#Linux

Zsh Has Been Silently Eating Shell Histories Since 2015

A stray Ctrl+C at shell exit could truncate your history file; the fix ships in 5.9.2, which macOS doesn't have.

Article · 2w ago2

Build a Self-Hosted WireGuard VPN with Split Tunneling

Stand up WireGuard on a cheap Ubuntu VPS, split-tunnel your traffic, and manage peers with zero downtime.

Tutorial · 2w ago0

Debian's AI Vote Is Open Source's First Real Referendum

Eight ranked ballot options will finally map what working open-source maintainers actually believe about LLM contributions.

Article · 2w ago4

To Crack Wayland, RustDesk Went Straight to the Kernel

The new unattended-access preview skips the portal consent model entirely, reading DRM framebuffers from a root service.

Article · 2w ago0

One Log Line Costs journald 50KB of Disk Writes

Block-layer measurements finally prove the write amplification maintainers dismissed in 2020, and config tweaks barely help.

Article · 2w ago4

ChatGPT Comes to Linux Because Agents Made It Matter

Codex turned the desktop client from a chat wrapper into an agent console, and Linux is where those users live.

Article · 2w ago1

Linux Packaging Didn't Get Fixed. It Got Bypassed

A Rust editor shipped through ten channels, and the lone survivor says everything about where distribution is heading.

Article · 2w ago0

Wireblast pushes 135M packets a second from one Go binary

Andree Toonk's AF_XDP traffic generator hits 100G line rates without DPDK, hugepages, or NIC exorcisms.

Article · 3w ago0

Bor Wants to Be Group Policy for Linux Desktops

An LGPL server-and-agent stack streams typed policies over mTLS in real time — and refuses to run scripts.

Article · 3w ago0

1.5 Million SSH Attacks, and the Passwords Haven't Changed

Fresh honeypot data shows the brute-force dictionary frozen since 2008 while the attacking infrastructure moved into European datacenters.

Article · 3w ago0

Kakehashi Runs macOS Binaries on Linux ARM, Wine-Style

A from-scratch Rust translation layer executes Darwin arm64 CLI tools natively, aiming squarely at the macOS CI tax.

Article · 3w ago2

Chrome Lands on ARM64 Linux, a Decade Late and Just in Time

Official builds with native Widevine are quietly downloadable now — and the soft launch says more about NVIDIA than the Raspberry Pi.

Article · 1mo ago0

Microsoft Defender Silently Switched Itself Off on Linux

A botched agent update left rebooted servers unprotected, and most affected fleets had auto-updates on by default.

Article · 1mo ago4

440 Linux CVEs in a Day Is the System Working

The kernel's mass CVE drops punish checkbox security and reward teams that simply track stable releases.

Article · 1mo ago0

Hyprland Ditches Its Config Language for Lua

The 0.55 release follows the Neovim playbook, kills the plugin ABI treadmill, and puts hyprlang on a short fuse.

Article · 1mo ago2