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Given the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release being imminent and also realizing it's been nearly one year to the day since reviewing the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition laptop under Linux, I ran some fresh benchmarks for seeing how the integrated Xe2 graphics have evolved on Linux over the past year.

All-timer weirdo game Deadly Premonition now works on Linux thanks to Valve  PC Gamer

Valve Developer Lands RADV/ACO Changes For AMD's GFX11.7 / RDNA 4m  Phoronix

The open-source Linux graphics driver work continues around AMD's GFX11.7 GPU target for some yet-to-be-launched APUs/SoCs and to be branded as "RDNA 4m"...

I've used Linux for 18 years, but these 5 terminal tricks still surprise me  How-To Geek

21-year-old Polish Woman Fixed a 20-year-old Linux Bug!  It's FOSS

France to remove Windows from government computers in sovereignty push  RFI

Loongson's LoongArch processors are running decent in our recent Loongson 3B6000 benchmarks but even better performance is on the way with the next GNU C Library "glibc" release...

Glibc Lands A Big Optimization For LoongArch CPUs  Phoronix

You don’t need to dual-boot anymore, there’s a better way to try another OS  How-To Geek

Linux libcrypto cryptography subsystem changes for the v7.1 kernel are enabling more optimizations by default and in turn helping to achieve better crypto/hashing performance on this next kernel version...

Fedora 44 final had been aiming for an early release target of 21 April, but due to outstanding blocker bugs, it's now revised to target a release on 28 April...

Fedora 44 Will Not Be Released Next Week  Phoronix

Nintendo Switch spotted running Steam Linux ARM64 beta as Proton 11.0 ARM64 surfaces  VideoCardz.com

Linux promises freedom from Windows, but it demands something harder in return  How-To Geek

Steam shown running on Nintendo Switch thanks to latest Proton Beta — FEX 2604 translates x86 to ARM-friendly instructions on Linux  Tom's Hardware

The GCC open-source compiler has landed initial targeting support for Arm's newly-announced AGI CPU...

With the vast majority of x86/x86_64 systems supporting restarting the system using ACPi, BIOS, or even the KBD keyboard controller, with Linux 7.1 is now support in place for using custom restart handlers registered by drivers, such as in place for other CPU architectures...

Linux 7.1 x86/x86_64 Aligns With Other Architectures Now For Supporting Custom Restart Handlers  Phoronix

All of the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 7.1 kernel...