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df says your disk is 80% full, but du says you’re barely using half, so one of them is lying,

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Wine's Wayland driver just fixed the mouse control issue plaguing FPS games on Linux  XDA

Fedora Kinoite vs. Silverblue: My verdict after testing both immutable Linux distros  ZDNET

Why Root Access Isn’t Game Over: Five Lessons from the Linux CopyFail Attack  Security Boulevard

Elementary OS vs. Linux Mint: I compared my once favorite distro to the Windows alternative  ZDNET

I Built an Open Source Alternative to Laravel Herd Because Linux PHP Developers Deserved Better  HackerNoon

Wine's Wayland native driver has taken another step forward with now supporting the pointer warp "wp_pointer_warp_v1" protocol...

Malware found in Linux builds of Cemu (Wii U emulator)  OMG! Ubuntu

We’re continuing to navigate a fundamental shift in digital infrastructure. Over the past 18 months, the predictability of the virtualization layer has shed nearly 20 years of stability driven by an unrelenting cost crisis. But this is just a symptom of a much deeper architectural challenge. The reality is that the infrastructure layer is being asked to perform tasks it was never originally designed for. We aren’t just managing virtual machines or even virtual machines with containers; it’s a simultaneous balancing act between legacy systems, cloud-native apps, and the burgeoning, GPU-in

Fedora Hummingbird brings the container security model to a Linux host OS  Help Net Security

For those making use of OpenZFS on Linux or FreeBSD, OpenZFS 2.4.2 is out today as the newest stable release of this ZFS file-system implementation...

This free app brings Windows Hello-style face unlock to Linux  MakeUseOf

Linux Defenders Face Patch and Exploit Race  BankInfoSecurity

FreeBSD 15.0 had aimed to provide a KDE desktop install option from its text-based OS installer to make for a more compelling FreeBSD out-of-the-box desktop experience. That was then delayed to FreeBSD 15.1 but that didn't end up materializing. Now the KDE desktop install option is diverted to FreeBSD 15.2...

I ditched Windows Snap Layouts for a tiling window manager and finally got the Linux experience I wanted  MakeUseOf

Fedora Atomic is the desktop OS I keep recommending to people who don't want to think about Linux  XDA

A Cyberdeck That Runs Linux…in An Altoids Tin  Hackaday

Today's Patch Tuesday is a busier one than normal for the quarter. Both AMD and Intel have rolled out new updates for Linux customers among other security disclosures today. Thankfully though the vulnerabilities don't appear to be too widespread or impactful...

AMD & Intel Roll Out New Linux Updates For Today's Patch Tuesday  Phoronix

New Dirty Frag Bug Lets Attackers Gain Root Access on Linux  Petri IT Knowledgebase