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Linux developer Qais Yousef with Google has announced the alpha release of Sched QoS as a new initiative for user-space assisted scheduling. The scheduling model in turn is based in part on Apple's quality of service classes used by iOS for classifying software as user interactive, user initiative, utility, or background tasks...
This minimalist GTK app puts GPG‑powered file encryption behind a drag‑and‑drop interface that even a Linux newbie can use on the first try. The post Encrypt Files on Linux with Hideout and Skip the Terminal appeared first on FOSS Force.
The clone3() system call in Linux 7.1 is adding three new flags for greater control over the creation of child processes...
A new federal bill proposes OS-level age verification, advancing beyond state laws to establish a potential nationwide requirement.
COSMIC 1.0.10 desktop environment is now available with workspace and configured output filtering, a new setting to toggle workspace wrapping, and other changes.
The Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" subsystem updates have been merged for Linux 7.1 that deal with reporting of ECC memory errors and the like from various hardware drivers...
The x86/asm changes merged yesterday for the Linux 7.1 kernel with a few low-level improvements...
The exFAT file-system changes have landed for the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel...
As a follow-up to the news first-covered on Phoronix earlier this month about Linux 7.1 expected to begin removing i486 CPU support: it indeed happened. Linus Torvalds took the initial removal bits today without any fuss today for beginning the phase out of M486 / M486SX / ELAN kernel support...
Fedora 44 missed its April 14 release target after final blocker bugs forced a delay, pushing the expected launch to at least April 21.
ROCm 7.2.2 is out today as a small point release to this open-source AMD GPU compute stack. There are a few code changes but most notable is arguably on the documentation side...
The Zig project has announced version 0.16.0 of the Zig programming language. This release features 8 months of work: changes from 244 different contributors, spread among 1183 commits. Perhaps most notably, this release debuts I/O as an Interface, but don't sleep on the Language Changes or enhancements to the Compiler, Build System, Linker, Fuzzer, and Toolchain which are also included in this release. LWN last covered Zig in December 2025.
COSMIC Desktop 1.0.10 adds custom context menu actions in Files, workspace wrapping toggle, and other desktop refinements.
NGINX 1.30 is now the new stable branch, introducing HTTP Early Hints, Encrypted ClientHello, sticky sessions, and backend HTTP/2 support.
Code now merged for the Linux 7.1 kernel may provide some negative performance implications for those still running modern Linux kernels on 32-bit hardware. A fundamental change can present cache line alignment and slab sizing implications for 32-bit Linux OS users but will provide for cleaner code with modern 64-bit computing...
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