Open-source News

Run Linux apps on Windows 95 with Windows 9x subsystem for Linux  Liliputing

Ahead of tomorrow's Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release, Canonical published a blog post today outlining the state of Rust Coreutils for its premiere in this long-term support (LTS) version. Canonical also commissioned a security audit recently of Rust Coreutils that turned up 44 CVEs and 113 issues in total...

The Linux 7.1 update includes a new speedy NTFS driver  Adafruit

Framework’s Linux-First Laptop 13 Pro Offers an Ultra‑Repairable Design  extremetech.com

GCC 16.1 as the first stable version of the GCC 16 compiler is nearly ready for its official debut as this year's major feature release for this open-source compiler...

FreeBSD is out today with their Q1-2026 status report to outline the many different development initiatives their open-source developers have participated in over the past quarter. There is a lot of hardware enablement efforts ongoing as well as continuing to make a more compelling desktop experience and also improving GUI and management options for FreeBSD systems...

WSL9x hacks Linux into ancient Windows 9x systems  theregister.com

Harvester Deploys Linux GoGra Backdoor in South Asia Using Microsoft Graph API  The Hacker News

Transport Fever 3 takes modding to a new level with a Curated Mods Program  GamingOnLinux

Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux  Adafruit

Linux may be ending support for older network drivers due to influx of false AI-generated bug reports — maintenance has become too burdensome for old largely-unused systems  Tom's Hardware

KMSCON 9.3.4 is out today for this virtual terminal (VT) emulator in user-space that runs atop the Linux DRM/KMS APIs for those wanting to enjoy a CONFIG_VT=n Linux kernel experience...

I set up this Linux 'Watchdog' and now my system auto-reboots when it locks up  ZDNET

Merged recently to Linux Git were the big set of networking changes for the Linux 7.1 kernel...

Many Great Networking Improvements Arrive In Linux 7.1  Phoronix

'I cannot express how excited and proud I am to be supporting this company': new Framework laptop is a 'MacBook Pro for Linux users' and it's been very well-received  TechRadar

AlmaLinux Takes a Wait-and-See Stance on California Age Verification Law  Linuxiac

Canonical is out with a new blog post today outlining toolchain changes to Ubuntu Linux from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS due for release tomorrow. While those changes over the past two years aren't too news worthy if you have been following the interim Ubuntu releases, what's interesting is their road ahead on the Ubuntu toolchain front for developers...

Ubuntu Looks Toward More Snap-Based Devpacks Moving Forward  Phoronix

As part of Intel's LLM-Scaler initiative for AI inferencing on Intel Arc hardware, out today is their vllm-0.14.0-b8.2 update that includes officially supporting the Arc Pro B70 graphics card...