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Microsoft's in-house Azure Linux operating system used within Azure and for WSL and other purposes is reportedly pursuing an overhaul where it would be derived from Fedora Linux...

Following last week's Linux 7.1 sound subsystem feature pull that added bus keeper support in working toward better Apple Silicon support along with a variety of other new audio hardware support, a secondary set of sound updates were merged as we approach the end of the Linux 7.1 merge window...

Linux 7.1 Brings Audio Support For The Line6 POD HD PRO & NexiGo N930W Webcam  Phoronix

With the Linux 7.1-rc1 kernel release due out tomorrow to cap off the Linux 7.1 merge window, one of the most notable additions this cycle is the introduction of the new NTFS driver that aims to provide better performance and more modern features than the existing NTFS3 in-kernel driver that was originally contributed by Paragon Software...

After being deemed not ready for debuting this week as an early release target, Fedora stakeholders have decided that Fedora 44 will be ready to officially debut next Tuesday...

Fedora 44 Releasing Next Week  Phoronix

LoongArch Improvements Land In Linux 7.1  Phoronix

Merged for the nearly-over Linux 7.1 merge window are a number of enhancements to the LoongArch architecture support for that Chinese CPU architecture inspired by MIPS and RISC-V...

Godot 4.7 reached its beta milestone on Friday for this leading open-source, cross-platform game engine...

Godot 4.7 Reaches Beta With HDR Output, Ray-Tracing Improvements & Editor Enhancements  Phoronix

KDE developers continued to land more feature changes for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release. It's a busy spring of fixes, optimizations, and shiny new features for Plasma 6.7...

Zorin OS vs. Solus: I tested two great Linux distros for beginners to find out which is best  ZDNET

Linux Kernel Drops AX.25 and Amateur Radio Subsystem Support  Amateur Radio Daily

SUSE Extends Single-Kernel Linux Strategy from Edge to Data Center  EE Times

I can use GNOME without these 5 extensions, but I really don’t want to  MakeUseOf

You can finally tweak Android's Linux Terminal the way you want it  How-To Geek

12-year-old Pack2TheRoot bug lets Linux users gain root privileges  Security Affairs

Farewell ISDN, Ham Radio & Old Network Drivers: Linus Torvalds Merges 138k L.O.C. Removal  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds did it! He merged the pull request to rid the Linux kernel of the old Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) subsystem and various other old network drivers largely for PCMCIA era network adapters. This was the code suggested for removal given the recent influx of AI/LLM-generated bug reports against this dated code that likely has no active upstream users remaining...

AI coding is now a core part of Linux's development, but I'm not worried  XDA