Linux Security Module 33
Rocky Linux 8.4 Achieves First General Availability Release, Proves Popular 40
The ISRG Wants To Make the Linux Kernel Memory-safe With Rust 124
Microsoft Linux Repos Suffered 22-Hour Outage 41
Why Google is Funding Linux Kernel Development in Rust 80
Linux Foundation Honors Authors of 30 Linux Success Stories By Letting Them Name a Penguin 11
Google Backs Linux Project To Make Android, Chrome OS Harder To Hack 114
Patch Released for 7-Year-Old Privilege Escalation Bug In Linux Service Polkit 39
Linux Foundation Readies Global COVID Certificate Network 131
Linux X86/x86_64 Will Now Always Reserve the First 1MB of RAM 77
KDE Plasma 5.22 Released 13
Millions Can Now Run Linux GUI Apps in Windows 10 203
Coalition Including Microsoft, Linux Foundation, GitHub Urge Green Software Development 136
Microsoft To Add Support for Linux GUI Apps on Windows 10 Later This Year 124
Linux 5.13 Reverts and Fixes Problematic University of Minnesota Patches 38
SUSE IPO Disappoints 58
Linux on Chromebooks is Finally Coming Out of Beta 32
Linus Torvalds Weighs in on Commercial Users of Open Source Code 87
Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Agriculture Infrastructure Project 20
Why is F34 the Most Popular Fedora Linux in Years? 125
Linus Torvalds Reflects In New Interview on Linux's Earliest Days 51
New Malware Found Lurking In 64-Bit Linux Installs 85
Linux Stops Reverting Most University of Minnesota Patches, Admits Good Faith 83
Greg Kroah-Hartman Rejects Apology from University of Minnesota Researchers 140
University of Minnesota Researchers Send Apology to Linux Kernel Mailing List 208
Latest Windows Preview Build Adds Support For Linux GUI Apps 94
Canonical Launches Ubuntu 21.04 'Hirsute Hippo' 46
Linux Bans University of Minnesota for Sending Buggy Patches in the Name of Research 257
Debian Votes to Issue No Statement on Stallman's Return to the FSF Board 209
Openwall Releases 'Linux Kernel Runtime Guard' 0.9.0 7
Slackware Approaches 28th Birthday With New Beta Release 58
Linus Torvalds Says Rust Closer for Linux Kernel Development, Calls C++ 'A Crap Language' 270
Reactions to Arch Linux's New Guided Installer 108
IBM Creates a COBOL Compiler For Linux On x86 188
Results of Debian Vote On Stallman To Be Known By April 17 387
AlmaLinux Released As a Stable RHEL Clone For Those Who Liked CentOS 43
SCO Linux FUD Returns From the Dead 128
Red Hat Pulls Free Software Foundation Funding Over Richard Stallman's Return 459
Linus Torvalds On Where Rust Will Fit Into Linux 115
Rust Takes 'Tentative First Step' Toward Linux Kernel 120
Three Flaws in the Linux Kernel Since 2006 Could Grant Root Privileges 94
7-Zip Developer Releases the First Official Linux Version 87
Linux Foundation Debuts Sigstore Project for Software Signing 19
A Retired Microsoft OS Engineer's Comparison of Linux with Windows 231
What's the Best Linux Distro for Enhanced Privacy and Security? 95
Torvalds Warns the World: Don't Use the Linux 5.12-rc1 Kernel 124
Linus Torvalds Went Six Days Without Electricity, Swears Smaller 5.12 Kernel Is Co-Incidental 58
Linux Mint Developers Will Force Updates on Users Like Microsoft Does with Windows 10 142
Introducing Crowdsec: a Modernized, Collaborative Massively Multiplayer Firewall 66
Kali Linux 2021.1 Released: Tweaked DEs and Terminals, New Tools, Silicon Macs 10
Red Hat Introduces Free RHEL for Open-Source Organizations 83
Google Sponsors 2 Full-Time Devs To Improve Linux Security 53
Linux Is Now on Mars, Thanks to NASA's Perseverance Rover 68
Did Linux Kill Commercial Unix? 280
AMD Is Currently Hiring More Linux Engineers 24
AlmaLinux Releases Beta of Their CentOS/RHEL 8 Fork 13
The Open-Source Magma Project Will Become 5G's Linux 28
