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Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 16, 2026 (Apr 13 – 19)  Linuxiac

Sruthi Chandran has been elected the new Debian Project Leader "DPL" after running unopposed in this year's elections...

A fix today for GNOME Shell's screen casting/recording service was merged after it was reported that H.264 recordings using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) are around 18x larger than they should be like when using the VP8 software fallback...

I didn’t buy a Raspberry Pi or mini PC — I used this instead for my home server  MakeUseOf

I used a simple Linux command to watch what apps do to my files in real time  MakeUseOf

The PCI subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 7.1 kernel with a wide assortment of PCI(e) changes from new to old hardware...

Linux 7.1 Adds Some New PCIe Drivers While Nuking Some PCI Drivers  Phoronix

I own 3 PC gaming handhelds, and this is the one I barely use  MakeUseOf

M5Stack previews CardputerZero handheld Raspberry Pi CM0 system  LinuxGizmos.com

This simple CachyOS feature lets me use Windows without dual-booting  How-To Geek

Denuvo protection blocks access to Pragmata on Linux and Steam Deck.  GameGPU

Is OpenClaw the Linux Moment for AI?  HackerNoon

Linux has a built-in crash recovery trick, and more people should use it  MakeUseOf

Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team is the one that worked on improving the old AMD Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics card support by making AMDGPU driver improvements so it could become the default for these Southern Islands and Sea Islands GPUs rather than the legacy Radeon kernel driver. That meant better performance, RADV Vulkan support out-of-the-box, and other benefits. More recently he finished AMDGPU improvements for Kaveri and other GCN 1.1 era APUs. Now Timur's out with some more fixes for helping select GCN 1.0 hardware...

Valve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT Finally Working On Linux  Phoronix

The sound subsystem changes were merged this week for Linux 7.1 that include some new hardware support and other useful additions...

Linux 7.1 Sound Code Adds Bus Keepers: Aiming For Better Apple Silicon Support  Phoronix

The popular Arch Linux based CachyOS has now rolled out the Linux 7.0 kernel to its users. But beyond re-basing against the latest upstream kernel version it is also carrying some extra patches...

CachyOS Rolls Out A Super-Charged Linux 7.0 Kernel  Phoronix

Intel QAT Zstd, QAT Gen6 Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1  Phoronix