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SystemRescue 13 updates its kernel to Linux 6.18 LTS, adds new recovery tools  Help Net Security

Linus Torvalds says Linux 7.0's calm was a mirage as rc6 refuses to settle down  XDA

Linus Torvalds expresses concerns over unusually large Linux 7.0 RC6 patch count  Neowin

Claude 5.0 Emerges in Internal Testing, Shakes Anthropic by Cracking 20-Year-Old Linux Vulnerability in 90 Minutes  36氪

Linux 7.0-rc6 Released With The Fixes Still Coming In Heavy  Phoronix

Linux 7.0-rc6 was just released in quickly working toward the stable Linux 7.0 release in mid-April. This was another busy week with lots of bug fixes...

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 29th, 2026  9to5linux.com

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 13, 2026 (Mar 23 – 29)  Linuxiac

5 Linux Mint extensions that finally made my desktop feel complete  How-To Geek

Ubuntu was my first distro—here's why we went our separate ways  How-To Geek

Here's something that wasn't on my bingo card for this year of the "MKISS" driver for ham radio being modernized in 2026 as opposed to just being dropped. The MKISS code hasn't seen much driver activity since the original Git import of the Linux kernel more than twenty years ago...

Linux Ham Radio KISS Serial Driver Being Modernized In 2026  Phoronix

8 ways to delete a file in Linux—and when to use each  Yahoo Tech

Last year Intel began preparing their QuickAsist Linux driver support for QAT Gen6 hardware with upcoming platforms. That initial Intel QAT Gen6 driver enablement landed back in Linux 6.16 while for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel they are preparing support for a new wireless mode with this next-gen QuickAssist hardware...

The free Linux tool that keeps your terminal sessions alive forever  How-To Geek

Ahead of the Linux 7.0-rc6 kernel due to be released later today, quite a number of EXT4 file-system fixes were sent out this morning...

Sent out this week was another drm-misc-next pull heading to DRM-Next ahead of next month's Linux 7.1 merge window. Notable with this week's Direct Rendering Manager code changes was introducing per-process buffer object "BO" memory usage query support for user-space...

AMDXDNA Driver Introducing Per-Process Memory Usage Queries In Linux 7.1  Phoronix

Released this week was Nginx 1.29.7 as the newest mainline version of this HTTP(S) web server. Releasing alongside Nginx 1.28.3 stable, it fixed buffer overflow vulnerabilities and some other vulnerabilities. Making Nginx 1.29.7 more exciting though is that it landed Multipath TCP support...

After 6 Years, One of Wayland’s Most Annoying Problems is Finally Getting Fixed  It's FOSS