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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.
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"...
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 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 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...
The GCC open-source compiler has landed initial targeting support for Arm's newly-announced AGI CPU...
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...
All of the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 7.1 kernel...
Tuta Drive is almost here, and it makes Google Drive and OneDrive look sus. I explored the early access release.
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.
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 now provides i686 package repositories and official 32-bit x86 container images, with the same model planned for AlmaLinux 10 stable.
Some good news, some not so good news.
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.
With Ubuntu LTS under the hood and JWM on top, FunOS keeps things light, snap‑free, and ready for you to assemble your own workspace. The post FunOS: Ubuntu LTS with JWM and No Snaps appeared first on FOSS Force.
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