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Eighteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of June 30, 2026): apl-2.0: GNU APL is a free interpreter for the programming language APL. It is an implementation of the ISO stan ...

Is Linux Kernel 7.2 really 43 million lines? We verified the count with wc, cloc, tokei, and scc tools and explain why the ...

Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's own Fedora-derived Linux distro for Azure cloud workloads. Here is how it compares to Ubuntu, ...

Learn how to install and configure ProxyChains on Linux. Set up chain types, enable DNS proxying, and route curl, nmap, and ...

DXVK is part of the secret sauce that helps Valve's Proton to run so many Windows games exceptionally well on Linux, and DXVK ...

Linux kernel strncpy removed in Linux 7.2 after 362 patches and six years of coordinated work. The dangerous C string ...

The Panfrost and PanVK open-source driver stack for ARM Mali GPUs crossed a significant threshold on June 3, 2026, when a Rust-written shader compiler landed in Mesa's development tree for the first ...

A so-called software supply chain attack, in which hackers corrupt a legitimate piece of software to hide their own malicious code, was once a relatively rare event but one that haunted the ...

Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that kicked off its decades-long dominance of consumer PCs. This week, the ...

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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS now requires 6 GB of RAM and a dual-core 2GHz processor, exceeding Windows 11’s 4 GB RAM requirement. PCWorld highlights this shift challenges Ubuntu’s reputation as a lightweight ...