Rocky Linux Creator Built a New "Not Linux" Kernel in 11 Days Using AI
Ginux is not a Linux fork, yet it boots Rocky Linux 10 all the way to systemd. An OpenAI Codex agent wrote about 139,000 lines of it.
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In a Setback to VMWare, Tesco is Looking to Migrate to Proxmox
Tired of the rising licensing cost of VMWare, Tesco seems to be looking to switch to Proxmox.
BSD Users Can Now Enjoy Omarchy Flavor
Daemonarchy keeps Omarchy’s installer and look, with FreeBSD handling the system underneath.
Systemd Creator’s Startup Opens Signups for Private Preview of its Linux System
Amutable Foundations is a read-only, image-based system where every machine produces signed reports of its own state.
ArmSoM Sige7s Puts the RK3588S on a Raspberry Pi-Sized Board, and There's a Compute Module Too
The small SBC brings a 6 TOPS NPU, Wi-Fi 6, a Pi-compatible 40-pin header, and up to 32GB RAM, starting at $153.
Red Hat Funded a Report That Found a Quarter of Incoming Pull Requests May Be AI Slop
The Linux Foundation Research survey also found that only 35% of projects have a formal policy permitting AI contributions.
This Newly Proposed Linux Filesystem Can Fix Corrupted Data
Aimed at hardware exposed to radiation, like satellites, BeamFS can repair data without keeping a second copy.
You Can Reserve This Small-Factor, De-Googled Phone for $30
The Brax Wink is a 4-inch phone that runs BraxOS and has a keyboard that clips onto the back.
DankMaterialShell Becomes Dux Shell as Dank Linux Rebrands to Dux Labs
The new name covers the shell, greeter, search, system monitor, calendar, and file manager, all released as part of DMS 2.0.
Save Upto 40% on Kubernetes Security Certifications From the Linux Foundation
Planning to get certified? You can get CKS and KCSA for 40% less and 35% off most other Linux Foundation certifications. Offer ends October 23.
Microsoft’s AI Coding Agent Testing Tool Has Been Open-Sourced
Scope is for teams that maintain SDKs, docs, or MCP servers and want to see where coding agents get stuck.
CutefishOS is Back With a Vibe-Coded Desktop That Doesn't Use Qt or GTK
The project says the new desktop has its own Wayland compositor and graphics library.
People Are Using AI to Get Rid of Smart TV Ads and Make Their TVs Faster
Android TV owners are pointing Claude Code at their TVs over ADB to strip out ads, telemetry and bloat. Here's how it works and where it can go wrong.
Linux Kernel 7.3 Release is Good News For Gamers Short on VRAM
A fix for memory freezes lands alongside Zen 6 groundwork, and early Apple M3 support.
Valve’s Steam Client for Linux Goes 64-bit in Beta and Moves Into a Container
They say running Steam in the same kind of container its games use should make the client behave more consistently.
Ubuntu 26.10 Has Come Out as a Rust-Packed Interim Release
It ships with Linux 7.3, GNOME 51, an improved App Center, and many other upgrades.
Big Tech Funded a €115 Billion Warning Against Europe’s Digital Independence
Amazon, Google, and Meta funded the study through their lobby group CCIA Europe. The EU Commission's own estimate? €18 billion. Six times less.
Epic Games Wants Linux Gamers. It's Rebuilding EAC For Fortnite
The anti-cheat software is being prepared for the platform, while a native client is already available as a preview.
A Joint Venture of Open Source Proportions! Open Productivity is Here
The vendors behind the openDesk office suite have formed a company to take it beyond public administration and into commercial use.
This Dev Built an Office Suite Because His Wife Kept Going Back to Microsoft Office
ElixirOffice is a new suite based on Euro-Office components and developed using AI.
Linux Mint 23 is No More. A New Release Takes its Place
The new one, Linux Mint 27 "Adrien," is due Christmas with an Ubuntu 26.04 LTS base.
This Rust File Manager Was Designed for Omarchy, but Arch Users Can Run it Too
Strata is a new offering that can open folders, preview images, and remember the sort order and icon size from previous sessions.
With an Eye on Europe, Mozilla Launches Firefox Enterprise With Self-Hosted Browser Management
Mozilla has announced Firefox Enterprise, a commercial offering for businesses and government agencies. It combines Firefox with a management console that organizations can run on their own servers.
openEuler Wants Linux to Treat an Entire AI Cluster Like One Single Machine
At Open Source Summit Europe 2026, openEuler laid out how SuperPoD OS and Agentic Scaling change what an operating system is expected to do.
