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COSMIC desktop does display scaling and tiling better than GNOME and KDE  How-To Geek

Switcher 2026: Zenclora Linux Tries to Make Sense of Debian ⭐  Thurrott.com

California amendment would exempt Linux from age verification law | brief | SC Media  SC Media

California’s Age Verification Hits A Speed Bump: Linux  Gadget Review

The long-in-development work on Cache Aware Scheduling looks like it will come to a head soon with it looking like Cache Aware Scheduling will land for Linux 7.2. Ahead of the upcoming merge window I ran some fresh benchmarks looking at different areas where this feature is shining.

Nvidia offers restricted access to Vera CPU in first round of Linux benchmarks - 88-core monster competes with or beats Epyc and Xeon in selected tests  Tom's Hardware

Cache Aware Scheduling Shows Nice Wins For AMD Zen 5 On PostgreSQL, Valkey, Network Performance  Phoronix

Rust will save Linux from AI, says Greg Kroah-Hartman  ZDNET

Is it time to move from Windows to Linux?  dice.com

I stress test new virtual private servers with these tools before wasting money  MakeUseOf

Linux Foundation Announces DNS-AID Project to Advance Decentralized AI Agent Discovery  Yahoo Finance

The Linux x32 ABI for x86_64 processors allow making use of the full 64-bit register file and wide data path but retaining 32-bit pointers to provide for a smaller memory footprint when not needing 64-bit pointers. Linux x32 came to the party late and didn't enjoy much adoption over the years and is now looking at possible removal from the Linux kernel...

Linux Developers Looking At Retiring The x32 ABI  Phoronix

California Wants To Exclude Linux and Other Open Source Systems From New Age Checks  gHacks

The Raspberry Pi hardware monitoring driver "RASPBERRYPI-HWMON" is being extended to allow exposing voltage measurements on these ARM single board computers...

Linux Driver To Expose Voltage Inputs For Raspberry Pi SBCs  Phoronix

A feature that has been worked on for a while now by Intel Linux engineers is for allowing run-time updates of the Trusted Domain Extensions (TDX) module without having to reboot the running server. For Linux 7.2 it looks like that feature will be all-set for allowing the easier roll-out of security updates and the like for this confidential computing capability on modern Intel Xeon servers...

Intel TDX Runtime Updates Looks Like It Will Land For Linux 7.2  Phoronix

Ubuntu maker Canonical announced today the release of Workshop as their new Snap-based application for launching development environments with ease...

zen-of-linux  Thurrott.com