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 […]
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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 […]
Linux just did something it hasn’t done before. According to Statcounter’s numbers for July 2026, Linux now accounts for 7.53% of desktop operating systems worldwide. That’s not a typo, and it’s not one good month getting blown out of proportion by an enthusiastic corner of the internet. It’s the latest […]
For the first time, you can install genuinely open-source firmware on a modern AMD Ryzen desktop board, and it boots Ubuntu 26.04 without any workarounds.
Valve never set out to save Linux gaming. It set out to save Valve. In 2012, Gabe Newell looked at what Microsoft was building with Windows 8 and got spooked enough to start building a way out. That way out eventually became SteamOS, then Proton, then the Steam Deck, and […]
Codeberg, the nonprofit code forge a lot of developers have been quietly moving to as a GitHub alternative, just voted to ban vibe-coded projects, meaning repositories that mostly consist of code written by AI rather than a human. The vote passed by a wide margin. The reaction to it hasn’t […]