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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle Boosts Stability  The Fast Mode

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 14, 2026 (Mar 24 – Apr 5)  Linuxiac

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: April 5th, 2026  9to5Linux

Linux Kernel Targets 7.0 Stable Release  Let's Data Science

Timed for Easter this year is the seventh weekly release candidate for the Linux 7.0 kernel. If all goes well, Linux 7.0 stable will be out next week...

Linux 7.0-rc7 Released With Improved Docs For AI Agents, WiFi Driver Performance Fix  Phoronix

Linux 7.1 is finally ending support for Intel's 37-year-old 486 processor  XDA

Rufus alternative Ventoy, a Windows 11, Linux USB install app, reaches major milestone  Neowin

I switched from GNOME to KDE Plasma 6 and I'm not going back to Ubuntu defaults  MakeUseOf

Arch Linux Makes nft the Default Backend for iptables  Linuxiac

Stop using Run as Administrator: Windows 11 now has sudo, and it's safer  How-To Geek

Zorin OS Says No to Mandatory Age Verification in Linux  Linuxiac

Save an Old MacBook with Linux  Adafruit

It's finally time: a patch queued into one of the development branches ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is set to finally begin the process of phasing out and ultimately removing Intel 486 CPU support from the Linux kernel. Anyone still using an i486 CPU with an upstream Linux kernel would be incredibly rare and no known Linux distribution vendors are still shipping with i486 CPU support, but in case you are, you can continue to be running one of the existing Linux LTS kernel versions...

Linux 7.1 Expected To Begin Removing i486 CPU Support  Phoronix

Linux desktop environments are dying, and KDE and GNOME killed them  How-To Geek

I switched my Linux terminal to Zsh and it’s the biggest productivity boost I’ve had in years  MakeUseOf

Why I don't use Linux on my desktop PC  How-To Geek

I replaced 3 paid productivity apps with one simple Python script  How-To Geek

A nice Easter surprise are some last minute updates submitted to DRM-Next of the final planned AMDGPU/AMDKFD feature changes for the upcoming Linux 7.1 feature cycle...