Love them or hate them, rolling release distros have managed to take a slice out of the Linux desktop market share. They provide a bleeding-edge experience that stays quite stable if cared for and bites a user’s a** if handled poorly. CachyOS
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The Rust project has implemented a formal LLM policy, which pushes people to use LLMs to analyze/think through code, not write it. With how it is written right now, the policy only covers the core code repo for Rust. It lays out
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Illinois has become the latest U.S. state to pull operating systems into the age verification pool. Governor JB Pritzker has signed HB5511, the Children’s Online Social Media Safety Act, putting forward a new age verification framework for every device sold or used
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Virtualization is basically load-bearing infrastructure for any serious data center in 2026. Enterprises lean on it to run more workloads on less hardware, isolate services cleanly, and keep uptime high without buying a rack of extra servers. Proxmox has built a name
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Greg Kroah-Hartman just deleted a Linux driver that hasn’t mattered to anyone in years. The reason for removal wasn’t a bug report or a user complaint. It was AI agents poking around dead code and turning up findings nobody asked for. That
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Office suites have changed a lot since the first ones landed on desktops decades ago. What began as basic tools for typing letters and totaling numbers has turned into sprawling software loaded with templates, cloud sync, and now, AI. It’s 2026, and
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Greg Kroah-Hartman’s “clanker” branch started as his own experiment, where an AI-assisted fuzzing tool turned up real bugs in the ksmbd and SMB code. These days, he isn’t the only one using it, as other contributors have started sending in patches of
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Rhythmbox is one of those applications that you will find lurking on a GNOME-equipped desktop. If you are someone who has fully moved on to streaming music/podcasts online, then it doesn’t have much purpose for you. Even with the rise of streaming,
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The lone developer behind GNOME Boxes, Felipe Borges, has shown off a complete rewrite of the app as a Flatpak-only beta, featuring a modern interface foundation. Balancing his day job at Red Hat and his usual GNOME Settings maintenance duties, Felipe says
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GNOME Shell Extensions are usually sourced from extensions.gnome.org, or “EGO” as the GNOME folks call it. Every submission on this portal is manually reviewed, and that review process has been under strain for months now. We covered this back in December when
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