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The Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" subsystem updates have been merged for Linux 7.1 that deal with reporting of ECC memory errors and the like from various hardware drivers...

AMD EDAC Driver In Linux 7.1 Adds Support For Zen 3 Rembrandt Hardware With ECC  Phoronix

The x86/asm changes merged yesterday for the Linux 7.1 kernel with a few low-level improvements...

The exFAT file-system changes have landed for the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel...

GNOME 50.1 Released with Basic Zoom Support for the Captive Portal  9to5Linux

Over 5% of Steam users are now on Linux, but the rest of the pie is still dominated by Windows  PC Gamer

Claude Code Used to Find Remotely Exploitable Linux Kernel Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years  infoq.com

Claude Code Finds Long Hidden Linux NFS Vulnerability  Let's Data Science

COSMIC 1.0.10 Desktop Environment Brings Small Tweaks and Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

Linux & Fingerprint Readers: A Tough Combination  Tedium.co

As a follow-up to the news first-covered on Phoronix earlier this month about Linux 7.1 expected to begin removing i486 CPU support: it indeed happened. Linus Torvalds took the initial removal bits today without any fuss today for beginning the phase out of M486 / M486SX / ELAN kernel support...

Linus Torvalds Merged The Code Beginning To Remove Intel 486 CPU Support In Linux 7.1  Phoronix

ROCm 7.2.2 is out today as a small point release to this open-source AMD GPU compute stack. There are a few code changes but most notable is arguably on the documentation side...

AMD ROCm 7.2.2 Brings Optimization Guide For Ryzen AI / RDNA 3.5 Hardware  Phoronix

Code now merged for the Linux 7.1 kernel may provide some negative performance implications for those still running modern Linux kernels on 32-bit hardware. A fundamental change can present cache line alignment and slab sizing implications for 32-bit Linux OS users but will provide for cleaner code with modern 64-bit computing...

LLM-Assisted Patches For Linux 7.1 May Have Negative Impact On 32-bit Systems  Phoronix

While a lot of interesting new features and changes have been merged already for the Linux 7.1 merge window, two pull requests stand out so far for being rejected by Linus Torvalds and complete with his to-the-point commentary...

You can try Linux 7.0 now on these distros - here's what's new  ZDNET

As part of my ongoing testing around the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 release I have been running a lot of benchmarks. After recently showing some nice performance gains for AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" with Ubuntu 26.04, several Phoronix readers inquired about any performance uplift from the more modest but still powerful Strix Point laptops like the popular Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 SKU. Here are benchmarks showing the performance of Ubuntu 26.04 in its near final state compared to Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS with its HWE stack on an ASUS Zenbook S16.

Fedora Linux 44 Update Gets Delayed to April 21  TechPowerUp