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Ubuntu's "AI Kill Switch" Is Achieved By Removing Snaps, Initially Opt-In

Phoronix - Tue, 04/28/2026 - 18:25
Following yesterday's polarizing news of Canonical to begin shipping AI features in Ubuntu Linux over the course of the next year, Jon Seager as the VP of Engineering at Canonical has now provided some clarifications around their AI plans...

AMDXDNA Driver Preps Hardware Scheduler Time Quantum For Ryzen AI Multi-User Fairness

Phoronix - Tue, 04/28/2026 - 18:06
The AMDXDNA accelerator driver for Ryzen AI NPUs is preparing a new feature called hardware scheduler time quantum for ensuring fairness between multiple users/contexts wanting to leverage this neural processing unit for AI workloads...

7-Zip 26.01 Now Allows Making Use Of Huge Pages On Linux For Faster Compression

Phoronix - Tue, 04/28/2026 - 17:55
7-Zip 26.01 was released on Monday and making this release significant are huge pages support on Linux and some users may be interested in the new options around the path generation mode for the output directory when extracting archives...

WayVNC 0.10 Released For Advancing This Leading VNC Server For Wayland

Phoronix - Tue, 04/28/2026 - 17:43
WayVNC 0.10 is out today as the newest feature release for this VNC server that works with Wayland compositors leveraging the wlroots library...

How to Build a Fast VPN Server with WireGuard on Debian 13

Tecmint - Tue, 04/28/2026 - 17:33
The post How to Build a Fast VPN Server with WireGuard on Debian 13 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

WireGuard is a modern VPN protocol built directly into the Linux kernel since version 5.6, and this guide walks through

The post How to Build a Fast VPN Server with WireGuard on Debian 13 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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