Several US states will soon require age verification for users. How should and can Linux distributions react to this?

In addition to rolling out patches to address two zero-days affecting SQL Server and .NET, Microsoft introduced Common Log ...

Chrome is finally coming to ARM64 Linux devices, years after it turned up on macOS and Windows on Arm. Google confirmed the impending release (due in Q2 2026) on the Chromium blog and, according to ...

I am challenging myself to replace my Mac with Fedora Linux for a full work week, using it for almost everything. I am also testing KDE Plasma as my main operating system for weeks, exploring whether ...

Australia and the UK were the first to introduce age restrictions that add fuel to the fire of mass surveillance. Now, American laws could inspire European politicians to broaden the scope of age ...

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Abstract: The multilingual mechanism serves as a crucial foundation for the Linux operating system to inherently support users in various regions with different languages. However, the existing ...

The PC operating system landscape is often portrayed as a two-horse race between Windows and macOS. But that narrative leaves out a powerful, flexible, and increasingly popular alternative: Linux.

If you play Steam games, there's a 95% chance you use Windows. That's not a random number: that's according to Steam's monthly hardware survey. Valve goes deep into the data every month, providing us ...

In a slowly growing show of support for the operating system, Nvidia has launched a beta version of GeForce Now for Linux users. The app, which is available for users on Ubuntu 24.04 (and likely many ...

Linux (come on, you knew it’d be Linux) takes a different approach: no locks, no guardrails, no limits. That’s what makes Linux a real operating system, something its competitors, dwarfing it in ...

Modern Linux distributions are powerful operating systems that can fully replace Windows or macOS for many users. But there are still some Windows-only applications that may not be available for Linux ...