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Linux 7.0 Kernel Confirmed by Linus Torvalds, Expected in Mid-April 2026

So there you have it, the Linux 6.x era has ended with today’s Linux 6.19 kernel release, and a new one will begin with Linux 7.0, which is expected in mid-April 2026. The merge window for Linux 7.0 will open tomorrow, February 9th, and the first Release Candidate (RC) milestone is expected on February 22nd, 2026.

Linux Kernel 6.19 Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Highlights of Linux 6.19 include support for the AMD Smart Data Cache Injection (SDCI) feature, support for multiple processors for User-mode Linux (UML), a new listns() system call that lets user space iterate through the namespaces on the system, and support for PCIe link encryption and device authentication security features.

PeaZip 10.9 Open-Source Archive Manager Released with Improved User Experience

Coming two months after PeaZip 10.8, the PeaZip 10.9 release promises an improved user experience with new alternative context menus for Open with and Rename actions, new keyboard shortcuts for the Text and Hex viewers, and improved internal drag and drop from the file manager pane to the navigation tree pane.

KDE Linux Gears Up for Beta Release with Plasma Login Manager, KDE Initial Setup

For now, KDE Linux is in an alpha state, but renowned KDE developer Nate Graham revealed today that KDE’s operating system of the future is gearing up for a beta release with the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment, Plasma login manager, and KDE initial setup.

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Fake Articles About "Linux"
    latest example
  2. The Bubble Has Burst. OpenAI.com Traffic Plunges 60% in One Month, Tracker Shows.
    Has Microsoft exhausted places where it can stick/shove chatbot prompts to fake "demand" or "interest"?
  3. In Trying to Derail His Campaign, Debian Project Reveals It is Inconsistent in Its Smears Against Pocock
    Can Debian even make up its mind?
  4. Software in the GAFAM Interest
    Not a Friend of Freedom
  5. Interference in EU Elections and More Censorship Attempts
    Trying to remove accurate information
  6. IBM and the Net Holocaust (Trying - and Failing - to Extinguish Entire Domains by Abusing Processes)
    How much money will be spent trying to hide suicide clusters, child labour, modern slavery and so on?

    New

  7. British Intelligence, GCHQ, Oxford & Debian conspiracy theories, Edward & Una Brocklesby fact checking
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  8. Tux Machines Anniversary, Then Gemini Protocol Anniversary
    No, not that Google chatbot that's conveniently hijacking the word "Gemini"
  9. Ethics Are Not Defined by GAFAM
    they want us to think that ethics means CoC and a CoC is the same as ethics
  10. The War on Free Software Reporters - Part V - Death Threats
    adding insult to injury because it was us who had been physically threatened, with allusions to knives and to axes
  11. D-Day propaganda & Debian statements on volunteers
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  12. Party and Running Without a Party (EU)
    EU election results from Ireland will soon be known
  13. In Asia, Mozilla Firefox Already Fell to 1% (Below Samsung Internet, Opera, and UC Browser)
    The management of Mozilla has done such an utterly terrible job
  14. Threats of Defamation, Physical and Sexual Violence
    The victims won't be silenced
  15. Gemini Links 07/06/2024: Botany Automation and OpenBSD From a Linux User's Viewpoint
    Links for the day
  16. Links 07/06/2024: OpenAI Employees Openly Express Concerns, Tourists Swim with Endangered Sea Turtles
    Links for the day
  17. Firefox is Dying and China's Opera Already Outgrew Mozilla in Many Dozens of Nations
    Let's first examine the story of Paraguay
  18. Female Debian Developer: "I Believe Daniel [Pocock] is On the Right Track."
    "Any rate I believe Daniel is on the right track."
  19. [Meme] I Didn't Even Like Him! I Broke Up With Him, He Didn't Break Up With Me...
    They are very confused about what Debian Developers are
  20. In Mozambique, Microsoft's Windows Has Fallen From 94% to 12%
    In Africa Microsoft's share has fallen to around 10%
  21. MEP candidate recordings of Debian intimidation, blackmail and threats
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  22. Open Source Developer Freedoms in liquidation & Debian Suicide Cluster
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  23. Botswana: GNU/Linux Rising Closer to 3% (Windows Down to Quarter of All Web-Connected Devices)
    Looking at Web requests from Botswana, statCounter identifies only a quarter of these as originating from Windows
  24. [Meme] Microsoft Poison Pens Against Writers
    To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness
  25. After 2 Decades Phoronix Isn't the Same
    Phoronix is no longer the site we used to support and send a lot of traffic to
  26. Windows at 10% in Africa, GNU/Linux Adoption in Africa Now Outpaces International Average
    Historically Africa was well behind in terms of GNU/Linux adoption
  27. GNU/Linux and ChromeOS in Tanzania: Flirting With 4% (International Average)
    on United Republic Of Tanzania
  28. 16 Years of Transparency Through Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
    Freenode was embraced by us in the summer of 2008
  29. [Meme] You Cannot Silence the Truth
    What kind of person talks like this?
  30. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  31. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 06, 2024
    IRC logs for Thursday, June 06, 2024
  32. Debian falsified harassment claims in Appelbaum expulsion
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  33. Debian Project May be Frightened of Being Seen as Connected to GCHQ (or FIVE-EYES at Large)
    This seems like part of a pattern and hardly a coincidence
  34. How to Alienate One's Readers for Money
    So they put Microsoft spam in a site about Linux because they get paid to do this...
  35. Gemini Links 06/06/2024: Mastodon's Rough Edges and Coding for Oneself
    Links for the day

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-06-01 to 2024-06-07
    1459 /n/2024/06/02/statCounter_Bing_Has_Lost_Market_Share_Since_the_Chatbot_Hype_i.shtml
    1168 /n/2024/06/05/The_EPO_is_Boiling_the_Staff_According_to_the_Central_Staff_Com.shtml
    1124 /n/2024/06/01/The_War_on_Free_Software_Reporters_Part_III_Doxing_and_LARPing.shtml
    1018 /n/2024/06/01/Free_Software_is_the_Future_Open_Source_is_Just_Openwashing_Pro.shtml

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