Linuxgram 🐧

📰 Microsoft Reportedly Looking At Rebasing Azure Linux On Fedora 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... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/MS-Azure-Linux-Fedora-Based #fedora#linux

📰 Your Gen 5 SSD is probably throttling right now, and you have no idea You paid a premium for 14,000 MB/s speeds, but during a large Steam download or 4K video export, it feels like your PC is struggling to keep up and overall just comes across quite mushy. Unlike a CPU, which might trigger a loud fan spike, an SSD suffers in silence, making it hard for you to identify when it is actually occurring. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/your-pcie-50-ssd-might-be-throttling-without-you-knowing/ #steam

📰 New NTFS Driver Sees A Number Of Fixes Ahead Of Linux 7.1-rc1 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... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/New-NTFS-Driver-Fixes-Linux-7.1 #kernel#linux

📰 Fedora 44 Releasing Next Week 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... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-44-Next-Week #fedora

📰 KDE Plasma 6.7 Enables Overlay Planes For Intel Graphics, More Performance/Efficiency 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... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.7-Intel-Overlay #intel#kde#plasma

📰Raspberry Pi owners are missing this one free tweak that changes everything A couple of years ago, when I was working on my Raspberry Pi 5, I noticed that it was very slow. I googled possible reasons, and the main one was its lack of RAM. It has 4 gigs of RAM, but I noticed that running multiple Chromium tabs made it run at a snail's pace. So, I looked for ways to increase the RAM. Given that I was using an SD Card as a hard drive, using a swap file wasn't really an option. However, I found a program called ZRAM and... 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/free-tweak-old-pi-changes-everything/ #chromium#raspberry

📰 Farewell ISDN, Ham Radio & Old Network Drivers: Linus Torvalds Merges 138k L.O.C. Removal 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... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Removes-Old-Net #kernel#linux

📰 Canonical finally gives Launchpad (a bit of) a glow-up Launchpad, the home of Ubuntu development, has finally received some design attention. Canonical last updated the site’s homepage back in 2024, but many of the pages that the distro’s developers actually use or reference on a regular basis have remained untouched for the best part of a decade. Now that’s starting to change. 🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/ubuntu-launchpad-website-revamp #distro#ubuntu

📰 More ancient Linux device support faces the chop One way to deal with bug hunting LLMs: ditch the old drivers One tactic to deal with LLM-powered vulnerability detection is simple – just speed up the removal of old code. If it's gone, it no longer matters if it's buggy.… 🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/24/ancient_linux_drivers_going/ #linux

📰 Many Intel & AMD Laptop Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1 As usual in recent years, there were many x86 platform driver changes merged this cycle for benefiting modern AMD Ryzen and Intel Core (Ultra) laptops. A variety of new features and laptop hardware support additions were merged for Linux 7.1... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-x86-Platform-Drivers #amd#intel#linux

📰 Fedora is becoming the default Linux recommendation, and Ubuntu did this to itself Ubuntu used to be the easiest recommendation for a new Linux user, but recent bad decisions have caused things to shift in favor of Fedora. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/fedora-becoming-default-linux-recommendation-ubuntu-fault/ #fedora#linux#ubuntu

📰 Tails 7.7 Anonymous Distro Adds Detection of Outdated Secure Boot Certificates Tails 7.7 anonymous Linux distribution is now available for download with automatic detection of outdated Secure Boot certificates, Tor Browser 15.0.10, and other changes. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/tails-7-7-anonymous-distro-adds-detection-of-outdated-secure-boot-certificates #distro#linux