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• Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Passes Away
• Linux 7.2 Kernel Newbies
• Cache Aware Scheduling Merged For Linux 7.2 For Boosting Modern Intel & AMD CPUs
• Linux 7.2 To Revert Back To The FIFO DRM Scheduler Policy Due To "Fair" Regressions
• [REGRESSION] drm/sched: FAIR policy causes serious performance degradation at max GPU load on 9070XT
• reduce pipe->mutex contention by pre-allocating outside the lock — While profiling Meta's caching code, I found pipe->mutex contention on the hot path. anon_pipe_write() currently calls alloc_page() once per page while holding pipe->mutex. The allocation can sleep doing direct reclaim and runs memcg charging, which extends the critical section and stalls any concurrent reader on the same mutex.
• Linux Finally Eliminates The strncpy API After Six Years Of Work, 360+ Patches
• Specially Crafted NTFS File-System Image Allows Root Access On Linux With NTFS3 Driver
• The beginning of the 7.3 merge window
• Linux 7.3 SMP Improvement To Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time Performance
• Linux 7.3 Expected To "Flatten The Pick" For Better Scheduling While Gaming & More
• Linux 7.3 x86/mm Lands Patches To Greatly Improve Latency-Sensitive Workloads
• Sched_ext's Sub-Scheduler Support Now "Feature Complete" With Linux 7.3
• Btrfs Ready With More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3: Some ~3x To ~5x Wins
• Linux 7.3 binfmt_misc To Allow BPF Programs To Dynamically Choose Execution Environments
• Linux 7.3 drops support for two ancient file systems
• Linux 7.3 Network Changes Merged But Developers "Completely Overwhelmed" Due To AI/LLMs
• Two Very Exciting Memory Management Optimizations Going Into Linux 7.3
• Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes
• Syncthing GitHub
• Rclone — Feature-rich alternative to cloud storage vendors' web storage interfaces.
• LocalComet — A private, local-first Windows AI assistant built and validated with Codex.
• A look at the Quickshell desktop-component toolkit
• MCP-NixOS - Model Context Protocol for NixOS — Because your AI shouldn't hallucinate package names.
• dataiku/kiji-proxy — Privacy proxy for your OpenAI requests
• Rockbox - Free Music Player Firmware
• Pick: ssh-clipboard — copy/paste, everywhere — Peer-to-peer clipboard sync over SSH. Copy anything on one machine, paste on another. Open source, and Written in Rust ackchyually.

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• Clanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild.
• Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube
• Linux 7.2-rc5 announcement
• Linux 7.2 changelog
• Linux 7.1 changelog
• 7.2 merge window
• Btrfs large folios and DIO fix
• strncpy removal
• i486 removal
• Dreamcast fixes
• Cache-aware scheduling
• Fairer GPU scheduler
• NVIDIA 7.2 driver compatibility
• AMD ROCm regression
• Dreamcast vs i486
• Btrfs DIO regression reports
• Technical Deep Dive into the Entropy Issue | COINKITE Blog
• Bitcoin losses linked to Coldcard vulnerability grow to $70 million, Galaxy Research says
• Flowchart of the Linux RNG
• dust — A more intuitive version of du in rust
• Pick: TREK — A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more.
• Pick: cfait — A fast and powerful, offline-first task manager for your terminal, desktop, and phone.
• Cfait on Flathub
• Cfait on F-Droid