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Linux Mint 23 Making Progress On Ubuntu 26.04 Base, Linux 7.0 Kernel & Wayland  Phoronix

Mozilla today announced "Thunderbolt" as an open-source AI client built for control and independence. Mozilla Thunderbolt, while having the worst possible name, is built for organizations and others wanting to deploy self-hosted AI infrastructure...

Mozilla Announces "Thunderbolt" As An Open-Source, Enterprise AI Client  Phoronix

Linux Mint Targets Christmas 2026 for Next Major Release  Linuxiac

Linux Mint Will Adopt a Longer Development Cycle Starting with Linux Mint 23  9to5Linux

Canonical Releases Mir 2.26 with Initial Rust Implementation of Wayland Frontend  9to5Linux

In addition to Linux 7.1 supporting FRED by default for Flexible Return and Event Delivery, another Intel CPU feature now in good shape for this next kernel version is Linear Address Space Separation (LASS)...

Intel LASS In Good Shape For Linux 7.1  Phoronix

Beyond Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out Intel 486 CPU support, this next Linux kernel version is also beginning to remove driver code for supporting Russia's Baikal CPUs...

Gaming on Linux with an older GPU levels up with DXVK-Sarek v1.12 bringing major new features  GamingOnLinux

Back during the Linux 7.0 merge window the MMC changes were rejected by Linus Torvalds as "complete garbage" that wasn't building properly and not vetted through linux-next. He went without pulling any MMC changes for the v7.0 cycle while now for Linux 7.1 the code has been better tested and successfully merged...

Linux 7.1 Picks Up The MMC Changes After Rejected By Linus In Linux 7.0  Phoronix

Following the recent KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop release, KDE Gear 26.04 is out today for shipping all the latest updated KDE desktop applications...

KDE Gear 26.04 Software Suite Is Out with Many Improvements for KDE Apps  9to5Linux

You can soon turn this Android handheld into an ultra-powerful Linux handheld  Android Authority

Haiku Isn’t Just For X86 Anymore, Boots On ARM In QEMU  Hackaday

With the set of today's AMDGPU kernel graphics driver Display Core (DC) patches is a rather curious addition with wiring up the Linux code to a "power module" that looks like it will better match Microsoft Windows behavior with the AMD Radeon driver around display-related power savings features...

AMD Linux Graphics Driver Introducing "Power Module" To Better Match Windows Behavior  Phoronix

The Linux 7.1 kernel is bringing performance improvements for Sheaves, the per-CPU caching layer introduced several kernel cycles ago (Linux 6.18) for better efficiency on today's high core count hardware. Sheaves began as an opt-in feature but since Linux 7.0 is now being used for all caches...

The SDL library widely used by cross-platform games and part of the Steam Runtime has now established a policy to block code contributions made using AI / Large Language Models (LLMs)...