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Canonical's web infrastructure buckled under a massive DDoS barrage last week. The attack, claimed by pro-Iranian hacktivists, knocked out key Ubuntu services for nearly a fu...

Linux NTFS Revival Accelerates: Key Fixes Stabilize 7.1 Driver for Cross-Platform Storage

Linux kernel developers have patched critical flaws in the new NTFS driver just as Linux 7.1-rc2 hits testing. This marks another step in the driver’s rapid maturation. Named...

Rust’s Brush Shell Hits 0.4 Milestone: Bash Fidelity Meets Modern Safeguards in Open-Source Command Line

Brush, the Rust-forged challenger to Bash and POSIX shells, just dropped version 0.4.0. Developers call it a "significant" leap—over 200 pull requests merged across months of...

ReactOS Merges Boot and Live Media into Single BootCD, Bolsters Storage with PnP-Aware Driver

ReactOS doesn't chase headlines. The open-source Windows-compatible operating system moves deliberately, merging long-germinating code into builds that testers can grab today...

NixOS’s Declarative Grip: Why Linux Pros Ditch Imperative Chaos for Atomic Rebuilds

Every Linux setup tells a story of drift. Stray packages pile up. Config files scatter across directories. Reproduce it on a new machine? Hours of guesswork....

Why KDE Plasma Outlasted GNOME and Rising Cosmic in Linux Desktop Wars

Dipan Saha had enough of GNOME. Extensions propped it up, but defaults felt off. Rigid workflows grated. He ditched Ubuntu, tried Fedora's vanilla GNOME, then bolted to Arch...

One Man’s Desktop Revolution: Building Software for an Audience of One

Geir Isene sits at a computer screen unlike any other. Almost every program he touches, he built himself. After 25 years of tweaking off-the-shelf tools, he swapped them out. On...

Krohnkite’s Fork Rescues KDE Plasma Tiling from Obsolescence

KDE Plasma users have long chased the efficiency of tiling window managers without abandoning their desktop's polish. Enter Krohnkite. A KWin script that snaps windows into g...

Linux Gamers Double Steam Presence in a Year Amid Proton Surge and Deck Boom

Steam's latest hardware survey paints a striking picture. Linux claimed 4.52% of users in April 2026, nearly double the 2.27% from April 2025. That's no fluke. Two years prio...

Germany’s Sovereign Tech Push: Funding Open Standards to Challenge Big Tech Dominance

Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency just unveiled a bold move. Sovereign Tech Standards promises monthly stipends of €4,800 to €5,200 for up to ten open-source maintainers. These...

Ubuntu 26.04 Outpaces Windows 11 by 9% on High-Core Workstations, Reshaping Creator OS Choices

Professionals building 3D models or compiling massive codebases now have fresh data showing Ubuntu 26.04 LTS pulling ahead of Windows 11. Phoronix benchmarks on an HP Z6 G5 A wo...

GTK2 Rises Again: Devuan’s Fork Battles Linux’s Relentless March to Modernity

In the shadow of GTK4's dominance, a Devuan developer has reignited GTK2. Daemonratte, known in Devuan circles, launched gtk2-ng last month. This fork targets the toolkit abando...

Weston 16 Charges Toward June: Wayland’s Reference Compositor Bolsters HDR and Color Precision

Marius Vlad of Collabora has laid out a tight schedule for Weston 16.0, the next major update to Wayland's reference compositor. Feature freeze hits early June. Alpha, beta, and...

Linux 7.1-rc1 Delivers Threadripper Speedups Amid Kernel Refinements

Linux 7.1-rc1 arrived last weekend, marking the end of a busy merge window packed with fresh drivers and code cleanups. Early tests on AMD's latest Threadripper hardware reve...

AerynOS Leaps to Linux 7.0 with Gaming Kernel and Fresh Identity in April Surge

AerynOS just dropped its 2026.05 alpha ISO. And it's packed with upgrades that signal real momentum for this independent Linux challenger. The distro, once Serpent OS, now sp...

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