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This entire operating system fits in 12 MB, and yes, it boots faster than Windows  MakeUseOf

Windows Secure Boot Certificate Expired — Billions of PCs Affected Including Linux Distros  CyberSecurityNews

A workaround for AMD's limitations to run FSR 4.1.1 on Linux has been published.  GameGPU

Updated Raspberry Pi OS With Linux 6.18 LTS Delivers Some Performance Benefits  Phoronix

Last week marked the release of an updated Raspberry Pi OS that moved to Linux 6.18 LTS from its former Linux 6.12 kernel base along with making a number of other package updates. Given the jump to the newer Long Term Support kernel and other improvements, I ran some fresh benchmarks on the Raspberry Pi 5 (Raspberry Pi 500+) to see the performance difference out of the updated operating system.

Cache-aware scheduling - The Linux patch aiming for +360% performance on MySQL  Korben

Linux Foundation unveils DNS-based identity standard for AI agents  Biometric Update

Red Hat Enterprise Linux runner images are now in public preview  The GitHub Blog

Servo 0.3 released today as the latest version of this modern browser engine developed in Rust. With Servo 0.3 the demo servoshell browser is becoming more useful and supporting additional modern web features while Servo also continues to possess much potential moving forward on the embedded front as an alternative to the likes of the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF)...

Linux Foundation sets 2026 confidential computing summit  SecurityBrief Asia

Linux 7.2 is continuing the trend of removing obsolete hardware drivers for which the code hasn't seen any maintenance in years and there are no believed users left of said drivers, especially those that would be running modern mainline versions of the Linux kernel. The char/misc changes merged dropped two more obsolete drivers from the Linux source tree...

Linux 7.2 Drops Ancient PROFIBUS Driver: Ported From SCO Unix In 1998, Unused For Years  Phoronix

Flipper One Takes Hardware Hacking Into Uncharted Waters  LinuxInsider

Cache Aware Scheduling is one of the most exciting kernel innovations to land in Linux this year. While it was finally merged last week to Linux 7.2, a new patch series today is already working to extend Cache Aware Scheduling and is showing some exciting performance improvements...

Linux Cache Aware Scheduling Extended For Even Better Performance: Up To 360% In MySQL  Phoronix

Heroic Beats Lutris & Bottles? 30K Stars [2026]  tech-insider.org

I tried NetBSD as a desktop, and it felt like stepping into the '90s in a good way  How-To Geek

New Linux Foundation project aims to bring DNS-style trust to AI agents  InfoWorld

An AMD engineer has contributed to the upstream FFmpeg library an ONNX Runtime back-end for its DNN filter. The FFmpeg Deep Neural Network (DNN) filters allow for running AI models natively inside the video processing pipeline for upscaling, object detection, background segmentation, and more. This ONNX Runntime back-end support is notable in that it expands the GPU and NPU capabilities with FFmpeg...

Way back in 2017 for the Linux 4.12 kernel the Realtek rtl8723bs WiFi driver was added to the kernel's staging area. Nearly a decade later, it's still being cleaned-up to suit the more rigorous non-staging area of the kernel in the formal networking subsystem. For Linux 7.2, the staging pull request is once again dominated by clean-ups to this Realtek WiFi driver...