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This week I tried out the current Ubuntu 26.04 development state on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite with the Acer Swift 14 AI laptop I have been using for my X Elite benchmarks over the past year. Unfortunately, it wasn't a smooth experience with new issues encountered for this Windows On ARM laptop...

Trying Out Snapdragon X Elite With The Acer Swift 14 AI Laptop On Ubuntu 26.04  Phoronix

This week's round of drm-misc-next patches bring a few improvements to the AMDXDNA accelerator driver used for supporting the Ryzen AI NPUs. Plus some new panel additions and various other minor Direct Rendering Manager driver changes...

Linux 7.1 Will Bring Power Estimate Reporting For AMD Ryzen AI NPUs  Phoronix

Google's Android LLVM toolchain team shared publicly this week that they have begun making use of AutoFDO for automatic feedback directed optimizations of their Linux kernel build used by Android...

Google Now Using AutoFDO To Enhance Android's Linux Kernel Performance  Phoronix

KDE developers continue being very busy working on Plasma 6.7 feature development as well as continuing to drive new fixes and refinements to the current Plasma 6.6 stable series...

Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has landed support for mesh shaders within Mesa's LLVMpipe software driver...

This Linux terminal app turns daily weather reports into an animated ASCII masterpiece  How-To Geek

GNOME OS as the Linux-based OSTree-using distribution that serves as the leading-edge, reference platform of GNOME desktop development is now using KMSCON by default...

GNOME OS Switches To KMSCON Enabled By Default  Phoronix

Announced today was debaudit, a new set of tools and services designed to verify the integrity and reproducibility of Debian source packages...

Google Chrome Is Finally Getting Native ARM64 Support On Linux  HotHardware

How to Do a Zsh Install on Any Linux Distro  commandlinux.com

The 7 Linux apps I install on every fresh system (no terminal required)  MakeUseOf

I put Asahi Linux on my M1 MacBook and it’s surprisingly usable in 2026  MakeUseOf

Less than a week after their prior NVIDIA Vulkan beta driver in the R595 driver series, today NVIDIA released another new Vulkan beta driver for Linux and Windows systems...

Chrome is officially coming to ARM64 Linux devices this spring  Chrome Unboxed

‘CrackArmor’ Vulnerability in AppArmor Impacts 12.6M Linux Systems  Hackread

Google is adding official Chrome support for users running Arm and Linux and it's about time  PC Gamer