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CachyOS Introduces New Default GUI Package Manager, Kyber For NVMe I/O Scheduler  Phoronix

CachyOS ISO Release for April 2026 Brings Shelly as Default GUI Package Manager  9to5Linux

I tried the most "bloated" Linux distro, and it's still better than Windows  How-To Geek

Linux Size 70  Phoronix

Linux's i3 will humble you before it impresses you—here's how to skip the humbling part  How-To Geek

Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc1 kernel release due out later today for closing the Linux 7.1 merge window, I was curious if all the code removals would lead to a negative change in line count over Linux 7.0. The removals were not enough and Linux 7.1 Git is fast approaching 40 million lines...

The Linux Kernel Tree About To Hit 40 Million Lines, AMD Driver Above 6 Million Lines  Phoronix

After three months on Linux, I don’t miss Windows at all  The Verge

Linux crushes Windows on llama.cpp inference by double digits  Startup Fortune

The New Linux Kernel AI Bot Uncovering Bugs Is A Local LLM On Framework Desktop + AMD Ryzen AI Max  Phoronix

Earlier this month on Phoronix we were the first to draw attention to a new fuzzing tool / AI bot uncovering kernel bugs by Greg Kroah-Hartman, the "second in command" for Linux kernel development and stable maintainer. Greg has now shared more light on the "gregkh_clanker_t1000" for this tool that has been uncovering more Linux kernel bugs the past few weeks...

Ms Office Alternative Software For Linux Market Analysis  openPR.com

A new progress report from the Asahi Linux project is now published that highlights recent upstreaming work for the Linux 7.0 kernel release as well as the latest additions to the downstream Asahi Linux code. The Asahi Linux project also pushed out their first updated Asahi installer in nearly two years...

Apple M3 Support On Asahi Linux Is Approaching The Original Alpha Quality Of The M1  Phoronix

Asahi Linux Improves Apple Silicon Support as Fedora Asahi Remix 44 Nears  Linuxiac

The legacy xf86-video-nv driver for user-space mode-setting on old NVIDIA GPUs is out with a rather rare release and the first in over two years with a collection of different bug fixes...

Introducing Proactive Hardening and Attack Surface Reduction (PHASR) for Linux and macOS  Security Boulevard

Introducing Proactive Hardening and Attack Surface Reduction (PHASR) for Linux and macOS  Bitdefender

BleachBit 6.0 Introduces New Cookie Manager, Improves Browser Cleaning  9to5Linux

There's a Linux command that shows you exactly what any running process is doing  MakeUseOf