Hacker News with Generative AI: Linux

The Fedora Project Leader is willfully ignorant about Flathub (gnome.org)
Today I woke up to a link of an interview from the current Fedora Project Leader, Matthew Miller. Brodie who conducted the interview mentioned that Miller was the one that reached out to him. The background of this video was the currently ongoing issue regarding OBS, Bottles and the Fedora project, which Niccollo made an excellent video explaining and summarizing the situation. You can also find the article over at thelibre.news. “Impressive” as this story is, it’s for another time.
Linux, Open Source, Fedora, Community, Controversy
9 points by moelf 2 hours ago | 0 comments
Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes Compelling Case for Kernel Drivers Be Written in Rust (phoronix.com)
Greg KH makes the case that the vast majority of the kernel bugs are due to "stupid little corner cases in C that are totally gone in Rust."
Programming Languages, Kernel Development, Linux
23 points by LinuxBender 19 hours ago | 10 comments
Why FreeBSD is the right choice for embedded devices (klarasystems.com)
FreeBSD stands out as the ideal OS for embedded devices, offering true open-source freedom without GPL restrictions. With a permissive license, a robust community, and real-world adoption in high-performance systems, FreeBSD provides flexibility, reliability, and a streamlined development experience. Learn why more companies are choosing FreeBSD over Linux for their embedded solutions.
FreeBSD, Embedded Systems, Operating Systems, Open Source, Linux
14 points by klarainc 22 hours ago | 8 comments
glibc 2.41 has been causing problems for Linux gaming (gamingonlinux.com)
It seems a recent update to glibc with version 2.41 release at the end of January, has been causing all sorts of problems for Linux gamers that have pulled in the update (mostly on rolling-release distributions).
Linux, Gaming, Software Updates
4 points by bpierre 1 day ago | 0 comments
Linus Torvalds: Mauro, Shut the Fuck Up (2012) (lkml.org)
Mauro, SHUT THE FUCK UP! It's a bug alright - in the kernel. How long have you been a maintainer? And you *still* haven't learnt the first rule of kernel maintenance?
Linux, Open Source, Programming, Software Development, Controversy
8 points by nitinreddy88 2 days ago | 6 comments
Rewriting essential Linux packages in Rust (lwn.net)
Most Linux systems depend on a suite of core utilities that the GNU Project started development on decades ago and are, of course, written in C. At FOSDEM 2025, Sylvestre Ledru made the case in his main stage talk that modern systems require safer, more maintainable tools.
Rust, Linux, Programming Languages, Operating Systems, Security
7 points by fofoz 2 days ago | 0 comments
Linux’s Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down (phoronix.com)
Days after a DRM driver developer orphaned his drivers due to health reasons in stepping down, the sole maintainer at large of the Linux wireless (WiFi) drivers is stepping down and without any immediate replacement.
Linux, Open Source, Software, Wireless, Hardware
134 points by diggan 2 days ago | 132 comments
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Linux GPU Compute Benchmarks (phoronix.com)
While there have been a lot of GeForce RTX 5090 Windows gaming benchmarks since the review embargo lift yesterday, for those more fascinated by this high-end Blackwell desktop graphics card for its GPU compute potential on Linux, this article is for you.
Nvidia, Linux, Graphics Cards, Benchmarks, GPU Compute
19 points by shikharbhardwaj 2 days ago | 8 comments
Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Through GeForce RTX 5080/5090 GPU Compute Performance (phoronix.com)
Complementing the recent Linux GPU benchmarks of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 5090 looking at both the Linux / Steam Play gaming performance as well as GPU compute and other areas, in today's testing is a wide multi-generation look seeing how the NVIDIA GeForce performance has evolved going back to the GeForce GTX 980 Maxwell GPUs up through the newest GeForce RTX 5080/5090 graphics cards.
