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I installed this Arch-based distro my way in under 5 minutes - so can you  ZDNET

GNOME 50 killed Google Drive integration because nobody wanted to maintain it  XDA

Intel today formally announced the Optimization Zone as a new initiative at the company that began last October and is building up a centralized repository for maximizing performance and software optimizations around Intel hardware...

Intel Announces The "Optimization Zone"  Phoronix

Archinstall 4.0 is out today and just in time for the April 1 monthly refresh to the Arch Linux installer. With Archinstall 4.0, this Arch Linux OS installer is now using the Textual TUI library rather than the Curses library...

Archinstall 4.0 Released For Improved Arch Linux Installer Using Textual UI  Phoronix

Archinstall 4.0 Introduces New Textual TUI for Arch Linux Installer  Linuxiac

Archinstall 4.0 Arch Linux Installer Released with New Textual UI  9to5linux.com

Debian-Based Elive Linux Distro Is Back with First Stable Release in Seven Years  9to5linux.com

No internet? This 'survival computer' has everything you need offline - including AI  ZDNET

For those wanting to make use of Linux GPU compute software under Windows 11 by way of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2), AMD's ROCDXG "librocdxg" library is now deemed production-ready for delivering open-source ROCm compatibility with WSL...

AMD Improves GPU Support Under WSL With Production Open-Source ROCDXG  Phoronix

AMD Sends Out Linux Patches For Their Next-Gen AIE4 NPU  Phoronix

Hitting the mailing list today are patches providing initial support for AMD's next-gen NPU "AIE4" platform, complete with SR-IOV support...

While having the new System76 Thelio Mira in the lab I ran some benchmarks of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS vs. 26.04 development on that AMD Ryzen 9000 series powered desktop. Those results were interesting for how the Ubuntu performance has changed over the past two years, but even if drilling down to just the past six months there have been some nice gains on the AMD Zen 5 desktop. In this article is a look at how Ubuntu 26.04 in its near-final state is performing relative to Ubuntu 25.10 with this Ryzen 9 9950X desktop.

Ubuntu 26.04 Showing Nice Gains Over Ubuntu 25.10 On AMD Ryzen 9000 Series  Phoronix

Coreboot 26.03 Open-Source Firmware Adds Full Support for Intel PantherLake SoCs  9to5Linux

I installed one Linux app I'd never heard of and it replaced three tools  MakeUseOf

Coreboot 26.03 was christened today as the newest quarterly feature release for this open-source system firmware implementation that strives to replace proprietary BIOS/firmware. Most notable with Coreboot 26.03 is full support for Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake SoCs...

4MLinux 51.0 Released with Improved Support for ZX Spectrum and Atari Music  9to5Linux