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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

Attackers hijack Axios npm account to spread RAT malware  Security Affairs

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

You’re probably ready for Arch Linux. Here’s how to tell  Yahoo Tech

You’re probably ready for Arch Linux. Here’s how to tell  How-To Geek

Sent out yesterday were the DRM Rust feature changes for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window coming in April. The Rust graphics/display driver code for Linux 7.1 includes more programming language abstractions and other Rust infrastructure work to make graphics drivers written in Rust more capable...

A Lot Of Rust Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.1, NVIDIA Nova Driver Additions  Phoronix

I switched to CachyOS, and I’m not sure if I want to go back to vanilla Arch  MakeUseOf

With Q1 wrapping up, here is a look back at the most popular news and reviews for the quarter that excited Linux readers the most. During this quarter on Phoronix were 881 original news articles thus far and 61 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles...

Enduring 15 Years with One Server and 8GB Memory: He Used "Obsolete" Technologies to Let Over 500,000 People Type Their First Linux Command  36 Kr