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Raven Prism is a Linux Computer That Happens To Be A Pair of Glasses  It's FOSS

Wayland developers have prepared the release of Weston 16.0 Alpha 1 for this reference Wayland compositor with new features...

I tried AnduinOS 2.0, and it may be the easiest way to ditch Windows for Linux  ZDNET

Yet another performance optimization merged for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel is improving the speed of anon_pipe_write, the kernel function used for writing data into anonymous/unnamed pipes such as when using shell pipelines or standard streams from applications...

Linux 7.2 Improves Anonymous/Unnamed Pipe Performance For Shell Pipelines & More  Phoronix

In Conversation: Linux on Azure  O'Reilly Media

Linux vs Windows Benchmark Gothic 1 Remake  YouTube

Arch Linux Pulls the Plug on New AUR Registrations After Malware Flood  It's FOSS

Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero on their graphics processors has been bringing up Nova Lake support since January. With today's release of the Intel Compute Runtime 26.22.38646.4, the Nova Lake Xe3P support has matured to the state of it being advertised now as under an "early support" status...

We tested Linux on the new Lenovo ThinkPad T16 Gen 5 AMD  Notebookcheck

VirtualBox 7.2.10 Adds Initial Linux Kernel 7.1 Support  Linuxiac

A patch series merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel addresses a race condition that can occur when a container is exiting yielding "VFS: Busy inodes after unmount" messages and a possible user-after-free condition. But the patch series also goes further and delivers a very nice optimization to lower the container unmounting latency for environments with heavy I/O load...

Linux 7.1 is here to end the Intel 486 CPU era - and do some serious legacy clean up  ZDNET

Commodore releases $500 Linux-based phone that doesn't support Slack or Instagram  Cybernews

Linux kernel 7.1 sends Intel 486 support to silicon heaven  The Register

A Brief History Of Unix Commands On Windows: CoreUtils (Again)  Hackaday

A Brief History Of Unix Commands On Windows: CoreUtils (Again)  Hackaday

Steam Machine Benchmarks Reportedly Leak and Spark Concern Over Performance  VICE

Linux 7.2 Adds Ability To Limit Programs To Only Open Regular Files, Avoid Being Tricked Or Doing Silly Things  Phoronix

Merged as part of the many VFS changes for Linux 7.2 is the new OPENAT2_REGULAR flag for the openat2 system call. This can be used to limit programs to only open regular file-systems and avoid accidentally or intentionally opening up device files or other non-conventional data files on the file-system...