Debian is at the heart of the most successful Linux distros(theregister.com)

181 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 78 comments

First ever 64-bit version of Windows rediscovered and a C compiler for it too(theregister.com)

88 points by lproven 3 years ago | 22 comments

Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros(theregister.com)

45 points by signa11 1 year ago | 24 comments

Intel, AMD engineers rush to save Linux 6.13 after dodgy Microsoft code change(theregister.com)

22 points by romaniitedomum 1 year ago | 4 comments

Debian polls its developers on AI: permit or ban?(theregister.com)

30 points by lproven 2 months ago | 32 comments

Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old(theregister.com)

191 points by akoster 3 years ago | 93 comments

Debian 13 “Trixie”(debian.org)

831 points by ducktective 1 year ago | 337 comments

Official Debian announcement of the release of Debian 13 "trixie" on August 9, 2025, with 5 years of support and updated desktop environments.

Debian 12 “Bookworm”(debian.org)

433 points by Chatting 3 years ago | 146 comments

Official Debian announcement of the release of Debian 12 "bookworm", the new stable version, including a new non-free-firmware archive area.

Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions(lwn.net)

360 points by jwilk 7 months ago | 271 comments

LWN article on Debian's debate over a draft general resolution about accepting AI/LLM-assisted contributions, which ended without a decision.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel(lwn.net)

529 points by luispa 24 days ago | 380 comments

LWN.net repost of Debian Security Advisory DSA-6528-1, a Linux kernel security update fixing numerous CVEs, dated September 29, 2026.

Real-time Linux is officially part of the kernel(arstechnica.com)

398 points by jonbaer 2 years ago | 118 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the PREEMPT_RT real-time patches have been merged into the mainline Linux kernel after decades of debate.

Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team(github.com)

448 points by sph 4 months ago | 168 comments

GitHub repository for openrsync, a BSD-licensed clean-room implementation of the rsync file synchronization tool from the OpenBSD project.