250 stories tagged linux, newest first.
11 points by yazeedaloyoun | 1 comments
Landing page for proc, a cross-platform CLI tool for finding, inspecting, and killing processes by port, PID, name, or path, with JSON output for coding agents.
24 points by speckx | 36 comments
A blog post and video tutorial explaining LUKS full disk encryption on Linux and enrolling TPM2-bound keys with systemd-cryptenroll on Fedora.
40 points by UncleJo7 | 14 comments
GitHub repository for Licasa, an open-source Picasa-inspired image viewer and editor for Linux supporting HEIC, AVIF, JPEG XL, RAW previews and Motion Photos.
140 points by ibobev | 138 comments
A blog post on Entropic Thoughts about how using NixOS makes the author less afraid to try and self-host software like FreshRSS.
63 points by st_goliath | 66 comments
A GitHub repository by jwz whose only content is a README stating there is no official XScreenSaver GitHub repository.
234 points by pfeifferj | 120 comments
A personal blog post describing installing Arch Linux on an ASUS ProArt P16 laptop with an NVIDIA RTX Spark ARM64 chip, with setup patches and benchmarks against Windows.
559 points by cjd8 | 252 comments
LWN.net news item announcing the release of Linux kernel 7.3, quoting Linus Torvalds and listing record commit counts and notable new features.
7 points by bobbycoleman-de | 1 comments
GitHub repository for OmniPTY, an MIT-licensed GPU-rendered terminal emulator in Rust for macOS and Linux with splits, workspaces, a file tree and a prompt.
87 points by zoobab | 22 comments
Blog post by Quentin Kaiser describing two bugs in a Broadcom WiFi parser and how they are exploited on routers running eCos and Linux.
42 points by dgavrilov | 39 comments
Mailing list announcement of the Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" release, covering Rust coreutils, Linux kernel 7.3, GNOME 51, TPM encryption, and RISC-V images.
5 points by madars | 2 comments
Landing page for Capsem, a Rust-powered hypervisor that sandboxes each AI coding agent in its own air-gapped Linux VM for visibility and control.
37 points by theHRTBeat | 4 comments
Hudson River Trading engineering blog post on using eBPF to trace unexplained network traffic across the firm's global compute cluster.
112 points by epestr | 35 comments
A blog post describing how the author reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect to recreate it as a simple real-time audio processor for Linux using PipeWire.
26 points by makerdiety | 7 comments
MakeUseOf article about Damn Small Linux 2024, a roughly 50MB lightweight Linux distribution for reviving old PCs.
81 points by dxs | 35 comments
Linux Stans news article reporting that 11 of 23 core open source projects are maintained by just one or two people, citing the tz database maintained by Paul Eggert.
106 points by khaosdoctor | 39 comments
Documentation page for proton-drive-linux-fs, a Go-based FUSE filesystem that mounts Proton Drive as a local folder on Linux with on-demand file downloads.
206 points by chabad360 | 131 comments
Product page for ETH-68, a rack-mount ethernet audio interface for Linux with 8 outputs, 6 inputs, and MIDI in/out.
39 points by a_kawashiro | 8 comments
GitHub repository for ProcInSh, a web-based 3D process inspector for Linux.
295 points by Fe2O3 | 247 comments
GitHub repository for AnyPS5, a tool that automatically ports PS5 executables to run natively on Linux and Windows without emulation.
372 points by mariocesar | 601 comments
Ask HN discussion thread asking what services people find worth running 24/7 on a cheap $5 VPS or mini PC.
220 points by kavourias | 150 comments
Landing page for Penguin Mail, an open-source mail and calendar desktop app for Linux supporting Gmail, Microsoft, IMAP and POP3 accounts.
21 points by abdelhousni | 6 comments
Windows Blogs post by Microsoft's Logan Iyer announcing the general availability of WSL containers.
24 points by speckx | 35 comments
Blog post arguing that text user interfaces (TUIs) are an underappreciated third way of using Linux, between the command line and graphical desktops.
8 points by MilnerRoute | 1 comments
Linuxiac news article reporting that Kagi is ending Orion Browser development for Linux and Windows and plans to open-source both versions for the community.
82 points by bundie | 90 comments
Neowin news article on System76 banning AI-generated code across many of its Pop!_OS COSMIC codebases; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.
171 points by pentagrama | 97 comments
Kagi blog announcement giving an update on the development of its Orion web browser for Linux and Windows.
67 points by luu | 10 comments
GitHub repository for gpuvis, an MIT-licensed GPU trace visualizer tool for viewing GPU and CPU event timelines.
59 points by nor-and-or-not | 26 comments
Blog post from indie studio Against All Odds about PasRISCV, the RISC-V emulator running Linux inside their space terraforming game SEEDS.
158 points by amcclure | 84 comments
A Techrights blog post by Roy Schestowitz claiming IBM is phasing out the Red Hat brand, as happened with other companies IBM acquired.
