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Wayland Protocols 1.48 is out today with the long-awaited XDG Session Management protocol in tow as well as several new experimental protocols...

6 Linux command-line habits you need to break today  How-To Geek

I disabled this hidden setting and got a faster GNOME desktop  makeuseof.com

ImageMagick Zero-Day Enables RCE on Linux and WordPress Servers  Hackread

Last month Dell upstreamed the firmware needed for their XPS 13 935 Snapdragon X1 Elite laptop. This makes the Linux outlook for this ARM-based Dell XPS laptop much better than before in not having to worry about extracting necessary firmware blobs from Windows 11. Now another step forward for the Dell XPS 13 9345 is being made with a new EC driver being posted to enhance the hardware support...

Dell XPS 13 Snapdragon Elite Laptop Sees New EC Linux Driver To Improve Support  Phoronix

Longtime Linux developer David Woodhouse sent out a patch series today to "deprecate legacy IP" support within the Linux kernel. While some of his commentary his April 1st-esque, he does acknowledge much of this work has merit. Ultimately it can allow for building a Linux kernel with IPv6-only support and working on allowing "legacy" IPv4 support to be disabled as part of the kernel build...

New Patches Allow Building Linux IPv6-Only, Option To Deprecate "Legacy" IPv4  Phoronix

Lightweight distro 4MLinux 51.0 brings new media playing options and much more  Notebookcheck

Raspberry Pi prices are going up yet again due to the continued memory squeeze on the industry. To help offset the memory prices for some use-cases, Raspberry Pi also announced the introduction of the Raspberry Pi 4 3GB model at $83 to help fill the void between the 2GB and 4GB options...

Huawei HarmonyOS PC can now run Linux-based tools  Huawei Central

Getting Started with AMD EDF on Kria KV260  Hackster.io

North Korean Hackers Compromise Popular Axios Package to Infect Windows, macOS, and Linux  CyberSecurityNews

PyPI Telnyx Python SDK Backdoored to Steal Credentials on Windows, macOS, and Linux  gbhackers.com

AerynOS March 2026 Update Brings GNOME 50, KDE 6.6.3, and Linux 6.18  Linuxiac

chromeos-flex-linux  Thurrott.com

Advanced Process Manager for Linux Earns a 49.5 Proof of Usefulness Score  HackerNoon

Gaim! Any desktop Linux users from 20+ years ago likely remember the Gaim instant messaging app that was commonly shipped by desktop Linux distributions for interfacing with different instant messaging platforms like AIM, MSN, ICQ, etc. About twenty years ago Gaim was renamed to Pidgin though due to the AOL Instant Messenger trademark. But with the AIM trademark since expired and wanting to take a differing approach from the latest Pidgin, Gaim 3 is under development...

AerynOS 2026.03 is now available as the newest release of this from-scratch Linux distribution originally known as Serpent OS. With this month's update comes GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6.3, and various Wayland compositor updates alongside other software improvements...

AerynOS 2026.03 Brings GNOME 50, Other Wayland Compositor Updates  Phoronix