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Canonical engineer Utkarsh Gupta announced today on the behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team that the Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon" has entered its feature freeze...

Ubuntu 26.04 Begins Its Feature Freeze  Phoronix

Cloud Hypervisor 51 is now available for this Rust-based VMM focused on secure cloud computing. For what began as an Intel open-source project years ago is continuing to be largely led by Microsoft, Cyberus Tech, Tencent, Ant Group, and others...

Last year LunarG announced KosmicKrisp as a new Vulkan implementation atop Apple's Metal API. Initially targeting macOS, KosmicKrisp since was merged to Mesa and has evolved quite nicely as a modern implementation of Vulkan-on-Metal for Apple Silicon. It continues moving ahead with an eye for iOS, more performance optimizations, and completing Vulkan 1.4 support...

All of the Thunderbolt/USB driver changes were merged this week for the nearly-over Linux 7.0 merge window...

USB Driver For Google Tensor SoCs, UCSI Thunderbolt Alt Mode In Linux 7.0  Phoronix

MediaTek MT7902 wireless chipset finally gets Linux drivers  CNX Software

Experts Reveal Best Linux Server Distros For Home Labs  findarticles.com

I found the best Linux server distros for your home lab  ZDNET

Vulkan 1.4.344 is out today as the latest routine spec update for this high performance graphics and compute API. Besides a handful of fixes and clarifications, Vulkan 1.4.344 brings a new extension courtesy of Valve engineers...

Gentoo Charts a New Path: Moving Away from GitHub Toward Codeberg  Linux Journal

It's not too surprising but the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 Long Term Support release will be transitioning to OpenJDK 25 as its default Java version...

Merged today to Mesa 26.1 Git is a one-line change to the Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver that is showing to deliver some slight performance benefits or up to 3% noted in some select games...

The Turbostat command-line utility for reporting processor frequency and idle statistics along with other useful information for AMD and Intel CPUs can now report some L2 cache stats for recent Intel CPUs beginning with Linux 7.0...

Turbostat With Linux 7.0 Can Report New L2 Cache Statistics  Phoronix

AMD "RDNA 4m" GPU spotted for future mobile CPUs  OC3D

Linux is not a Windows substitute: Here's how you should approach it  How-To Geek

5 programs you need to know about as a Linux user  MakeUseOf

PipeWire 1.6 Released with Support for Audio Channel Layouts, LDAC Decoder  9to5Linux

AI Helped Uncover A "50-80x Improvement" For Linux's IO_uring  Phoronix