Graphics Cards, Performance, Gaming, Linux, Benchmarks
27 points by mfiguiere 3 days ago | 15 comments
Setting up a trusted, self-signed SSL/TLS certificate authority in Linux (previnder.com)
With OpenSSL, it’s pretty easy to generate a simple self-signed TLS certificate. Just run the following command:
Security, Linux, SSL/TLS, Certificates, OpenSSL
140 points by previnder 3 days ago | 37 comments
CodeWeavers Hiring More Developers to Work on Wine and Valve's Proton (phoronix.com)
The friends at CodeWeavers have relayed work that they are looking to hire multiple Wine developers to join their paid team working on upstream Wine as well as their CrossOver products, Valve's Proton downstream for Steam Play, and related Wine-based tech.
Hiring, Open Source, Gaming, Software, Linux
57 points by speckx 3 days ago | 13 comments
How to add a directory to your PATH (jvns.ca)
I was talking to a friend about how to add a directory to your PATH today. It’s something that feels “obvious” to me since I’ve been using the terminal for a long time, but when I searched for instructions for how to do it, I actually couldn’t find something that explained all of the steps – a lot of them just said “add this to ~/.bashrc”, but what if you’re not using bash?
Linux, Terminal, Bash, Operating Systems, Programming
19 points by misonic 4 days ago | 17 comments
I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs (gitlab.io)
I dual-boot my desktop between Windows and Linux. Over the past few years, Linux would often crash when I tried to sleep my computer with high RAM usage. Upon waking it would show a black screen with moving cursor, or enter a "vegetative" state with no image on-screen, only responding to magic SysRq or a hard reset. I traced this behavior to an amdgpu driver power/memory management bug, which took over a year to brainstorm and implement solutions for.
Linux, AMD GPUs, Debugging, Operating Systems, Hardware
756 points by fanf2 4 days ago | 208 comments
SSH Rate Limiting with Pam and Nftables (truschnigg.info)
Anyone who operates an SSH server somewhere on the Internet is bound to suffer a relentless torrent of inbound connections, probably from some botnet or another, trying to log in with the myriad credentials that leaked from other systems and networks.
Security, Network Administration, Linux, SSH
4 points by c0l0 4 days ago | 0 comments
BleachBit is a free and open-source disk space cleaner (bleachbit.org)
When your computer is getting full, BleachBit quickly frees disk space. When your information is only your business, BleachBit guards your privacy. With BleachBit you can free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn't know was there. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean thousands of applications including Firefox, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, and more.
Privacy, Open Source, Disk Space, Software, Linux
56 points by gjvc 5 days ago | 36 comments
Karol Herbst Steps Down as Nouveau Maintainer Due to Linux's Toxic Environment (phoronix.com)
Karol Herbst has been a Nouveau driver developer for over a decade working on this open-source, reverse-engineered NVIDIA Linux graphics driver. He went on to become employed by Red Hat. While he's known more these days for his work on Mesa and the Rusticl OpenCL driver for it, he's still remained a maintainer of the Nouveau kernel driver. But today he announced he's resigning as a Nouveau driver maintainer due to differences with the upstream Linux kernel developer community.
Linux, Open Source, Graphics Drivers, Software Development, Community
63 points by evujumenuk 5 days ago | 46 comments
Why I quit: kernel developer Con Kolivas (2007) (archive.org)
INTERVIEW | Linux is burdened with enterprise crap that makes it run poorly on desktop PCs, says kernel developer Con Kolivas who recently walked away from years of work on it.
Linux, Operating Systems, Software Development, Open Source, Interviews
53 points by nalinidash 6 days ago | 22 comments
Asahi Linux head quits, citing kernel leadership failure (theregister.com)
Hector Martin, project lead of Asahi Linux, resigned from that effort early Friday, Japan Standard Time, citing developer burnout, demanding users, and Linus Torvalds's handling of the integration of Rust code into the open source kernel.
Linux, Open Source, Programming, Leadership, Burnout
12 points by amcclure 6 days ago | 1 comments
Passing the Torch on Asahi Linux (asahilinux.org)
With a heavy heart, we announce the resignation of Asahi Linux founder Hector Martin (marcan). His statement is on his blog.
