📰 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
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
Linuxiac
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.
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📰 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
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
Phoronix
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
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📰 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
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
XDA
The best thing about modern Linux isn't the desktop, it's how easy it is to roll back your mistakes
And you WILL make mistakes.
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📰 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
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
XDA
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.
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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
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/ubuntu-pro-initial-setup-tool
OMG! Ubuntu
Enabling Ubuntu Pro from the OS setup tool is easier
Further to Ubuntu Pro features being added to the desktop Security Center, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS also makes it easier to opt-in to Canonical's (free for home
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📰 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
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
Phoronix
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
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📰 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
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
Linuxiac
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.
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📰 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
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
Phoronix
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.
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📰 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
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
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📰 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
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
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📰 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
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
Phoronix
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
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📰 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
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
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📰 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
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
The Register
Patch to end i486 support hits Linux kernel merge queue
: After a year of patchwork, maintainers look ready to start retiring 486-class CPUs
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📰 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
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
Phoronix
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.
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📰 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
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
Phoronix
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
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📰 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
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
Phoronix
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.
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📰 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
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
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📰 RISC-V XIP Linux Feature Being Removed After It Keeps Breaking For Months At A Time
Introduced in Linux 5.13 back in 2021 was eXecute In Place "XIP" support for RISC-V that allows for the kernel image to be executed from ROM. The intent is on allowing the kernel to run from non-volatile storage like NOR flash that is directly addressable by the CPU and to reduce RAM usage. But after RISC-V XIP support is broken for months at a time, the feature is now set to be retired from the mainline kernel...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/RISC-V-XIP-Being-Removed
#linux #kernel
Introduced in Linux 5.13 back in 2021 was eXecute In Place "XIP" support for RISC-V that allows for the kernel image to be executed from ROM. The intent is on allowing the kernel to run from non-volatile storage like NOR flash that is directly addressable by the CPU and to reduce RAM usage. But after RISC-V XIP support is broken for months at a time, the feature is now set to be retired from the mainline kernel...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/RISC-V-XIP-Being-Removed
#linux #kernel
Phoronix
RISC-V XIP Linux Feature Being Removed After It Keeps Breaking For Months At A Time
Introduced in Linux 5.13 back in 2021 was eXecute In Place 'XIP' support for RISC-V that allows for the kernel image to be executed from ROM
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📰 Mesa Granted Permanent Updates Exception For Fedora Linux
It doesn't change too much in practice with how Mesa updates typically have been handled under Fedora Linux, but now it's officially documented: Mesa graphics drivers have a permanent updates exception so new Mesa versions can be shipped as updates in Fedora stable releases...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Updates-Exception-Fedora
#linux #fedora
It doesn't change too much in practice with how Mesa updates typically have been handled under Fedora Linux, but now it's officially documented: Mesa graphics drivers have a permanent updates exception so new Mesa versions can be shipped as updates in Fedora stable releases...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Updates-Exception-Fedora
#linux #fedora
Phoronix
Mesa Granted Permanent Updates Exception For Fedora Linux
It doesn't change too much in practice with how Mesa updates typically have been handled under Fedora Linux, but now it's officially documented: Mesa graphics drivers have a permanent updates exception so new Mesa versions can be shipped as updates in Fedora…
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📰 AMD ISP4 Driver On Track To Be Merged For Linux 7.2
It looks like with the Linux 7.2 kernel later in the year the AMD ISP4 driver will finally be merged to mainline. This driver is needed for the web camera on the HP ZBook Ultra G1a Strix Halo laptop and other future AMD Ryzen laptops...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ISP4-For-Linux-7.2
#linux #amd #kernel
It looks like with the Linux 7.2 kernel later in the year the AMD ISP4 driver will finally be merged to mainline. This driver is needed for the web camera on the HP ZBook Ultra G1a Strix Halo laptop and other future AMD Ryzen laptops...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ISP4-For-Linux-7.2
#linux #amd #kernel
Phoronix
AMD ISP4 Driver On Track To Be Merged For Linux 7.2
It looks like with the Linux 7.2 kernel later in the year the AMD ISP4 driver will finally be merged to mainline
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📰 KDE Plasma 6.6.4 Is Out to Reduce CPU and GPU Load for Full-Screen Windows
KDE Plasma 6.6.4 is now available as the fourth maintenance update in the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment series with various improvements and bug fixes.
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-6-4-is-out-to-reduce-cpu-and-gpu-load-for-full-screen-windows
#kde #plasma
KDE Plasma 6.6.4 is now available as the fourth maintenance update in the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment series with various improvements and bug fixes.
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-6-4-is-out-to-reduce-cpu-and-gpu-load-for-full-screen-windows
#kde #plasma
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