Slax Linux Makes a Comeback
Slax now runs on Debian 13 with a built-in AI assistant, and it can boot with Secure Boot on compatible PCs.
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Developer's $300 Embroidery Machine Required a Subscription, So She Built This Open Source Tool
ZigZag turns SVG art into stitches, exports five file formats, and can send designs over Bluetooth to an app-controlled Brother embroidery machine.
Beyond AI Applications: How openEuler Is Rethinking the Agentic Infra OS
From secure execution and intelligent caching to persistent memory and elastic data services, openEuler is building an infrastructure foundation for large-scale, production-ready AI agents.
Agent Name Service is Now Part of The Linux Foundation
ANS lets AI agents prove who they are, much like a domain name and its certificate do for a website.
The AI-Assisted Linux Driver for DisplayLink Gets Legal Notice
Mike Lothian got Vino working on three generations of DisplayLink docks, but Synaptics told him to take it down.
The Company Behind GameOS is Now Building an AI Desktop OS Based on Linux
KORA is due in 2027 and will come to Snapdragon-powered PCs thanks to Qualcomm collaborating with the devs.
I Tried The Weird New Mini Window Feature in Firefox 160
An early version has arrived with Firefox 160, letting you move a tab or a selected part of a page into its own mini window. Does that serve any purpose?
SuperPoD OS and Agentic Infra Take Center Stage at openEuler Summit 2026
The November 13-14 event in Beijing will focus on SuperPoD OS, infrastructure for AI agents, and industry deployment experiences. All this under the theme "Building Agentic Infra from the OS Up."
Here's Everything New Coming to Linux Mint 27 This Christmas
It is a release that has taken a year to develop, with major changes like a Wayland session that is no longer experimental.
Asahi Linux Drops MIT and Goes Full GPL After AI Tools Were Used to Steal Unreleased Code
Every Asahi Linux repository is moving to GPL v2 or later, after bad actors lifted unreleased code and ran it through LLMs to hide where it came from.
Hate Chromium? Well, There’s a Linux Desktop Based on it Now
Domicile lets you build your desktop in React and CSS, with Manganese being included as the ready-made tiling option.
Kitty 0.50 Picks Up Where You Left Off After a System Restart
The release also adds docked windows, three new cursor trail shaders, and touchscreen support on Wayland.
Systemd Wants Rust in, But its Core Will Have to Wait
The rustification is ongoing, with Rust-written programs now allowed and existing C code not being ported.
Schools That Say No to Google’s AI Will Be Saying Goodbye to its Search Too
Meanwhile, schools in six German states can choose an open source cloud solution.
Linux 7.4’s Merge Window is Huge, and Linus Says it Might Not Just Be AI
Another possible factor is that people expect 7.4 to be the next LTS release.
Fedora 45 Released! Here's What's New
While the release missed its initial October 20 release target, it comes packed with Linux 7.2, GNOME 51, and Plasma 6.7.
Schools in Six German States Can Now Opt For a Nextcloud-Based Open Source Cloud Solution
IONOS has been picked as a contractor, and the service would run inside data centers in Germany.
Killed by Ubuntu, Linux Mint is Bringing This Classic Feature Back
Linux Mint is bringing back a feature most Linux distributions quietly gave up on years ago: hibernation.
France’s Weird Per-Gigabyte Data Tax Could Cost VLC Over €1 Million a Year!
France's National Assembly has voted in favour of a new "internet tax" that would charge companies for every gigabyte of data they send to users in France. It may get messier than GDPR.
Denmark’s Collabora Pilot Was Never The Microsoft Replacement it Was Made Out to Be
Collabora says a ministry merger paused the test, while the ministry says it was interrupted when the election was called.
openEuler New Releases Come With a Heavy Dose of AI and Agents
openEuler is pushing for a developer focused Linux distro with AI at its core. From PolyMind to Witty, the AI agents are part of the package.
Is Ubuntu Eyeing Immutability? Canonical Restarts Core Desktop and Eyes a Firmware Change for LTS
Core Desktop could run apps that can’t run natively in a sandbox, while linux-firmware-hwe is proposed as a safeguard against newer firmware causing problems.
Ghostty 1.4 Is Faster and Uses Less RAM, but Drops Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Support
The Ubuntu 24.04 support drop is thanks to the native builds requiring some newer dependencies. Anyhow, there’s more to this Ghostty release than that.
Rocky Linux Creator Built a New "Not Linux" Kernel in 11 Days Using AI
Ginux is not a Linux fork, yet it boots Rocky Linux 10 all the way to systemd. An OpenAI Codex agent wrote about 139,000 lines of it.