While Recreating CentOS as 'Rocky Linux', Gregory Kurtzer Also Launches a Sponsoring Startup 63
10-year-old Sudo Bug Lets Linux Users Gain Root-Level Access 166
CentOS Is Gone -- But RHEL Is Now Free For Up To 16 Production Servers 129
Wine 6.0 Released 100
Jamie Zawinski Calls Cinnamon Screensaver Lock-Bypass Bug 'Unconscionable' 172
Robert Cringley Predicted 'The Death of IT' in 2020. Was He Right? 54
The Linux Foundation Now Offers a Suite of Open-Source Management Classes 7
BeagleV is a $150 RISC-V Computer Designed To Run Linux 52
Debian Discusses Vendoring -- Again 48
Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping a Bunch of Old CPUs 93
Linux Mint 20.1 Long-term Support Release Is Out 21
NVIDIA Fixes High Severity Flaws Affecting Windows, Linux devices 24
Linus Torvalds Rails At Intel For 'Killing' the ECC Industry 218
Linux Kernel Ported to the Nintendo 64 33
Ask Slashdot: How Long Should a Vendor Support a Distro? 137
Sony Publishes An Official Linux Driver For PS5 DualSense Controllers 12
CloudLinux To Invest More Than a Million Dollars a Year Into CentOS Clone 85
CentOS 8 Ending Next Year To Focus Shift On CentOS Stream 136
Will Businesses Make 2021 The Year of the Linux Desktop? 214
Hector Martin Promises To Bring Linux To the M1 Chip 139
Greg Kroah-Hartman: 'Don't Make Users Mad' 204
Linus Torvalds Would Like To Use An M1 Mac For Linux, But... 246
Mass-Produced, Librem 5 Linux Smartphone Begins Shipping to Customers 155
'Ubuntu Web Remix' Distro Offers Firefox-Based Chrome OS Alternative 47
Tech Organizations Back 'Inclusive Naming Initiative' 264
$6 Billion Linux Deal? SUSE IPO Rumored 28
Cyberattackers Now Also Make Linux Versions of Their Ransomware 77
Dell Adding Hardware Privacy Driver For Linux 46
Linux Mint Introduces Its Own Take On the Chromium Web Browser 33
Dan Kohn, Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Has Died 7
SiFive Unveils Plan For Linux PCs With RISC-V Processors 42
Linux Foundation Creates Its Own Versions of Apple/Google Coronavirus Tracing Apps 50
So How Good Is Edge on Linux? 52
Slashdot Asks: How Do You Feel About Btrfs? 236
Debian Donates 10,000 Euros to Fund Free and Decentralized Livestreaming 20
Ubuntu Linux 20.10 'Groovy Gorilla' is Here With Renewed Raspberry Pi Focus 20
Microsoft Releases Chromium-Based Edge Preview For Linux 97
Linux 5.10 Solves the Year 2038 Problem Until 2486 77
'No, Microsoft Won't Rebase Windows to Linux' Argues Canonical's Manager for Ubuntu on WSL 98
You Can Now Install Microsoft Windows Calculator on Linux 102
Google and Intel Warn of High-Severity Bluetooth Security Bug In Linux 41
KDE Plasma 5.20 Released 45
Linux 5.9 Boosts CPU Performance With FSGSBASE Support 75
What If They Replaced Windows With Microsoft Linux? 239
ZDNet Argues Linux-Based Windows 'Makes Perfect Sense' 100
Will New Object Storage Protocol Mean the End For POSIX? 76
Graphical Linux Apps Are Coming to Windows Subsystem for Linux 89
Ubuntu Linux 20.10 'Groovy Gorilla' Beta Released 18
Developers Try Again To Upstream Motorola 68000 Series Support In LLVM 69
Xen Project Officially Ports Its Hypervisor To Raspberry Pi 4 19
Linux Milestone: EdX's Free 'Intro to Linux' Course Surpasses One Million Enrollments 24
Lenovo Begins Selling 30 Linux ThinkPads and ThinkStation PCs 74
Eric S. Raymond: Is Microsoft Switching To a Linux Kernel That Emulates Windows? 276
Bored Developer Creates 'DOS Subsystem For Linux' 56
Linux Journal Is Back 52
Microsoft Is Bringing Edge To Linux 143
GNOME Gets New Versioning Scheme 91
Microsoft Submits Linux Kernel Patches to Make Linux Run as Root Partition on Hyper-V 40
Where's the Yelp For Open-source Tools? 18
Microsoft Submits Linux Kernel Patches For a 'Complete Virtualization Stack' With Linux and Hyper-V 105

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