📰 This lightweight Linux distro is what old hardware has been waiting for

Void Linux won’t be the right distro for everyone, but on old hardware, its lean design can feel like a second life.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/lightweight-linux-distro-what-old-hardware-waiting-for/

#distro #linux

📰 Linux 7.1 To Expose AMD Zen 6's AVX-512 BMM For Guest VMs

A small but important patch that looks like it will be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel is for enumerating AVX-512 BMM support for KVM virtualized guests. AVX-512 BMM is one of the exciting ISA additions with next-gen AMD Zen 6 processors...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-KVM-AVX-512-BMM

#linux #amd #kernel

📰 More New Ubuntu 26.04 Yaru Icons

A pair of new icons have been added to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, giving the Resolute Raccoon’s new default apps, a Yaru-y look. A new icon is added for Resources, Ubuntu’s new default system monitor tool. In the Ubuntu 26.04 beta this was using the upstream icon, which didn’t look out of place really but wasn’t using one a Yaru icon set template shape. That’s now fixed. Still identifiably a system monitor, but using a circle gauge motif.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/yaru-new-icons-resources-showtime

#ubuntu

📰 Razer Wolverine V3 Pro & Betop KP50 Controllers To Be Supported By Linux 7.0

Ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.0-rc7 kernel release, this week's batch of input fixes were sent in and merged. Besides a few small input fixes are also some new device IDs and quirks for hardware now to be handled by Linux 7.0...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-rc7-Input-Fixes

#linux #kernel

📰 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Raises Desktop Minimum RAM Requirement

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) will increase the minimum RAM requirement for Desktop users from 4 GB to 6 GB.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-26-04-lts-raises-desktop-minimum-ram-requirement/

#ubuntu

📰 Debian Is Figuring Out How Age Verification Laws Will Impact It

With age verification/attestation laws down to the OS level enacted by California and being decided upon by other US states, it's been a hot topic of discussion in the open-source world. For the Debian project that is strictly volunteer/community-driven unlike various commercial Linux platforms, they are figuring out how such laws will impact them...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Undecided-Age-Laws

#linux #opensource #debian

📰 The best thing about modern Linux isn't the desktop, it's how easy it is to roll back your mistakes

When I made the move from Windows to Linux, I wasn't quite sure what to expect. I knew I was moving into a whole new ecosystem, and I had an idea as to what I wanted to test out, but other than that, I had no idea what I was getting into. So, I just sort of jumped in and gave Linux a try.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/best-thing-about-modern-linux-rollback-your-mistakes/

#linux

📰 A single mini PC replaced my Raspberry Pi cluster and nearly cut my power use in half

A low-power mini PC replaced my Raspberry Pi cluster, simplified my home lab, and nearly cut power use in half.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/mini-pc-replaced-raspberry-pi-cluster-cut-power-use-half/

#raspberry

You can now enable Ubuntu Pro from the OS setup tool - OMG! Ubuntu
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/ubuntu-pro-initial-setup-tool

📰 Linux 7.0-rc7 Released With Improved Docs For AI Agents, WiFi Driver Performance Fix

Timed for Easter this year is the seventh weekly release candidate for the Linux 7.0 kernel. If all goes well, Linux 7.0 stable will be out next week...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-rc7-Released

#linux #kernel

📰 Arch Linux Makes nft the Default Backend for iptables

Arch Linux developers have announced that iptables now defaults to the nft backend, replacing the previous iptables-nft package name.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/arch-linux-makes-nft-the-default-backend-for-iptables/

#linux #arch

📰 hid-omg-detect: Linux Driver In Development To Detect Malicious HID Devices

Zubeyr Almaho has been leading work on a new HID driver named hid-omg-detect with an intent on passive monitoring to watch out for any malicious HID devices being connected to the system...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/hid-omg-detect-Malicious-HID

#linux

📰 PeaZip 11.0 Archive Manager Speeds Up File Browsing and Enhances Bookmarks

PeaZip 11.0 open-source archive manager is now available for download with faster archive browsing, enhanced bookmarks, internal drag and drop, and other changes. Here’s what’s new!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/peazip-11-0-archive-manager-speeds-up-file-browsing-and-enhances-bookmarks

#opensource

📰 KDE 4’s Air Theme Making a Comeback, Oxygen Gets Major Revamp for Plasma 6.7

The Oxygen and Air themes from the KDE 4 desktop environment are making a major comeback with the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.7 release.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/kde-4s-air-theme-making-a-comeback-oxygen-gets-major-revamp-for-plasma-6-7

#kde #plasma

📰 Tiny Corp Begins Accepting Pre-Orders For Their $10M Exabox

Open-source friendly company Tiny Corp that is behind the Tinygrad MIT-licensed neural network framework and developing a "sovereign" AMD GPU driver stack with their Tinybox hardware offerings has their sights on shipping the Exabox next year. The Tiny Corp's Exabox is expected to retail for around $10M USD but offer immense AI compute power...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Tiny-Corp-Exabox-Pre-Order

#amd #opensource

📰 Multi-OS Cyberattacks: How SOCs Close a Critical Risk in 3 Steps

Your attack surface no longer lives on one operating system, and neither do the campaigns targeting it. In enterprise environments, attackers move across Windows endpoints, executive MacBooks, Linux infrastructure, and mobile devices, taking advantage of the fact that many SOC workflows are still fragmented by platform. For security leaders, this creates a.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/multi-os-cyberattacks-how-socs-close.html

#linux

📰 Patch to end i486 support hits Linux kernel merge queue

After a year of patchwork, maintainers look ready to start retiring 486-class CPUs It's taken nearly a full version number to get the pieces in order, but the long-awaited end of 486 chip support in the Linux kernel appears to be nigh with Linux 7.1's release later this year. …

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/06/patch_to_end_i486_support/

#linux #kernel

📰 A Small But Useful Debugging Addition For AMD Zen Systems With Linux 7.1

A small but convenient feature is coming with the Linux 7.1 that will be useful in debugging AMD Zen system problems and information reporting/transparency purposes...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-AGESA-Version-Linux-7.1

#linux #amd

📰 FreeBSD Aims To Better Track Laptop Hardware That Works Or Doesn't For Their OS

Over the past year the FreeBSD project has been making much progress on making it more viable to run this BSD operating system on laptop hardware. They have worked on better graphics driver support, improved power management / suspend, making sure audio is working, and even rolling out a KDE desktop option from the FreeBSD OS installer to ease the deployment on desktops.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Laptop-Matrix

#kde

📰 Rust Coreutils 0.8 Brings Significant Performance Gains

Rust Coreutils 0.8 was released today as the newest major release to this alternative to GNU Coreutils...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.8-Released

#gnu

📰 Flowise AI Agent Builder Under Active CVSS 10.0 RCE Exploitation; 12,000+ Instances Exposed

Threat actors are exploiting a maximum-severity security flaw in Flowise, an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform, according to new findings from VulnCheck.The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-59528 (CVSS score: 10.0), a code injection vulnerability that could result in remote code execution."The CustomMCP node allows users to input configuration settings for connecting.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/flowise-ai-agent-builder-under-active.html

#opensource