The GNU project was started in 1983 and in 2025 you can finally use a pure GNU operating system. Not that you'd want to but that is some serious perseverance.

FreeBSD is a Unix-like operating system that has roots in Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), which itself originated from research conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1970s.

For those unaware, Raycast is a highly extensible launcher for macOS. It has an extension store where the community can share add-ons to add a huge amount of features. I've always been interested in it and hopeful that a FOSS alternative would exist one day, so Vicinae has me very excited!

Lately I've been thinking about the mix CDs I used to burn for friends. Building the perfect mix for someone took a lot of time and intention, but it was a great way to expose friends to the rare musical gems I'd discovered, and sometimes, they even returned the favor.

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The GNU project was started in 1983 and in 2025 you can finally use a pure GNU operating system. Not that you'd want to but that is some serious perseverance.

A dream of a Linux distribution where the entire desktop environment is Win32 software running under WINE. A completely free and open-source OS where you can just download .exe files and run them, for the power user who isn't necessarily a Unixhead, or just for someone who thinks this sounds fun.

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Support for Australia Day on 26 January has surged, yet again, with more than three-quarters of Australians backing it in, including 83 per cent of Australians aged 18-24

This should be no surprise to anyone.

Managarr is a terminal-based application for managing all your Servarr instances from one place. It provides a user-friendly interface to interact with your media libraries, making it easier to manage your downloads, monitor your artists and albums, and perform various actions directly from the terminal.

Chapter one: The Relay-Pod

Exact problem as this archwiki forum post

After months of teasers, Canva relaunched Serif’s famous tools as the all-new Affinity in late October 2025; a single app combining Photo, Designer, and Publisher. It’s now free to use, with additional features such as Canva AI only available with a paid Canva subscription. Still, Canva has kept Serif's traditional platform support, with only Windows and macOS receiving native releases.

SoK is KDE's mentorship program that introduces new contributors to Free Software. This year our mentees will help improve the state of Plasma, KDE Connect, KDE's games, KDE Eco, translations, KDE's websites, internal data collection and more.

A new PC port of Super Mario 64, with native Linux version. It comes as an AppImage, and requires a ROM file of the original game.

It's typically rare these days for the ATA subsystem updates in the Linux kernel to contain anything really noteworthy. But today some important fixes were merged for the ATA code to deal with a reported power management regression affecting the past number of Linux kernel releases over the last year. ATAPI devices with dummy ports weren't hitting their low-power state and in turn preventing the CPU from reaching low-power C-states but thankfully that is now resolved with this code.

Prominent Intel Linux engineer H. Peter Anvin has posted a new patch series working to clean-up the Linux x86/x86_64 kernel boot code. Besides cleaning up the code, the kernel configuration would drop options around EFI stub mode and relocatable kernels in making those features now always enabled.

Ahead of the Linux 6.20~7.0 cycle kicking off next month, the Apple Silicon Device Tree updates have been sent out for queuing ahead of that next merge window. Notable this round are the Device Tree additions for rounding out the USB 2.0/3.x support with the USB-C ports.

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The director-general and minister do not need to observe procedural fairness in either providing advice or listing a hate group, meaning affected parties will not have the right to dispute allegations against them before they are listed as a hate group.

I forgot to check the size of the sourced png for the logo. I had to login via tui & delete the file. It was silly. Much better now with better icon.

Richard Stallman Makes a Come Back in his first public appearance at an US event

Your new project really could use a block device for Linux. File systems are easy to do with FUSE, but that’s sometimes too high-level. But a block driver can be tough to write and debug, especially since bugs in the kernel’s space can be catastrophic. [Jiri Pospisil] suggests Ublk, a framework for writing block devices in user space. This works using the io_uring facility in recent kernels.

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If you were asked to pick the most annoying of the various Microsoft Windows interfaces that have appeared over the years, there’s a reasonable chance that Windows 8’s Metro start screen and interface design language would make it your choice. In 2012 the software company abandoned their tried-and-tested desktop whose roots extended back to Windows 95 in favor of the colorful blocks it had created for its line of music players and mobile phones.

TLDR: use korgalore to bypass mailing list delivery problems

I'm trying to find an extension that will allow me to print pages such as the one I've linked. When I attempt to do so, the page goes black and I'm prevented from snagging the content. I've also tried screenshot tools, including a few grab & print style extensions. I've messed around with the inspector console, tried disabling javascript, more or less all of the things you might futz with to circumvent this. No joy.

