In current developer builds of VirtualBox, KVM support appears for the first time. The function is experimental and only available through manual source builds.

Microsoft just open-sourced LiteBox, an experimental library OS that rethinks sandboxing for modern workloads. Built in Rust, it aims to shrink the attack surface beyond containers without the ...

CentOS Connect is part of the growing FOSDEM Fringe. The Reg FOSS desk was only able to attend for the first day as the ...

With LiteBox, Microsoft has released a library OS written in Rust, which aims to reduce the attack surface through minimal ...

You pay a premium for Photoshop, Windows, and macOS—but they wouldn't exist without free, open-source building blocks ...

VLC 3.0.23, GIMP 3.0.8 and VirtualBox 7.2.6 were among January's Linux app releases, slipping alongside an open-source video ...

Linux maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman won the prestigious Prize for Excellence in Open Source 2026 for his dedication to Linux kernel stability.

The Open Gaming Collective, among other projects, is building a single kernel optimized for gaming.

The Linux kernel community has started spelling out what happens when Linus Torvalds steps aside and the repo still needs steering. A continuity document has been drafted by longtime kernel ...

Bazzite joins the Open Gaming Collective (OGC) with Nobara and ChimeraOS to end fragmentation and improve Linux gaming ...

Linus Torvalds started the Linux project in 1991, developing a Unix-like kernel inspired by Andrew S. Tanenbaum's Minix.

Bazzite, Asus Linux, ShadowBlip, PikaOS, and Fyra Labs will work with other partners to jointly accelerate Linux gaming.