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This Arch Linux Variant Takes a Unique Approach to Processes  How-To Geek

North Korea’s OtterCookie Malware Added a New Feature to Attack Windows, Linux, and macOS  GBHackers News

Bcachefs, Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS & XFS File-System Performance On Linux 6.15  Phoronix

With the copy-on-write Bcachefs file-system considering its on-disk format now "soft frozen" and nearing the point of potentially removing the "EXPERIMENTAL" flag on it, a number of Phoronix readers have been requesting some fresh benchmarks of this open-source file-system. For your viewing pleasure today are some fresh benchmarks of Bcachefs and other file-systems atop the Linux 6.15 kernel being released as stable later this month. On the benchmarking block today are Bcachefs, Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, and XFS in-tree file-systems.

5 Windows Features I Hope Linux Never Copies  How-To Geek

How to manage your Linux resources with Mission Center  Tom's Hardware

I found a minimal Linux distro that's fast and efficient for all experience levels  ZDNet

KDE Plasma 6.4 embarked on its soft feature freeze this week. Thus KDE Plasma developers are now predominantly working on bug fixing and UI polishing for this next open-source desktop release...

Linux Lands Fix For Some TLB Flushes Being Inadvertently Skipped  Phoronix

Merged yesterday to Linux 6.15 Git and marked for back-porting to stable kernel series in the coming days is an x86 memory management fix to eliminate a window whereby TLB flushes could be inadvertently skipped...

The Servo browser engine project has published a status update outlining some of the enhancements made over the past two months for this Rust-based web layout engine. This includes hitting a notable milestone that some websites like Gmail and Google Chat can now render correctly...

The second beta release of FreeBSD 14.3 is now available for testing as an incremental update to this BSD operating system and ahead of the feature-rich FreeBSD 15.0 due out later in 2025...

Back in January you may recall the news of GNOME's Showtime app looking to replace Totem as the default video player. That didn't happen in time for GNOME 48 back in March but this week all the formalities were met that Showtime has been cleared to replace the outdated Totem with GNOME 49...

Linux to end support for 1989’s hottest chip, the 486, with next release  Ars Technica

NordVPN Has a Linux GUI App, and Now It May Be My Primary VPN  CNET

7 Reasons Fedora Might Be a Better Windows Replacement Than Linux Mint  How-To Geek

With modern Linux distributions beginning to see good support for HDR displays, if you have been looking to upgrade to a high dynamic range OLED monitor, one of the newest options that recently launched by Samsung is the Odyssey OLED G8 G81SF. I've been testing out the Samsung G81SF the past few weeks and it's been working out well paired with the likes of Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 to deliver a beautiful desktop experience and a great experience for Linux gamers with supporting a 240Hz refresh rate and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro.

Here's all the games to claim for Steam Deck / Linux from Prime Gaming as of May 9th  GamingOnLinux

I Tried Installing Linux on a Surface Laptop, Here's How It Went  How-To Geek

Debian Project Leader Wants to Tackle Dormant Packages  WebProNews