On September 29th, 2026 with 20 comments
BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Microsoft has made WSL Containers generally available, giving Windows 11 developers a built-in way to build, run,...
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On September 24th, 2026 with 74 comments
Snapdragon X2 Series processors feature a neural processing unit (NPU) delivering 80 trillion operations per second and allowing advanced AI features to run...
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On September 2nd, 2026 with 51 comments
Longtime Slashdot reader Microsplat: CERN plans to have all 2,200+ industrial computers and embedded systems in its accelerator-control infrastructure running...
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On August 30th, 2026 with 38 comments
"Multikernel Technologies has put out mklinux v7.0-mk2, the first public release of the multikernel Linux tree it's been building since last year," reports the...
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On August 30th, 2026 with 43 comments
The Linux Foundation's director of IT infrastructure says they now spend more CPU cycles "rendering commits for scrapers than we spend on all other kinds of...
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On August 29th, 2026 with 42 comments
This week Debian voted on whether to ban AI-assisted contributions. The winning proposal? "Debian neither endorses nor prohibits the use of generative AI...
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On August 29th, 2026 with 38 comments
Phoronix reports on Greg Kroah-Hartman's recent slide from his upcoming talk in Paris at Kernel Recipes 2026 (September 21 to 23):
With the proliferation...
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On August 24th, 2026 with 96 comments
The long legal battle over ownership of Linux "is closer than ever to ending," reports the Register, "after a panel of three judges ruled a claim against IBM...
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On August 23rd, 2026 with 39 comments
3,346 backers pledged $1,198,844 on Kickstarter to build the (modular) handheld Linux computer, the Mecha Comet. It's slightly bigger and heavier than your...
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On August 23rd, 2026 with 50 comments
Debian developers are voting on whether to ban AI-assisted contributions, reports the blog Linuxiac, with a ballot listing eight proposals and a "None of the...
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On August 21st, 2026 with 151 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: According to a Bloomberg report, attributed to China's Ministry of State Security, the country has ordered some...
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On August 17th, 2026 with 48 comments
"Epic Games has confirmed that it is working on a Linux version of its storefront, potentially removing the need for third-party launchers on platforms such as...
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On August 16th, 2026 with 12 comments
Linux Kernel 7.2 has just been officially released with a slew of new features, reports the blog 9to5Linux.
Highlights of Linux 7.2 "include cache-aware...
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On August 11th, 2026 with 67 comments
Cloudflare data suggests desktop Linux usage in North America has climbed to 6.4%, up from 4.1% a year earlier, with one post-holiday workday briefly spiking...
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On August 9th, 2026 with 65 comments
Linux Torvalds expects Linux 7.2 should be released next weekend "unless something really bad
pops up," Torvalds said while announcing today's release...
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On August 9th, 2026 with 81 comments
"I've been a Linux IT administrator for 30 years now," says crhylove (Slashdot reader #205,956), in a new video on his YouTube channel. "I used to be a data...
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On August 3rd, 2026 with 48 comments
Slashdot reader prisoninmate shares this report from 9to5Linux:
Coming ten days after the previous Linux kernel security update, which only fixed 12...
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On August 2nd, 2026 with 36 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader pyroclast shared this report from Linux Journal:
After years of requests from the Linux gaming community, GOG has officially...
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On August 2nd, 2026 with 6 comments
Valve just published the Steam Survey results for July 2026, reports Phoronix, "and they point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use."
Back in March Steam...
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On August 2nd, 2026 with 89 comments
The blog Linuxiac reports:
Linux has crossed a major milestone in North America, with the open-source operating system now accounting for 10.65% of desktop...
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On July 27th, 2026 with 30 comments
An anonymous reader shared this report from Phoronix:
A patch series that appears destined for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window is what's dubbed the "KVM...
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On July 22nd, 2026 with 92 comments
Ancient Slashdot reader alanw shares a post from the OSS Security mailing list, where sysadmin Jan Schaumann wonders what to do after the Linux kernel cranked...
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On July 17th, 2026 with 92 comments
Linus Torvalds says the Linux kernel will not ban AI-assisted coding tools, and if anti-AI absolutists have a problem with that, they can "fork it" or "walk...
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On July 14th, 2026 with 29 comments
Today, the Linux Foundation launched the x402 Foundation to standardize internet-native payments for AI agents, APIs, and applications, based on Coinbase's...
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On July 13th, 2026 with 40 comments
"Git and email are the two really only tools I use," Linus Torvalds said at Open Source Summit India 2026. But ZDNet reports that he also shared his thoughts...
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On July 12th, 2026 with 19 comments
Linus Torvalds once said LLMs might bring a 10X increase to programmer productivity. But speaking at Open Source Summit India 2026, he now says that number...
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On July 5th, 2026 with 244 comments
Have you ever needed a Linux application which only exists in the Windows world? Long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM writes:
Windows does have a lot of useful...
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On July 4th, 2026 with 26 comments
Slashdot reader wiredmikey writes: AI security researchers have uncovered a structural security flaw dubbed GuardFall that allows decades-old Bash shell tricks...
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On June 30th, 2026 with 93 comments
Microsoft has released a public preview of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) containers, adding a built-in command-line tool and API for running Linux...
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On June 25th, 2026 with 17 comments
BrianFagioli writes: The Linux Foundation has announced Akrites, a new initiative to coordinate vulnerability disclosure and remediation for critical open...
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