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Windows Use Among Gamers Falls, Linux Tops 5% For the First Time  PCMag

Windows Server Beats Linux NVMe In Benchmarks  letsdatascience.com

The Rust-based Redox OS operating system is preparing to land a new CPU scheduler thanks to work being carried out by open-source developer Akshit Gaur on modernizing the platform's process scheduling subsystem...

Gentoo GNU/Hurd Port Is Real, Despite the April 1 Joke  Linuxiac

Switcher 2026: Fedora Workstation ⭐️  Thurrott.com

3 impressive Linux apps to try this weekend (April 3 - 5)  How-To Geek

Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11  How-To Geek

Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.32 Adds Wildcat Lake Support  Phoronix

Intel today released their Linux NPU Driver 1.32 as the user-space driver components that interacts with the upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver for supporting the NPU hardware with Core Ultra processors...

Microsoft Details Cookie-Controlled PHP Web Shells Persisting via Cron on Linux Servers  The Hacker News

I saved a doomed Windows laptop by embracing Linux  The Verge

CachyOS Delivers More Performance Out Of Intel Panther Lake  Phoronix

Most of my Intel Panther Lake benchmarking over the past two months for the new Core Ultra Series 3 hardware has been done with Ubuntu Linux given the pervasiveness of it, especially in the corporate/enterprise space. But for those looking at achieving even greater out-of-the-box Linux performance on Intel Panther Lake, the Arch Linux based CachyOS does a pretty fine job at further advancing the performance.

Windows Use Among Gamers Falls, Linux Tops 5% For the First Time  PCMag Australia

Race for “Machine Economy” heats up as big tech backs Linux Foundation’s AI payments  Cryptopolitan

Following an April Fools' Day tease of Gentoo claiming they were going to switch to GNU Hurd as their primary kernel moving forward, they have now acknowledged the joke but in fact also announcing there are now experimental Gentoo GNU/Hurd images available...

SteamOS propels Linux to record 5.33% share in latest Steam Survey  KitGuru

Coinbase Explores New Revenue Stream via Linux Foundation’s X402 Protocol  Tokenist

I've used Linux for 6 years—this is the simplest way to run virtual machines  How-To Geek

Ubuntu Raises CPU And RAM Requirements Above Windows 11 Amid Linux’s Steam Surge  HotHardware