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Ubuntu Isn’t Perfect… But the Hate It Gets Is Over the Top  It's FOSS

This ancient Linux tool is still better than modern alternatives  How-To Geek

The AMD Host System Management Port (HSMP) Linux driver that provides access to various system management features on modern EPYC server processors is preparing for the upcoming EPYC Zen 6 "Venice" processors...

AMD HSMP Linux Driver Preps For Zen 6 EPYC With Finer Power Controls  Phoronix

Approaching twenty years after Intel's Poulsbo platform began giving Linux users nightmares due to its Imagination PowerVR SGX graphics IP that blocked open-source 3D driver support, the GMA500 driver that ended up coming about to provide open-source display support at least is still seeing occasional upstream activity for the Linux kernel...

Intel GMA500 "Poulsbo" Driver Still Seeing New Open-Source Activity In 2026  Phoronix

The Alliance For Open Media on Wednesday released libavif 1.4, the latest version of this reference library for encoding and decoding AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) content...

Intel Xe Linux Driver Ready With Fix For Brand New Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 Laptop  Phoronix

This week at MWC 2026, Lenovo announced the ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 as one of their new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" powered laptops alongside other products. With Panther Lake running rather well on Linux, the new ThinkPad T14 G7 should be in good standing on Linux and especially with a pending Xe graphics driver fix that is on the way...

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Rocky Linux Becomes a KDE Patron  Linuxiac

EA is hiring to bring Battlefield 6 to Windows on Arm and Linux devices  TweakTown

This privacy-focused Linux phone runs Android apps without all the intrusive tracking  New Atlas

Just a heads up that some brief downtime to Phoronix.com is expected overnight during the replacement of an NVMe drive in the RAID array for this web server...

FEX 2603 as the Valve-sponsored open-source project allowing Linux x86/x86_64 binaries to run on AArch64 Linux -- including the likes of Steam and various games as will become important with the Steam Frame -- is now out with its newest monthly release...

FEX 2603 Released With A Partial Fix For The Steam GUI Crashing On AArch64  Phoronix

PICMG joins Linux Foundation to strengthen open technology collaboration  New Electronics

Following the mainline Linux kernel beginning to see Xe3P graphics enablement for upcoming Nova Lake integrated graphics as well as the Crescent Island AI inference accelerator, Intel's Mesa OpenGL "Iris" and Vulkan "ANV" drivers are preparing to begin laying out their Xe3P driver support...

7 things I stopped installing on Linux (and my system is better for it)  MakeUseOf

AerynOS is a Linux distribution geared toward performance and bulletproof updates  The New Stack