California’s legislature has passed Assembly Bill 1856, exempting open-source operating systems from the State’s Digital Age Assurance Act months before the law is due to take effect on January 1, 2027.

The development of Linux, a free ‘hobby’ operating system, was announced by Linus Torvalds 35 years ago today.

A decades-long dispute over the ownership of Linux looks like it is over. Earlier this month the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected Xinuos’ continued claims that IBM and Red Hat improperly contributed jointly‑developed Project Monterey UNIX code to Linux.

It’s been a quarter-century since the firm folded, but the graphics chips still have utility in esoteric use cases.

You might be able to enjoy Xbox PC and PC Game Pass titles on Linux very soon thanks to the efforts of the Xodus team, who’re emulating the entire Xbox PC stack through open-source implementations of Microsoft’s proprietary components and dependencies.

Valve funding port of Linux RADV Radeon Vulkan driver to Windows — cross-platform effort already runs Counter-Strike 2

Linus Torvalds, Linux’s creator and kernel manager, has seemingly taken an accepting stance of AI-assisted tooling.

The adventurous developer who recently ported Linux to the Atari Jaguar (1993) has brewed up a version of the open source OS for the Sega 32X (1994).

A set of updates for Sega Dreamcast hardware has been merged into the Linux 7.2-rc3 kernel this weekend.