📰 Linux Kernel 7.0 Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Linux kernel 7.0 is now available for download with new features, enhanced hardware support through new and updated drivers, improvements to filesystems and networking, and much more.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-7-0-officially-released-this-is-whats-new

#kernel #linux

📰 Quick Lofi – a GNOME extension for chill beats to study to

Quick Lofi is a GNOME Shell extension that puts a lofi radio player in your top bar. If you’ve ever opened a new browser tab to load a “lofi beats to study to” stream on YouTube — lofi girl, perhaps – to act as an ambient backdrop to work to, the appeal will be evident. If not, all you need to know is that mellow, lyric-free, low-tempo sounds are reputedly ideal for focus.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/quick-lofi-beats-gnome-extension

#gnome

📰 Mesa 26.1 RadeonSI Driver Lands Improvement For AMD APUs With Rusticl

For those wishing to make use of modern OpenCL 3.0 capabilities on AMD APUs/SoCs with integrated Radeon graphics using Mesa's Rusticl driver, an improvement was merged this weekend to the RadeonSI driver ahead of this quarter's Mesa 26.1 release...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.1-RadeonSI-Rusticl-APUs

#amd

📰 Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future

Linux Foundation Europe boss predicts EU will run as fast as it can from US tech companies Opinion You want to know who's even sicker of President Donald Trump than American liberals? European governments and companies who are realizing that putting all their eggs in one US basket was a stupid move.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/13/digital_sovereignty/

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📰 Open source RTS game Warzone 2100 version 4.7 brings major changes

Warzone 2100 is an excellent classic real-time strategy (RTS) game that continues living on thanks to the open source community, with a huge new release out.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/open-source-rts-game-warzone-2100-version-4-7-brings-major-changes/

#opensource

📰 Mainline video capture and camera support for Rockchip RK3588

After over five years of development and collaboration across the Open Source community, mainline Linux support for Rockchip RK3588's video capture hardware has finally landed.

🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/mainline-video-capture-and-camera-support-for-rockchip-rk3588.html

#linux #opensource

📰 Linux's Power Sequencing PCIe M.2 Driver To Support M.2 Key-E Connectors

Merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel was a power sequencing driver for PCIe M.2 connectors as part of an effort to allow describing PCIe M.2 connectors in Device Tree files. For Linux 7.1, that driver is extending support for PCIe M.2 Key E connectors...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Power-Sequencing

#kernel #linux

📰 DavMail 6.6 Exchange Gateway Released with Office 365 Fixes

DavMail 6.6 improves Exchange and Office 365 access on Linux with authentication fixes, XDG config support, and packaging updates.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/davmail-6-6-exchange-gateway-released-with-office-365-fixes/

#linux

📰 FTRFS: New Fault-Tolerant File-System Proposed For Linux

Sent out today was an initial patch series for comment on introducing the FTRFS file-system. The FTRFS proposal is more interesting than last week's VMUFAT file-system proposal...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FTRFS-Linux-File-System

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📰 How to Install Linux Kernel 7.0 on Ubuntu 25.10

You can now install the latest and greatest Linux 7.0 kernel series on your Ubuntu 25.10 distribution. Here’s how to do it!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/how-to-install-linux-kernel-7-0-on-ubuntu-25-10

#kernel #linux #ubuntu

📰 An Open Source Dev Has Put Together a Fix for AMD GPU's VRAM Mismanagement on Linux

Six kernel patches and two utilities later, the VRAM situation for AMD GPUs is better now.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17318424/linux-amd-gpu-vram-fix

#amd #kernel #linux #opensource

📰 Rust For Linux 7.1 Bringing Experimental Option That Can Help Performance

In advance of the Linux 7.1 merge window opening, Miguel Ojeda sent out all of the Rust feature updates on Friday. This includes bumping the minimum Rust version for building the Linux kernel as well as a new experimental option that can provide better performance for Rust code within the kernel, alongside other updates...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Rust

#kernel #linux

📰 Kontainer Brings a Native KDE GUI to Distrobox Container Management

Kontainer is a new KDE frontend for Distrobox that gives Plasma users a simpler way to create and manage Linux containers.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/kontainer-brings-a-native-kde-gui-to-distrobox-container-management/

#kde #linux #plasma

📰 Fake Linux leader using Slack to con devs into giving up their secrets

Google Sites lure leads to bogus root certificate Imagine getting asked to do something by a person in authority. An unknown malware slinger targeting open source software developers via Slack impersonated a real Linux Foundation official and used pages hosted on Google.com to steal developers' credentials and take over their systems.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/13/linux_foundation_social_engineering/

#linux #opensource

📰 GreenBoost Memory Orchestrator For NVIDIA GPUs Introduces GreenBoost-Proton For Gaming

Last month we showcased GreenBoost as an open-source means of augmenting NVIDIA GPU vRAM with system RAM and NVMe storage. This memory tiering solution for NVIDIA GPUs was developed by an open-source developer with a focus on CUDA and allowing larger LLMs to be handled on graphics cards with smaller vRAM capacities.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GreenBoost-Proton-NVIDIA-vRAM

#opensource

📰 user.* xattrs On Sockets Merged For Linux 7.1 As Sought By GNOME & systemd Developers

On this first day of the Linux 7.1 merge window, among the early pull requests merged were beginning to land the various VFS pull requests submitted by Christian Brauner. Among that code merged is enabling support for user.* extended attributes on sockets...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-User-xattrs-Sockets

#gnome #linux #systemd

📰 Stolen Rockstar Games analytics data leaked by extortion gang

Rockstar Games has suffered a data breach linked to a recent security incident at Anodot, with the ShinyHunters extortion gang now leaking the stolen data on its data leak site.

🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/stolen-rockstar-games-analytics-data-leaked-by-extortion-gang/

#security

📰 Scribus 1.6.6 Open-Source Desktop Publishing App Released with Bug Fixes

Scribus 1.6.6 free and open-source desktop publishing software is now available for download with various bug fixes and improvements.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/scribus-1-6-6-open-source-desktop-publishing-app-released-with-bug-fixes

#opensource

📰 SteamVR Beta 2.16.3 brings Linux fixes for VRLink

Seems SteamVR for Linux really is getting some more attention recently, after a number of fixes in the previous Beta we have a few more here.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/steamvr-beta-2-16-3-brings-linux-fixes-for-vrlink/

#linux

📰 Sentinel is an achievement watcher for non-Steam games on Linux

Love achievement hunting but play games outside of Steam on Linux? Sounds like Sentinel is an open source tool you'll want to see.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/sentinel-is-an-achievement-watcher-for-non-steam-games-on-linux/

#linux #opensource #steam