The big FOSS vendors don't eat their own dogfood – they pay for proprietary groupware
Open Source Policy Summit 2026 That's not a good idea
Software12 Feb 2026 | 46
Open Source
River project swims against the Wayland tide with modular window management
FOSDEM 2026 Breaking a big hard problem up into smaller ones? That'll never catch on
Software11 Feb 2026 | 25
Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty
FOSDEM 2026 One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing – the open protocol handles them all
Networks09 Feb 2026 | 21
CentOS is coming to RISC-V soon if you have the kit
FOSDEM 2026 The RHELatives are more versatile than you might realize
OSes05 Feb 2026 | 13
Ghost gun legislation casts shadow over 3D printing
Proposed bills in New York and elsewhere threaten makers, Adafruit says
Legal05 Feb 2026 | 86
'The EU runs on Microsoft' – and Uncle Sam could turn it off, claims MEP
Open Source Policy Summit 2026 Open source gains urgency as Europe reassesses reliance on US tech
Software04 Feb 2026 | 150
NARROWER TOPICS
Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support
updated Many vital open source resources rely on the devotion of a few individuals
OSes03 Feb 2026 | 97
GitHub ponders kill switch for pull requests to stop AI slop
updated Code community site begins to see that AI could drive people away
AI + ML03 Feb 2026 | 43
Critical React Native Metro dev server bug under attack as researchers scream into the void
Too slow react-ion time
Patches03 Feb 2026 | 4
Systemd daddy quits Microsoft to prove Linux can be trusted
Lennart Poettering's Amutable aims to bring 'cryptographically verifiable integrity' to the other OS
OSes29 Jan 2026 | 168
Vibe coding may be hazardous to open source
Researchers argue AI coding tools disrupt community and hinder returns to maintainers
AI + ML26 Jan 2026 | 18
KDE Plasma 6.6 beta ships a login manager that won't log in without systemd
Bad luck, BSDs – although alternatives still work
OSes26 Jan 2026 | 48
MX Linux 25.1 brings back switchable init systems
Dislike systemd but occasionally need it for something? MX can help
OSes21 Jan 2026 | 17
AI framework flaws put enterprise clouds at risk of takeover
Update Chainlit to the latest version ASAP
Security20 Jan 2026 | 4
Open source's new mission: Rebuild a continent's tech stack
Opinion Freedom can be very contagious if it grows on its own terms. Europe of all places should know that
Software19 Jan 2026 | 127
Maker fight! SparkFun cuts ties with Adafruit in harassment dispute
Adafruit claims SparkFun aims to shoot the messenger for criticizing corporate tolerance of intolerance
Personal Tech15 Jan 2026 | 33
Google rekindles relationship with jilted JPEG XL image format
Chromium commit adds support for image decoder after the Big G ditched it a few years back
Software14 Jan 2026 | 5
Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote
Just insert a disk and the TV starts playing three-year-old’s favorite shows
Offbeat12 Jan 2026 | 58
IceWM soldiers on while Budgie jumps the Wayland ship
Two new Linux GUIs – plus Phoenix, an experimental new X server in Zig
Software12 Jan 2026 | 12
Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech
Call for Evidence casts FOSS as a way to break US dependence
Software11 Jan 2026 | 82
Debian goes retro with a spatial desktop that time forgot
Trixie plus a carefully configured MATE setup, and absolutely nothing else
OSes09 Jan 2026 | 42
AOSP on a diet plan as Google halves Android code drops
Two a year is for your own good, Mountain View insists
OSes08 Jan 2026 | 13
What if Linux ran Windows… and meant it? Meet Loss32
It's crazy, a million-to-one shot, but it might just work
OSes06 Jan 2026 | 202
Finally - a terminal solution to the browser wars
A full-featured, Sixel-capable terminal browser for those who’d rather skip AI assistants
Applications02 Jan 2026 | 37
You don't need Linux to run free and open source software
Part 2 Alternative apps to empower older versions of macOS or Windows
OSes25 Dec 2025 | 148
pearOS is a Linux that falls rather close to the Apple tree
Revived distro returns on Arch with KDE Plasma, global menus, and a familiar macOS-style sheen
OSes19 Dec 2025 | 67
CEO spills the Tea about massive token farming campaigns
interview Plus: automated SBOMs, $250,000 bounties ahead
Security17 Dec 2025 | 6
Mozilla Corporation installs Firefox driver in CEO reboot
Anthony Enzor-DeMeo picked to replace interim boss Laura Chambers
Software16 Dec 2025 | 31
China, Iran are having a field day with React2Shell, Google warns
Who hasn't exploited this max-severity flaw?
