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With Linux 7.1 ISDN, ham radio, and other old network code was removed in lightening the kernel source tree by around 138 thousand lines of code. Some additional Linux networking code cleaning is expected for Linux 7.2 with the ISA and PCMCIA hardware around ARCnet set to be removed...

Linux To Drop ARCnet Support For Old ISA & PCMCIA Hardware  Phoronix

Valve just let me turn my Android handheld into an unofficial Steam Deck  Android Authority

Redis 8.8 reached GA today for the Redis open-source project providing a high performance, in-memory data store...

MX Linux 25.2 Released with Linux 7.0 AHS Kernel  Linuxiac

While not as good as repealing AB 1043 outright for requiring operating system providers to ask for a user's age or birth date at device setup, open-source Linux distributions and other open-source OSes may end up seeing some reprieve before this law goes into effect at the start of 2027...

PS3 Emulation Tested on PS5 under Linux with RPCS3 – Does it work?  OC3D

MKVToolNix 99.0 MKV Manipulation Tool Improves the MKVToolNix GUI, mkvmerge  9to5Linux

OptiScaler Client recently added Linux support to make managing upscalers easier  GamingOnLinux

AMD Pulls a Bait-and-Switch on Linux Users with Vivado Licensing Changes  It's FOSS

Linux Mint gets file manager improvements, a new screenshot tool and more  GamingOnLinux

Digital Foundry turns PS5 into PS3 emulation console through Linux and RPCS3  VideoCardz.com

Unreal Engine 6 revealed with a major Rocket League upgrade - the teaser concerns me  GamingOnLinux

Linux 7.2 is cutting support for a 35-year-old card's driver because people aren't using it anymore  XDA

Linus Torvalds loses patience with AI-generated code fixes bloating the Linux kernel  Neowin

Cinnamon desktop is getting its own, native screenshot tool  OMG! Ubuntu

MX Linux 25.2 "Infinity" Released with Linux Kernel 7.0, Based on Debian 13.5  9to5Linux

RPCS3 PS3 emulator test on Linux-hacked PS5 shows why Sony ports so few games  Notebookcheck

Ubuntu-Based Rhino Linux 2026.1 Introduces Lomiri Edition, Powered by Linux 7.0  9to5Linux

Recent high-profile security events have created a cause for concern through the DevSecOps community. We have witnessed a sophisticated shift in the threat landscape: attackers are no longer just targeting the applications you build. They’re targeting the very tools you use to protect them.By compromising the service accounts and version tags of popular third-party security "actions" and scanners, threat actors have successfully turned security tools into delivery vehicles for malware. In these scenarios, the moment a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline triggers a sec