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Author: Sourav Rudra

Ubuntu is Tightening its Kernel SRU Cycle to Two Weeks, and Clankers Are to Blame
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Ubuntu is Tightening its Kernel SRU Cycle to Two Weeks, and Clankers Are to Blame

Sourav RudraSeptember 24, 2026

So far, Canonical has followed a split kernel SRU cycle for Ubuntu, where regular fixes and security patches lived on separate tracks, with a full

Distro With an Expiry Date?Gravity Linux is a New Distro for Apple Silicon
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Distro With an Expiry Date?Gravity Linux is a New Distro for Apple Silicon

Sourav RudraSeptember 23, 2026

Contrary to what you might expect of a newly launched Linux distribution, Gravity Linux has a long-term goal of not existing as a distro. The

Organizations Are Now Reaching for OpenSearch for AI, Not Just Search
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Organizations Are Now Reaching for OpenSearch for AI, Not Just Search

Sourav RudraSeptember 22, 2026

That’s very interesting to see considering OpenSearch began as a fork. When Elastic relicensed Elasticsearch and Kibana in 2021, AWS built an open alternative, keeping

Portainer Cuts the Cord Between Its Free and Paid Editions
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Portainer Cuts the Cord Between Its Free and Paid Editions

Sourav RudraSeptember 21, 2026

Portainer’s Community Edition has been open source for a decade now, and that run has now hit a wall. Portainer 3.0, the upcoming ground-up rebuild

Garuda Linux Begins Nixification By Promoting Its Sybsystem
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Garuda Linux Begins Nixification By Promoting Its Sybsystem

Sourav RudraSeptember 21, 2026

Garuda Linux has started nudging its userbase toward Nix. The distro’s maintainers have just renamed the Garuda Nix Subsystem to Garuda Nix , and you

The Famed PS5 Linux Project Lead Quits Over a Premature Exploit Report to Sony
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The Famed PS5 Linux Project Lead Quits Over a Premature Exploit Report to Sony

Sourav RudraSeptember 20, 2026

In April this year, we saw Andy Nguyen turning the PS5 into a Linux-powered gaming PC that ran Steam games and emulators, making good use

Bonjour! Firefox Smart Window Users Now Get to Use a French AI
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Bonjour! Firefox Smart Window Users Now Get to Use a French AI

Sourav RudraSeptember 19, 2026

Mozilla and Mistral have announced a partnership that brings the Mistral Small 4 model to Firefox Smart Window, the browser’s AI-powered window that lets users

GrapheneOS Isn’t Happy With Google Over Pixel’s Widening Head Start
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GrapheneOS Isn’t Happy With Google Over Pixel’s Widening Head Start

Sourav RudraSeptember 18, 2026

Google’s September 2026 Pixel Update Bulletin contains patches beyond what’s in that month’s regular Android Security Bulletin. According to GrapheneOS, some of those extra patches

Valve Quietly Open-Sources Its Android Compatibility Layer
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Valve Quietly Open-Sources Its Android Compatibility Layer

Sourav RudraSeptember 18, 2026

Yeah, Valve has not bothered putting out a proper announcement for this. I got to know about this thanks to Liam Squires-Hand, who covered it

I Spent Time With GeForce NOW to See If It’s Gameable on Linux
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I Spent Time With GeForce NOW to See If It’s Gameable on Linux

Sourav RudraSeptember 16, 2026

Linux gamers are used to being treated as second-class citizens, and Ubisoft recently gave everyone a fresh reminder when they pulled Linux and Steam Deck

Ubuntu’s Rustification Has a New Milestone! Coreutils Migration is Complete
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Ubuntu’s Rustification Has a New Milestone! Coreutils Migration is Complete

Sourav RudraSeptember 15, 2026

Ubuntu has managed to do away with GNU Core Utilities in its default stack. The last three holdouts, cp, mv and rm, have moved to

Rune Goes Open Source, Looks to Share Revenue With Contributors
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Rune Goes Open Source, Looks to Share Revenue With Contributors

Sourav RudraSeptember 15, 2026

Rune has left behind its proprietary old self for a new open source identity under the GPLv3, letting you clone, read, or build off it

Bottles’ Founder Has Managed to Run Microsoft 365 on Linux
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Bottles’ Founder Has Managed to Run Microsoft 365 on Linux

Sourav RudraSeptember 11, 2026

Mirko Brombin, the creator of Bottles, has got Microsoft 365 running on Linux. His posts on X showcase an installation that completes on a Windows

Linux Kernel is Getting Ready to Purge Old 32-bit Arm Platform Code
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Linux Kernel is Getting Ready to Purge Old 32-bit Arm Platform Code

Sourav RudraSeptember 11, 2026

A few days ago, thirteen patches were sent to the kernel mailing lists that are looking to delete some of the 32-bit Arm platform code

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