The best Linux newsletters

LibreNews publishes in-depth commentary and analysis on Linux and free and open source software, including desktop environment comparisons, open-source politics and digital rights. Readers get opinionated, long-form pieces that combine personal experience with reporting on community and policy developments.

It's FOSS covers Linux and open source news, including software releases, privacy hardware and desktop projects, alongside a weekly roundup on running AI locally. Readers get timely, detailed write-ups with specs, feature breakdowns and practical caveats.

A personal blog-style newsletter covering retro computing, web browsers and assorted tech, with practical how-tos and nostalgic write-ups. Readers get hands-on guidance such as PowerShell scripting tips, Ubuntu wallpaper archives and ways to avoid Google's AI Overviews.

Slashroot is a technical newsletter explaining Linux, databases and systems internals, such as B+trees in MySQL and eBPF, with worked examples. Readers get practical, concept-first explanations aimed at sysadmins and DevOps engineers.

0x00sec is a community-driven technical blog and forum covering hacking, binary exploitation, reverse engineering and low-level systems security. Its recent issues include a deep dive into ZIP parser differentials in encrypted archives, a beginner-to-intermediate Linux ptrace guide, and a walkthrough of exploiting a PIE binary with a format string leak.

Linux Handbook's digests and guides cover practical command-line skills such as stderr redirection, SSH, SUID permissions and a free Linux capture-the-flag game. Readers get step-by-step terminal tips and hands-on learning paths, with some promotion of the publication's own courses and labs.

News from Dyne.org mixes release announcements for Dynebolic, a free-software live multimedia operating system, with essays on digital freedom and appeals for donations to keep the foundation's developers funded. Readers get updates on Dyne.org's free and open-source projects such as Devuan, Tomb, Zenroom and Frei0r, along with a manifesto-style view of community and power.

A personal blog newsletter mixing reflections on daily life and health with technical home-server how-tos. Issues cover recovery after surgery, thoughts on conversation and attention, and a Loganalyzer/rsyslog setup on Proxmox and Docker.

A weekly Linux newsletter from TecMint Pro centred on Red Hat certification prep, with step-by-step RHCSA and RHCE chapters plus command-line tips and tool guides. Readers get practical how-to tutorials for sysadmins working toward RHCSA or RHCE and covering everyday Linux tasks.

A setup guide series for the VirtualHub tutorials, walking readers through installing retro computing emulators such as Ersatz-11 and SIMH Eclipse, plus the telnet client, on Linux and Windows. Each issue gives step-by-step commands and notes on package sources and common pitfalls.