History is being distorted before our eyes. Even fake quotes are manufactured, attributed to real and still-living human beings.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has written an
overview of how the kernel’s security team works.

The members of the security team contain a handful of core kernel
developers that have experience dealing with security bugs, and
represent different major subsystems of the kernel. They do this
work as individuals, and specifically can NOT tell their employer,
or anyone else, anything that is discussed on the security alias
before it is resolved. This arrangement has allowed the kernel
security team to remain independent and continue to operate across
the different governments that the members operate in, and it looks
to become the normal way project security teams work with the
advent of the European Union’s new CRA law coming into effect.

A new patch series that was posted this week allow for users to more easily replace the default kernel boot logo. While many of us are long accustomed to seeing the picture of Tux as the kernel boot logo, for those preferring to better customize your console boot experience these patches allow it to be easily manipulated via the kernel configuration “Kconfig” options…

Merged on New Year’s Day was a set of 36 patches authored by well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák for refactoring the NIR compilation code for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver…

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.18.3 stable kernel. As always, this
update contains important fixes; users of this kernel are advised to
upgrade.

The Devuan developers announced today the release of Devuan GNU+Linux 6.1 as a point release to the latest Devuan GNU+Linux 6 “Excalibur” for this Debian GNU/Linux derivative for software freedom lovers without systemd and related components.

During the month of December on Phoronix there was new and original content each and every day, ending the month with 305 original news articles and 25 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Here is a look back at the most exciting Linux/open-source hardware content in ending out 2025…

Debian’s maintainer of the Meson build system package is calling attention to the unfortunate state of Debian’s bug tracker in 2026. Editing bug data within Debian’s bug tracker still relies on writing custom-formatted emails and submitting them via your mail client. There still is no modern web UI for managing the Debian bug tracker as it was largely written in the early 90s…

With the start of the New Year it now marks six years since the unexpected announcement of the Reiser5 file-system being developed as the continuation of the never-upstreamed Reiser4 file-system. But Reiser5 development never saw too much upstream interest and it’s now been several years without any updated patches for Reiser5 or Reiser4…

Micro 2.0.15 terminal text editor marks a return after a long hiatus, bringing broad syntax enhancements and stability fixes.

Arch Linux has kicked off 2026 with a new ISO snapshot targeted at those who want to deploy the flexible Linux distro on new hardware.

SDL 3.4, a cross-platform DirectMedia library, adds native PNG image support, expanded GPU rendering APIs, and improved graphics handling across multiple platforms.

Back in November Steam on Linux use hit an all-time high at 3.2%. With the still increasing popularity around the Steam Deck powered by the Arch Linux based SteamOS, Linux gaming continuing to grow thanks to Steam Play (Proton), and excitement around the upcoming Steam Frame and Steam Machine hardware, the Linux gaming outlook continues to be positive. The Steam Survey results for December 2025 are out tonight and with just a tiny dip to Linux use…

Released back in November was Devuan 6.0 for Debian 13 without systemd dependence in order to provide “init freedom” with letting users instead opt for SysVinit, OpenRC, or Runit as the init system. Devuan 6.1 is out today as the newest stable point release…

Not every great distro makes a splash on the front page of DistroWatch or in mainstream coverage. These are the five Linux distros from 2025 that we think merit a closer look.

Here’s the 25 FOSS Force articles that got the most reads in 2025, if you can dig it.

The post The Best of 2025: The 25 Articles You Dug Most appeared first on FOSS Force.

IceWM 4.0 lightweight window manager has been released today as a major update that introduces exciting new features, new options, new commands, as well as many improvements and bug fixes.

As a wonderful New Year surprise, there’s good momentum on NVIDIA graphics support for the BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system…

After looking yesterday at the most viewed Linux hardware reviews and benchmarks of 2025, today’s look is at the most popular open-source/Linux news of the past year. There were 3,286 original news articles on Phoronix during 2025 written by your’s truly, here’s a look back at what excited readers the most over these past twelve months…

The ReactOS free software project is turning 30 this year and its “open-source Windows” OS ambitions remain. They are starting out this year with another “major step” towards Windows NT 6.0 compatibility…