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44 articles on Linux — news, releases, guides and analysis from the SourceFeed engine.

Article 1w ago 0

Linux on Android Without Root, a VM, or ptrace

tawc traps syscalls with seccomp and borrows Android's own GPU drivers — and it's largely agent-built.

Lenn Voss

Firefox Bets on Vulkan to Fix Linux Video Decoding

A pref-gated Vulkan Video path in Firefox 153 finally gives NVIDIA-on-Linux users real hardware decode.

Article · 1mo ago1

Tailscale SSH Flag Injection Broke Non-Root ACLs

A getent argument-handling bug let any allowed SSH user become root with the username -i.

Article · 1mo ago1

Click-to-Photon Rigs Are Ending the Wayland Lag Debate

Three independent hardware testers finally put real numbers on X11 vs Wayland, VRR, and DXVK frame pacing on Linux.

Article · 1mo ago2

What a Rust Linux 0.11 Rewrite Actually Proves

A full 1991-era kernel in idiomatic Rust boots in QEMU. The win is pedagogical, not a path to mainline.

Article · 1mo ago0

Emacs as a Service: The Modern Developer Control Plane

Why treating Emacs as both an API client and a system daemon is the key to a unified workflow.

Article · 1mo ago2

GhostLock: The 15-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug That Defeated Lockdep

A deep dive into CVE-2026-43499, a stack use-after-free in the rtmutex subsystem affecting nearly every Linux distribution.

Article · 1mo ago0

Strip the Bloat: Building a Minimal DIY ZFS NAS

Ditch heavy turnkey storage operating systems for a raw Linux, OpenZFS, and Samba stack, but watch the compatibility traps.

Article · 1mo ago1

A 19-Year-Old Linux Kernel Zero-Day Discovered via kernelCTF

A type confusion bug in the network bonding driver exposes the persistence of silent, long-lived kernel vulnerabilities.

Article · 1mo ago0

Bare-Metal Lessons From Porting Linux to the Atari Jaguar

Getting a modern kernel to boot on 1993 hardware requires fighting compiler bugs, memory limits, and missing MMUs.

Article · 1mo ago2

Hardening the Pipe: Why OpenSSH 10.4 is a Mandatory Upgrade

Stricter transport protocol enforcement, fatal sandbox failures, and experimental post-quantum signatures make OpenSSH 10.4 a critical upgrade.

Release · 1mo ago0

Profile a Rust Web Service with cargo-flamegraph to Eliminate CPU Hot Paths

Attach a flamegraph profiler to a running Axum service, pinpoint a regex hot path burning CPU on every request, then prove the fix with Criterion benchmark numbers.

Tutorial · 1mo ago0

Beyond the Colors: A Developer's Guide to htop

Stop treating your process monitor as a passive dashboard and start using it to diagnose real-world performance bottlenecks.

Article · 1mo ago5

Stop the Linux OOM Killer From Wrecking Your PostgreSQL Database

Taming the Linux virtual memory manager with strict overcommit is the only way to prevent silent database crashes.

Article · 1mo ago2

Podman 6.0.0 Arrives: Shedding Legacy Weight for a Modern Container Era

Podman's major v6.0.0 release drops cgroups v1, slirp4netns, and BoltDB to deliver a faster, more secure container engine.

Release · 1mo ago0

NixOS 26.05 Modernizes Boot and Sunsets Intel Macs

The Yarara release defaults to systemd in stage 1 and sets a hard deadline for legacy Apple hardware.

Release · 2mos ago6