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PipeWire 1.6.6 Improves the Pulse Server, Volume Initialization in Filter Graph  9to5Linux

A love letter to the Quake series, free and open source FPS Quetoo is out now  GamingOnLinux

The past few Linux kernel cycles there has been experimental support for large folios with Btrfs while for Linux 7.2 it looks like this modern file-system will be taking things further with huge folios...

Colorado And California Shield Linux From OS-Level Age Verification Rules  Open Source For You

AerynOS Gets Linux 7.0, COSMIC 1.0.13, and KDE Plasma 6.6.5  Linuxiac

A bill to mandate age verification for Linux users is facing heavy criticism and is being amended.  GIGAZINE

Linux cryptography expert Eric Biggers of Google posted a set of patches on Monday for providing proof-of-concept support for ML-KEM and X-Wing for post-quantum cryptography...

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A self-signed SSL certificate lets you run Apache over HTTPS on Ubuntu 26.04 without buying a certificate from a Certificate

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Back in 2021 Facebook open-sourced CacheLib as a new caching engine. Back in 2021 it was done to help scale services with non-volatile memory caching to offset increasing DRAM costs at the time. Now in 2026, DRAM memory prices are astronomical compared to 2021 pricing given the AI surge. And, surprisingly, Meta is out with a new CacheLib release after being absent the past two years...

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A collection of practical Linux command line tricks: create a terminal chat server with nc, sum column values on the

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Linus says Linux's trivial fixes are getting out of hand, and AI reviewers are making it worse  XDA

In addition to the release today of Sway 1.12 for that i3-inspired Wayland compositor, Labwc 0.20 is also out today as another wlroots-based Wayland compositor...

California and Colorado Age Verification Laws Get Open-Source OS Exemptions—SteamOS Enforcement Still Likely  TechPowerUp

PS3 emulation tested on PS5 through Linux, and the results are a mixed bag  TweakTown

I left Windows to escape preinstalled bloat, and then I found it on Linux  MakeUseOf

I didn't realize MS-DOS was training me for Linux  How-To Geek

Hackers Hide Linux Payload Under SSH-Like Filename During Package Installation  CyberSecurityNews

These 7 apps helped me use Linux after ditching Windows  How-To Geek

Vadzo Imaging Explains V4L2 Driver Development for Embedded Linux MIPI CSI-2 Camera Integration  ACCESS Newswire

Vadzo Imaging Explains V4L2 Driver Development for Embedded Linux MIPI CSI-2 Camera Integration  newswire.com