Is there a way to fix this problem?, some text is now being showed correctly like hover texts using the oxygen theme.

The telnetd server invokes /usr/bin/login (normally running as root) passing the value of the USER environment variable received from the client as the last parameter. If the client supply a carefully crafted USER environment value being the string "-f root", and passes the telnet(1) -a or --login parameter to send this USER environment to the server, the client will be automatically logged in as root bypassing normal authentication processes. This happens because the telnetd server do not sanitize the USER environment variable before passing it on to login(1), and login(1) uses the -f parameter to by-pass normal authentication. Severity: High Vulnerable versions: GNU InetUtils since version 1.9.3 up to and including version 2.7.

Just a short overview of Chimera Linux's new installer and some additional linux news.

I don't know what else to say or what other logs to give other that what I have below. Thank you for the help.

Following recent discussions over AI contributions to the LLVM open-source compiler project, they have come to an agreement on allowing AI/tool-assisted contributions but that there must be a human involved that is first looking over the code before opening any pull request and similar. Strictly AI-driven contributions without any human vetting will not be permitted.

Following the December launch of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS and the first major COSMIC desktop release, System76 software engineers have continued making improvements to their Rust-based desktop environment.

LWN has had a number of articles on immutable distributions, such as Bluefin and Bazzite, in recent years. These distributions have taken a variety of approaches, including using rpm-ostree, filesystem snapshots, and bootable container (bootc) images. But those approaches, especially the latter, lead to extra complexity for a user attempting to install new software, instead of just using the existing package manager. AshOS (Any Snapshot Hierarchical OS) is an experimental AGPL-3-licensed "meta-distribution" that tried a different approach more in line with traditional package management. Although the project is no longer updated, it remains usable, and can still shed some light on a potential alternate path for users worried about adopting bootc-based approaches.

A change proposal has been cleared by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" for providing a nice out-of-the-box experience for Windows on ARM laptops namely the recent Snapdragon X1 laptops and will also be important for the upcoming Snapdragon X2 laptops too.

A lot of HID subsystem updates have been queuing up ahead of the Linux 6.20~7.0 merge window in February. There is a lot of new hardware support on the way along with quirks for some existing hardware support ranging from laptop keyboard issues to enabling support for more PS4/PS5 guitars under Linux.

Happy 2026! The BusKill project published our Annual Report for the progress we made last year.

Six months after switching to immutable design with its major 25 release, a Debian-based Deepin 25.0.10 ISO has been officially released as a feature-enhanced, bug-fix release, powered by Linux kernel 6.12.

Every year, at the end of January and the beginning of February, thousands of people from Europe and around the world gather in Brussels to discuss open source and open technologies. The main attraction is FOSDEM, Europe’s largest open source conference, which has inspired a range of side events, social activities, and workshops. For those interested in open technology, digital policy, and EU developments, OpenForum Europe’s EU Open Source Policy Summit brings together open source leaders and policymakers. Together, these events make up the EU Open Source Week.

In January 2026, Huntress Senior Security Operations Analyst Tanner Filip observed threat actors using a malicious browser extension to display a fake security warning, claiming the browser had "stopped abnormally" and prompting users to run a “scan” to remediate the threats. Our analysis revealed this campaign is the work of KongTuke, a threat actor we have been tracking since the beginning of 2025. In this latest operation, we identified several new developments: a malicious browser extension called NexShield that impersonates the legitimate uBlock Origin Lite ad blocker, a new ClickFix variant we have dubbed “CrashFix” that intentionally crashes the browser then baits users into running malicious commands, and ModeloRAT, a previously undocumented Python RAT reserved exclusively for domain-joined hosts.

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The Lord Gladstone, a well-loved pub in Chippendale known for its pumping live music scene, has got rid of all its pokie machines for good.

Limo: A simple Qt based mod manager

Researchers from the University of Waterloo's Faculty of Science and the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) are prioritizing collaboration over competition to advance quantum computer development and the field of quantum information. They are doing this through Open Quantum Design (OQD), a non-profit organization that boasts the world's first open-source, full stack quantum computer.

This is the second time Commissioner Mal Lanyon has extended the ban.

Okay, key question, Qantas already has the flying Kangaroo, so whats Gilmour's animal mascot gona be?