Articles tagged linux on devtake.dev.https://devtake.dev/en-ushttps://devtake.dev/article/microsoft-coreutils-windows-rust/https://devtake.dev/article/microsoft-coreutils-windows-rust/Microsoft's Coreutils for Windows brings native ls, cp, and grep to Windows, built on the Rust uutils project. Here's what it is and why the Rust rewrite matters.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:45:00 GMTopen-sourceopen-sourcerustdev-toolsgithublinuxsoren-vanekhttps://devtake.dev/article/vivado-2026-1-drops-linux-free-tier/https://devtake.dev/article/vivado-2026-1-drops-linux-free-tier/Vivado 2026.1 introduces a five-tier licensing model. The free BASIC tier supports Windows only; Linux requires the paid CORE tier. FPGA hobbyists are pushing back.Mon, 25 May 2026 12:15:00 GMThardwareamdxilinxvivadofpgalinuxdev-toolslicensinghardwarehiro-tanakahttps://devtake.dev/article/flatpak-systemd-dependency-shift/https://devtake.dev/article/flatpak-systemd-dependency-shift/Sebastian Wick and Adrian Vovk pitched systemd-appd at Linux App Summit on May 17. The cost of nested sandboxing is a hard systemd dependency in mainline Flatpak.Mon, 25 May 2026 11:30:00 GMTopen-sourceflatpaksystemdlinuxsandboxopen-sourcealpine-linuxvoid-linuxpipewiresoren-vanekhttps://devtake.dev/article/linux-gaming-windows-api-kernel/https://devtake.dev/article/linux-gaming-windows-api-kernel/Linux 6.14 merged the NTSYNC driver Elizabeth Figura wrote at CodeWeavers. SteamOS 3.7.20 loads it by default; Wine 11 went mainline on it. Here's what changed.Thu, 14 May 2026 09:45:00 GMTopen-sourcelinuxkernelntsyncwineprotonsteam-deckvalvegamingsoren-vanekhttps://devtake.dev/article/linux-dirty-frag-kernel-privilege-escalation/https://devtake.dev/article/linux-dirty-frag-kernel-privilege-escalation/Dirty Frag chains two page-cache flaws in the ESP and RxRPC subsystems into a deterministic privilege escalation that hits every major distro. A PoC exploit is public.Sun, 10 May 2026 10:00:00 GMTsecuritysecuritylinuxkernelcve-2026-43284privilege-escalationzero-daydirty-fragluca-reinhardthttps://devtake.dev/article/ubuntu-canonical-313-team-ddos-copyfail/https://devtake.dev/article/ubuntu-canonical-313-team-ddos-copyfail/The 313 Team flooded Canonical's infrastructure starting May 1, blocking apt updates and the Ubuntu security API just as admins needed both.Sat, 02 May 2026 09:30:00 GMTsecurityubuntucanonicalddoscopy-failsecuritysupply-chainlinuxluca-reinhardthttps://devtake.dev/article/copy-fail-linux-kernel-page-cache-root/https://devtake.dev/article/copy-fail-linux-kernel-page-cache-root/CVE-2026-31431 chains AF_ALG and splice() to write into the page cache of /usr/bin/su. Xint Code disclosed it on April 29, nine years after the bug shipped.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:15:00 GMTsecuritysecuritylinuxcve-2026-31431kernelprivilege-escalationsupply-chainubunturhelluca-reinhardthttps://devtake.dev/article/linux-7-1-ham-radio-isdn-removal/https://devtake.dev/article/linux-7-1-ham-radio-isdn-removal/Jakub Kicinski's networking pull request removes 138,161 lines of decades-old code. Kernel maintainers say LLM-generated bug reports made the old subsystems un-maintainable.Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:00:00 GMTopen-sourcelinuxlinux-kernellinux-7-1kernelai-securitynetworkingopen-sourcesecuritysoren-vanekhttps://devtake.dev/article/ubuntu-26-04-lts-release/https://devtake.dev/article/ubuntu-26-04-lts-release/Canonical released Ubuntu 26.04 'Resolute Raccoon' on April 23. It's the first LTS without X11, ships kernel 7.0 and GNOME 50, and sets post-quantum SSH on by default.Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:30:00 GMTopen-sourceubuntuubuntu-26-04linuxcanonicalltswaylandrust-coreutilspost-quantumsoren-vanek