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FTRFS: New Fault-Tolerant File-System Proposed For Linux  Phoronix

Mold 2.41 is out as the latest major update to this high performance linker and viable alternative to the linkers from the GNU and LLVM projects...

OpenSSF Flags Malware Campaign on Slack Posing as Linux Foundation Figures  Hackread

1. France is replacing 2.5 million Windows desktops with Linux - and I mapped out its new stack  ZDNET
2. France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech  TechCrunch
3. France’s digital agency dumping Windows desktops for Linux  theregister.com

Valve Engineer Further Optimizes Linux for GPUs with 8GB or Less, Showing Impressive FPS Gains  The FPS Review

The open-source, Rust-based Servo browser engine has been improving its Servoshell demo browser application while one of the most promising potentials for this engine is around embedded use as an alternative to the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). With the latest moves by Servo developers, they are making for a more compelling story for its use...

AI Code Gets Approved in the Linux Kernel… But With Strings Attached  It's FOSS

These 7 Fedora cleanup commands freed up more space than I expected  How-To Geek

Linux 7.0 arrives as Linus Torvalds embraces a new era of AI-driven kernel development  Neowin

'Regain control of our digital destiny': France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech  TechRadar

4 toxic Linux behaviors that drive away newcomers (and how to fix them)  How-To Geek

For those wishing to make use of modern OpenCL 3.0 capabilities on AMD APUs/SoCs with integrated Radeon graphics using Mesa's Rusticl driver, an improvement was merged this weekend to the RadeonSI driver ahead of this quarter's Mesa 26.1 release...

Nearly one year ago to the day I noted Linux developers were considering the removal of the Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers from the kernel. They were orphaned the past decade and turning into a maintenance burden for upstream developers. But then to some surprise, a few developers stepped up to maintain the HFS(+) drivers. One year later it's proving to be a success story with more fixes for this aging Apple file-system support continuing...

Apple HFS / HFS+ File-System Support Seeing Many Fixes For Linux 7.1  Phoronix

Linux kernel now allows AI-generated code, as long as you take "full responsibility" for any bugs  PC Guide

Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future  theregister.com

Among the early pull requests sent out to Linus Torvalds even before the Linux 7.0 kernel officially released on Sunday were the Btrfs file-system updates. This feature-packed CoW file-system is seeing more performance optimizations for Linux 7.1 as well as its shutdown ioctl feature no longer being experimental and a variety of fixes...

"Digital sovereignty is not optional": France's government is ditching Windows to reduce its reliance on "American tools"  Windows Central

D7VK version 1.7 brings even more retro Direct3D gaming to Linux  GamingOnLinux

Linux 7.0 Release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures  CNX Software