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Intel today formally announced the Core Series 3 low-end mobile processors previously known as Wildcat Lake. These are the new Intel 18A offerings that are a step below the Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" SoCs that began shipping earlier this year...

Intel Formally Announces Core Series 3 "Wildcat Lake"  Phoronix

Linux Mint confirm longer release cycles, the next release is planned for Christmas 2026  GamingOnLinux

Rust 1.95 was released to the wild today as the latest feature update to this popular programming language...

Rust 1.95 Released With Several Improvements  Phoronix

DW News. . France is ditching Windows for Linux on 2.5 million government PCs. Is it a bold move to escape foreign digital dependency – or rather symbolic politics? #dwdigital  Facebook

The Linux Mint project published their March 2026 monthly status update where they note the ongoing work toward Mint 23 "Alfa" that will be released under their new longer development lifecycle. Linux Mint 23 will be out for Christmas (December) 2026 atop an Ubuntu 26.04 LTS base...

Linux Mint 23 Making Progress On Ubuntu 26.04 Base, Linux 7.0 Kernel & Wayland  Phoronix

Mozilla today announced "Thunderbolt" as an open-source AI client built for control and independence. Mozilla Thunderbolt, while having the worst possible name, is built for organizations and others wanting to deploy self-hosted AI infrastructure...

Mozilla Announces "Thunderbolt" As An Open-Source, Enterprise AI Client  Phoronix

Linux Mint Targets Christmas 2026 for Next Major Release  Linuxiac

Linux Mint Will Adopt a Longer Development Cycle Starting with Linux Mint 23  9to5Linux

Canonical Releases Mir 2.26 with Initial Rust Implementation of Wayland Frontend  9to5Linux

In addition to Linux 7.1 supporting FRED by default for Flexible Return and Event Delivery, another Intel CPU feature now in good shape for this next kernel version is Linear Address Space Separation (LASS)...

Intel LASS In Good Shape For Linux 7.1  Phoronix

Beyond Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out Intel 486 CPU support, this next Linux kernel version is also beginning to remove driver code for supporting Russia's Baikal CPUs...

Back during the Linux 7.0 merge window the MMC changes were rejected by Linus Torvalds as "complete garbage" that wasn't building properly and not vetted through linux-next. He went without pulling any MMC changes for the v7.0 cycle while now for Linux 7.1 the code has been better tested and successfully merged...

Linux 7.1 Picks Up The MMC Changes After Rejected By Linus In Linux 7.0  Phoronix

Following the recent KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop release, KDE Gear 26.04 is out today for shipping all the latest updated KDE desktop applications...

KDE Gear 26.04 Software Suite Is Out with Many Improvements for KDE Apps  9to5Linux