Cyber-crime15 Dec 2025 | 9
New React vulns leak secrets, invite DoS attacks
And the earlier React2Shell patch is vulnerable
Patches12 Dec 2025 | 3
700+ self-hosted Gits battered in 0-day attacks with no fix imminent
More than half of internet-exposed instances already compromised
Cyber-crime10 Dec 2025 | 14
Linux Foundation aims to become the Switzerland of AI agents
An attempt to provide vendor-neutral oversight as the agent train barrels on
AI + ML09 Dec 2025 | 11
Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL
Tentative ruling signals a potential win for SFC’s copyleft enforcement push
Legal05 Dec 2025 | 56
Cloudflare blames Friday outage on borked fix for React2shell vuln
Security community needs to rally and share more info faster, one researcher says
Security05 Dec 2025 | 15
FreeBSD 15 trims legacy fat and revamps how OS is built
Project retires 32-bit ports, embraces pkgbase, and modernizes build process
OSes05 Dec 2025 | 84
Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape hatch
New ‘Datacenter Manager’ manages VMs across multiple sites or clusters
Virtualization05 Dec 2025 | 30
'Exploitation is imminent' as 39 percent of cloud environs have max-severity React hole
Finish reading this, then patch
Security03 Dec 2025 | 33
Linux 6.18 arrives as the year's final drop and likely next LTS
Bye-bye bcachefs, but hello there bhyve
OSes03 Dec 2025 | 17
Two paths to Enlightenment: AV Linux 25 and MX Moksha step forward
Whether you want a studio rig or a featherweight desktop, MX Linux spins have you covered
OSes02 Dec 2025 | 10
Another open source project dies of neglect, leaving thousands scrambling
Opinion Paying Ingress NGINX maintainers for their work might have avoided this outcome
Software02 Dec 2025 | 124
KDE Plasma sets date to dump X11 as Wayland push accelerates
If that's a step too far, then there are new versions of CDE – and tmux
OSes28 Nov 2025 | 72
Pebble, the e-ink smartwatch that refuses to die, just went fully open source
Eric Migicovsky wants to ensure Pebble can’t be killed again, and DIYers benefit most
Personal Tech25 Nov 2025 | 23
Years-old bugs in open source tool left every major cloud open to disruption
Fluent Bit has 15B+ deployments … and 5 newly assigned CVEs
Security24 Nov 2025 | 10
This Thanksgiving, top your turkey with Cranberry sOSS to fund open source
Unusual holiday drive raises cash for the people keeping critical code alive
OSes24 Nov 2025 | 10
You are likely to be eaten by the MIT license: Microsoft frees Zork source
Redmond dusts off Infocom's classic text adventures and puts the originals into public hands
Applications21 Nov 2025 | 50
Systemd 259 release candidate flexes musl support – with long list of caveats
PostmarketOS pushed for the change, but devs warn it may not last
OSes20 Nov 2025 | 56
Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh
Burnout and slowing growth push Eugen Rochko into an advisory role after nearly a decade in charge
Applications19 Nov 2025 | 18
CPython may go Rusty, but older platforms risk getting iced out
Preliminary proposal is already provoking debate
Software19 Nov 2025 | 25
Self-replicating botnet attacks Ray clusters
updated Using AI to attack AI
Security18 Nov 2025 | 4
Latest Servo release hints at a real Rust alternative to Chromium
As Mozilla stumbles into 'AI everywhere,' you might be glad of a non-Google browser engine
Software18 Nov 2025 | 18
Canonical pushes Ubuntu LTS support even further - if you pay
Enterprise Linux vendors keep jostling to see who can prop up geriatric distros the longest
OSes14 Nov 2025 | 33
VLC's keeper of the cone nets European free software gong
Jean-Baptiste Kempf lauded for keeping the media player free of crapware
Software12 Nov 2025 | 39
Big Tech's control freak era is breaking itself apart
Opinion AI slop, Trump tantrums, and zero humans answering phones
Software10 Nov 2025 | 66
When Debian won't do, Devuan 6 'Excalibur' Linux makes the grade
Debian 13 base, minus systemd and RISC-V build
OSes05 Nov 2025 | 43
Rust Foundation tries to stop maintainers corroding
Memory safety costs money: Maintainers Fund to directly pay developers for their work
Software05 Nov 2025 | 22
KDE tidies up Plasma 6.5 with 60-odd fixes and smoother setup for OEMs
Big release with a lot of new features – and a few inevitable glitches
OSes30 Oct 2025 | 6
Ubuntu Unity hanging by a thread as wunderkind maintainer gets busy with life
Team begs for help as teenage dev who revived Canonical’s old Unity desktop prioritizes studies
OSes29 Oct 2025 | 39
Introducing NTFSplus – because just one NTFS driver for Linux is never enough
Dev unveils a faster, modernized take on Microsoft's file system for penguin-powered PCs
OSes21 Oct 2025 | 45
Mobian makes Debian's latest 'Trixie' release pocket-sized
Another phone Linux? The Reg attempts to disentangle the options
OSes21 Oct 2025 | 30
Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover'
Taps Ruby core to oversee RubyGems, Bundler
Devops18 Oct 2025 | 23
NordVPN open sources its Linux GUI client under GPLv3
Joins its command-line client from a couple of years ago
Networks16 Oct 2025 | 11
Librephone battles the proprietary binary blob
Free Software Foundation project aims to reverse-engineer non-freedom respecting firmware
OSes15 Oct 2025 | 37
Biting the hand that feeds IT
