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Queued up for removal in the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel cycle is dropping "echo", a software-based echo cancellation code within the kernel intended for telecommunications use. But it's old, unmaintained, and likely not actively used...

Intel software engineers released oneDNN 3.8 to end out the week with various new performance optimizations and more...

These 5 Distros Show How Customizable Linux Really Is  How-To Geek

I started dual-booting NixOS alongside Windows, and I'm so glad I did  XDA

Can't upgrade to Windows 11? This is the Linux distro alternative I recommend to most people  ZDNET

7 Reasons Fedora Might Be a Better Windows Replacement Than Linux Mint  MSN

These Are My Top 6 Linux Distros for Running a Server  How-To Geek

This Linux Tool Makes Terminal Recording Easy  How-To Geek

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...