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

Gaim! Any desktop Linux users from 20+ years ago likely remember the Gaim instant messaging app that was commonly shipped by desktop Linux distributions for interfacing with different instant messaging platforms like AIM, MSN, ICQ, etc. About twenty years ago Gaim was renamed to Pidgin though due to the AOL Instant Messenger trademark. But with the AIM trademark since expired and wanting to take a differing approach from the latest Pidgin, Gaim 3 is under development...

AerynOS 2026.03 is now available as the newest release of this from-scratch Linux distribution originally known as Serpent OS. With this month's update comes GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6.3, and various Wayland compositor updates alongside other software improvements...

AerynOS 2026.03 Brings GNOME 50, Other Wayland Compositor Updates  Phoronix

CachyOS beats Windows 11 in Cyberpunk 2077 and Space Marine 2 in a new gaming benchmark  XDA

AerynOS 2026.03 Released with the Latest GNOME 50 Desktop Environment  9to5Linux

MidnightBSD 4.0.4 is out today as the newest update to this desktop-minded BSD operating system. Notable with this update is introducing the Aged daemon and Agectl program for handling age verification and age attestation given the increasing number of US states pursuing laws around age verification at the OS user level...

Tria Technologies expands multi‑OS support for Qualcomm‑based embedded hardware  newelectronics.co.uk

A merge request for Wayland Protocols was opened today for introducing "xx-fractional-scale-v2" as an experimental protocol to address current shortcomings with current Wayland fractional scaling. There is also a KDE KWin compositor merge request already out for review that implements this xx-fractional-scale-v2 protocol...

Slimbook Creative 15 Linux laptop features AMD Ryzen AI 9 and Nvidia RTX 5070 hardware  Technetbook

How Small Can A Linux Executable Be?  Hackaday

Slimbook Creative Linux laptop packs RTX 5070, Thunderbolt 4 and 99 Wh battery into 1.9 kg chassis  Notebookcheck

After KDBUS failed to make it into the mainline Linux kernel more than one decade ago as an in-kernel version of D-Bus, BUS1 was proposed as a clean sheet design for in-kernel, capability-based inter-process communication (IPC). BUS1 didn't gain enough traction to make it to the mainline kernel and then many of the same developers devised Dbus-Broker as a more performant D-Bus user-space implementation. Well, as a big surprise now, a new version of BUS1 is being worked on for the Linux kernel...

New Rust-Based BUS1 In-Kernel IPC In Development For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Gary Woodland’s Mindset Reset: From PTSD To Peak Form At The Houston Open [019b03]  Mshale

CachyOS vs Windows 11 gaming test shows Linux leading in Cyberpunk 2077, Space Marine 2 and more  Notebookcheck

French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir sues Ubisoft over The Crew shutdown  GamingOnLinux

OpenVPN 2.7.1 Released with New Features, Improvements, and Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

Sovereign Cloud, Azure Local and Azure Linux  Virtualization Review

I did a minimal Ubuntu install and stripped out every pre-installed app  MakeUseOf