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Elementary OS vs. Linux Mint: I compared my once favorite distro to the Windows alternative  ZDNET

I Built an Open Source Alternative to Laravel Herd Because Linux PHP Developers Deserved Better  HackerNoon

Wine's Wayland native driver has taken another step forward with now supporting the pointer warp "wp_pointer_warp_v1" protocol...

Malware found in Linux builds of Cemu (Wii U emulator)  OMG! Ubuntu

Modern IT is driven just as much by economic decisions as it is by technical concepts. The costs of hardware, cloud services, storage, and more all factor into how CIOs and IT leaders budget and deploy their strategies. And now with AI, we have another cross-disciplinary decision to incorporate: Token economics, in this case, how our AI strategies consume the volatile costs of underlying AI models.Currently, most enterprise AI relies on calling frontier model APIs and paying for tokens consumed and generated. While this is an easy starting point, the math is changing. Token consumption is skyr

The past few years have been a period of significant change and challenges in the virtualization industry. Customers are forced to re-evaluate their virtualization platforms while adapting to the rapid rise of AI and infrastructure as well as supply chain pressures.Even with all this turmoil, technology leaders and virtualization admins still need to manage the critical workloads, databases, applications, and virtual machines (VMs) within the budget constraints. If you’re wondering what's next for virtualization infrastructure, the answer is Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. This strategic e

If you ship software in containers, you know the vulnerability treadmill: Scanners surface a flood of CVEs, backlogs swell, and teams chase patch velocity as if it were the core business of the company (as opposed to serving customers and stakeholders). Complicating matters further is when a lengthy scan result fails to answer the key question that matters: Which of these findings would materially change our risk if we fixed them now?Much of that added load and increased pressure is noise. Results contain findings tied to packages that never run, paths that are not reachable, or components tha

We’re continuing to navigate a fundamental shift in digital infrastructure. Over the past 18 months, the predictability of the virtualization layer has shed nearly 20 years of stability driven by an unrelenting cost crisis. But this is just a symptom of a much deeper architectural challenge. The reality is that the infrastructure layer is being asked to perform tasks it was never originally designed for. We aren’t just managing virtual machines or even virtual machines with containers; it’s a simultaneous balancing act between legacy systems, cloud-native apps, and the burgeoning, GPU-in

Fedora Hummingbird brings the container security model to a Linux host OS  Help Net Security

For those making use of OpenZFS on Linux or FreeBSD, OpenZFS 2.4.2 is out today as the newest stable release of this ZFS file-system implementation...

This free app brings Windows Hello-style face unlock to Linux  MakeUseOf

Linux Defenders Face Patch and Exploit Race  BankInfoSecurity

FreeBSD 15.0 had aimed to provide a KDE desktop install option from its text-based OS installer to make for a more compelling FreeBSD out-of-the-box desktop experience. That was then delayed to FreeBSD 15.1 but that didn't end up materializing. Now the KDE desktop install option is diverted to FreeBSD 15.2...

I ditched Windows Snap Layouts for a tiling window manager and finally got the Linux experience I wanted  MakeUseOf

Fedora Atomic is the desktop OS I keep recommending to people who don't want to think about Linux  XDA

A Cyberdeck That Runs Linux…in An Altoids Tin  Hackaday

Today's Patch Tuesday is a busier one than normal for the quarter. Both AMD and Intel have rolled out new updates for Linux customers among other security disclosures today. Thankfully though the vulnerabilities don't appear to be too widespread or impactful...

AMD & Intel Roll Out New Linux Updates For Today's Patch Tuesday  Phoronix

New Dirty Frag Bug Lets Attackers Gain Root Access on Linux  Petri IT Knowledgebase

AMD Fixes Linux HDMI 2.1 DSC Limitation; 4K 240Hz Steam Machines Within Reach  HotHardware