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Merged today was another round of platform-drivers-x86 changes for the ongoing Linux 7.0 cycle. There are bug fixes plus some new hardware support additions that make this merge notable. Due to the new hardware support amounting to just device IDs and not risking existing hardware support, it's fine for merging at this late stage of Linux 7.0 development...

ASUS Armoury & HP WMI Drivers Add More Laptops Ahead Of Linux 7.0-rc6  Phoronix

VitruvianOS 0.3 Debuts as Haiku-Inspired Linux OS Without X11 or Wayland  Linuxiac

With just a few weeks to go until the official Fedora 44 release, there is already feature planning and activity beginning for Fedora 45 that will be released toward the end of 2026. Among the early feature approvals is a new web front-end feature to the DRM Panic "Blue/Black Screen of Death" functionality with a specialized QR code for kernel errors...

Fedora 45 Plan Approved For Web Frontend To Linux's "Blue Screen of Death" DRM Panic  Phoronix

Proton Experimental brings fixes for Crimson Desert, Steam Overlay with EA games, Death Stranding 2  GamingOnLinux

More Reasons To Dump Windows For Gaming  PC Perspective

Firefox 150 Promises Support for the GTK Emoji Picker on Linux, Beta Out Now  9to5Linux

Fedora Project Leader Suggests Linux Distros Could Adopt Apple's Age Verification API  It's FOSS

Linux Ransomware Pay2Key Attacking Servers, Virtualization Platforms, and Cloud Environments  CyberSecurityNews

Wine 11 Triggers Gamer Migration To Linux  findarticles.com

Wine 11 might be the tipping point that finally pushes gamers from Windows to Linux  ZDNET

Building off the release of ROCm 7.2 from January, ROCm 7.2.1 is now available with Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS support as well as various bug fixes to this open-source AMD Radeon/Instinct GPU compute stack...

AMD ROCm 7.2.1 Released With Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS Support, Bug Fixes  Phoronix

Fivetran donates SQLMesh to the Linux Foundation  Techzine Global

Firefox 149 brings a free VPN and native dialog boxes  theregister.com

Android Canary blesses the Linux Terminal with a modern UI, new features  Android Authority

In testing thus far on Ubuntu 26.04, the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop with the Wayland session is working pretty darn well and delivering a performance edge across many games/graphics workloads compared to the default GNOME 50 desktop. At least as far as AMD Radeon graphics are concerned, Plasma 6.6 is in quite impressive shape for the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release.

KDE Plasma 6.6 Delivers An Impressive Edge For Radeon Graphics Over GNOME 50 On Ubuntu 26.04  Phoronix

7 Linux apps I install on every new PC  How-To Geek