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KDE today announced a significant investment into the project by Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund. KDE will be receiving €1,285,200 EUR (or roughly 1.5 million USD) over the years 2026 and 2027 to make some significant improvements into their software stack...

A new core infrastructure improvement for the Linux kernel on ARM being worked on is enabling 128-bit page table entries (PTEs) with FEAT_D128 as a new optional feature of Armv9.3 and later...

Arm Preparing The Linux Kernel For 128-bit Page Table Entries "FEAT_D128"  Phoronix

OpenZFS 2.4.2 Released with Linux Kernel 7.0 Compatibility  Linuxiac

Discord joke that it's The Year of the Linux Desktop  GamingOnLinux

Popular emulator Cemu was recently compromised with malware in Linux downloads  GamingOnLinux

New Linux scheduler patches improve frame rates on low-end PCs  GameGPU

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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