10 points by zasc | 5 comments
A yeet blog post by Jacob Pradels about an app sending StatsD UDP datagrams to port 8125 with nobody listening, exploring observability and telemetry internals.
62 points by d99kris | 49 comments
Canonical blog post announcing the availability of Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) and encouraging desktop users to upgrade.
14 points by Levitating | 0 comments
Amutable blog post by Aleksa Sarai describing Quarry, a system for distributing OS images using dumb servers and smart clients.
142 points by bketelsen | 86 comments
Project page for nsl, a tool that gives Linux hosts persistent distro environments via systemd-nspawn containers in a small VM, mimicking WSL.
313 points by mywacaday | 282 comments
Tom's Hardware news article on the Netherlands developing a NixOS-based software ecosystem to replace Microsoft after US sanctions on the ICC, with a first release expected end of 2027.
18 points by CG144 | 4 comments
GitHub repository for Corral, a Linux tool that runs a command with a wall-clock limit and ensures every process it spawned is killed, using sessions, cgroups or /proc tracking.
4 points by speckx | 0 comments
A blog post giving the author's opinion on Omarchy, DHH's opinionated Arch Linux setup; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.
29 points by Levitating | 12 comments
Amutable blog post by Daan De Meyer and Martin Pitt introducing tine, a build system for producing bootable OS images from scratch.
182 points by adunk | 88 comments
XDA Developers article about the newest Espressif ESP32 chip being able to run Linux, bringing it closer to Raspberry Pi-class boards.
147 points by WanjohiRyan | 59 comments
GitHub repository for virtio-nvgpu, an experimental virtio device providing near-native NVIDIA GPU access inside KVM virtual machines.
581 points by aaronday | 244 comments
Qualcomm OnQ blog post recapping Snapdragon Summit 2026, covering agentic AI PCs, Googlebooks, and Linux support for Snapdragon X2 series.
19 points by mikae1 | 9 comments
Blog post explaining the motivation behind Omarchy, an opinionated Arch Linux and Hyprland desktop configuration.
56 points by speckx | 15 comments
Blog post explaining how to configure swap, ZRAM, zswap and hibernation on NixOS, including mistakes made along the way.
386 points by ADevWithAnIdea | 233 comments
Blog post by Cody Ho describing building an OpenGL ES 3.0 compliant Linux GPU driver for the M4 Mac Mini and MacBook Neo in about a month using AI prompting.
341 points by encyclopedism | 112 comments
Mastodon post by Simon Tatham reporting that an update to the Linux Zoom client makes it proactively read everything written to the X11 clipboard.
513 points by mdp2021 | 313 comments
Phoronix news article reporting that Asahi Linux now officially supports Apple M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max Macs, with some feature caveats and the M3 Ultra excluded.
674 points by rwky | 133 comments
LWN.net editor Jonathan Corbet announces subscription price increases effective September 15, explaining the publication's finances and recent improvements.
522 points by metrofun | 121 comments
OpenShot blog post announcing the 4.0 release of the open-source video editor, highlighting new recording, editing, and color tools.
471 points by trap0xcc | 451 comments
Blog post describing a flaw in Omarchy's default Docker configuration that let any desktop user process escalate to root without a password; fixed in 4.0.1.
667 points by shscs911 | 329 comments
Tom's Hardware news article reporting California lawmakers unanimously passed AB 1856, exempting open-source OSes under GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses from an age-verification law.
645 points by smartmic | 270 comments
Refund4Freedom campaign page explaining how to get a refund for the preinstalled Windows license on new laptops and listing its demands to vendors.
514 points by zackb | 206 comments
Blog post introducing Tether, a Linux app the author built to use iMessage, SMS, and iPhone notifications from a Linux desktop after leaving macOS.
329 points by rustdesk | 142 comments
RustDesk blog post announcing unattended remote access support on Wayland, including multi-monitor setups, with a preview build for Debian/Ubuntu x86_64.
436 points by allanrbo | 295 comments
OpenAI community forum post announcing a preview of Codex in the ChatGPT desktop app for Linux; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification challenge.
327 points by 4diii | 220 comments
A blog note explaining how to set up a minimal ZFS-based NAS and share a dataset over the network with Samba instead of using Synology, QNAP, or TrueNAS.
447 points by theanonymousone | 55 comments
A blog post explaining every field and value shown in the htop and top process monitors on Linux, such as load average, memory, and process states.
607 points by soheilpro | 239 comments
Podman blog post announcing the release of Podman version 6.0.0, the container management tool.
435 points by rbanffy | 154 comments
GitHub repository for LibrePods, an open-source project that enables Apple AirPods features like ear detection and hearing aid mode on Android and Linux.
370 points by amarble | 298 comments
Blog essay by Andrew Marble arguing there is little downside to switching from proprietary AI models like Claude to open models, comparing it to adopting Linux.
376 points by signa11 | 77 comments
A tutorial by Ivan Velichko on iximiuz Labs explaining SSH local and remote port forwarding, the sshd settings involved, and how to remember the flags.
