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With the end of the month comes a new KDE Linux status report from prominent KDE developer Nate Graham...

KDE Linux Prunes Its Insecure & Unused Software  Phoronix

Your Linux system is secretly using your hard drive as RAM, and that's a good thing  How-To Geek

I add KDE's best feature to every Linux GNOME system—here's why  How-To Geek

Fedora isn't the best cutting-edge Linux distro anymore  Yahoo Tech

Fedora isn't the best cutting-edge Linux distro anymore  How-To Geek

Most people install Linux the hard way for no reason. Here's the easy process that's never failed me  How-To Geek

Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc6 test kernel due out later today, this week's batch of input subsystem fixes have been sent out that includes enabling a few newer input devices...

Linux 7.1-rc6 To Support The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II & Nova 2 Lite Controllers  Phoronix

Going back to early 2023 there were efforts to disable all the Linux drivers for Microoft's RNDIS protocol. Remote NDIS has proven to be a real security concern while superior, modern alternatives exist...

Linux Might Finally Disable The Microsoft RNDIS Protocol Drivers In 2026  Phoronix

Building off Friday's release of Wine 11.10 is now the Wine-Staging 11.10 experimental/testing flavor with nearly 300 additional patches atop that upstream code...

For ending out the month of May is a new monthly release of Servo, the open-source, Rust-based browser engine being developed by Linux Foundation Europe stakeholders and the open-source community. There are many nice enhancements on the desktop side with Servo 0.2 while also improving the Android browser UI experience with Servo too...

Servo 0.2 Released With Revamped Android Browser UI  Phoronix

Zrythm is a wonderful open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) application. Zrythm 1.0 released back in 2024 for this software catering from beginners to audio professionals. It's been a GTK-based application for years but the developers have been porting it to Qt6/QML. Released this weekend is the first Zrythm 2.0 alpha release that moves from GTK to Qt/QML...

Zrythm 2.0 Alpha Released For Rewriting The Digital Audio Workstation In C++ & Qt/QML  Phoronix

The clearcpuid= kernel parameter can be used to disable specific CPUID features for the kernel by specifying the targeted bit numbers of the feature(s) to disable or their flags from the /proc/cpuinfo output. The clearcpuid parameter, for example, has been useful for carrying out AVX-512 comparison benchmarks for apps that check for the presence of the AVX-512 extensions via /proc/cpuinfo. But moving forward the documentation on clearcpuid is being removed to discourage its use...

Linux 7.1-rc6 To Hide The Documentation On "clearcpuid" Feature  Phoronix

As expected given AOM Video Model indications last week, the AV2 v1.0 specification was officially released on Friday...

Armbian 26.5 Released with Linux 7.0, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Builds, and More  9to5Linux