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Deb Goodkin installed FreeBSD on a modern Framework laptop last year and made it her primary machine. The executive director of the FreeBSD Foundation stood before an audienc...

Microsoft Surfaces the Genesis of DOS: 45-Year-Old 86-DOS Code Comes to GitHub

Tim Paterson kept the printouts in his garage. Yellowed dot matrix paper. Stacks of it. Handwritten notes in the margins. Decades old. Now those pages form the backbone of a...

AMD Radeon HDMI 2.1 Finally Reaches Linux Kernels — But Not Without Guardrails

Years of frustration for Linux users with high-end AMD graphics cards may soon ease. The open-source AMDGPU driver has received fresh patches that bring HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate L...

Haskell Foundation Shifts to Technical Core as Longtime Leader Departs

Laurent P. René de Cotret delivered the news with characteristic understatement. In a post on the Haskell Discourse forum yesterday, the chair of the Haskell Foundation outli...

Apple’s 2026 AI Push: Siri Beta, iOS 27 Accessibility Gains and WWDC Expectations

Apple sent out invites this week for its Worldwide Developers Conference keynote set for June 8. The move confirms what many already suspected. The company stands on the verg...

One Blog’s Decade on Outdated Ubuntu Ends With a Leap to FreeBSD

Bruno Croci kept a simple blog running on a Digital Ocean VPS loaded with Ubuntu 16.04 for more than ten years. The setup demanded little attention. It just worked. Until it...

Anthropic Pushes Claude Code Toward Full Autonomy as Developers Ship Its Work Untouched

Developers at Anthropic's Code with Claude event last week raised their hands in droves. Nearly half admitted they had shipped pull requests written entirely by Claude. When...

Flipper One: The Pocket Linux Machine That Demands Community Help to Ship

Flipper Devices just dropped a project that splits from its famous handheld. The Flipper One arrives as an ARM-powered Linux computer small enough to slip into a pocket yet e...

Vim Embraces GTK4: AI Helps Refresh Decades-Old GUI Code

Vim just took a notable step forward. The venerable text editor's graphical interface now supports the latest GTK toolkit. Developers merged fresh code that lets gVim compile...

Greg Kroah-Hartman Pushes Linux Kernel Toward More Rust as Official Support Solidifies

Greg Kroah-Hartman has spent years steering the Linux kernel through stable releases, security fixes and an endless stream of patches. Now he wants more hands on deck for Rus...

HP Joins Dell and Lenovo as Premier Backer of Linux Firmware Update System

HP has stepped up. The company now ranks as the third premier sponsor of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service and its companion tool fwupd. This move follows Dell and Lenovo by...

Cache-Aware Scheduler Set to Transform Linux Performance on Multi-Core Servers

Server workloads keep growing more demanding. Modern processors pack dozens or hundreds of cores split across multiple last-level caches. The Linux kernel's scheduler has lon...

Colorado Exempts Open-Source Projects from Age Verification Rules

In a significant victory for software developers and digital privacy supporters, Colorado lawmakers have advanced Senate Bill 51, legislation that explicitly shields open-source...

Age Assurance Laws Tighten Grip on Developers: How Self-Declared Signals and OS Mandates Threaten Open Source Innovation

State lawmakers across the U.S. keep passing bills meant to shield kids online. Yet many of these measures land hardest on the very people who build the tools that power the...

Browser-Based Linux Revives Forgotten USB Scanners

George MacKerron stared at an old Canon scanner gathering dust. Modern computers refused to acknowledge it. Drivers had vanished. Support ended years ago. So he fixed the pro...

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