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In addition to FreeBSD 15.1 releasing in the coming weeks, NetBSD 11.0 is also just around the corner as another prominent and major BSD update. NetBSD 11.0-RC4 is now available for last minute testing with this hoping to be the final release candidate...

Red Hat doubles down on data sovereignty with new features for OpenShift, Enterprise Linux, and more  IT Pro

KDE Receives Over €1M from Sovereign Tech Fund for Software Development  9to5Linux

KDE today announced a significant investment into the project by Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund. KDE will be receiving €1,285,200 EUR (or roughly 1.5 million USD) over the years 2026 and 2027 to make some significant improvements into their software stack...

A new core infrastructure improvement for the Linux kernel on ARM being worked on is enabling 128-bit page table entries (PTEs) with FEAT_D128 as a new optional feature of Armv9.3 and later...

Arm Preparing The Linux Kernel For 128-bit Page Table Entries "FEAT_D128"  Phoronix

OpenZFS 2.4.2 Released with Linux Kernel 7.0 Compatibility  Linuxiac

Discord joke that it's The Year of the Linux Desktop  GamingOnLinux

Popular emulator Cemu was recently compromised with malware in Linux downloads  GamingOnLinux

New Linux scheduler patches improve frame rates on low-end PCs  GameGPU

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Wine's Wayland driver just fixed the mouse control issue plaguing FPS games on Linux  XDA

Fedora Kinoite vs. Silverblue: My verdict after testing both immutable Linux distros  ZDNET

Why Root Access Isn’t Game Over: Five Lessons from the Linux CopyFail Attack  Security Boulevard

Elementary OS vs. Linux Mint: I compared my once favorite distro to the Windows alternative  ZDNET

I Built an Open Source Alternative to Laravel Herd Because Linux PHP Developers Deserved Better  HackerNoon

Wine's Wayland native driver has taken another step forward with now supporting the pointer warp "wp_pointer_warp_v1" protocol...

Malware found in Linux builds of Cemu (Wii U emulator)  OMG! Ubuntu

Modern IT is driven just as much by economic decisions as it is by technical concepts. The costs of hardware, cloud services, storage, and more all factor into how CIOs and IT leaders budget and deploy their strategies. And now with AI, we have another cross-disciplinary decision to incorporate: Token economics, in this case, how our AI strategies consume the volatile costs of underlying AI models.Currently, most enterprise AI relies on calling frontier model APIs and paying for tokens consumed and generated. While this is an easy starting point, the math is changing. Token consumption is skyr

The past few years have been a period of significant change and challenges in the virtualization industry. Customers are forced to re-evaluate their virtualization platforms while adapting to the rapid rise of AI and infrastructure as well as supply chain pressures.Even with all this turmoil, technology leaders and virtualization admins still need to manage the critical workloads, databases, applications, and virtual machines (VMs) within the budget constraints. If you’re wondering what's next for virtualization infrastructure, the answer is Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. This strategic e