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Eighteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of June 30, 2026): apl-2.0: GNU APL is a free interpreter for the programming language APL. It is an implementation of the ISO stan ...

Explore the rise and fall of these groundbreaking Linux systems, and how their legacies live on.

Linux kernel strncpy removed in Linux 7.2 after 362 patches and six years of coordinated work. The dangerous C string ...

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

The latest version of the Wine Windows app runner arrives a year after version 10. Given its annual release cycle, its magic is starting to seem almost boring and routine, but it's far from it. The ...

a2ps-4.15.7: GNU a2ps converts almost anything to a PostScript file, ready for printing. It accomplishes this by being able to delegate files to external handlers, such as Groff and Gzip. It handles ...

With a complete GUI (Graphical User Interface) and native apps, a desktop environment is the heart of any major Linux distro. One of the great things about the Linux community is: it always gives you ...

If you've ever wondered how programs run on Linux, you might be surprised to learn that a special file format called ELF, or Executable and Linkable Format, is at the heart of it all. ELF files are ...

UTM is a cross-platform emulator that allows you to run macOS, Windows, or Linux. Here's how to use it to run very old versions of Apple's Mac operating system. But there's another great free OS ...