Linux Stories for 2023

Source-Based Gentoo Linux Goes Binary 28
Peppermint OS Builds Single-Site Browsers for Debian Systems 14
Linux Is the Only OS To Support Diagonal PC Monitor Mode 170
A Proposed Change for Fedora 40: Unify /usr/bin With /usr/sbin 81
Acer Inspire 1 ARM Laptop Has Nearly Complete Upstream Linux Support 8
Fedora Asahi Remix Officially Released For Apple Silicon Macs 54
How AlmaLinux's Community Supported RHEL Binary Compatibility 41
Linus Torvalds Discusses Maintainers, AI, and Rust in the Kernel 31
New systemd Update Will Bring Windows' Infamous Blue Screen of Death To Linux 154
RHEL 10 Plans To Drop X.Org Server Except For XWayland 96
Ubuntu Budgie Switches to an Xfce Approach to Wayland 71
Can AI Be Used to Fine-Tune Linux Kernel Performance? 66
Rust in Linux: Maturing with Support from Cisco, Samsung, Canonical 44
Canonical Intros Microcloud: Simple, Free, On-prem Linux Clustering 16
How Red Hat Divided the Open Source Community 191
When Linux Spooked Microsoft: Remembering 1998's Leaked 'Halloween Documents' 59
Mozilla Introduces Firefox Nightly .deb Packages for Debian-based Linux Distros 23
OpenELA Drops First RHEL, 'Enterprise Linux' Compatible Source Code 39
Intel's Failed 64-bit Itanium CPUs Die Another Death as Linux Support Ends 78
CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Unite Behind OpenELA To Take on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 18
Asahi Linux Goes From Apple Silicon Port Project To macOS Bug Hunters 33
Bcachefs Merged Into the Linux 6.7 Kernel 39
Linux Mint Gets 'Experimental' Wayland Support in December 57
Experimental Project Attempts a Python Virtual Shell for Linux 62
Linux Foundation's 'Super-Long-Term Stable Kernel Program' Announces 10 Years of Support for Its 6.1 Kernel 17
How Ubuntu Linux Snuck Into High-End Dell Laptops 48
AlmaLinux Stays Red Hat Enterprise Linux Compatible Without Red Hat Code 34
Rust-Based 'Resources' is a New, Modern System Monitor for Linux 57
T2 Linux Discovers (Now Patched) AMD Zen 4 Invalid Opcode Speculation Bug 13
Ubuntu 23.10 Is a Minotaur That Moves Faster and Takes Up Less Space 26
Higher Quality AV1 Video Encoding Now Available For Radeon Graphics On Linux 3
Microsoft Gives Unexpected Tutorial on How To Install Linux 141
Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, and Gentoo Release Patches for 'Looney Tunables' Linux Vulnerability 22
Greg Kroah-Hartman Chastises Critic, Says Linux Foundation Strongly Supports Kernel Developers 74
Linux Tries To Dump Windows' Notoriously Insecure RNDIS Protocol 35
Canonical's Snap Store Restricts Uploads Following Possible Security Issue 29
Linux Interoperability Is Maturing Fast Thanks To a Games Console 41
Richard Stallman Says He Has Cancer 143
If the Linux Foundation Was a Software Company, It'd Likely Be the Biggest in the World 20
Linux's Multi-Grain Timestamps Short-Lived: Removed From The Kernel After A Few Weeks 31
Terraform Fork Gets Renamed OpenTofu, Joins Linux Foundation 30
Unified Acceleration Foundation Wants To Create an Open Standard for Accelerator Programming 19
Long-Term Support For Linux Kernel To Be Cut As Maintenance Remains Under Strain 106
Chinese Hackers Have Unleashed a Never-Before-Seen Linux Backdoor 35
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Linux Resource for a Retired Windows User? 147
'Linux Mint Debian Edition' Begins Public Beta Testing 22
KSMBD Finally Reaches 'Stable' State in Release Candidate for Linux Kernel 6.6 46
Password-Stealing Linux Malware Served For 3 Years and No One Noticed 54
Meet the Guy Preserving the New History of PC Games, One Linux Port At a Time 21
Linux's Marketshare on Steam Still Higher Than Apple macOS 79
Linux 6.5 Kernel Released 26
Amazon Linux 2023 Virtual Machine Images Still MIA 24
Nautilus File Manager Gets New Features in Upcoming GNOME 45 45
What's New in Linux 6.5? 39
Can You Run Linux On a Commodore 64? 68
AlmaLinux Leader Says Red Hat's Code Crackdown Isn't a Threat 16
SUSE To Flip Back Into Private Ownership 17
Debian Turns 30 33
Does Desktop Linux Have a Firefox Problem? 164
Should There Be an 'Official' Version of Linux? 283
Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ Go After Red Hat With the Open Enterprise Linux Association 70
Jon 'maddog' Hall Defends Red Hat's Re-Licensing of RHEL 101
Steam On Linux Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS 99
ChromeOS Is Splitting the Browser From the OS, Getting More Like Linux 19
The Most Prolific Packager For Alpine Linux Is Stepping Away 37
AlmaLinux Discovers Working with Red Hat (and CentOS Stream) Isn't Easy 73
RHEL Response Discussed by SFC Conference's Panel - Including a New Enterprise Linux Standard 66
Slackware Linux Distribution Turns 30 Years Old 55
Is Wayland Becoming the Favored Way to Get a GUI on Linux? 210
Red Hat's Decision Prompts Outrage and Sympathy, Called 'Necessary' and 'Embarrassing' 118
AlmaLinux No Longer Aims For 1:1 Compatibility With RHEL 39
Oracle Takes On Red Hat In Linux Code Fight 129
