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As a follow-up to the news first-covered on Phoronix earlier this month about Linux 7.1 expected to begin removing i486 CPU support: it indeed happened. Linus Torvalds took the initial removal bits today without any fuss today for beginning the phase out of M486 / M486SX / ELAN kernel support...

Linus Torvalds Merged The Code Beginning To Remove Intel 486 CPU Support In Linux 7.1  Phoronix

ROCm 7.2.2 is out today as a small point release to this open-source AMD GPU compute stack. There are a few code changes but most notable is arguably on the documentation side...

AMD ROCm 7.2.2 Brings Optimization Guide For Ryzen AI / RDNA 3.5 Hardware  Phoronix

Code now merged for the Linux 7.1 kernel may provide some negative performance implications for those still running modern Linux kernels on 32-bit hardware. A fundamental change can present cache line alignment and slab sizing implications for 32-bit Linux OS users but will provide for cleaner code with modern 64-bit computing...

LLM-Assisted Patches For Linux 7.1 May Have Negative Impact On 32-bit Systems  Phoronix

While a lot of interesting new features and changes have been merged already for the Linux 7.1 merge window, two pull requests stand out so far for being rejected by Linus Torvalds and complete with his to-the-point commentary...

You can try Linux 7.0 now on these distros - here's what's new  ZDNET

As part of my ongoing testing around the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 release I have been running a lot of benchmarks. After recently showing some nice performance gains for AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" with Ubuntu 26.04, several Phoronix readers inquired about any performance uplift from the more modest but still powerful Strix Point laptops like the popular Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 SKU. Here are benchmarks showing the performance of Ubuntu 26.04 in its near final state compared to Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS with its HWE stack on an ASUS Zenbook S16.

Fedora Linux 44 Update Gets Delayed to April 21  TechPowerUp

Opera GX for Linux arrives on Flathub & Snap store  OMG! Ubuntu

Nginx 1.30 was just released as the newest stable version of this popular web server. Nginx 1.30 incorporates all of the changes from the Nginx 1.29.x mainline branch to provide a lot of new functionality like Multipath TCP (MPTCP)...

Why is France moving from Microsoft Windows to Linux  Qazinform

XOrg Server 21.1.22 and Xwayland 24.1.10 Released with Multiple Security Fixes  9to5Linux

GNOME Shell 50.1 and Mutter 50.1 were released today as the first point releases in the GNOME 50 series...

Linux is better than ever—but these 4 problems still push me back to Windows  How-To Geek

France to replace Windows with Linux as wariness of U.S. grows  Boing Boing

After Months of Debate, Linus Finally Decides: Linux Officially "Legislates" for AI Code - AI Use Allowed, Humans to Take the Blame  36 Kr

X.Org Server 21.1.22 is out today and driven by five new security vulnerabilities being disclosed for the aging codebase. In turn these vulnerabilities also impact XWayland too and thus necessitating the XWayland 24.1.10 release...

Sunshine v2026.413.143228 released this week as a new feature release for this self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight, an open-source game streaming client that is an implementation of the NVIDIA GameStream protocol. Notable with this Sunshine release is Vulkan Video encode support as an alternative to using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) for game streaming...