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Theo de Raadt released OpenBSD 7.8 today as the newest feature release to this popular BSD operating system...

OpenBSD 7.8 Released With Raspberry Pi 5 Support, AMD SEV Enablement  Phoronix

Valkey 9.0 Adds Multi-Database Clusters, Supports 1 Billion Requests Per Second  It's FOSS News

ROG Xbox Ally X is a lot faster without Windows 11  TweakTown

AlmaLinux 10.1 Beta Released For Popular RHEL 10 Community Distribution  Phoronix

Earlier today the AlmaLinux project announced their plans for supporting the Btrfs file-system contrary to the stance by Red Hat with upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux. They have capped off the day now by releasing the AlmaLinux 10.1 beta complete with this new Btrfs support...

Upstreamed for the current Linux 6.18 cycle was finally having mainline support for the ESWIN EIC770 SoC with its four SiFive P550 cores plus having the DeviceTree support for the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board using that SoC. Sadly not making it though for Linux 6.18 was the Ethernet controller support for the EIC7700 SoC but that is now destined to arrive in Linux 6.19...

Linux 6.19 To Enable Networking For The EIC7700 SoC Powering The SiFive Premier P550  Phoronix

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Open Source Hack Lets The Razer Nari Headset Work With Linux  Hackaday

Open Source Hack Lets The Razer Nari Headset Work With Linux  Hackaday

It's been nearly a decade since Red Hat notably deprecated Btrfs back in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 after it being a tech preview in earlier versions of RHEL. While upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 remains on XFS and supporting the likes of Stratis Storage with LVM, AlmaLinux today announced that their AlmaLinux 10.1 release will support Btrfs...

AlmaLinux 10.1 Will Support The Btrfs File-System  Phoronix

Immutable Images for Oracle Linux with OSTree  Oracle Blogs

Valkey as the popular, Linux Foundation backed fork of the Redis key-value database is out today with its big v9.0 release...

Five free Linux distros for speed on new PCs  findarticles.com

Windows 10 End Of Support Is Your Chance To Finally Try Linux  findarticles.com

5 free Linux distros built for speed and power - and your new PC  ZDNET

Clonezilla Live 3.3.0-33 Adds Support for Cloning MTD Block and eMMC Boot Devices  9to5Linux

Why the end of Windows 10 is great news for Linux - and your chance to switch  ZDNET