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A patch posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list provides an ARM64-optimized CRC64-NVMe implementation for nearly a 6x improvement on modern Arm SoCs...

Ageless Linux Emerges to Protest OS-Level Age Verification Laws  It's FOSS

From Windows 10 Pro to Linux Mint... as a Noob - My Progress Log  TechPowerUp

CIQ Solves Vendor Lock-In Challenges for LG Uplus With Long-Term Support for Rocky Linux  Thailand Business News

The jemalloc memory allocator "malloc" implementation has been popular for HPC and server use down to desktop use in apps like Firefox. Jemalloc has proven over the years to be effective on delivering better performance and scalability while enjoying lower memory usage and less fragmentation than alternative malloc implementations. Meta recently announced that they are renewing their investment into jemalloc...

An interesting Linux detail from today's NVIDIA GTC 2026 kickoff is that Canonical will be integrating NVIDIA's DOCA-OFED software framework into the Ubuntu Linux archive for leveraging the high-speed networking stack for HPC and AI...

Canonical Plans To Integrate NVIDIA DOCA-OFED Into The Ubuntu Archive  Phoronix

9 AppArmor vulnerabilities expose millions of Linux systems to root access | brief | SC Media  SC Media

Nvidia throws its weight behind OpenClaw with new reference tool  TechRadar

My laptop fans were driving me crazy until I changed this overlooked setting  MakeUseOf

A bit of time has passed since having any exciting performance improvements to report on within the GNU C Library "glibc" but that changed today with another nice x86_64 optimization for modern CPUs...

FFmpeg 8.1 is out today as the newest stable release of this widely-used, open-source multimedia library...

SparkyLinux 2026.03 comes with a new kernel and multiple package updates  Notebookcheck

The Linux kernel's extensible scheduler class "sched_ext" to allow for custom CPU scheduling policies as BPF programs continues enabling new functionality. Queued up in the sched_ext development code ahead of next month's Linux 7.1 cycle is the new SCX_ENQ_IMMED capability for enabling tighter control over when tasks land on a CPU...

GLF OS 25.11 packs the 6.18 LTS kernel alongside the Nvidia driver 590.48 and more  Notebookcheck

5 Things Linux Can Do That Windows 11 Can't  AOL.com

Chrome Is Finally Coming to ARM64 Linux Devices in 2026  TechRepublic

Not a Firefox Fork! Kagi's Orion Browser Arrives on Linux as a Public Beta  It's FOSS

5 Things Linux Can Do That Windows 11 Can't  bgr.com

The PS3 used to have a feature Sony would never allow today  MakeUseOf