Free Linux — ArticlesNews, guides and releases from the free software worldhttps://free-linux.com/enHyprBSD now runs Hyprland in virtual machines, thanks to Daemonarchy's workhttps://free-linux.com/articles/hyprbsd-daemonarchy-virtio-graphics-freebsd/https://free-linux.com/articles/hyprbsd-daemonarchy-virtio-graphics-freebsd/The developer of HyprBSD, a FreeBSD 15.1 system with a Hyprland desktop, has backported the VirtIO virtual graphics support that Daemonarchy, Jordan Hubbard's Omarchy for FreeBSD, already had on FreeBSD 16-CURRENT. The result: Hyprland inside Hyprland, with FreeBSD as the guest.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTOmarchy 4.5 RC1 makes the jump to ARM: Snapdragon X and NVIDIA N1X laptopshttps://free-linux.com/articles/omarchy-4-5-rc1/https://free-linux.com/articles/omarchy-4-5-rc1/The first release candidate of Omarchy 4.5, DHH's distribution built on Arch Linux and Hyprland, brings an aarch64 ISO with support for Snapdragon X and NVIDIA N1X laptops, absorbs Omarchy Mac, translates the system into 50 languages and adds per-monitor workspaces, a dock and one-second boots.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTOpenBSD 8.0 is out: Intel Arc graphics, arm64 hibernation and farewell to Loongsonhttps://free-linux.com/articles/openbsd-8-0/https://free-linux.com/articles/openbsd-8-0/OpenBSD 8.0, the system's 61st release, ships on 20 October 2026 with the amd64 kernel address space raised to 512 GB, initial Intel Arc support, arm64 hibernation, RISC-V vectors, OpenSSH 10.6 and LibreSSL 4.4. Version 7.8 stops getting patches.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTGentoo is looking for infrastructure sponsors after losing several long-time supportershttps://free-linux.com/articles/gentoo-seeks-infrastructure-sponsors/https://free-linux.com/articles/gentoo-seeks-infrastructure-sponsors/Gentoo Linux has asked companies and organisations to help replace several sponsors that stopped providing infrastructure this year. It is looking for rack space, server hosting and hardware donations. It doesn't say who left or how much is missing, and no service is down. Here is what it is asking for, how to help, and what it has, or hasn't, to do with DigitalOcean ending its credits.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTProton OS, the Debian 13 distribution for small businesses leaving Windows: what it offers and what to checkhttps://free-linux.com/articles/protonos-linux-distro-small-business/https://free-linux.com/articles/protonos-linux-distro-small-business/Proton OS is a new Linux distribution based on Debian 13 with KDE Plasma, aimed at small businesses moving away from Windows. It ships with the firewall and AppArmor enabled, LibreOffice, ONLYOFFICE, Brave and WinBoat to run Windows programs. It is two months old with a single person behind it, and its own repository pins the kernel, which clashes with the automatic security updates it promises. Here is what it offers and why it does not have a directory page yet.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTOpenBSD and the Culture of Security: the System Obsessed With Correct Codehttps://free-linux.com/articles/openbsd-security-culture/https://free-linux.com/articles/openbsd-security-culture/How OpenBSD turned security into a philosophy: code audits, secure by default, OpenSSH, LibreSSL and mitigations like pledge and unveil that the whole internet now relies on.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTBeOS and Haiku: The System That Refused to Diehttps://free-linux.com/articles/beos-and-haiku/https://free-linux.com/articles/beos-and-haiku/The story of BeOS, the multimedia OS Apple nearly bought instead of NeXT, and Haiku, the open-source project that has recreated and kept it alive since 2001.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTpostmarketOS and LineageOS: give your old phone a second lifehttps://free-linux.com/articles/postmarketos-lineageos-phone/https://free-linux.com/articles/postmarketos-lineageos-phone/Learn how LineageOS and postmarketOS extend the life of an old phone with real updates, free software and up to 10 years of support, instead of landfill.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTChromeOS: Google's Linux That Doesn't Look Like Linuxhttps://free-linux.com/articles/chromeos-googles-linux/https://free-linux.com/articles/chromeos-googles-linux/ChromeOS is Google's operating system built on the Linux kernel and originally on Gentoo. Explore its history, security model, Android apps, Crostini and ChromeOS Flex.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTTacOS, the Mexican Linux distribution built on Fedora Rawhide that promises an 8.18-second installhttps://free-linux.com/articles/tacos-mexican-linux-distro/https://free-linux.com/articles/tacos-mexican-linux-distro/TacOS (Tecnología Abierta Comunitaria Operating System) is an experimental distribution made in Mexico by Iván Chavero on top of Fedora Rawhide. It swaps version numbers for channels (stable, unstable, custom), ships tacosctl, a Rust tool that tests updates in a microVM before touching the system, and an installer that writes a Btrfs snapshot to disk in 8.18 seconds. It is pre-alpha and less than three months old: here is what it offers and why it does not have a directory page yet.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT