Linus Torvalds does not do subtle. When Laurent Pinchart argued on the kernel mailing list that the Linux kernel still needs a way to set expectations around AI-assisted patches, Torvalds told him to stop using compilers and write his submissions in assembler. He added that Pinchart should skip the text […]
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A Western University professor wants Canada to stop depending on Microsoft for government desktops and build a national Linux distribution instead. In a paper published online October 6 in Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance, Joshua M. Pearce argues that a Debian-based operating system maintained by a Canadian public body could […]
Epic Games confirmed on October 14, 2026 that Fortnite is coming to Linux. Getting there requires a rebuilt anti-cheat called EAC Linux v2, and it arrives with a long list of conditions: Secure Boot, TPM 2.0, a signed kernel, kernel lockdown and more. Epic hasn’t announced a release date. The […]
Every alarm, boarding pass and calendar invite on your phone depends on a text file that holds every clock rule a government has ever announced. A UCLA lecturer named Paul Eggert keeps that file current in his spare time, and at least four billion Android phones and iPhones read it. […]
Canonical is putting the final touches on Ubuntu 26.10, and this is not a quiet, skippable release. There’s an AI tool that types what you say, a tiling trick lifted straight from Windows 11, and a fix for a memory bug that’s been quietly ruining people’s day for years. The […]
The Dutch government has confirmed it is building a full replacement for Windows and Microsoft Office, from the desktop up. The project is called DAWO, and it runs on NixOS, the meticulous, famously unusual Linux distribution that started at a Dutch university and has somehow become the shared foundation for […]
For the better part of a year, Linux developers had a deadline hanging over their heads: January 1, 2027, the date California’s new age verification law would require every operating system sold or used in the state to start asking people for their birthday. This week, state lawmakers made sure […]
Linus Torvalds spent the better part of a day chasing a bug that had been sitting in the Linux kernel for two years. The actual fix came down to one line of logic. Finding it took eighteen kernel boots, twenty four debug patches, and an AI assistant that kept telling […]
HB5511 is officially about TikTok and Instagram. Read past the press release and it’s also about your operating system.
A single line in a technical specification is turning into one of the messiest fights in the EU’s push for digital identity. The document lays out how age verification apps for the EU Digital Identity Wallet are supposed to work, and buried inside it is a hardware requirement that has […]