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In the road to releasing Linux 7.1 in June, out today is Linux 7.1-rc5 that continues coming on heavy with fixes...

Linux 7.1-rc5 Released With Fixes Ramping Up From AI Coding Agents  Phoronix

Another serious Linux local privesc bug surfaces  iTnews

6 red flags that tell you to avoid a Linux distro before you install it  MakeUseOf

For those curious about the growing use of AI and coding agents within the Linux kernel, this week there was another large batch of new patches fixed that were generated or co-authored by agents like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot...

Linux isn't "better" than Windows—here's why people are switching anyway  How-To Geek

With FreeBSD having worked on improving its laptop support over the past two years with some big changes and ongoing efforts for making a nice KDE desktop experience on FreeBSD, FreeBSD Foundation's Executive Director has been trying to daily drive FreeBSD on laptops...

FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD On Laptop  Phoronix

Following the process of phasing out Intel 486 CPU support and other old hardware drivers that were dropped in the Linux 7.1 kernel cycle for reducing the kernel maintenance burden, the upcoming Linux 7.2 cycle is continuing the trend of phasing out some of the old hardware support that is very obsolete, likely having no users on the latest upstream kernels, and no one formally maintaining the obsolete drivers...

I stopped dual-booting Linux once Windows finally got the command line right  How-To Geek

Multikernel Technologies Inc has been working on a multi-kernel architecture for the Linux kernel while in addition to that they have been developing KernelScript as a domain-specific language for carrying out Linux kernel customizations and app-specific optimizations...

KernelScript: A Programming Language For Kernel Customization & App Optimizations  Phoronix

While in the past decade or so Linux desktop/laptop users likely have little to complain about boot times and there hasn't been much emphasis around trying to make boot times even faster on the Linux desktop especially in an era where many systems are always-on and suspend/resume working more reliably these days, boot times are still an important factor in the embedded Linux world. Boot-Time Wizard is one of the new efforts aiming to help embedded Linux makers cut-down on their boot times...

Boot-Time Wizard Aims To Help Reduce Linux Boot Times  Phoronix

Hackers Exploit F5 BIG-IP Appliance to Gain SSH Access and Pivot Into Enterprise Linux Networks  CyberSecurityNews

The best Linux distro for beginners is getting a much snappier file explorer  XDA

PyrsistenceSniper - Tool that Detects 117 Persistence Malware Techniques on Windows, Linux, and macOS  CyberSecurityNews

Wild Linker 0.9 was released today as the latest version of this very fast linker for Linux systems that is written in the Rust programming language...

A Linux distro once got too close to Windows, and Microsoft came for it  MakeUseOf

Picking a Linux distro is the wrong first question — here's what you should ask instead  XDA