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Since the release in May of Firefox 151, Mozilla has been relying on the zlib-rs library for Gzip compression/decompression. This subtle change to use this Rust-based Zlib implementation has yielded some performance benefits and better memory safety but also some headaches when dealing with Intel CPU bugs...

openSUSE’s Agama 22 Installer Brings Usability and Accessibility Improvements  9to5Linux

There is no shortage of different file-systems available for Linux. New file-systems continue to come about in the open-source world but ultimately many of them end up not being well maintained or having very limited users and not necessarily innovating enough to make them worthwhile over other alternatives. Given the continued increase in file-systems looking to get into the Linux kernel, such as FTRFS and VMUFAT being some of the most recent and then even having multiple NTFS drivers for Linux, there is now documentation in place to formally lay out criteria for new file-systems to be accepted...

Linux Enacts Guidance To Tighten Acceptance Of New File-Systems Into The Kernel  Phoronix

VirtualBox 7.2.10 Released with Initial Support for Linux Kernel 7.1  9to5Linux

ARC Raiders is broken for some Linux / SteamOS players - but a fix is on the way  GamingOnLinux

It's been a while since there has been any Slackware news to pass along, but this week they've finally landed the KDE Plasma 6 desktop in this legendary Linux distribution...

KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Finally Comes To Slackware  Phoronix

The Btrfs file-system feature updates have been merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel with a few noteworthy changes for this copy-on-write file-system...

Your PC Might Soon Demand Proof of Age Before Letting You Browse. Here's What to Know  PCMag

A Linux build tree for the Adafruit Fruit Jam  Adafruit

Commodore Callback 8020 is a distraction-free flip phone that runs Linux-based Sailfish OS with support for (some) Android apps  Liliputing

Raven Prism is a Linux Computer That Happens To Be A Pair of Glasses  It's FOSS

Wayland developers have prepared the release of Weston 16.0 Alpha 1 for this reference Wayland compositor with new features...

I tried AnduinOS 2.0, and it may be the easiest way to ditch Windows for Linux  ZDNET

Yet another performance optimization merged for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel is improving the speed of anon_pipe_write, the kernel function used for writing data into anonymous/unnamed pipes such as when using shell pipelines or standard streams from applications...

Linux 7.2 Improves Anonymous/Unnamed Pipe Performance For Shell Pipelines & More  Phoronix

In Conversation: Linux on Azure  O'Reilly Media

Linux vs Windows Benchmark Gothic 1 Remake  YouTube

Arch Linux Pulls the Plug on New AUR Registrations After Malware Flood  It's FOSS