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The Linux 7.0 kernel is shipping improvements for LoongArch, the Chinese CPU architecture inspired by MIPS64 and RISC-V and has been showing much potential for their domestic PC manufacturing...

Apple gives updates on Linux containers on macOS  thestack.technology

Beyond the Firewall: A Guide to Enterprise-Grade Linux VPS Security in 2026  Programming Insider

Gentoo Linux says goodbye to GitHub and moves to European privacy-respecting alternative  Cybernews

Experimental code ready for testing to enable HDMI 2.1 FRL with AMDGPU on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Asahi Linux developers have published a status report following the recent Linux 6.19 kernel release to outline recent progress and upcoming items around Apple Silicon support on Linux. This year will also mark five years that Asahi Linux has been around for bringing Linux to the Apple M-Series hardware...

As part of enhancing the FreeBSD experience on laptops and desktops, FreeBSD developers have been working toward adding a convenient desktop install option to their text-based installer for easily deploying the KDE Plasma desktop along with the necessary GPU drivers. After it didn't get wrapped up in time for the FreeBSD 15.0 release, that desktop installer option is now ready for testing...

Last year we began seeing Linux patches preparing the kernel for Intel Data Streaming Accelerator "DSA" 3.0 IP. Finally with the Linux 7.0 kernel those patches in updated form have now been merged...

Intel Lands Initial Preparations For DSA 3.0 Accelerators In Linux 7.0  Phoronix

NVIDIA recommended driver 580.126.18 released for Linux  GamingOnLinux

All of the KVM virtualization feature changes were recently merged for the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel...

Linus Torvalds tells The Reg how Linux evolved from solo act  theregister.com

New SysUpdate Variant Malware Discovered, Decryption Tool for Linux C2 Traffic Released  gbhackers.com

ByteSnap Design and Digi International launch managed security service for embedded Linux devices  New Electronics

8 Years Later, Linux-based AsteroidOS 2.0 is Here to Add New Life to Your Old Smartwatch  It's FOSS

Everyone uses open source, but patching still moves too slowly  Help Net Security

LockBit 5.0 ransomware targets Windows, Linux, ESXi  IT Brief UK

As a late stage change for GNOME 50 ahead of its official debut next month and following last week's GNOME 50 beta is plumbing the Mutter compositor for a new "sdr-native" color mode option...

The NTFS3 driver maintained by Paragon Software for Microsoft NTFS file-systems today saw a batch of improvements merged for Linux 7.0 This comes as there is also the competing "NTFS Remake" driver that began a few months ago as the "NTFSPLUS" driver. That NTFS Remake driver isn't looking like it will be submitted for the Linux 7.0 merge window so at least for now the NTFS3 driver continues seeing improvements with the latest mainline kernel code...

Sidero Labs Targets Predictable Kubernetes Infrastructure With Talos Linux and Omni  TipRanks