Ubuntu and Fedora clash in beta race, but who wears GNOME better? Big two corporate-backed free distros are nearly ready for their close-ups OSes27 Sep 2023 | 12
Linux interop is maturing fast… thanks to a games console Open Source Summit Valve's work on Steam OS 3 for the Steam Deck helps everyone, corporate users included OSes27 Sep 2023 | 35
Long-term support for Linux kernels is about to get a lot shorter Open Source Summit Despite the OS's success, maintainers are short-staffed and under-appreciated OSes26 Sep 2023 | 44
Ubuntu's 'Mantic Minotaur' peeks out of the labyrinth As outline becomes visible, including the return of ZFS, kernel 6.4 glides across the Styx into eternity OSes19 Sep 2023 | 12
Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 hits beta with reassuringly little drama Think Debian 12 plus Mint's polish and a friendlier UX for non-techies OSes13 Sep 2023 | 14
Linux 6.6's in-kernel SMB networking server graduates Samsung's KSMBD server hitting primetime has several significant implications OSes11 Sep 2023 | 18
NixCon drops Palmer Luckey's AI combat drone maker Anduril as sponsor due to military ties NixOS event organizers say community unhappy about funding from Pentagon contractor AI + ML08 Sep 2023 | 8
Linux on the Arm-based Thinkpad X13S: It's getting there Review Armbian 23.08 is out, and adds preliminary support for this ultralight Snapdragon laptop Personal Tech08 Sep 2023 | 40
Linux distros drop their feelgood hits of the summer A quiet period for the IT industry is a good time to rebuild and refresh, apparently OSes07 Sep 2023 | 12
Fedora and Asahi Linux pals revamp installation process Switch to Calamares aims to make setup simpler OSes05 Sep 2023 | 4
antiX 23: Anarchic for sure, but 'design by committee' isn't always the best for Linux Still, it's blisteringly fast and systemd-free too OSes01 Sep 2023 | 58
Linus Torvalds couldn't find an excuse to hold back Linux 6.5, so here it is Summer push proved less disruptive than feared OSes28 Aug 2023 | 7
Amazon Linux 2023 virtual machine images still MIA Enterprise Linux users question web giant's commitment to hybrid cloud Cloud Infrastructure Week25 Aug 2023 | 13
Bodhi Linux 7 brings Enlightenment to Ubuntu With a choice of kernel versions, and even a 32-bit edition OSes25 Aug 2023 | 47
Rocky Linux backer CIQ rejects lawsuit's claims it was founded on stolen IP Brands allegations as 'meritless' after being sued by HPC software provider Sylabs HPC24 Aug 2023 | 11
Xebian is the Marie Kondo of Linux distros – it's here to declutter Clean, simple, quick, and an example of how less can give you more OSes24 Aug 2023 | 19
SUSE to flip back into private ownership after just two-and-a-bit years Buyout offer is at €16 per share, compared to €30 at its 2021 IPO Software18 Aug 2023 | 16
30 years on, Debian is at the heart of the world's most successful Linux distros August 16 was an especially big day for this island of stability OSes17 Aug 2023 | 88
Red Hat redeploys one of its main desktop developers Big Purple may be moving away from the desktop or it could be more strategic OSes16 Aug 2023 | 21
OpenZFS 2.2 is nearly here, and ZFSBootMenu 2.2 already is A menu-driven, snapshot-enabled bootloader for Linux with root on ZFS Storage16 Aug 2023 | 18
Oracle, SUSE and others caught up in RHEL drama hit back with OpenELA 'No subscriptions. No passwords. No barriers. Freeloaders welcome' OSes14 Aug 2023 | 50
Indian armed forces gives Windows its marching orders, but only for desktop warriors Opinion I am become Tux, destroyer of warez OSes14 Aug 2023 | 40
Indian authorities reject Infosys 'COVID ate my homework' excuse Asia In Brief Tencent keyboard app allowed eavesdropping; Australia, Japan, sour on TwitX; China seeks to ID app devs Legal14 Aug 2023 | 3
Linux project's first full version has all the subtlety of a Rhino in a China shop An option if Ubuntu interim releases are too slow, easy and stable for your liking OSes11 Aug 2023 | 5
GNOME 45 beta: Less buggy, more colorful, and still not your grandma's desktop Codenamed Riga after the venue for this year's GUADEC conference OSes10 Aug 2023 | 20
Sparkling fresh updates to Ubuntu, Mint and Zorin on way What's new in the world of Irish Ubuntu derivatives OSes09 Aug 2023 | 31
Alarm raised over Mozilla VPN: Wonky authorization check lets users cause havoc Updated SUSE security engineer goes public on unfixed client hole after disclosure drama Security04 Aug 2023 | 36
Soon the most popular 'real' desktop will be the Linux desktop Opinion Microsoft is moving Windows to the cloud and Apple will be happy to have you run macOS on the cloud OSes04 Aug 2023 | 311
Lacros rescues Chromebooks by extending their lifespans 'Play sports and live longer' apparently now applies to ChromeOS as well as sedentary geeks Software03 Aug 2023 | 32
Middleweight champ MX Linux 23 delivers knockout punch Debian 12-based version should be your first choice for a non-systemd distro OSes03 Aug 2023 | 77
