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Today's the day! KDE developers have just released Plasma 6.7 as the newest version of this leading open-source desktop environment...

After Linux 7.1 dropped support for old i486 CPUs and also began removing some old ISA and PCMCIA device drivers, there is some additional old hardware relics being cleared out of the in-development Linux 7.2 driver... The frame-buffer device driver for the old Hercules Monochrome ISA graphics card is now removed from the Linux kernel after decades at play...

Linux 7.2 Drops Driver For The 40+ Year Old Hercules Monochrome ISA Graphics Card  Phoronix

China-Linked SprySOCKS Backdoor Expands to Windows with Driver-Based Stealth  The Hacker News

KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

Windows version of SprySOCKS Linux malware used to attack govt orgs  BleepingComputer

Linux Kernel 7.1 Officially Released with New NTFS Driver, Intel FRED, and Major Code Cleanup  Linux Journal

V-Ray for Blender Update 3 now runs on Linux  CG Channel

Raven Resonance Previews Raven Prism, a Standalone Linux Computer in Eyewear, at AWE 2026  Auganix.org

Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.0 Promises Support for the Nothing Phone, Beta Out Now  9to5Linux

Someone moved three lines of code in Linux 7.2 and got a 5% storage speed boost  XDA

In addition to the surprising impact of /proc/filesystems read optimizations for Linux 7.2, another one of the VFS pull requests for this next kernel version is delivering some nice improvements for EXT4 and XFS around IOmap, the framework that maps file data offsets in memory to their physical locations on storage...

After some last minute delays pushing the 15.1-RELEASE back by two weeks, FreeBSD 15.1 is now shipping as the newest stable release of this BSD operating system...

FreeBSD 15.1 Released With Updated WiFi Drivers, Better C23 Support & Other Improvements  Phoronix

Linux 7.2 Optimization Shows +5% IOPS For EXT4 & XFS After Moving Around Two Lines Of Code  Phoronix

Image builder for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a powerful tool for creating custom RHEL images with pre-installed software and configurations. It helps organizations standardize deployments, bring consistency, and reduce manual effort, generating ready-to-deploy images for virtual machines (VM), cloud, and bare metal. Image builder for RHEL can be used as a hosted service on the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console or as an on-premise service from the RHEL command-line interface and the RHEL web console.What's new for the image builder command-line interface in RHEL 10.2 and 9.8?The image-builde

At the OpenShift Commons gathering in Amsterdam at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon earlier this year, attendees got a front-row seat to the digital transformation of one of the world's most complex hubs. Roel Donker, Technology Lead within Royal Schiphol Group, joined Maxim Burgerhout, Principal Account Solution Architect at Red Hat, to discuss how the airport is utilizing Red Hat OpenShift to prepare for a "hybrid future." Image 1: Roel Donker, Technology Lead within Royal Schiphol Group, joined Maxim Burgerhout, Principal Account Solution Architect at Red Hat speaking at the OpenShift Commons Gathe

The community of developers continuing to maintain Ubuntu Touch for smartphones has released the Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 beta ahead of the planned stable release in mid-July...

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Beta Now Properly Handles Notches & Rounded Corners  Phoronix

The newest open-source project out of Intel is the Intel Performance Skills project that is providing AI agent skills to help with CPU performance analysis and performance optimizations on Linux...