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How-to Geek 47 minutes ago

Linux isn't for everyone, but these 5 types of people should seriously consider it 📋

Why Linux is a launching pad for creative tech projects. 📋

Linuxiac 1 hour ago

Godot 4.7.2 Open-Source Game Engine Released with 57 Bug Fixes 📋

Godot 4.7.2 is now available with 57 fixes covering the editor, rendering, Wayland, multiplayer, input handling, and more. 📋

Foss Force 3 hours ago

FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending August 21, 2026 📋

Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read articles on FOSS Force for the week that just ended. The post FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending August 21, 2026 appeared first on FOSS Force. 📋

Phoronix 5 hours ago

Redox OS Switches To EEVDF-Based Scheduler For 2.6x Throughput 📋

The Rust-written, from-scratch Redox OS operating system has switched to using an EEVDF based scheduler design. In doing so they are promoting a 2.6x increase in throughput and a 782x improvement in fairness... 📋

How-to Geek 6 hours ago

3 signs you've outgrown Linux Mint 📋

Linux Mint is easy to live with, but these are the signs its biggest strengths may have started holding you back. 📋

Linux.org 6 hours ago

Proxmox VE Series Part 5: Windows Virtual Machine 📋

Of course, many companies may need an Operating System (OS) other than Linux, such as Windows. So, the setup is not a simple, straightforward installation like Linux. There are special drivers needed and even some special settings to change the virtual hardware. We can go through these steps to get Windows 11 running. Download Drivers The Windows system we install will use Virtual I/O (VirtIO) drivers. The VirtIO drivers allow a virtual machine to use the actual host hardware... https://www.linux.org/threads/proxmox-ve-series-part-5-windows-virtual-machine.63049/ 📋

Phoronix 6 hours ago

Apple HFS / HFS+ File-System Support Continues Seeing Fixes With Linux 7.3 📋

In early 2025 it was being discussed to potentially drop the HFS and HFS+ file-system support with the code having been orphaned over a decade and becoming a maintenance burden. But that dismal outlook quickly turned around with some developers stepping up to maintain the old Apple file-system support. Over a year later, fortunately, it's turned out to be a success story with more HFS/HFS+ file-system fixes continuing to work their way into the mainline Linux kernel... 📋

It's FOSS 8 hours ago

Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Just Used AI to Fix a Kernel Bug 📋

The creator of Linux needed 18 boots to find a one-line fix. The AI helped him get there. 📋

Phoronix 10 hours ago

Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Steps Down 📋

There is a changing of the guard with Linux 7.3 as the maintainer of the Common Internet File System (CIFS) / SMB3 code within the Linux kernel. Longtime maintainer, principal Linux CIFS author, and current Microsoft employee Steve French has stepped down due to health reasons... 📋

Linuxiac 10 hours ago

KDE Plasma 6.8 to Make Auto-Hide Panels 10x Faster 📋

KDE developers continue shaping Plasma 6.8 with smarter automatic brightness, faster panels, improved lock screen authentication, and performance gains. 📋

It's FOSS 11 hours ago

Proton Mail Wants to Organize Your Emails Automatically 📋

The feature sorts mail into six categories using metadata alone, and full-content search is coming to mobile next. 📋

Linuxiac 11 hours ago

OpenZFS 2.4.4 Adds Linux Kernel 7.2 Support, New MMP Recovery Tool 📋

OpenZFS 2.4.4 is out with Linux 7.2 compatibility, a new zhack mmp reclaim command, DDT fixes, and numerous reliability improvements. 📋

Phoronix 12 hours ago

Specially Crafted NTFS File-System Image Allows Root Access On Linux With NTFS3 Driver 📋

A reported security vulnerability for the NTFS3 driver has gone unaddressed since being reported earlier this summer. The vulnerability allows a pre-crafted NTFS image on a USB flash drive or similar to allow the user to gain root access to the running Linux system... 📋

Phoronix 14 hours ago

AMD RDNA 4m Firmware Published For Linux Ahead Of Launch 📋

In addition to AMD's Friday afternoon big code drop of all the UALink enablement patches for the Linux kernel and the AMDGPU driver, there was another big drop from AMD to end out the week... Upstreamed to the linux-firmware.git repository is all the firmware binaries needed by the open-source driver stack for initializing their forthcoming RDNA 4m "GFX 11.7" graphics... 📋

Linuxiac 14 hours ago

Apprise 1.13 Notification Tool Released as Final 1.x Version Ahead of 2.0 📋

Apprise 1.13 is out with new notification services, Telegram rich messages, Bark encryption, bug fixes, and a warning about breaking changes in 2.x. 📋