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Less bloat, more fumbling. While Linux offers more control than Windows, that control comes with a bigger time and energy investments.
Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake Linux Graphics Performance Up ~17% Over Past Year
Given the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release being imminent and also realizing it's been nearly one year to the day since reviewing the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition laptop under Linux, I ran some fresh benchmarks for seeing how the integrated Xe2 graphics have evolved on Linux over the past year.
Valve Developer Lands RADV/ACO Changes For AMD's GFX11.7 / RDNA 4m
The open-source Linux graphics driver work continues around AMD's GFX11.7 GPU target for some yet-to-be-launched APUs/SoCs and to be branded as "RDNA 4m"...
Glibc Lands A Big Optimization For LoongArch CPUs
Loongson's LoongArch processors are running decent in our recent Loongson 3B6000 benchmarks but even better performance is on the way with the next GNU C Library "glibc" release...
Linux 7.1 Crypto Code Rework Enables More Optimizations By Default
Linux libcrypto cryptography subsystem changes for the v7.1 kernel are enabling more optimizations by default and in turn helping to achieve better crypto/hashing performance on this next kernel version...
Fedora 44 Will Not Be Released Next Week
Fedora 44 final had been aiming for an early release target of 21 April, but due to outstanding blocker bugs, it's now revised to target a release on 28 April...
GCC Compiler Adds Arm AGI CPU Target
The GCC open-source compiler has landed initial targeting support for Arm's newly-announced AGI CPU...
Linux 7.1 x86/x86_64 Aligns With Other Architectures Now For Supporting Custom Restart Handlers
With the vast majority of x86/x86_64 systems supporting restarting the system using ACPi, BIOS, or even the KBD keyboard controller, with Linux 7.1 is now support in place for using custom restart handlers registered by drivers, such as in place for other CPU architectures...
New Lenovo Fan Driver, More ASUS Motherboards With Sensor Monitoring For Linux 7.1
All of the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 7.1 kernel...
Privacy Email Service Tuta Now Also Has Cloud Storage with Quantum-Resistant Encryption
Tuta Drive is almost here, and it makes Google Drive and OneDrive look sus. I explored the early access release.
Proton 11 Enters Beta Testing with Support for Breath of Fire IV, Unknown Faces
Proton 11 is now available for public beta testing with support for Breath of Fire IV, Unknown Faces, Gothic 1 Classic, X-Plane 12, and many other Windows games.
New NTFS File-System Driver Submitted For Linux 7.1
Making today very exciting in Linux 7.1 merge window land was a pull request being sent out for introducing the new, modern NTFS file-system driver. Linus Torvalds has yet to comment if he's going to merge the new driver but it looks like it's ready for providing a better Linux NTFS experience over the current NTFS3 driver that was upstreamed by Paragon Software a few years ago and hasn't seen too much feature progress...
AlmaLinux Kitten 10 Adds i686 Userspace Support
AlmaLinux Kitten 10 now provides i686 package repositories and official 32-bit x86 container images, with the same model planned for AlmaLinux 10 stable.
FOSS Weekly #26.16: Kernel 7.0, Essential Terminal Tips, France Linux Move, New Age Verification Bill and More
Some good news, some not so good news.
Can You Identify The Fake Linux Distros From The Real Ones?
With over 300+ Linix distros, it is never easy to remember all of them. Still, you can make a guess and see if you can identify some fake distros in this fun quiz.