GNU/Linux and Linux (Kernel) Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 08, 2026

• It's FOSS ☛ Illinois Just Told Every Operating System to Start Reporting Your Kid's Age

  The Children's Online Social Media Safety Act has device makers collect the age bracket, but apps still have to act on it.

• Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization

  • Hackaday ☛ This Filesystem Is Born To Fail

    Sandboxing a Linux process usually means spending a lot of effort deciding what it isn’t allowed to see. You might put it in a mount namespace, bind-mount a few directories into place, hide some others, add a chroot, and generally construct a carefully restricted version of the filesystem. But a new Linux kernel feature is about to change all of that. Instead of carefully hiding most of the filesystem, why not just take the filesystem away?

    That’s essentially the idea behind FailFS, a tiny pseudo-filesystem expected to land in Linux 7.3. As the name suggests, it doesn’t do very much. In fact, that’s the point: every operation that reaches FailFS returns EOPNOTSUPP, meaning “operation not supported.”

  • It's FOSS ☛ Proxmox Virtual Environment Officially Runs on ARM64, But Your Raspberry Pi Isn't Supported Yet

    The release is powered by Debian 13.5 and GNU/Linux 7.0, with NVIDIA Grace and Vera systems fully supported.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Andrew Nesbitt ☛ Package Manager Timeline

    Package managers have had a significant impact on how we build, distribute, and consume software. This timeline documents the evolution of package management systems across both system-level and language-specific ecosystems, from early archive networks to modern dependency managers.

  • SUSE/OpenSUSE

    • Dominique Leuenberger ☛ Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2026/32

      Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

      This week saw the release of 5 snapshots (0731, 0802, 0803, 0804, and 0805).

  • Canonical/Ubuntu Family

    • LWN ☛ LightDM lives: version 1.33.0 released

      Version 1.33.0 of the LightDM display manager has been released. This is the first release in four years: the project had been sponsored by Canonical but was effectively unmaintained in recent years.