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Linux 7.0-rc6 Bringing A Lot Of Audio Quirks / Fixes

The Linux 7.0-rc6 kernel due for release tomorrow has a lot of audio fixes/quirks to correct a wide variety of different hardware issues, mostly different problematic laptops for their speakers and/or microphone behavior under Linux...

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Gedit Aims For More Frequent Releases, Bans AI / LLM Contributions

Following the release of GNOME 50, Gedit 50 was released on Friday as the newest version of this graphical text editor aligned with the GNOME desktop. Moving forward the Gedit developers are banning AI / large language model (LLM) driven developments and aim to ship more releases faster...

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Ubuntu 26.10 could drop btrfs, ZFS and LUKS support from GRUB

Ubuntu engineers are debating ways to reduce the number of features present in the signed version of GRUB, the boot loader used on systems with Secure Boot enabled. Canonical engineer Julian Klode proposes dropping support for /boot on btrfs, HFS+, XFS and ZFS filesystems, along side GRUB’s JPEG and PNG image parsers, ahead of Ubuntu 26.10. Apple partition table support, LVM volume handling, all software RAID except RAID 1 and, more controversially, LUKS-encrypted /boot partitions are also on the chopping block. β€œThe timing here is crucial”, Klode says, adding that β€œby performing the changes directly after an LTS, we can keep affected […]