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Linux Kernel 7.0 is Out With Improvements Across the Board for Intel, AMD, and Storage
From Nova Lake audio to autonomous XFS repairs and Zen 6 prep, this release covers a lot of ground.
Mold 2.41 Linker Released With New Features & Fixes
Mold 2.41 is out as the latest major update to this high performance linker and viable alternative to the linkers from the GNU and LLVM projects...
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...
GNU Linux-Libre 7.0 Kernel Is Now Available for Software Freedom Lovers
GNU Linux-libre 7.0 kernel is now available for download based on Linux kernel 7.0 and targeted at those seeking 100% freedom for their PCs.
Servo Browser Engine Making It Easier For Embedded Use
The open-source, Rust-based Servo browser engine has been improving its Servoshell demo browser application while one of the most promising potentials for this engine is around embedded use as an alternative to the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). With the latest moves by Servo developers, they are making for a more compelling story for its use...
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...
Apple HFS / HFS+ File-System Support Seeing Many Fixes For Linux 7.1
Nearly one year ago to the day I noted Linux developers were considering the removal of the Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers from the kernel. They were orphaned the past decade and turning into a maintenance burden for upstream developers. But then to some surprise, a few developers stepped up to maintain the HFS(+) drivers. One year later it's proving to be a success story with more fixes for this aging Apple file-system support continuing...
Btrfs Brings Performance Improvements, Shutdown ioctl Stable With Linux 7.1
Among the early pull requests sent out to Linus Torvalds even before the Linux 7.0 kernel officially released on Sunday were the Btrfs file-system updates. This feature-packed CoW file-system is seeing more performance optimizations for Linux 7.1 as well as its shutdown ioctl feature no longer being experimental and a variety of fixes...
GNU Linux-libre 7.0 Deals With Deblobbing More Drivers & Cleansing DT Files
Building off last night's release of the Linux 7.0 kernel is now the GNU Linux-libre 7.0-gnu kernel release for that downstream kernel that removes support for loading non-free-software kernel modules, blocks the loading of loadable microcode/firmware even when it means greatly reduced hardware support, and other sanitization of code in the name of software freedom...
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...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: April 12th, 2026
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for April 12th, 2026, brings news about Linux 7.0, APT 3.2, GNU nano 9.0, KDE Frameworks 6.25, Trisquel GNU/Linux 12.0 LTS, KDE Plasma 6.6.4, OpenSSL 3.6.2, PeaZip 11.0, Firefox 149.0.2, GParted Live 1.8.1-3, GStreamer 1.28.2, PipeWire 1.6.3, Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.8, and more.
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. A wedge of research backs up the benefits of playing background music (or ambient noise or frequencies, including binaural beats) when studying. A 2022 study showed students who […]
Three Months After Georgia Tech, Stallman Heads to UT Austin
Once a fixture on the lecture circuit, GNU's creator -- and the father of Free Software -- is slowly re‑emerging in the US, updating his message for the 2020s. The post Three Months After Georgia Tech, Stallman Heads to UT Austin appeared first on FOSS Force.
Linux 7.0 kernel released
Linus Torvalds has released Linux 7.0, the kernel version that Ubuntu 26.04 LTS runs on. Linux 7.0 includes a new standardised filesystem error reporting system, faster swap memory and zram performance and hardware video decoding for a set of Rockchip ARM64 single-board computers. On the quirky additions side, Rock Band 4 Bluetooth controller support is included. The shiny new version number does not, however, signify anything special. Linus has always been upfront that kernel version numbers tick up when the minor number gets a tad unwieldy, not because a ‘milestone’ has been reached. That said, there is plenty in this […]