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Many USB Improvements & New Hardware Merged For Linux 7.1

Phoronix - Thu, 04/23/2026 - 18:28
Ready to go ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window closing at week's end are numerous new USB device support additions and other USB subsystem enhancements...

Linux 7.1 Lands The Apple SMC Power Driver For Reporting Battery Metrics On MacBooks

Phoronix - Thu, 04/23/2026 - 18:12
The Linux Multi-Function Device "MFD" subsystem changes were merged this week for Linux 7.1 ahead of the merge window closing on Sunday...

FreeRDP 3.25 Adds Experimental AV1 Support

Phoronix - Thu, 04/23/2026 - 17:56
FreeRDP as a leading open-source implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) has introduced experimental AV1 codec support...

Linux 7.1 Adds Support For 12 New SoCs, Other ARM & RISC-V Hardware

Phoronix - Thu, 04/23/2026 - 08:22
All of the SoC updates were recently merged for the ongoing Linux 7.1 kernel cycle. Most of the activity as usual is on the Arm side but also with some RISC-V additions too for the Linux 7.1 kernel...

Bridging legacy and cloud-native: A new path with Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated deployed on Google Cloud and Google Cloud NetApp Volume

Red Hat News - Thu, 04/23/2026 - 08:00
Organizations are facing difficult decisions on choices of how to accelerate cloud-native innovation without sacrificing the stability of existing business critical applications and systems. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization running on Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated provides the answer, offering a unified foundation that runs both containerized applications and virtual machines (VMs) on the same infrastructure to provide a gradual, risk-mitigated path to cloud-native modernization. Today, we're excited to announce that Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (GCNV) is now certified as a supported storage prov

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