Linux Stories for 2021

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