It’s the Year of the Linux Desktop… IN SPACE! (And Maybe North Korea)
There is one place, in the entire Universe, where Linux has a dominant marketshare on Desktop and Laptop computers: Outer Space. ⌘ Read more
next-20250521: linux-next
Version:next-20250521 (linux-next)Released:2025-05-21 ⌘ Read more
SiFive and Red Hat Collaborate to Bring RHEL 10 to RISC-V Development
SiFive has announced a new collaboration with Red Hat to deliver a developer preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 for the RISC-V architecture. The initial support is available on the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 development platform, giving developers a path to build and test enterprise and cloud workloads on RISC-V hardware. The HiFive Premier […] ⌘ Read more
On the relationship between Qt and KDE
Volker Hilsheimer, chief maintainer of the Qt project, says he has learned lessons from the painful Qt 5 to Qt 6 transition, the importance of Qt Bridges for using Qt from any language, and the significance of the relationship with the Linux KDE desktop. ↫ Tim Anderson at Dev Class Qt plays a significant role in the open source desktop world in particular, because it’s the framework KDE uses. Hilsheimer notes that KDE’s role in the Qt community is actual … ⌘ Read more
Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android
I recently learned something that blew my mind; you can run a full desktop Linux environment on your phone. That’s a graphical environment via X11 with real window management and compositing, Firefox comfortably playing YouTube (including working audio), and a status bar with system stats. It launches in less than a second and feels snappy. ↫ Hold the Robot In and of itself, this is a neat trick most of us are probably aware of. Running a … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft releases WSL as open source, announces CLI text editor to replace the MS-DOS Editor
Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo: Will this be Open Source? · Issue #1 · microsoft/WSL. That means that the code that powers WSL is now available … ⌘ Read more
The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
Article URL: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031385
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Render a Guitar Pro score in real time on Linux
Tuxguitar is a quite powerful application written in a mixture of Java / C. It is able to render a score in real time either via Fluidsynth or via pure MIDI. The development of Tuxguitar started in 2008 on Sourceforce and after a halt in 2022, the project restarted on Github and is still actively developed. The goal of this article is to try to render a score via Tuxguitar, and various other applications connected to Tuxguitar, via Jack … ⌘ Read more
6.15-rc7: mainline
Version:6.15-rc7 (mainline)Released:2025-05-18Source:linux-6.15-rc7.tar.gzPatch:full ( incremental) ⌘ Read more
5 Linux Commands You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
In this article, I will show you five Linux commands you’ve probably never heard of. They’re simple, practical, and designed to make your…
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6.1.139: longterm
Version:6.1.139 (longterm)Released:2025-05-18Source:linux-6.1.139.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-6.1.139.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.139 ⌘ Read more
5.15.183: longterm
Version:5.15.183 (longterm)Released:2025-05-18Source:linux-5.15.183.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-5.15.183.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.15.183 ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de you need to get a gold chain and hang this little penguin on it, so that nobody can doubt your Linux user status.

Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames: Control Characters (such as Newline), Leading Dashes, and Other Problems (2009, 2024)
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Yet Another Linux Distro Ditches Firefox for Brave
First Zorin OS, now the Fedora-based Nobara changes the default web browser. ⌘ Read more
next-20250516: linux-next
Version:next-20250516 (linux-next)Released:2025-05-16 ⌘ Read more
Accessibility on Linux sucks, but GNOME and KDE are making progress
Accessibility in the software world is a problem in general, but it’s an even bigger problem on open source desktops, as painfully highlighted by this excellent article detailing the utterly broken state of accessibility on Linux. Reading the article is soul-crushing as it starts to dawn on you just how bad the situation really is for those among us who require accessibility features, making it vir … ⌘ Read more
next-20250515: linux-next
Version:next-20250515 (linux-next)Released:2025-05-15 ⌘ Read more
Expose & Explore: Discover misconfigured service protocols and ports using Linux
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is the organisation responsible for managing and assigning port number … ⌘ Read more
OH MY FUCKING GOD I’M GOING TO CRY I NEED BIG TUX SO BAD https://www.steiner-plueschshop.de/kuscheltiere/arktis-seetiere/pinguin-linux/
next-20250514: linux-next
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How to install and run Minikube with Rootless Podman on ARM-based MacBooks
minikube provides a local Kubernetes cluster on macOS, Linux, and Windows. minikube’s primary goals are to be the best tool for local Kubernetes application development and to support all Kubernetes features that fit into that environment…. ⌘ Read more
next-20250513: linux-next
Version:next-20250513 (linux-next)Released:2025-05-13 ⌘ Read more
Linux removes support for the 486, and now I’m curious what that means for Vortex86 processors
I had to dig through our extensive archive – OSNews was founded in 2007, after all – to see if we reported on it at the time, but it turns out we didn’t: in 2006, Intel announced that in 2007, it would cease production of a range of old chips, including the 386 and 486. In Product Change Notification 106013-01, Intel proclaimed these chips dead. … ⌘ Read more
next-20250512: linux-next
Version:next-20250512 (linux-next)Released:2025-05-12 ⌘ Read more
6.15-rc6: mainline
Version:6.15-rc6 (mainline)Released:2025-05-11Source:linux-6.15-rc6.tar.gzPatch:full ( incremental) ⌘ Read more
VPS troubles and the weekend
This weekend I went to the cottage with P on Friday. I hoped I would
have a nice weekend reading in front of the wood stove, but I had also
planned to spend at least a few hours trying to configure Maddy as the
new mail server for hack.org et al.
Then the web server I moved to the new VPS died. Again. I connected to
the VNC console and, like before, the Linux kernel couldn’t find its
root disk. A simple:
# mount /dev/vda2 /sysroot; exit
in the emergency shell solved thi … ⌘ Read more
Xtool: cross-platform Xcode replacement for Linux, Windows, and macOS
A few months ago I shared my Swift SDK for Darwin, which allows you to build iOS Swift Packages on Linux, amongst other things. I mentioned that a lot of work still needed to be done, such as handling codesigning, packaging, and bundling. I’m super excited to share that we’ve finally reached the point where all of these things are now possible with cross-platform, open source software. Enter, xto … ⌘ Read more
next-20250509: linux-next
Version:next-20250509 (linux-next)Released:2025-05-09 ⌘ Read more
5.15.182: longterm
Version:5.15.182 (longterm)Released:2025-05-09Source:linux-5.15.182.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-5.15.182.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.15.182 ⌘ Read more
next-20250508: linux-next
Version:next-20250508 (linux-next)Released:2025-05-08 ⌘ Read more
Mastering Linux Part 3: A Beginner’s Guide to APT and YUM Package Management
A Beginner’s Guide to APT and YUM Package Management
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Canonical (Ubuntu) Requiring Applicants Take “DEI and Belonging” Class
Want a job working on Ubuntu Linux? ⌘ Read more
next-20250507: linux-next
Version:next-20250507 (linux-next)Released:2025-05-07 ⌘ Read more
A Penetration Tester’s Journey
Part 4 of “Beginner to Master in Linux” — A Penetration Tester’s Journey
A Must-Have Tool for Bug Hunters: Find Open Redirect Vulnerabilities on Linux
Automate open redirection detection, save hours of manual testing, and level up your bug bounty recon game.
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VectorVFS: your filesystem as a vector database
VectorVFS is a lightweight Python package that transforms your Linux filesystem into a vector database by leveraging the native VFS (Virtual File System) extended attributes. Rather than maintaining a separate index or external database, VectorVFS stores vector embeddings directly alongside each file—turning your existing directory structure into an efficient and semantically searchable embedding store. VectorVFS supports Meta’s Percepti … ⌘ Read more
How to build a fleet of networked offsite backups using Linux, WireGuard and rsync
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