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Modernizing the Meta Ads Service With an Open-Source Kernel Scheduler  Engineering at Meta

These 5 distros prove that Linux isn’t immune to bloatware  How-To Geek

Rocky Linux Ships Januscape Patch: Two KVM CVEs Required for Full Protection  Tech Times

I installed Microsoft's own Linux distro and immediately understood why it exists  MakeUseOf

CLI apps aren't just for Linux—these 5 run fine on Windows too  How-To Geek

Alfonso Siciliano, who has been one of the FreeBSD developers leading the effort on adding a KDE-based desktop option to the FreeBSD installer, provided an update on recent work around adding integrating this desktop option...

They promised Linux Mint could replace Windows—here's 3 ways it falls short  How-To Geek

My Lil Afterlife Will Arrive on Windows and Linux Later This Month  COGconnected

GNOME developers working on GNOME OS have received funding from Germany's Prototype Fund to work on creating the GNOME OS "Developer Tool Suite" or also tentatively called their "Test Center" to help in testing experimental applications/libraries in a modern Linux computing world with systemd-sysext, Buildstream, and other newer tech...

Stemming from looking at a proposed Linux kernel patch to alter the Linux kernel's system call number handling, veteran Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner went down a rabbit hole of the kernel's system call entry handling to make a number of clean-ups and improvements to the code. That rework to the system call entry handling is now expected to land for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle...

Raspberry Pi 5 IOMMU Driver Being Worked On For The Mainline Linux Kernel  Phoronix

While the Raspberry Pi 5 is already over two and a half years old, one of the missing elements of its support from the mainline Linux kernel has been the IOMMU driver. We are now seeing Raspberry Pi's downstream IOMMU driver being adapted for mainline with hopes of getting it into the upstream kernel...

Heavy Metal Death Can is a retro survival horror set on a Cold War–era submarine - now on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Cloud Hypervisor 53.0 is now available for this open-source, Rust-based VMM focused on cloud workloads and modern security needs. Originally started at Intel, Cloud Hypervisor continues seeing new development these days by Microsoft, Meta, Arm, and other organizations...

ChatGPT won’t fully recommend Steam OS – in fact it suggests another Linux distro  PC Guide

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OpenCode brings an AI coding agent right into your terminal. Once you see it understand an entire project instead of

The post OpenCode: AI Agent That Reads and Edits Code in Terminal first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

vkQuake 1.35.0 brings SDL3, Steam integration, support for the 2021 re-release and more  GamingOnLinux

AI Agent Discovers 15-Year-Old Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Bug Named GhostLock  gHacks

Linux 7.2 will now run even better on your Sega Dreamcast  XDA

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 12th, 2026  9to5Linux