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Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 12, 2026 (Mar 16 – 22)  Linuxiac

Linus Torvalds just issued Linux 7.0-rc5 as we inch toward the stable Linux 7.0 kernel release in April...

Linux 7.0-rc5 Released: Linux 7.0 "Starting To Calm Down"  Phoronix

4 things you can do with a Linux terminal on Android that no regular app can match  MakeUseOf

D7VK 1.6 Overhauls Interaction With DXVK's D3D9 Backend  Phoronix

D7VK is the open-source project that began as a Direct3D 7 implementation atop the Vulkan API for Linux gamers and with time expanded to support all the way back to Direct3D 3. Out today is D7VK 1.6 with continuing to enhance this D3D compatibility layer atop Vulkan for enhancing retro/vintage gaming on Linux...

Linux desktop enthusiasts face $5,299 GPU shock  TechRadar

7 settings I change after installing Ubuntu  How-To Geek

I built a NAS from an old laptop—here's what Linux taught me the hard way  How-To Geek

Linux fans won’t admit it, but Windows wins on these 3 security fronts  How-To Geek

Turris Omnia NG Wired Launches as a Linux-Powered 10Gb Router  Linuxiac

The mdadm utility for managing software RAID on Linux systems is out with a new release that adds new features while addressing some recent boot failure issues that were reported...

mdadm 4.6 Released With Boot Failure Fixes, New Lockless Bitmap  Phoronix

For years Electron apps were notorious for continuing to depend upon X11/XWayland and not jive well with the modern Wayland experience on modern Linux desktops. But for the past several months, Wayland has been well supported out-of-the-box on upstream Electron. An Electron blog post this week outlined the technical work done for achieving good Wayland support...

This Linux filesystem was supposed to change everything—here's the dark reason it failed  How-To Geek

Building off Friday's exciting release of Wine 11.5 with Syscall User Dispatch support, Wine-Staging 11.5 is now available for this experimental/testing build of Wine that at the moment is some 228 patches atop the upstream code...

The Loongson Direct Rendering Manager driver for handling the display controller on LS7A/LS2K SoCs is no longer orphaned with new Loongson engineers stepping up to maintain the code moving forward...

Loongson Linux Display Driver No Longer Orphaned  Phoronix

Open-source developer Derek Clark of Valve's Linux engineering team has been responsible for many improvements for gaming handheld devices. Such as Lenovo Legion improvements for Linux, Ayn gaming handheld improvements, and most recently Linux 7.1 set to introduce the new Lenovo Legion Go HID drivers. With the latest Lenovo Legion driver work wrapped up for Linux 7.1, Derek Clark today posted a set of patches providing a OneXPlayer Configuration HID Driver...

OneXPlayer Configuration HID Driver Posted For Linux By Valve Developer  Phoronix