SUSE Will Fork Red Hat Enterprise Linux 51
Linux Hits 3% Desktop Market Share 141
Torvalds Calls For Calm as Bcachefs Filesystem Doesn't Make Linux 6.5 79
Researchers Discovered a New Linux Kernel 'StackRot' Privilege Escalation Vulnerability 36
AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare 127
Defying Red Hat, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux Vow to Continue RHEL-Compatible Updates 143
After RHEL 7's EOL, Red Hat Will Offer a 4-Year 'Extended Life Cycle Support' Add-On 35
Linux Foundation's Yocto Project Expands LTS to 4 Years 4
Former Canonical Developer is Working on a Script that Replaces Snaps with Flatpaks 69
Red Hat Tries To Address Criticism Over Their Source Repository Changes 117
EOL For Red Hat 7 and CentOS 7 In 1 Year and a Week 53
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Sources Will Now Be Available To Paying Customers Only 143
Latest SUSE Linux Enterprise Goes All in With Confidential Computing 7
Dev Boots Linux 292,612 Times to Find Kernel Bug 32
Debian 12 'Bookworm' Released 62
System76's Open Firmware 'Re-Disables' Intel's Management Engine 19
Red Hat is Dropping Its Support for LibreOffice 141
Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base 71
Red Hat's Layoffs Included Fedora Program Manager 71
Despite Layoffs, Open Source and Linux Skills are Still in Demand 36
Goodbye To Roblox On Linux With Their New Anti-Cheat and Wine Blocking 97
Linus Torvalds Cleaned Up the Intel LAM Code for Linux 6.4 27
'sudo' and 'su' Are Being Rewritten In Rust For Memory Safety 143
Red Hat's 30th Anniversary: How a Microsoft Competitor Rose from an Apartment-Based Startup 47
System76 Plans Its Own Open Hardware Laptop, and a New Desktop Environment Written in Rust 47
New Intel Linux Graphics Driver Patches Released, Up To 10-15% Better Performance 7
Linux Kernel 6.3 Released 16
Red Hat Begins Cutting 'Hundreds of Jobs' 49
KaOS Linux Celebrates 10 Years with New ISO Release Featuring Pre-Release KDE Plasma 6 11
Linux Foundation Launches New Organization To Maintain TLA+ 16
New Spectre-Related 'Medium Severity' Flaw Patched in Linux Kernel 11
Biggest Linux Company of Them All Still Pushing To Become Cloud Power 23
Collabora Developer Explores Rust Support for the Linux Kernel's V4L2/Media Subsystem 5
Linux 6.4 Bringing Apple M2 Additions For 2022 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac Mini 37
Star64 RISC-V Single-Board PC Launches April 4 for $70 and Up 26
Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix Becomes Official Ubuntu Flavor 17
Google Security Researchers Accuse CentOS of Failing to Backport Kernel Fixes 42
DoomLinux: the Distro That Loads Only Enough Software to Play DOOM 40
System76 Meerkat Mini-Linux PC - Now with Up to Intel Core i7-1260P 26
Linux 6.4 AMD Graphics Driver Picking Up New Power Features For The Steam Deck 2
Unix Pioneer Ken Thompson Announces He's Switching From Mac To Linux 175
Amazon's AWS Releases Fedora-Based, Cloud-Optimized 'Amazon Linux 2023' 14
New 'Ubuntu Flatpak Remix' Has (Unofficial) Flatpak Support Preinstalled 37
Does IceFire Ransomware Portend a Broader Shift From Windows to Linux? 28
The SCO Lawsuit: Looking Back 20 Years Later 105
Linux Desktop Powers Consider Uniting For an App Store 133
Asahi Linux Disputes Report That Linux 6.2 Will Run on Apple M1 Chips 40
Who Writes Linux and Open Source Software? 60
Ubuntu Flavors Agree to Stop Using Flatpak 117
Linux Foundation Europe Launches OpenWallet Foundation To Power Interoperable Digital Wallets 23
Linux 6.2: The First Mainstream Linux Kernel with Upstream Support for Apple M1 Chips Arrives 65
Purism Combines Phone Docking Station and Laptop Shell For Lapdock Kit 44
Ask Slashdot: Where Can You Buy a Desktop PC That Makes Linux Easy to Install? 233
Creator of Linux Virtual Assistant Blames 'Patent Troll' For Project's Death 13
A Developer is Reimplementing GNU's Core Utilities in Rust 186
System76 Announces Redesigned 'Pangolin' AMD/Linux Laptop 42
Linux 6.1 Officially Promoted To Being An LTS Kernel 6
Carbonyl: a New Graphical Web Browser in Your Linux Terminal 29
Ubisoft's Launcher Broke Its Own Games on Linux and Steam Deck 44
Proposed Linux Patch Allows Disabling CPU Security Mitigations at Build-Time 43
Red Hat Gives an ARM Up To OpenShift Kubernetes Operations 13
Microsoft Upgrades Defender To Lock Down Linux Devices For Their Own Good 96
PikaOS Is a Next-Gen Linux Distribution Aimed Specifically Towards Gamers 48
New Distro 'blendOS' Combines Arch Linux, Fedora Linux and Ubuntu 73
The Linux Foundation Reflects on Open Source's Role in Climate Change Challenges 28
Wine 8.0 Released — and Plenty of Improvements are Included 59
Linux Preparing To Disable Drivers For Microsoft's RNDIS Protocol 51
Mabox Linux Called 'Throwback to Old-School Linux' 62
New Linux Malware Downloader for Compromised Servers Spotted in the Wild 30
Vanilla OS Offers a New Take on Security for the Linux Desktop 31
Ubuntu Blogger Chooses the 5 Best Linux Distros of 2022 74