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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

Opera GX for Linux arrives on Flathub & Snap store  OMG! Ubuntu

Nginx 1.30 was just released as the newest stable version of this popular web server. Nginx 1.30 incorporates all of the changes from the Nginx 1.29.x mainline branch to provide a lot of new functionality like Multipath TCP (MPTCP)...

Why is France moving from Microsoft Windows to Linux  Qazinform

XOrg Server 21.1.22 and Xwayland 24.1.10 Released with Multiple Security Fixes  9to5Linux

GNOME Shell 50.1 and Mutter 50.1 were released today as the first point releases in the GNOME 50 series...

Linux is better than ever—but these 4 problems still push me back to Windows  How-To Geek

France to replace Windows with Linux as wariness of U.S. grows  Boing Boing

After Months of Debate, Linus Finally Decides: Linux Officially "Legislates" for AI Code - AI Use Allowed, Humans to Take the Blame  36 Kr

X.Org Server 21.1.22 is out today and driven by five new security vulnerabilities being disclosed for the aging codebase. In turn these vulnerabilities also impact XWayland too and thus necessitating the XWayland 24.1.10 release...

Sunshine v2026.413.143228 released this week as a new feature release for this self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight, an open-source game streaming client that is an implementation of the NVIDIA GameStream protocol. Notable with this Sunshine release is Vulkan Video encode support as an alternative to using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) for game streaming...

These 9 Linux terminal shortcuts will save you hours of typing  How-To Geek

OpenSSL 4.0 was just released as a big update for this widely-used SSL/TLS and crypto library...

Proton Experimental fixes Capcom classics on Steam Deck and Linux  games.gg

OpenSSL 4.0 Released with Support for Encrypted Client Hello, SNMP KDF, and More  9to5Linux

Merged yesterday for the Linux 7.1 kernel is overhauling the T10 PI code for generating and verifying data integrity information. In turn the new code is cleaner while also allowing for better read storage performance...

As a big helper for Valve's Steam Play with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton, the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged its initial support for the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap Vulkan extension...

Latest Raspberry Pi OS Release Disables Passwordless sudo by Default  9to5Linux

New Linux Kernel Rules Put The Onus On Humans For AI Tool Usage  Hackaday