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Systemd 257 debuted last December and now finally systemd 258 is preparing to roll out... Systemd 258-rc1 was issued today as the first test release toward this next major release. It's a big one with more than 260 changes noted in the announcement, including multiple new tools and other additions...

Slow internet speed on Linux? This 30-second fix makes all the difference  ZDNET

Zed Editor's Newest Feature: Being Able To Disable All AI Features  Phoronix

4 reasons I switched from NixOS to Mint Linux as a Windows-to-Linux convert  xda-developers.com

The Zed open-source code editor that is written in Rust, has begun supporting Linux rather well, and has continued tacking on new features to assist developer workflows has introduced another new feature: the ability to easily disable all AI features...

In addition to Blender 5.0 supporting HDR on Linux when using the Vulkan API and with Wayland, another important high dynamic range (HDR) milestone landed this week into Blender: the ability to both import and export HDR videos...

Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 25.2-rc2 as the newest, on-time weekly release candidate for this quarter's Mesa 25.2 feature series...

My 10 favorite Linux distributions of all time, ranked  ZDNET

Kubuntu Focus NX Gen 3 mini PC lineup launched with Intel Arrow Lake-H processors and pre-installed Linux distro  Notebookcheck

Btrfs Preps Performance Improvements & Experimental Large Folios For Linux 6.17  Phoronix

With the Linux 6.16 stable kernel potentially being released this coming Sunday, the Linux 6.17 merge window is quickly approaching. Btrfs maintainer and SUSE engineer David Sterba sent out the Btrfs pull request already of new feature code for this copy-on-write file-system in Linux 6.17...

For those making use of Open Virtual Machine Firmware (OVMF) such as for UEFI booting of VMs with KVM+QEMU, the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel is set to offer a convenient new driver to help in debugging the system boot when needed...

Pogocache 1.0 was released today as a fast open-source caching software that aims for low latency and great CPU efficiency. Pogocache supports Memcache / Valkey / Redis / HTTP / Postgres wire protocols while claiming to offer much better throughput and lower latency than these caching alternatives...

From Kernel to Cloud: Open Source Takes On Security Trade-Offs  LinuxInsider

Firefox 141 relieves chronic Linux pain in the neck  theregister.com

Firefox 141 relieves chronic Linux pain in the neck  theregister.com

Hackers Injected Malicious Firefox Browser Packages to Arch Linux User Repository  CyberSecurityNews

Cloud Hypervisor is the open-source, Rust-based VMM started originally by Intel engineers but under the stewardship of the Linux Foundation has evolved into a nice multi-vendor initiative with the likes of Microsoft, Cyberus, Arm, and others all contributing. Even with Intel's cutbacks due to their ongoing corporate restructuring, the Cloud Hypervisor project is thriving as a multi-vendor open-source project for a security-focused hypervisor...

Cloud Hypervisor 47 Provides Nicer Error Messages  Phoronix

The newest open-source Linux kernel driver being worked on for the growing accelerator "accel" subsystem is a new hardware driver courtesy of Arm for enabling their Ethos U65 and U85 NPUs...