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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

Most leaders I speak with are well past the hype cycle of AI. The question is no longer whether AI matters. The question is how to move from experimentation to production in a way that is security-focused, supportable, and repeatable across teams.From where I sit—leading strategy and operations for AI Platform Core Components (AIPCC), an engineering function within Red Hat’s AI Engineering organization—that shift changes everything. The conversation moves from a tooling decision to an operating model decision. A strong AI platform is the foundation that helps teams ship AI-enabled capabi

Red Hat is proud to announce our strong results from the latest industry-standard MLPerf Inference v6.0 benchmark. Our submission includes four AI workloads (Whisper-Large-v3, GPT-OSS-120B, Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B, and Llama-2-70b) on NVIDIA (H200, B200, L40S) and AMD (MI350X) GPUs, running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Red Hat OpenShift AI with our open source inference stack: vLLM, and llm-d. We achieved top scores across several configurations, including the highest offline throughput on B200 for GPT-OSS-120B, the leading H200 result on Whisper, and the top B200 submission on Qwen3-VL,

CachyOS beats Windows 11 in Cyberpunk 2077 and Space Marine 2 in a new gaming benchmark  XDA

AerynOS 2026.03 Released with the Latest GNOME 50 Desktop Environment  9to5Linux

MidnightBSD 4.0.4 is out today as the newest update to this desktop-minded BSD operating system. Notable with this update is introducing the Aged daemon and Agectl program for handling age verification and age attestation given the increasing number of US states pursuing laws around age verification at the OS user level...

Tria Technologies expands multi‑OS support for Qualcomm‑based embedded hardware  newelectronics.co.uk