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Patched kernels will arrive in the coming days to address this vulnerability, so make sure that you keep your installations up to date at all times: Six-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Unprivileged Users Read Root-Owned Files - 9to5Linux buff.ly/U8fiyeV

IceWhale's Zima line has long been interesting. Unfortunately, ZimaOS, while based on Linux, is not open source: ZimaCube 2 Makes For A Nice Personal Cloud/NAS With Power Of Linux + Intel CPU Review - Phoronix buff.ly/658HRvG

How much should we tip it?

Monica.

You're either not very bright, or you're not speaking the truth, @NoContextHumans

I must be left winged.

"I hope that works out for you."

The little engine than can: Nginx 1.31 Released with HTTP Forward Proxy Support buff.ly/AMj0N8W

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"My history with web servers is entirely unremarkable, and likely mirrors yours": Web servers, and researching alternatives buff.ly/2lgkyvd

Chromebooks focus on affordability, while Googlebooks aim for a premium experience: Chromebook vs. Googlebook: How I'm deciding which laptop to upgrade to next buff.ly/dR69QZJ

Plus fixes for dRAID, rebuilds, block cloning, snapshots, and mount handling: OpenZFS 2.4.2 Released with Linux Kernel 7.0 Compatibility buff.ly/9VY0Fod

Just published on FOSS Force: Graphs 2.0 Beta Brings Serious Plotting Power to the Linux Desktop fossforce.com/2026/05/graphs…

Discord put out a video yesterday entitled "YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP" where they go over some of the key improvements being made to the Discord Linux client: Discord Touts "Year Of The Linux Desktop" With Linux Client Improvements - Phoronix buff.ly/4EEQzRR

How to learn Claude Code for free with Anthropic's AI courses - one took me just 20 minutes buff.ly/mEGgh4R

It only affected the 64-bit Ubuntu 22.04 build, along with the AppImage on Linux but not Flatpak. Windows and macOS builds were unaffected: Popular emulator Cemu was recently compromised with malware in Linux downloads buff.ly/Jm6KLkd

Also media player, and workspace fixes, plus translation and dependency updates: COSMIC Desktop 1.0.13 Improves Compositor, Files, and Setup buff.ly/x5VrBuG

A lightweight, rolling-release distribution based on Arch Linux and featuring the Openbox and bspwm window managers. -- Distribution Release: Archcraft 2026.05.12 (buff.ly/5uvg5bc News) buff.ly/Y7Nj2KP

Just published on FOSS Force: Exim Mail Server Hit by “Dead.Letter” TLS Flaw, Admins Told to Upgrade fossforce.com/2026/05/exim-m…