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Linux's Easy Anti-Cheat problem might finally get fixed as Epic Games posts an interesting job listing  XDA

Linux 7.1 brings new NTFS driver, Steam Deck OLED audio fix + more  OMG! Ubuntu

Among the early pull requests sent in prior to today's Linux 7.1 release of new material aiming for Linux 7.2 were all the Kbuild updates...

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 14th, 2026  9to5Linux

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 24, 2026 (June 8 – 14)  Linuxiac

DietPi 10.5 Enables KMS/DRM by Default on Raspberry Pi  Linuxiac

DietPi 10.5 Enables KMS/DRM Graphics System by Default for Raspberry Pi SBCs  9to5Linux

Linux Kernel 7.1 Released with Rewritten NTFS Support  Linuxiac

Epic Games is hiring a Security Engineer to champion Linux anti-cheat  GamingOnLinux

I finally ditched dual-boot for Proxmox, now Windows and Linux play nice on one machine  How-To Geek

The security situation with the Arch Linux AUR got a lot worse  GamingOnLinux

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 52: What Am I Going to Do With All This Cheese  GamingOnLinux

Linux gaming has one enemy Proton still can’t beat  MakeUseOf

Why Not Yserver? It’s Xserver, But Rust-y.  Hackaday

Why Not Yserver? It’s Xserver, But Rust-y.  Hackaday

Linux Kernel 7.1 Officially Released, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Linus Torvalds just released the stable Linux 7.1 kernel and it's coming a half-day early thanks to his travel plans...

Linux 7.1 Released: New NTFS Driver, Intel FRED For Panther Lake, Faster Arc Graphics  Phoronix

Just a day after Arch Linux developers believed they got their malware AUR incident under control with 1,500+ packages affected by malware, another round of of AUR malware is now being discovered. This latest round is more sophisticated as with code obfuscation to better conceal the intent...

A few days back I wrote about Google's Eric Biggers spearheading an AVX-512 implementation of xor_gen() as the Linux kernel function used for generating and validating parity blocks such as for RAID5/RAID6. That initial implementation was yielding up to 41% better performance while a new implementation has now been posted for scoring some additional victories...