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The Linux Kernel is Finally Letting Go of i486 CPU Support  itsfoss.com

5 hard truths about switching to Linux that Windows users need to hear  How-To Geek

The 7 stages of becoming a real Linux user  How-To Geek

Linux devs start removing support for 37-year-old Intel 486 CPU — head honcho Linus Torvalds says 'zero real reason' to continue support  Tom's Hardware

Separate from the recently discussed work on MediaTek MT7927 "Filogic 380" support being worked on for the MT76 Linux driver (still undergoing review), a number of other MediaTek MT76 wireless driver improvements are queued up ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window opening as soon as next week...

Many MediaTek MT76 WiFi Driver Improvements Coming For Linux 7.1  Phoronix

Google engineers have been developing JSIR as a high-level intermediate representation (JSIR) for JavaScript that they are already using in production at the company code code analysis and transforming other code/bytecode to JavaScript as well as for deobfuscating JavaScript code...

Open-source friendly company Tiny Corp that is behind the Tinygrad MIT-licensed neural network framework and developing a "sovereign" AMD GPU driver stack with their Tinybox hardware offerings has their sights on shipping the Exabox next year. The Tiny Corp's Exabox is expected to retail for around $10M USD but offer immense AI compute power...

antiX 26 is the Linux distro that makes a 2009 laptop feel faster than a modern Chromebook  MakeUseOf

KDE 4’s Air Theme Making a Comeback, Oxygen Gets Major Revamp for Plasma 6.7  9to5linux.com

A New Linux Kernel Driver Wants to Catch Malicious USB Devices in the Act  It's FOSS

Linux gaming hits 5.3% share as Windows drops | tbreak  Tbreak Media

PeaZip 11.0 Archive Manager Speeds Up File Browsing and Enhances Bookmarks  9to5Linux

METATRON - Open-Source AI Penetration Testing Assistant Brings Local LLM Analysis to Linux  CyberSecurityNews

Linus Torvalds confirms Linux 7.0 is on track for final release next week  Neowin

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle Boosts Stability  The Fast Mode

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 14, 2026 (Mar 24 – Apr 5)  Linuxiac

Take Your Linux Rig on the Road with the CyberDeck Pi  Hackster.io

Scientific research has a compute problem. Not a shortage of ideas, but a shortage of infrastructure that can keep up with them. It also has a platform problem—how can we deliver generative AI (gen AI) capabilities through the right architecture and operating model so institutions can provide access without handing every user unrestricted access to expensive models and runaway spend.What are small language models?Small language models (SLMs) are usually domain-specific AI models developed with significantly fewer parameters than their massive counterparts, typically ranging from 1 billion to

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: April 5th, 2026  9to5Linux