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Linux kernel 7.0 is officially released with Rust support promoted to stable, Wi-Fi 8 initial support, self-healing XFS, and new post-quantum security features.
Linux kernel 7.1 ships with a new in-kernel NTFS driver, Intel FRED enabled by default, and drops 140,000 lines of legacy 486-era code.
A new Linux kernel exploit targeting the pedit COW mechanism allows local privilege escalation to root, affecting multiple distros including Ubuntu and Fedora.
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44 are the two biggest Linux releases of 2026. Here is how they compare on performance, packages, and ease of use.
Epoll has been the standard for Linux async I/O since 2002, but io_uring offers completion-based I/O with far fewer syscalls. Here is how they compare in practice.
BOSS i.e. Bharat Operating System Solutions which is an Indian operating system, this operating system is created by C-DAC. C-DAC…