1375 points by mikemcquaid | 325 comments
Homebrew 6.0.0 release announcement covering tap trust security, a new default JSON API, Linux sandboxing, brew bundle improvements, and macOS 27 support.
358 points by josephcsible | 146 comments
Phoronix news article reporting that the macOS 27 beta changes the boot picker so Asahi Linux partitions are no longer visible or bootable on Apple Silicon Macs.
468 points by predkambrij | 271 comments
A GitHub feature request issue in the anthropics/claude-code repository asking for an official Claude Desktop build for Linux (Ubuntu LTS / Debian).
569 points by riddley | 230 comments
Landing page for Mouseless, a cross-platform app for controlling the mouse pointer with the keyboard, offering a 14-day trial and lifetime or subscription licenses.
441 points by tanelpoder | 111 comments
GitHub repository for nbd-vram, a tool that uses an NVIDIA GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux via NBD and CUDA, aimed at laptops with soldered RAM.
359 points by yacin | 229 comments
A blog post on Tyblog arguing that systemd timers are underappreciated and explaining how to use them for scheduling tasks on Linux.
564 points by thunderbong | 269 comments
An X post showing OpenAI Codex gaining root-equivalent access without sudo by using the user's Docker group membership to bind-mount and modify /etc.
995 points by rbanffy | 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.
328 points by zdw | 202 comments
AMD Adaptive SoC & FPGA support forum question asking why Vivado 2026.1 drops Linux support for the free tier.
479 points by hggh | 285 comments
Blog post by Veronica Explains describing her writerdeck, a terminal-only laptop set up with vim for distraction-free writing.
416 points by tech4bot | 211 comments
GitHub repository with packages, Mali drivers, overlays, and tools for running Debian Linux on an inexpensive Rockchip RK3562 Android tablet.
318 points by jandeboevrie | 108 comments
A blog post explaining how to play Space Cadet Pinball, the Windows XP game, on Linux via a reverse-engineered open-source port installable as a Flatpak.
357 points by rickcarlino | 358 comments
Blog post by Alcides Fonseca discussing why terminal user interfaces (TUIs) are making a comeback, referencing DHH's Omarchy distro.
408 points by xngbuilds | 235 comments
A blog post by Geir Isene titled "A desktop made for one," about building a personal desktop computing environment tailored to a single user.
326 points by maxloh | 109 comments
Blog post by Robin Candau announcing that Arch Linux now provides a bit-for-bit reproducible Docker image.
960 points by sohkamyung | 227 comments
A Mastodon post by @hailey on social.hails.org about a Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux project; the page did not render any content.
841 points by yusufusta | 415 comments
A blog post describing a zero-downtime migration from DigitalOcean to Hetzner that cut hosting costs from $1,432 to $233 per month.
357 points by pabs3 | 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.
340 points by Teever | 151 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that the French government plans to replace Windows with Linux to reduce dependence on US technology.
746 points by embedding-shape | 358 comments
French government press release on accelerating digital sovereignty and reducing dependence on non-European tech, following an interministerial seminar.
1299 points by pluc | 418 comments
Product page for Little Snitch for Linux by Objective Development, a tool that shows which applications make network connections and lets users block them.
570 points by mazieres | 304 comments
Landing page for jai, a Stanford tool for lightweight containment of AI coding agents on Linux to protect the filesystem.
564 points by zdw | 246 comments
A blog post sharing practical Unix shell tricks and keyboard shortcuts for bash and other shells to speed up everyday terminal work.
411 points by birkey | 277 comments
A personal blog post explaining why the author loves NixOS, focusing on the deterministic, reproducible Nix package manager rather than the Linux distro itself.
374 points by akersten | 373 comments
News article reporting that Ubuntu 26.04 changes sudo to show password feedback (asterisks), ending decades of silent password entry.
449 points by mmastrac | 126 comments
GitLab repository for nvidia_greenboost, a project to transparently extend Nvidia GPU VRAM using system RAM and NVMe storage.
317 points by dpassens | 174 comments
Blog post by Isaac Freund explaining how river 0.4.0 separates the Wayland compositor from the window manager via the river-window-management-v1 protocol.
737 points by nateb2022 | 488 comments
Homepage of Ageless Linux, a Debian-based OS that refuses to ask user ages, positioned as a protest against state age-verification laws for operating systems.
360 points by jwilk | 271 comments
LWN article on Debian's debate over a draft general resolution about accepting AI/LLM-assisted contributions, which ended without a decision.
361 points by TechTechTech | 116 comments
JSLinux by Fabrice Bellard, a page listing emulated systems (now including x86_64 Alpine Linux) that run Linux, Windows 2000, and FreeDOS in the browser.
337 points by zacwest | 241 comments
Communications of the ACM research article by Madhavapeddy, Scott, and Cormack reviewing ten years of Docker containers and the technical challenges behind them.