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2 days ago | linux-magazine.com | Jack Wallen

Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. Read that again, and again. Announced at the Build 2025 developer conference, this marks the closing of a request that was submitted nearly nine years ago. One thing to remember is that this is not the Microsoft of old, so releasing something as open source shouldn't be that big of a deal, but WSL is a bit different because it directly involves Linux. The code for WSL is now available on GitHub (downloaded as either a .zip or .tar.gz file).

2 days ago | linux-magazine.com | Jack Wallen

Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux kernel 6.15 on May 25, 2025. This latest release includes some pretty important Rust integration, by way of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver, named NOVA. Written in Rust, NOVA gives the kernel significant gains on exFAT performance and a new fanotify API for enabling real-time monitoring of filesystem mount and unmount events (to make it possible for applications to instantly respond to changes).

1 week ago | linux-magazine.com | Jack Wallen

Over on Phoronix, Michael Larabel reported that Red Hat did the unthinkable and made the general availability (GA) release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.0 available. Version 10 of the enterprise Linux distribution wasn't supposed to hit until the Red Hat Summit, which happens May 19-22 in Boston.

2 weeks ago | linux-magazine.com | Jack Wallen

If you've not heard of it yet, End of 10 is a collective of developers and others who are trying to help Windows 10 transition to Linux. With the Windows 10 end-of-life (EOL) on the horizon, it was only matter of time before something like this arrived onto the scene. From the End of 10 site, comes this gem: "If you bought your computer after 2010, there's most likely no reason to throw it out.

2 weeks ago | linux-magazine.com | Jack Wallen

The development team behind Flatpak has unveiled the latest iteration of the universal package manager, which includes a number of enhancements. One of the biggest improvements comes by way of parental control enhancements. With the latest release, child accounts are now able to update existing applications, by default, when parental controls are enabled. Thanks to this addition, the installation of security and bug fix updates can be installed in a more timely manner.