TTechnology Read More Google’s Gemini Partially Figures Out A Lengthy Linux Boot Time On Modern ASUS LaptopJune 21, 2026 Google Antigravity with the Gemini 3.5 Flash model helped a Linux user sort out a situation where his…
TTechnology Read More Linux Finally Eliminates The strncpy API After Six Years Of Work, 360+ PatchesJune 20, 2026 Linux 7.2 has finally eliminated the strncpy API from the Linux kernel. The strncpy() function for copying up…
TTechnology Read More KDE Plasma 6.8 Making It Easier To Configure Multi-Monitor SetupsJune 20, 2026 With KDE’s Plasma 6.7 desktop having released this week, more development attention is turning to feature work toward…
TTechnology Read More exFAT File-System Enjoys Better Performance On Linux 7.2 With IOmap ConversionJune 20, 2026 In addition to open-source developer Namjae Jeon serving as maintainer for the new NTFS Linux driver, he also…
TTechnology Read More Linux 7.2 Optimization Shows +5% IOPS For EXT4 & XFS After Moving Around Two Lines Of CodeJune 16, 2026 In addition to the surprising impact of /proc/filesystems read optimizations for Linux 7.2, another one of the VFS…
TTechnology Read More Linux 7.1 Released: New NTFS Driver, Intel FRED For Panther Lake, Faster Arc GraphicsJune 14, 2026 Linus Torvalds just released the stable Linux 7.1 kernel and it’s coming a half-day early thanks to his…
TTechnology Read More pkgcli As PackageKit’s Modern, Nicer Command Line InterfaceJune 14, 2026 Open-source developer Matthias Klumpp wrote a blog post today outlining his recent work developing pkgcli, a new and…
TTechnology Read More Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected PackagesJune 13, 2026 The day started out with Arch Linux’s AUR user-contributed repository seeing more than 400 packages compromised with malware.…
TTechnology Read More “Flatten The Pick” Linux Patches Progress For Better cgroup Scheduling While Linux GamingJune 7, 2026 A month ago I wrote about Linux scheduler work to help boost gaming performance on old “potato” hardware…
TTechnology Read More FreeBSD 15.1 Delayed To Mid-June Due To Critical x86 Bug FixesJune 7, 2026 FreeBSD 15.1 was supposed to be out at the start of June but a second release candidate pushed…
TTechnology Read More Linux Might Finally Disable The Microsoft RNDIS Protocol Drivers In 2026May 31, 2026 Going back to early 2023 there were efforts to disable all the Linux drivers for Microoft’s RNDIS protocol.…
TTechnology Read More Rust Coreutils 0.9 Released With Additional Security Hardening, Zero-Copy I/OMay 31, 2026 Rust Coreutils 0.9 was tagged today as the latest major update to this GNU Coreutils implementation in the…