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Linux 6.15-rc4 is now available after a rather eventful week and about one month to go until the stable Linux 6.15...

Linux 6.15-rc4 Released With Performance Regression Fix, Corrected Bcachefs Case Folding  Phoronix

7 Linux distros you should avoid until you've mastered the command line  ZDNET

5 ways to use the Linux terminal on your Android phone - including my favorite  ZDNET

Theo de Raadt announced today the release of OpenBSD 7.7, the 58th release for this BSD operating system over the past two decades...

Linux Has A Blind Spot That Exposes Users To A Nasty Security Flaw  HotHardware

Merged today to the widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library is an APV decoder and APV bitstream muxing and demuxing capabilities. APV is the Advanced Professional Video Codec originally developed by Samsung and is a royalty-free format...

5 Reasons to Replace SteamOS With Bazzite (& 3 Reasons Not To)  How-To Geek

5 Reasons to Replace SteamOS With Bazzite (& 3 Reasons Not To)  How-To Geek

Commodore OS Vision 3.0 Linux-based OS arrives to spruce up retro builds  Tom's Hardware

8 Common Ubuntu Issues: Fixing Boot Errors, Wi-Fi Problems, and More  How-To Geek

A patch currently residing within Andrew Morton's "MM" memory management branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window is an addition by Red Hat for introducing deferred THP insertion to khugepaged. This deferred Transparent Huge Page (THP) insertion aims to help reduce memory waste on Linux with some workloads...

Deferred THP Insertion Nearing The Linux Kernel To Help Avoid Memory Waste  Phoronix

5 High-Performance Linux Distros for Modern PCs and Laptops  How-To Geek

5 reasons I stopped dual‑booting Linux/Windows and spun up a Type‑2 hypervisor instead  XDA

Critical IXON VPN Vulnerabilities Let Attackers Gain Access to Windows & Linux Systems  CybersecurityNews

The XPG Alpha Wireless Gaming Mouse boasts a 16K DPI sensor and retails for $65~80 USD but turns out it doesn't even work properly under Linux without a pending kernel patch...

XPG Alpha Wireless Gaming Mouse Being Quirked For Linux Support  Phoronix

The SHA-256 code within the Linux kernel's cryptography subsystem is in the process of being refactoring so that it's available via the crypto's library API and also opening it up to support architecture-optimized implementations...

Mold 2.38 is out this weekend as the latest feature update to this open-source, high-speed linker...