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Modders are trying to bring Game Pass and Xbox games to Mac and Linux
The big picture: Combined with compatibility layers such as Wine and Proton, third-party apps like Heroic Games Launcher have made games from multiple PC storefronts accessible on Linux and macOS. The ...
New OVSwrap Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Local Users Gain Root via Open vSwitch
CVE-2026-64531 lets local users exploit Open vSwitch kernel memory corruption to gain root, with a public PoC covering roughly 800 builds.
This free Linux tool makes it easy to check your PC battery and disk usage - here's how
The Mission Center system monitor for Linux adds some new features that will appeal to a broader user base, especially those with laptops.
Linux Mint will delete your old kernel versions automatically
Linux Mint has announced an overhaul in its kernel management, and will now automatically delete old kernels once a week. Kernel management is moving out ...
SteamVR Beta 2.17.7 brings improvements to wired headset support on Linux / SteamOS
VR on Linux has quite a number of sore spots but it seems Valve do continue to improve it, with the latest SteamVR Beta hopefully making it a lot nicer.
Hold up. Is the year of Linux actually happening?
StatCounter data shows that the market share of the Linux operating system has tripled since May, climbing to over ten ...
DualSense haptics land on Linux after six years: GE-Proton 11-4 ships today
GE-Proton DualSense haptics on Linux are finalized in today's GE-Proton 11-4, ending a six-year gap. The community Proton ...
Xbox PC Games May Soon Be Coming to Linux, Thanks to Fan-Made Project
A fan-made project may soon bring Xbox PC games to Linux-based systems, including Xbox Game Pass titles and beyond. Here's the latest on that.
Linux Use Skyrockets as It Becomes ‘OS of Choice for AI Agents’
Instead of more Americans using the Linux operating system, the sharp increase may be attributable to a different cause.
Linux desktop use surged to 22% on one workday, Cloudflare data shows
The Linux desktop continues to grow in popularity. Cloudflare numbers show Linux at work is making gains AI is a big reason ...
Xodus cracks Xbox authentication and game package decryption to bring PC Game Pass to Linux
PC Game Pass on Linux took a major step forward: Xodus, from Heroic Games Launcher developers, has cracked Xbox ...
Back in the Day: UNIX, Minix and Linux
Columnist Dave Taylor reminisces about the early days of UNIX and how Linux evolved and grew from that seed. Twenty five years of Linux Journal. This also marks my 161st column with the magazine too, ...
Timeline: 40 years of Unix
Ever wonder about how Unix got started, not to mention all the twists and turns it took along the way? Here are some milestones of the operating system’s four-decade-long history. 1956 A U.S.
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Ask HN: Could Linux on the Amiga have saved Commodore from bankruptcy?
Given that NeXTSTEP saved Apple, one might wonder whether Linux could have saved Commodore.<p>What do you think?
Show HN: Clawx – A package manager where packages are agent tasks
Hi HN — I built Clawx, an experiment in treating agent-driven tasks as installable packages.A Clawx package is a Markdown file with YAML metadata. The Markdown body becomes the system prompt for an agent CLI such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini, or Antigravity. Clawx fetches the package from a registry, verifies its SHA-256 hash, shows what it is requesting permission to do, asks for approval, runs it, and records the execution.The idea came from repeatedly writing the same operational p
Show HN: Crack Attack game vibe-ported to run in browser
Crack Attack! is a classic open source puzzle game that's included in many Linux distro repositories. I first played it around 20 years ago, and I've been hooked since.I wanted to see if an LLM could port it to run in the browser. I suggested recompiling it with Emscripten, but the LLM decided to rewrite it in TypeScript instead, using the original code as a reference. I had to prompt it a bunch to fix some gameplay and rendering differences, but I think the current version is very clo
Show HN: Rudder – Measure your own input on AI generated code
As someone who is using agents to code for me a lot lately, I was starting to feel more and more like I'm losing touch with the code I write--it's starting to feel like Claude's code rather than mine. I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in feeling this way, so I made Rudder as a first earnest shot at trying to fix this problem.Nowadays with AI coding agents, unit tests are pretty much dead code--your agent may write them because it has to hit coverage, but it is basically mean
Show HN: Argot, a Rust AI guardrail based on your codebase AST patterns
We have lots of benchmarks for new frontier LLMs (SWE benchmarks etc) to make them score on the "best code". In large codebase, the best code is the one that matches the codebase own voice and conventions, because that's the mental model of the team.Ingesting a full codebase explicit/implict patterns in an agent windows to make them match the codebase doesnt work: too much context, hallucinations, ...So I built this free/open source project, your codebase is a golden min
Show HN: Jotchi, a smart scratchpad for the busy brain
I love the idea of projects like Obsidian, but since I already have difficulty dealing with one brain, the idea of managing a second has never really worked for me.Since I'm always working on a bunch of stuff, I never really know if a particular piece of information will be important later or not. Ideally, I wanted a place that I could just dump notes into, and let the notepad itself organize everything in a clear and fast to navigate way.Ultimately, that lead to Jotchi, which became a sort