The Atari Jaguar may have been one of gaming’s biggest commercial failures, but it has earned an unlikely new achievement. Developer cakehonolulu has successfully ported uClinux to the 1993 console, overcoming its tiny 2MB of RAM, lack of an MMU, and other hardware challenges to boot Linux on real hardware.
Google is moving Open Health Stack to the Linux Foundation, where the open source healthcare platform will be developed under vendor-neutral governance with support from a $3 million Google.org grant.
deepin 25.2 focuses on polish with a more stable Wayland experience, smarter OCR-powered search, Linux 6.18 LTS support, and dozens of improvements across the desktop.
IBM and Red Hat are rolling out Lightwell, a new AI-powered platform that promises to help enterprises patch vulnerable open source software without disruptive upgrades.
Alpine Linux 3.24.0 arrives with Linux kernel 6.18, GNOME 50, COSMIC desktop support, and aggressive removal of aging packages like GTK+ 2, Qt 5 components, and libsoup 2.
A Fedora 43 and Dovecot 2.4 upgrade may have uncovered an old Microsoft Outlook behavior where SSL/TLS settings allegedly failed to properly encrypt POP3 email connections.
MX Linux 25.2 “Infinity” delivers Debian 13.5 updates, newer kernels, Mesa 26, and installer improvements while staying focused on practical Linux computing.
I spoke with Derek Ross from Soapbox about Ditto, decentralized social networking, internet nostalgia, customization, moderation, and why the company believes social media has lost its personality.
Debian 13.5 bundles a huge collection of security updates and bug fixes, reminding Linux users why stable, reliable distributions still matter.
Soapbox has launched Ditto, a decentralized social platform focused on customization, open protocols, and bringing back the personality the internet seems to have lost.
Fedora Linux 44 is here with GNOME 50, Plasma 6.6, newer developer tools, and updated Asahi Remix support for Apple Silicon Macs.
Linux Kernel 7.0 is officially out, with Linus Torvalds describing another release packed with small fixes across networking, drivers, tooling, and memory handling. He also floated an interesting theory: AI tools may be helping uncover more strange bugs than ever before.