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Btrfs-Progs 6.13 Released With "mkfs.btrfs --compress" Support  Phoronix

While it's an old language, in recent months there's been a renewed effort over a COBOL language front-end for the GCC compiler. There's been out-of-tree COBOL support for GCC that is working to get into the mainline GNU Compiler Collection codebase. This weekend saw the latest iteration of those patches amounting to 134k lines of new code...

Project leader of 'Asahi Linux,' which aims to port Linux to Macs with Apple silicon, resigns, explaining the circumstances so far  GIGAZINE（ギガジン）

Open source maintainers are really feeling the squeeze  The Register

Following last week's FreeBSD 13.5 Beta 1 release to kick off this next FreeBSD 13 point release that will also end the series, FreeBSD 13.5 Beta 2 is out this weekend for testing...

Microsoft Windows 11 is a disaster: Should you fix it with Talon or finally switch to Linux with Oreon 10?  BetaNews

What Is Arch Linux, and How Is It Different From Other Versions of Linux?  How-To Geek

What Is Arch Linux, and How Is It Different From Other Versions of Linux?  Review Geek

Help test Fedora on Microsoft Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) before official release  BetaNews

openSUSE Replaces AppArmor with SELinux on New Tumbleweed Installations  9to5Linux

Developer for Linux on Apple Silicon Macs resigns, citing ‘major failure of leadership’  9to5Mac

How to Use ncdu to Find Disk-Hogging Directories in Linux  Review Geek

How to Use ncdu to Find Disk-Hogging Directories in Linux  How-To Geek

One of the great new features of Linux 6.14 is the NTSYNC driver being completed for better emulating the Microsoft Windows NT synchronization primitives so that software like Wine and Proton (Steam Play) can provide for better performance when running Windows games on Linux. But it turns out an oversight up to now has meant that in practice it's not really too usable out-of-the-box...

Oreon Project Is a Kinder, Gentler Enterprise Linux Distribution  The New Stack

The Kindle Downgrade and the Rockin’ SSD: Weekly Roundup  How-To Geek

Which Is Your Favorite TUI App on Linux?  How-To Geek

8 Weird and Wacky Linux Hardware Devices  How-To Geek

Karol Herbst has been a Nouveau driver developer for over a decade working on this open-source, reverse-engineered NVIDIA Linux graphics driver. He went on to become employed by Red Hat. While he's known more these days for his work on Mesa and the Rusticl OpenCL driver for it, he's still remained a maintainer of the Nouveau kernel driver. But today he announced he's resigning as a Nouveau driver maintainer due to differences with the upstream Linux kernel developer community...

Karol Herbst Steps Down As Nouveau Maintainer Due To Linux Kernel's Toxic Environment  Phoronix