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KDE Linux as the in-house, leading-edge Linux distribution for showcasing the latest KDE Plasma innovations has promoted itself as being an atomically updated Linux distribution. But these atomic updates didn't quite work out as planned recently with some users finding their system(s) unbootable. But improvements are being made now for better robustness moving forward...

KDE Linux Hardening Their OS Against Updates Making Systems Unbootable  Phoronix

The Rust-For-Linux crew is preparing to raise the minimum supported Rust version for building the Linux kernel and and similarly also bumping the minimum supported version of bindgen, the tool for generating Rust FFI bindings for C code in the kernel...

The Linux Kernel's Minimum Rust Version Supported Prepares For Rust 1.85 Baseline  Phoronix

Is Linux Ready For Gaming? - A Challenge  GameGrin

Wayland Protocols 1.48 is out today with the long-awaited XDG Session Management protocol in tow as well as several new experimental protocols...

I disabled this hidden setting and got a faster GNOME desktop  makeuseof.com

ImageMagick Zero-Day Enables RCE on Linux and WordPress Servers  Hackread

Last month Dell upstreamed the firmware needed for their XPS 13 935 Snapdragon X1 Elite laptop. This makes the Linux outlook for this ARM-based Dell XPS laptop much better than before in not having to worry about extracting necessary firmware blobs from Windows 11. Now another step forward for the Dell XPS 13 9345 is being made with a new EC driver being posted to enhance the hardware support...

Dell XPS 13 Snapdragon Elite Laptop Sees New EC Linux Driver To Improve Support  Phoronix

Longtime Linux developer David Woodhouse sent out a patch series today to "deprecate legacy IP" support within the Linux kernel. While some of his commentary his April 1st-esque, he does acknowledge much of this work has merit. Ultimately it can allow for building a Linux kernel with IPv6-only support and working on allowing "legacy" IPv4 support to be disabled as part of the kernel build...

New Patches Allow Building Linux IPv6-Only, Option To Deprecate "Legacy" IPv4  Phoronix

Lightweight distro 4MLinux 51.0 brings new media playing options and much more  Notebookcheck

Raspberry Pi prices are going up yet again due to the continued memory squeeze on the industry. To help offset the memory prices for some use-cases, Raspberry Pi also announced the introduction of the Raspberry Pi 4 3GB model at $83 to help fill the void between the 2GB and 4GB options...

Huawei HarmonyOS PC can now run Linux-based tools  Huawei Central

Getting Started with AMD EDF on Kria KV260  Hackster.io

PyPI Telnyx Python SDK Backdoored to Steal Credentials on Windows, macOS, and Linux  gbhackers.com

AerynOS March 2026 Update Brings GNOME 50, KDE 6.6.3, and Linux 6.18  Linuxiac

chromeos-flex-linux  Thurrott.com

Advanced Process Manager for Linux Earns a 49.5 Proof of Usefulness Score  HackerNoon