California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash(tomshardware.com)

995 points by rbanffy 5 months ago | 435 comments

Tom's Hardware news article on a proposed amendment exempting Linux from California's upcoming OS age-verification law, by the law's original author.

Switzerland mandates government agencies use open-source software(tomshardware.com)

83 points by Stratoscope 2 years ago | 9 comments

Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer(tomshardware.com)

513 points by iancmceachern 5 months ago | 278 comments

Tom's Hardware news article on Louis Rossmann offering to pay legal fees for an OrcaSlicer developer threatened with a lawsuit by Bambu Lab.

Linux dev swatted and handcuffed live during a development video stream(tomshardware.com)

148 points by croes 2 years ago | 87 comments

Nvidia bans using translation layers for CUDA software to run on other chips(tomshardware.com)

205 points by justinclift 2 years ago | 96 comments

Akira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours(tomshardware.com)

119 points by Ozarkian 1 year ago | 34 comments

California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash(tomshardware.com)

995 points by rbanffy 5 months ago | 435 comments

Tom's Hardware news article on a proposed amendment exempting Linux from California's upcoming OS age-verification law, by the law's original author.

New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros(bleepingcomputer.com)

336 points by smig0 1 year ago | 227 comments

BleepingComputer news article about a udisks vulnerability that lets attackers gain root privileges on major Linux distributions.

France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk(xda-developers.com)

357 points by pabs3 6 months ago | 197 comments

XDA Developers article reporting that the French government is moving from Windows to Linux, citing dependence on US tech as a strategic risk.

My first contribution to Linux(vkoskiv.com)

633 points by vkoskiv 1 year ago | 76 comments

A blog post recounting the author's experience upstreaming their first Linux kernel patch, fixing a hardware issue on a 2005 Fujitsu Lifebook S2110.

A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification(pcgamer.com)

761 points by WalterSobchak 8 months ago | 649 comments

PC Gamer article on a new California law requiring operating systems, including Linux, to include some form of age verification at account setup.

Linux is good now(pcgamer.com)

1060 points by Vinnl 9 months ago | 847 comments

A PC Gamer opinion piece arguing Linux is now good enough for desktop use and urging readers to switch in 2026 to feel ownership of their PCs.