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Linus Torvalds spent weeks chasing a stubborn graphics glitch. The display on his Battlemage G21 system kept going black. He applied 24 debug patches. He rebooted the kernel 18...

Debian 13.7 Rolls 106 Bug Fixes and Dozens of Security Updates Into Trixie

The Debian project shipped Debian 13.7, the seventh point release of the stable "trixie" branch. Like earlier 13.x update...

LLVM Makes Its DirectX Backend an Official Target, With clang-dxc On by Default

LLVM's DirectX backend is no longer experimental. A patch from Microsoft HLSL compiler engineer Farzon Lotfi, merged on Aug. 31, promotes it to an official LLVM target and enabl...

LLVM Weighs Building ClangIR by Default, and the Build-Time Cost Splits Developers

Update, Oct. 21: After the Clang Area Team accepted the proposal, the pull request enabling t...

Linux 7.3-rc2 Scheduler Fix Keeps Tasks Off Too-Small Cores on Hybrid CPUs

Update, Oct. 18: Linus Torvalds released the final Linux 7.3 kernel on schedule, LWN reported, with 18,765 n...

Asahi Linux Adds Official M3 Mac Support, but GPU Acceleration and Sleep Aren’t Ready

Update, Sept. 15: Expert mode is no longer required to install Asahi Linux on M3 Macs, according to a note added to the...

Linus Torvalds Jokingly Blames AI for a ‘Full Fat’ Linux 7.3-rc2

Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.3-rc2 on Sunday and admitted it was bigger than he expected. "This didn't *feel* like a particularly busy rc2, but it clearly was," he wrote in h...

Linux Turns RandStruct Off by Default When Rust Is Available, Trading Hardening for Build Coverage

A one-line Kconfig change from kernel developer Mark Brown means Linux builds with a usable Rust toolchain will now leave RandStruct, the kernel's structure-layout randomization...

ReactOS 0.4.16 Adds Graphical Installer, New ATA and HD Audio Drivers, Server Core

ReactOS 0.4.16, the latest version of the open-source operating system built to run Windows applications and drivers, shipped Aug. 29 after a year and a half of development. The...

1Password and 37signals Each Pledge $300,000 to DHH’s Omarchy Linux Foundation

1Password and 37signals are each putting $100,000 a year for the next three years into the Omacom Foundation, the nonprofit David Heinemeier Hansson set up...

Debian Votes to Allow AI-Assisted Contributions, With Humans Held Responsible

Debian developers have voted to let contributors use generative AI tools, as long as a human stays responsible for whatever gets submitted. The general res...

FreeBSD 14.5-RC1 Closes Local Privilege Escalation Bugs Ahead of the Final Release

Updated Oct. 26, 2026, 1:35 a.m. ET: Adds that FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE shipped Sept. 8 and its support dates....

GNOME’s Mutter Gets a Merge Request to Survive GPU Resets Without Losing the Session

When a GPU hangs and the driver resets it, GNOME users have usually lost their whole session. A Google Summer of Code project aims to end that, and the cod...

Six Months Without Typing Code: What One Engineer Learned Running Agents in Disposable VMs

In February, Maisem Ali made a rule for himself: no more writing code by hand. Six months later, the exe.dev engineer has written up...

Asahi Linux Nears M3 Release With Webcam, Mic, USB 3 and Thunderbolt Support

Updated Oct. 26, 2026, 1:45 a.m. ET: Adds that Asahi Linux officially added M3 support to its installer on Sept. 6....

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