AI has been a mixed bag for the open source world. Some developers are using it to write faster, catch bugs, and review patches more efficiently. Others are watching the same tools get turned against the codebases they maintain. Cal.com, a popular
Read More
Okay, not a Linux bug in the kernel, but one that has existed in the Enlightenment window manager E16 since 2006, when Kamila Szewczyk was barely a year old. Kamila, now a 21-year-old graduate student at Saarland University in Germany, daily drives
Read More
Support for Russian Baikal CPUs is being pulled from the Linux kernel. Work has begun in the Linux 7.1 cycle to remove driver code and device tree bindings for Baikal SoC hardware, with more patches already lined up to follow. The first
Read More
Privacy in 2026 is a bit of a joke. Governments have turned surveillance into standard operating procedure, and Big Tech companies treat your personal data like a free-for-all buffet, helping themselves, then selling the leftovers to data brokers who do the same.
Read More
The big new, and it’s good, is coming from France. The government’s digital agency DINUM is moving its workstations from Windows to Linux, with every French ministry required to submit a plan by Autumn 2026 to reduce dependence on non-European software. Another
Read More
Not all distros are created equal. In fact, not all distros are created at all. This quiz is simple. You’ll be presented with a few Linux distros and their details. The twist is that they might not be a real thing. They
Read More
The U.S. has been quietly building up a set of state-level laws that push operating system providers into the age verification plague. California’s AB 1043, signed in October 2025, requires OS providers to collect age data at account setup and pipe it
Read More
Back in 2005, a bug report was filed by Kjetil Kjernsmo, then running KDE 3.3.2 on Debian Stable. He wanted the ability to have each connected screen show a different virtual desktop independently, rather than having all displays switch as one unit.
Read More
Natalie Vock (pixelcluster), a developer who works on low-level Linux code and as an independent contractor for Valve, has published a fix for a VRAM management problem that has been making life difficult for Linux gamers on AMD GPUs with 8GB of
Read More
The Linux kernel project has spent quite some time navigating the use of AI tools, and the response usually has been somewhere between “figure it out yourself” and “we’ll get back to you.” Late last year, at the 2025 Maintainers Summit, Sasha
Read More