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FOSS Weekly #26.44: Ginux, Dead Distros, Resurrected Projects, Dangerous Commands and More (Scary) Linux Stuff
Amutable has opened signups for design partners to test an immutable, image-based system that ships every change as a signed update. Built by the engineers behind systemd, it uses hardware attestations to verify each machine’s state before allowing deployments.
Gregory Kurtzer's Ginux is a brand-new Rust kernel that runs Linux binaries unchanged despite not being Linux underneath. An AI agent generated 139,000 lines across 11 days, proving a Linux-compatible kernel can emerge from scratch without needing to fork the original.
BeamFS landed on the kernel mailing list this week as an RFC with warnings about existing data loss bugs. Still untested in real radiation environments, it prioritizes detecting corruption over silently serving bad data.
FreeBSD founder Jordan Hubbard built Daemonarchy in under two hours using GPT Astra 6 as an answer to the many requests he received that said FreeBSD deserved an installer as slick as Omarchy.
Tesco is ditching VMware for Proxmox in its stores after Broadcom stopped supporting perpetual licenses and demanded 175% higher prices. A newly posted job suggests a gradual migration off VMware by the end of 2027.
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Mirko Brombin from Bottles says he is pushing Microsoft Office onto Linux because real-world Linux users often need it, regardless of LibreOffice’s merits.