Open-source News

Get Linux on your ancient 486 Windows 95 desktop using WSL9x — very old Windows PCs can cooperatively run very modern Linux kernels  Tom's Hardware

Microsoft Has WSL, But This Developer Built One for Windows 95  It's FOSS

Outlook Mailboxes Abused to Conceal Linux GoGra Backdoor Traffic  gbhackers.com

Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux Brings Your Linux Software to Microsoft's Peak-'90s Operating Systems  Hackster.io

Mauna Linux 25.2 drops with OnlyOffice 9.3.1, updated firmware packages, more  Notebookcheck

Ready to go ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window closing at week's end are numerous new USB device support additions and other USB subsystem enhancements...

Many USB Improvements & New Hardware Merged For Linux 7.1  Phoronix

Outlook Mailboxes Used to Conceal Linux GoGra Backdoor Traffic  gbhackers.com

The Linux Multi-Function Device "MFD" subsystem changes were merged this week for Linux 7.1 ahead of the merge window closing on Sunday...

Linux 7.1 Lands The Apple SMC Power Driver For Reporting Battery Metrics On MacBooks  Phoronix

I thought MX Linux was lightweight until I tried the distro it's based on  MakeUseOf

FreeRDP as a leading open-source implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) has introduced experimental AV1 codec support...

Crimson Desert acknowledges missing mounts issue after latest patch; not launching for some on Linux  PiunikaWeb

Microsoft Graph API misused by new GoGra Linux malware for hidden communication...  Security Affairs

Linux Kernel Support for IEEE 1588 Hardware Timestamping  EE Times

Thunderbird 150 Lands on Linux: Smarter Encryption, Better Tools, and a Polished Experience  Linux Journal

A Linux Hardware Maker Is Convincing Colorado to Leave Open Source Alone  It's FOSS

The $118 Powerhouse: Resurrecting a 'Parts-Only' T450 into a 2026 Linux HackPad  HackerNoon

You can now run modern Linux kernels inside Windows 95 with this fan-made project  XDA

All of the SoC updates were recently merged for the ongoing Linux 7.1 kernel cycle. Most of the activity as usual is on the Arm side but also with some RISC-V additions too for the Linux 7.1 kernel...