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SteamOS 3.8.10 Stable Released With Updated Arch, Steam Machine Support & Wayland Desktop Default

Phoronix - Thu, 06/18/2026 - 18:06
Overnight Valve released SteamOS 3.8.10 into the stable channel. for succeeding SteamOS 3.7. There's a lot happening across the board to their in-house Linux platform for the likes of the Steam Deck and upcoming Steam Machine hardware...

Linux 7.2 Protects Against "Stupid Or Malicious" DoS Attempts By Arming Timers In The Past

Phoronix - Thu, 06/18/2026 - 17:58
There are a number of time(r) core subsystem changes for the Linux 7.2 kernel to better harden the kernel...

at Command: Schedule One-Time Linux Tasks Without Cron

Tecmint - Thu, 06/18/2026 - 12:00
The post at Command: Schedule One-Time Linux Tasks Without Cron first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

The at command lets you queue a one-off task to run once at a specific time, so you don’t have

The post at Command: Schedule One-Time Linux Tasks Without Cron first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

AI/LLM Patch Craziness Having An Impact On ARM64 Linux Kernel Development

Phoronix - Thu, 06/18/2026 - 08:26
The ongoing rise in AI/LLM-generated patches hitting the mailing lists and affecting development workflows continues to impact Linux kernel development. For the ARM64 architecture updates in Linux 7.2 is an interesting anecdote over over feeling like this activity has "slowed us down a little on the feature side" and having to deal with this AI/LLM patch activity resulted in some features now being postponed from making it for this current Linux kernel development cycle...

Reclaiming infrastructure autonomy: The 180-day mandate for virtualization service providers

Red Hat News - Thu, 06/18/2026 - 08:00
The managed services market is navigating an unprecedented inflection point. For many service providers, recent changes in licensing and vendor partner tiers have elevated costs from a standard operational challenge into an existential threat to business continuity. If your organization has been de-certified, leaving you at risk of operating without valid VMware licensing, or if your virtualization cost overhead now compromises your profit margins, the key business question is no longer if you should migrate but how fast you can execute a transition to protect your customers and your business.

Bcachefs Tools 1.38.6 Brings Many Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 06/18/2026 - 04:06
Kent Overstreet announced the release today of Bcachefs-Tools 1.38.6 as the user-space tools built around the Bcachefs copy-on-write file-system. There are a few new features and a lot of performance work in v1.38.6 without bringing any on-disk format breakage...

Linux 7.2 Slab Changes Include More Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Thu, 06/18/2026 - 04:00
The slab memory allocation changes for Linux 7.2 have been merged and continue to see more work around shaves and performance optimizations...

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