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4 Linux commands that will make your terminal look incredible  How-To Geek

Merged for the Linux 6.19 kernel was initial Nova Lake S audio support. Now merged this week for the Linux 7.0 kernel is enabling sound support for additional Nova Lake platforms...

Libinput 1.31 Released With Configurable Timeouts, Fast 3-Finger Swipes  Phoronix

Red Hat's leading input expert Peter Hutterer announced the release overnight of libinput 1.31, the input handling library used by the Linux desktop on both X.Org and Wayland desktop sessions...

All of the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.0 merge window...

A Few More ASUS Motherboards Now Support Sensor Reporting With Linux 7.0  Phoronix

The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS kicked off 2026 by making many improvements to its kernel, device drivers, and user-space software...

Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS arrives with cumulative security and bug fixes  Help Net Security

Is Linux Finally Ready for Mainstream PC Gaming? | Outlook Respawn  Outlook Respawn

Atomic and Immutable Linux Distros Gain Momentum  findarticles.com

Linux 7.0 MM Changes Bring Some Very Nice Performance Optimizations  Phoronix

All of the memory management "MM" related patches have now been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.0 merge window...

The XFS file-system has some interesting new feature work and performance tuning with the Linux 7.0 kernel that will be used by the likes of Fedora 44 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS this spring...

NetworkManager 1.56 Released with New Features and Improvements  9to5Linux

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Not in time for the current Linux 7.0 cycle but posted for another round of review is Intel's latest work around Cache Aware Scheduling for enhancing the performance of modern CPUs with multiple cache domains. This is the first set of updates to Cache Aware Scheduling for the new year and succeed the v2 patches from early December. This work not only benefits modern Intel CPUs but our testing has shown can also provide some very nice gains too for AMD EPYC processors...

Intel Posts 2026 Update For Cache Aware Scheduling On Linux  Phoronix

Sent out and already merged today for the Linux 7.0 kernel are the EXT4 file-system updates...

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Merged today to Mesa 26.1-devel is unifying of the AMD video decode implementation between the RadeonSI Gallium3D and RADV Vulkan drivers...