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The Year of the Linux Desktop? This Time, the Data Says Yes  LinuxInsider

Linux Foundation Welcomes the AGNTCY Project to Standardize Open Multi-Agent System Infrastructure and Break Down AI Agent Silos  Yahoo Finance

Want AI agents to work together? The Linux Foundation has a plan  ZDNet

Linux 6.16 Released – Optimized for Enhanced Performance and Networking  Cyber Press

Along with the better handling of multi-device file-systems such as Btrfs' native RAID capabilities and now allowing more efficient writing of zeroes to modern storage devices, the number of VFS pull requests for Linux 6.17 also added some other extra goodies...

Linux 6.16 Released - Optimized for Better Performance and Networking  CyberSecurityNews

Apple Introduces Containerization Feature for Seamless Kali Linux Integration on macOS  gbhackers.com

One Year in With My Kubuntu Laptop, Here's What I've Learned  How-To Geek

The kernel locking changes submitted today for Linux 6.17 contain a temporary change worth discussion for yielding a 10x speed-up of a particular function call and as part of that yielding less network egress downtime until a better solution is developed...

Auto-Color Backdoor: How Darktrace Thwarted a Stealthy Linux Intrusion  Darktrace

For those shopping for a Linux friendly laptop powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" with Zen 5 cores and integrated Radeon graphics plus allowing up to 128GB of RAM, the 15.3-inch InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 was announced this morning...

TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 Laptop Announced - Powered By AMD Strix Point  Phoronix

A Linux migration tool could make ditching Windows a breeze  Windows Central

The CRC32C cyclic redundancy check code path within the Linux kernel for error detection is much, much faster with the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel when running on modern Intel and AMD AVX-512 processors...

Huge Speedups For CRC32C With Modern AVX-512 CPUs Merged To Linux 6.17  Phoronix

In addition to the VFS changes merrged yesterday for allowing multi-device file-systems to better cope with losing a disk, another notable change as part of the VFS pull requests for Linux 6.17 allows more efficiently zeroing out a range on modern NVMe SSDs or SCSI drives...

Linux 6.16 Released with Performance and Networking Enhancements  gbhackers.com

Apple's New Containerization Feature Allows Kali Linux Integration on macOS  CyberSecurityNews

Merged on Monday were the EROFS file-system updates for Linux 6.17. EROFS continues to be a common read-only file-system choice for some mobile/embedded devices as well as container use-cases...

EROFS Metadata Compression Lands Plus A ~2.5x Speedup For Reading Directories  Phoronix