The UNIX List

It’s Linux, On A Sega Megadrive

If you were in the market for a games console in 1990, the chances are that the object of your desire was either a Super ...

‘DirtyClone’ Linux Kernel Vulnerability Leads to Root Access

DirtyClone, tracked as CVE-2026-43503, is a Linux kernel vulnerability that allows any local user to gain root privileges.

Android Phones Don't Have to Die After Four Years, Linux-Based postmarketOS Assures Second Life

postmarketOS 26.06 adds support for 254 devices, including devices like the Google Pixel 3a, Samsung Galaxy S9, OnePlus 6 and Xiaomi Poco F1, which have largely reached the end of their official Android support despite remaining perfectly functional.

Your Steam Deck Is Secretly a Linux PC. Here Are 10 Ways to Unlock Its Full Potential

Valve's SteamOS hides a powerful Linux desktop beneath its console-like interface. With a few button presses, you can unlock features that make the Steam Deck feel more like a PC than a gaming handheld.

Microsoft's Linux U-Turn Continues With Its Own Azure Linux Distribution

Linux now powers much of Azure, and Microsoft maintains its own Linux distribution to support cloud infrastructure and ...

Linux Foundation Unveils New Open Source Security Project Akrites

The Linux Foundation introduces Akrites, a joint effort to report, fix, and disclose vulnerabilities in open source software.

Your Linux PC has a Secure Boot problem - what to do first (and the workaround to avoid)

Your Linux PC has a Secure Boot problem - what to do first (and the workaround to avoid) ...

Vendefoul Wolf is a Linux distro that goes against the grain with terrific results

Vendefoul Wolf is a Linux distro that goes against the grain with terrific results ...

I finally understand why Arch Linux isn't for me—and probably isn't for you either

With great power comes great responsibility ...

Windows 11 still does one thing better than Linux, and it has nothing to do with apps

You can run almost any software you want on Linux, but hardware support is still a spot where Windows wins ...

Microsoft called Linux a cancer, now ships its own free distro that’s nothing like Ubuntu or Fedora

Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's own Fedora-derived Linux distro for Azure cloud workloads. Here is how it compares to Ubuntu, Fedora, and RHEL

🔥 Linux Quiz: Where Will You End Up?

Most Linux beginners get this command sequence wrong. Can you predict which directory you'll be in after running pwd, cd ..

Reacting to Part 3 of Linus Tech Tips 2026 Linux Challenge

Linus Tech Tips is back with Part 2 of their 2026 Linux Challenge so of course I had to react to it. In this reaction video, I go ...

Show HN: DeepSeek Flash inverted the economics of agent products

There is an adversarial relationship between developers and big model labs.Model labs charged developers higher API prices to subsidize their own agent harness offerings. Think Anthropic charging 5x higher Claude API prices to subsidize consumer subscriptions. So Cursor in a way was subsidizing their own direct competitor.DeepSeek V4 Flash totally inverted this relationship. Now you have a model that beats even Sonnet in some benchmarks and is totally opensourced. Now inference providers are rac

Show HN: Open-source app for UniNow QR code check in

This can be used as an alternative unoffical app for most german sports courses provided by UniNow (digital booking system). The TUM in Munich (ZHS) uses it.

all school computer labs should run something like an early UNIX edition so that they actually learn how to troubleshoot, format...

<p>all school computer labs should run something like an early UNIX edition so that they actually learn how to troubleshoot, format commands, learn about file types and file management. Which would probably be better than the prompt based search function prompted based gui ai slop they willingly pay to put on their machines currently.</p>

OpenIndiana

OpenIndianaOpenIndiana – an open-source UNIX operating system, based on the discontinued OpenSolaris. OpenIndiana is part of the Illumos Foundation, which also owns the… https://archiveos.org/openindiana/

Maybe an article on package management is in order. I could do that. I bet it wouldn't take too long.

<p>Maybe an article on package management is in order.</p><p>I could do that. I bet it wouldn&rsquo;t take too long.</p>

Show HN: Multiserial – a serial terminal for macOS that does not feel ancient

I do a fair amount of embedded and hardware work on my mac. The serial tool was always a bother for me. I usually ended up testing on Windows. I built this tool focused on day-to-day bringup, loop back tests, logging and repeatable send flows. it uses Tauri and Rust for speed and a low memory footprint. It is free, open source, MIT license. I have used this on a Mac and built and tested the Linux version. Did not get to building the Windows version yet. Will probably look at it next weekend.

Show HN: WSL Dashboard – an open-source,low-memory, high-performance GUI manager

A modern, high-performance, lightweight, and low-memory WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) instance management dashboard. Built with Rust and Slint for a premium native experience.