Back in November 2025, Jan Vlug, a software engineer who writes for the Dutch government’s developer portal, put out a detailed blog recommending which Git forge the Netherlands should adopt for its governmental source code hosting needs. His post came at a
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📋 TLDR:– A 9-year-old bug was discovered recently.– The vulnerability is already patched in the Linux kernel.– Normal users could gain root access by running a small Python script.– Not much of a bother for regular desktop Linux users who keep their
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VS Code has been quietly appending a Co-authored-by: Copilot line to users’ git commits, including ones written entirely without Copilot’s involvement. The culprit behind this, git.addAICoAuthor, is a feature that was introduced in VS Code 1.110 back in March. It is designed
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OpenSource Science B.V., better known as OS-SCi, is a Netherlands-based institution that has a pretty specific focus. To train the next generation of developers exclusively on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). They run bachelor’s programs, modular courses, and student projects with
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Before Microsoft became the company that shipped Windows to corporate desks around the world, it had to start somewhere. That somewhere was a scrappy little operating system written by one guy at Seattle Computer Products. Tim Paterson built what he initially called
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Linux gaming has been on a great trajectory these past few years. Proton turned a massive chunk of the Steam library into playable Linux titles thanks to Wine as its backbone, and purpose-built Linux gaming consoles are now a product category that
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The Sovereign Tech Agency has launched a new pilot program called Sovereign Tech Standards, and it will be paying open source maintainers to get involved in the processes that actually shape how the internet works. As a pilot program, it is going
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Warp has open-sourced its terminal client. The code is now on GitHub, and the company wants the community involved in building it out going forward, but the contribution model looks nothing like you would expect from an open source project. They say
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The Linux Vendor Firmware Service, or LVFS, is what makes firmware updates on Linux not a nightmare. Hardware vendors upload their firmware directly to it, and users get those updates delivered through fwupd and tools like GNOME Software. According to official estimates,
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If you are using a rolling release distro like Arch, you might have noticed that your home directory now has a new member, a new folder called “Projects”. For as long as I remember, Linux has always had a set of default
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