Soft-reboot in systemd 254 sounds a lot like Windows' Fast Startup Where does Agent P work again? OSes02 Aug 2023 | 127
GNOME project considers adding window tiling by default Bringing automatic window tiling to the mainstream could be big – but what is it and how do you use it? OSes01 Aug 2023 | 87
Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG Some Ryzen Linux machines still stumble along despite efforts to fix it all OSes31 Jul 2023 | 72
'Weird numerological coincidence' found during work on Linux kernel 6.5 It might be the only non-boring thing about the release, which has Linus Torvalds celebrating OSes31 Jul 2023 | 30
Latest version of Canonical's Wayland compositor arrives Mir 2.14 and its easily installable sibling Miriway Software28 Jul 2023 | 10
To infinity and beyond, with a swarm of tiny computers costing under $1K each BLISS this: Berkeley Low-cost Interplanetary Solar Sail project wants to head into space on the cheap OSes26 Jul 2023 | 10
Debian 12.1 released with bug fixes aplenty and excitement still in short supply The next version, 'Trixie', is starting to take shape and boasts an additional official CPU architecture OSes25 Jul 2023 | 10
RHEL drama, ChromeOS and more ... Our vultures speak freely about the latest in Linux Register Kettle Do distros even matter in the era of cloud and microservices? OSes20 Jul 2023 | 18
Slackware wasn't the first Linux distro, but it's the oldest still alive and kicking Who needs a graphical desktop manager anyway? OSes20 Jul 2023 | 58
Mint 21.2 is desktop Linux without the faff Nifty new features mostly go to Cinnamon users, though OSes19 Jul 2023 | 82
Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market Opinion It would be twice as much if people could stop arguing about who counts and who doesn't OSes18 Jul 2023 | 239
AlmaLinux project climbs down from being a one-to-one RHEL clone Comment A worrying concession means that the shape of the marketplace is changing OSes17 Jul 2023 | 47
Three signs that Wayland is becoming the favored way to get a GUI on Linux May be about to join systemd as the new tech for graybeards to scorn... but adopt anyway OSes13 Jul 2023 | 120
Oracle pours fuel all over Red Hat source code drama Big Blue is just a gold digger, says avid auditor of software licenses Software10 Jul 2023 | 83
Fedora Project mulls 'privacy preserving' usage telemetry Presumably Red Hat feels it hasn't alienated enough people recently Software10 Jul 2023 | 70
Linus Torvalds calls for calm as bcachefs filesystem doesn't make Linux 6.5 Expect the saga of this release to stretch out a bit over northern summer Software10 Jul 2023 | 14
China's openKylin 1.0 arrives. Our verdict? Not a bad-looking, er, Ubuntu remix It's certainly not the country's 'first homegrown open source desktop operating system' OSes07 Jul 2023 | 17
Red Hat's open source rot took root when IBM walked in Opinion Big Blue's top brass either don't get it or don't care OSes07 Jul 2023 | 115
Canonical takes its LXD 'containervisor' back into the house Ubuntu vendor takes its toys… back into the crib? Software07 Jul 2023 | 6
Two new Linux desktops – one with deep roots – come to Debian One's a bit raw and touchy, but the other is vintage stuff, brought up to date OSes06 Jul 2023 | 61
Rocky Linux details the loopholes that will help its RHEL rebuild live on When you're on the wrong side of Red Hat, these could be subject to change OSes04 Jul 2023 | 95
What it takes to keep an enterprise 'Frankenkernel' alive devconf.cz The skillful handiwork of merging bits from different kernels into one, and keeping it secure at the same time OSes30 Jun 2023 | 13
Linux Mint cuts slice of 'Victoria' as 21.2 beta lands with dash of fresh Cinnamon Desktop Ubuntu, but without the nonsense OSes29 Jun 2023 | 51
Linux 6.4 debuts after literally unremarkable development push Latest cut of the kernel gets RISC-ier, moves towards Wi-Fi 7, ejects PCMCIA cards OSes26 Jun 2023 | 9
Red Hat strikes a crushing blow against RHEL downstreams Comment From now on, only CentOS Stream's source code is available to all OSes23 Jun 2023 | 174
Forester delivers bare metal remote provisioning to Fedora Devconf.cz Golang project also works with the CentOS Linux replacements OSes22 Jun 2023 |
One person's trash is another's 'trashware' – the art of refurbing old computers Devconf.cz 'Changing the world one PC at a time' sounds good to us Personal Tech21 Jun 2023 | 70
Latest SUSE Linux Enterprise goes all in with confidential computing But you'll need the right hardware to take advantage Sysadmin Month20 Jun 2023 | 2
Will Flatpak and Snap replace desktop Linux native apps? Opinion Actually, the better question is: When will they replace most desktop Linux programs? OSes09 Jun 2023 | 159
One small Leap for OpenSUSE as 15.5 arrives ahead of business sibling Will be followed soon after by SLE 15 SP 5 as org continues prep for ALP OSes08 Jun 2023 | 4
Oh Snap... Desktop Ubuntu Core to arrive in 2024 Changes are happening in Fedora and openSUSE immutable distros, too OSes06 Jun 2023 | 65