Operating Systems, Linux, Open Source, Community
50 points by pabs3 7 days ago | 42 comments
The OBS Project is threatening Fedora Linux with legal action (gitlab.com)
The unofficial OBS Studio Flatpak on Fedora Flatpaks is, seemingly, poorly packaged and broken, leading to users complaining upstream thinking they are being served the official package.
Legal Issues, Linux, Open Source, Fedora, Flatpak
294 points by TheFreim 7 days ago | 215 comments
Bcachefs Freezes Its On-Disk Format with Future Updates Optional (phoronix.com)
The latest round of Bcachefs file-system fixes have been submitted today for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel.
Linux, File Systems, Open Source
8 points by voxadam 7 days ago | 0 comments
CVE-2025-26519: musl Libc: input-controlled out-of-bounds write (openwall.com)
A vulnerability has been identified in musl libc's implementation of iconv that can result in out-of-bounds memory writes in applications which process untrusted input using iconv and where the input charset for the conversion is input-controlled.
Security, Software, Vulnerability, Linux
12 points by fossdd 7 days ago | 1 comments
Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead (marcan.st)
I’m resigning as lead of the Asahi Linux project, effective immediately.
Open Source, Linux, Asahi Linux
1113 points by Shank 7 days ago | 986 comments
Tumbleweed Adopts SELinux as Default (opensuse.org)
Tumbleweed has adopted SELinux as the default Linux Security Module (LSM) for new installations after a recent snapshot.
Security, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems
24 points by val-gfr 7 days ago | 0 comments
Reassessing Wayland (dudemanguy.github.io)
So a bit under 3 years ago, I made my infamous Wayland rant post that is likely the most read post on this blog by miles.
Wayland, Linux, Operating Systems, Software
109 points by GalaxySnail 7 days ago | 59 comments
After Recent Kernel Drama, Rust for Linux Policy Put in Place (itsfoss.com)
Linux, Open Source, Programming, Policy
25 points by guiambros 8 days ago | 5 comments
Linux 6.13 Performance for 250Hz vs. 1000Hz Timer Frequency Comparison (phoronix.com)
Given the recent patch proposal to raise the Linux kernel's default timer frequency from 250Hz to 1000Hz, I ran some fresh benchmarks looking at the 250Hz vs. 1000Hz comparison on some modern desktop hardware.
Linux, Operating Systems, Performance, Benchmarks, Hardware
3 points by LorenDB 8 days ago | 1 comments
Syd: An Introduction to Secure Application Sandboxing for Linux [video] (fosdem.org)
In this talk, I will introduce Syd, a GPL-3 licensed, rock-solid application kernel designed for sandboxing applications on Linux systems (version 5.19 and above). Over the past 16 years, Syd has evolved from a tool used within Exherbo Linux to detect package build mishaps into a robust security boundary for applications. The recent rewrite in Rust leverages modern Linux APIs such as seccomp-unotify(2), openat2(2), and pidfd_getfd(2) to eliminate time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTTOU) vulnerabilities, which is essential for building a secure sandbox.
Linux, Security, Sandboxing, Open Source
36 points by hayali 8 days ago | 4 comments
Linux 6.15 to Bring More Improvements to DRM Panic "Screen of Death" (phoronix.com)
Now that the Linux 6.14 merge window has passed, new feature material aiming for the Linux 6.15 kernel is beginning to get ready for staging in DRM-Next ahead of that next merge window opening up around the end of March.
Linux, Operating Systems, Kernel Development, Open Source, DRM
4 points by LorenDB 8 days ago | 0 comments
Hotdog Linux (Lightweight Interface Naturally Using X11) (github.com/arthurchoung)
X11 Window Manager with Windows 3.1 Hot Dog Stand, Amiga Workbench, Atari ST GEM, Mac Classic and Aqua UI
Linux, GUI, Window Managers, Retro Computing
12 points by signa11 8 days ago | 0 comments