News, guides and releases from the free software worldhttps://linuxgratis.com/enhttps://linuxgratis.com/en/articles/welcome-linuxgratis-astro/https://linuxgratis.com/en/articles/welcome-linuxgratis-astro/We rebuilt LinuxGratis with Astro 7 and host it on Stackscale's private cloud: a faster operating system directory, always-fresh data and a brand new articles section.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://linuxgratis.com/en/articles/history-of-linux/https://linuxgratis.com/en/articles/history-of-linux/How Linus Torvalds built the Linux kernel in 1991, the GPL license, the first distributions and why it now powers servers, phones and supercomputers.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:00:00 GMThttps://linuxgratis.com/en/articles/history-of-bsd/https://linuxgratis.com/en/articles/history-of-bsd/The other great free-software lineage. How Berkeley turned UNIX into BSD and gave rise to the systems powering Netflix, the PlayStation and half the internet.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://linuxgratis.com/en/articles/history-of-unix/https://linuxgratis.com/en/articles/history-of-unix/Before Linux, before BSD, before macOS there was UNIX. The story of the system born in 1969 that laid the foundations of almost every modern operating system.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://linuxgratis.com/en/articles/why-so-many-linux-distros/https://linuxgratis.com/en/articles/why-so-many-linux-distros/Hundreds of distros, a single kernel. Explore the Linux family tree: where Debian, Red Hat, Arch and Slackware come from, and why all that variety is a real strength.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMThttps://linuxgratis.com/en/articles/livepatch-kernel-arm64-sin-reinicios/https://linuxgratis.com/en/articles/livepatch-kernel-arm64-sin-reinicios/Canonical brings Livepatch to Arm64: critical kernel patches without rebooting, landing with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Ubuntu Core 26.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://linuxgratis.com/en/articles/xcp-ng-8-3-lts-actualizacion-2-junio-2026/https://linuxgratis.com/en/articles/xcp-ng-8-3-lts-actualizacion-2-junio-2026/XCP-ng ships its second June patch set for 8.3 LTS: it fixes XSA-491 and XSA-492, an SMB kernel driver flaw and an lldpd over-read, and bumps DRBD, XAPI, the Intel ice driver and the Windows Guest Tools.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://linuxgratis.com/en/articles/ubuntu-risc-v-instrucciones-personalizadas/https://linuxgratis.com/en/articles/ubuntu-risc-v-instrucciones-personalizadas/Canonical explains how Ubuntu supports RISC-V custom instructions, with PPAs for stateless cases and an image cookbook when you need your own kernel.Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://linuxgratis.com/en/articles/dsa-6360-squid-proxy-multiples-vulnerabilidades-debian/https://linuxgratis.com/en/articles/dsa-6360-squid-proxy-multiples-vulnerabilidades-debian/Debian shipped DSA-6360-1 to fix four Squid proxy vulnerabilities, among them Squidbleed (CVE-2026-47729), which can leak other users' HTTP headers. What it affects and how to update.Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://linuxgratis.com/en/articles/postmarketos-26-06-alpen-avocado-gnome-50-plasma-6-6/https://linuxgratis.com/en/articles/postmarketos-26-06-alpen-avocado-gnome-50-plasma-6-6/postmarketOS 26.06 'Alpen Avocado' moves to Alpine Linux 3.24, ships GNOME 50, Plasma Mobile 6.6.5 and Phosh 0.55, switches to Plymouth and systemd 261, and reaches 254 devices in testing.Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT