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Linus Torvalds just capped off the Linux 7.0 merge window with the release of Linux 7.0-rc1. While the big version bump is coincidental with Linus Torvalds liking to bump it after x.19, Linux 7.0 is quite heavy on new features...

There's the usual flurry of last minute fixes and other items being herded into the Linux 7.0 codebase today right ahead of the merge window being closed with the imminent Linux 7.0-rc1 release. Among that last minute work is now recognizing Stephen Rothwell's contributions to creating and maintaining Linux-Next over the past eighteen years...

Linux 7.0 Credits Now Honor The Creator Of Linux-Next  Phoronix

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 8, 2026 (Feb 16 – 22)  Linuxiac

This opinionated desktop setup finally cured my distro-hopping problem  MakeUseOf

AMD FPGA Tools 2025.1/2025.2 Install on Ubuntu 24.04  Hackster.io

I finally fixed my Linux laptop’s constant fan noise — it wasn’t the hardware  MakeUseOf

Don't install another Linux distro until you've tried an immutable one  XDA

Developers behind the widely-used GNU Awk text processing utility today released Gawk 5.4...

I install these 7 CLI tools on every Linux system  How-To Geek

4 Debian-based Linux distros that are better than Debian  How-To Geek

Why Linux is the best place to learn coding  How-To Geek

While the Alliance For Open Media "AOMedia" is most known for developing the AV1 open video codec, the associated AV1 Image File Format (AVIF), and the next-generation AV2, they are now working on the Open Audio Codec (AOC)...

The "Windows vs. Linux" debate is a waste of time: Here’s a better approach  How-To Geek

Looking for the best Linux window manager? Here’s how I rank them  How-To Geek

After years of using GNOME, this is the desktop I switched to instead  MakeUseOf

Forget Linux Mint. These distros are the only way to switch  How-To Geek

AMD Zen 6 Performance Events & Metrics Merged For Linux 7.0  Phoronix

Ahead of the Linux 7.0 merge window closing later today with the Linux 7.0-rc1 release, the performance "perf" subsystem tooling changes were merged on Saturday. Among the notable changes here are the performance events and metrics handling for upcoming AMD Zen 6 processors...

Timur Kristóf of Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team has been doing a fantastic job enhancing the older AMD Radeon GPU support under Linux. Last year he made enough improvements to the AMDGPU open-source driver that older Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 dGPUs switched over to AMDGPU by default for nice performance gains, RADV Vulkan driver support out of the box, and all around better experience than using the legacy Radeon driver. He's also been fixing countless bugs affecting older AMD GPUs. There is another improvement on the way for benefiting some with aging AMD GPUs...