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Linus Torvalds Hits Nasty Performance Regression With Early Linux 6.8 Code  Phoronix

GNU Hurd Has Been Making Progress On Its x86_64 Support  Phoronix

While GNU Hurd predates the Linux kernel, its hardware support has been woefully behind with very limited and dated hardware support compared to modern PC/server hardware. Not only that, its been largely x86 limited but during Q4'2023 the developers involved have made progress on x86_64 support and begun tackling AArch64 porting...

Following the Bcachefs file-system having finally been upstreamed in the Linux 6.7 kernel, with the Linux 6.8 merge window now ticking the file-system's lead developer Kent Overstreet has submitted a set of feature additions and performance optimizations to this copy-on-write (CoW) file-system...

Linux Mint 21.3 “Virginia” Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

XFS Online Repair Picks Up More Features With Linux 6.8  Phoronix

Last year the online repair functionality for XFS began to land with the Linux 6.6 kernel. For the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel, more online repair support for the XFS file-system is now ready...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Is Now Powered by Linux Kernel 6.5 from Ubuntu 23.10  9to5Linux

Linux turns 33 in 2024  Network World

Linux turns 33 in 2024  Network World

Ubuntu 22.04 Users Can Now Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.5  OMG! Ubuntu!

Ubuntu 22.04 Users Can Now Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.5  OMG! Ubuntu!

AYANEO NEXT LITE handheld announced with SteamOS Linux  GamingOnLinux

AYANEO NEXT LITE handheld announced with SteamOS Linux  GamingOnLinux

50 Most Useful Linux Commands To Run in the Terminal  GeekyGen

Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm  Ars Technica

Linux Kernel 4.14 Reaches End of Life After More Than Six Years of Maintenance  9to5Linux

In working toward the stable release of Plasma 6.0 at the end of February, today marks the release candidate of Plasma 6.0 along with the updated Qt6-ported KDE Gear apps and KDE Frameworks 6.0 that comprise the "KDE 6th Megarelease" software...

Mirai-based NoaBot botnet deploys cryptominer on Linux servers  CSO Online

Linux 4.14 debuted at the end of 2017 with exciting features at the time like AMD Vega improvements, working on the since-failed Intel Cannonlake graphics, Zstd compression support, and more. The kernel has advanced a heck of a lot since then and Linux 6.7 recently debuted. It's now time that Linux 4.14 LTS has been declared end-of-life...