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📰 user.* xattrs On Sockets Merged For Linux 7.1 As Sought By GNOME & systemd Developers On this first day of the Linux 7.1 merge window, among the early pull requests merged were beginning to land the various VFS pull requests submitted by Christian Brauner. Among that code merged is enabling support for user.* extended attributes on sockets... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-User-xattrs-Sockets #gnome#linux#systemd

📰 GreenBoost Memory Orchestrator For NVIDIA GPUs Introduces GreenBoost-Proton For Gaming Last month we showcased GreenBoost as an open-source means of augmenting NVIDIA GPU vRAM with system RAM and NVMe storage. This memory tiering solution for NVIDIA GPUs was developed by an open-source developer with a focus on CUDA and allowing larger LLMs to be handled on graphics cards with smaller vRAM capacities. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GreenBoost-Proton-NVIDIA-vRAM #opensource

📰 Fake Linux leader using Slack to con devs into giving up their secrets Google Sites lure leads to bogus root certificate Imagine getting asked to do something by a person in authority. An unknown malware slinger targeting open source software developers via Slack impersonated a real Linux Foundation official and used pages hosted on Google.com to steal developers' credentials and take over their systems.… 🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/13/linux_foundation_social_engineering/ #linux#opensource

📰 Kontainer Brings a Native KDE GUI to Distrobox Container Management Kontainer is a new KDE frontend for Distrobox that gives Plasma users a simpler way to create and manage Linux containers. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/kontainer-brings-a-native-kde-gui-to-distrobox-container-management/ #kde#linux#plasma

📰 Rust For Linux 7.1 Bringing Experimental Option That Can Help Performance In advance of the Linux 7.1 merge window opening, Miguel Ojeda sent out all of the Rust feature updates on Friday. This includes bumping the minimum Rust version for building the Linux kernel as well as a new experimental option that can provide better performance for Rust code within the kernel, alongside other updates... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Rust #kernel#linux

📰 An Open Source Dev Has Put Together a Fix for AMD GPU's VRAM Mismanagement on Linux Six kernel patches and two utilities later, the VRAM situation for AMD GPUs is better now. 🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17318424/linux-amd-gpu-vram-fix #amd#kernel#linux#opensource

📰 How to Install Linux Kernel 7.0 on Ubuntu 25.10 You can now install the latest and greatest Linux 7.0 kernel series on your Ubuntu 25.10 distribution. Here’s how to do it! 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/how-to-install-linux-kernel-7-0-on-ubuntu-25-10 #kernel#linux#ubuntu

📰 FTRFS: New Fault-Tolerant File-System Proposed For Linux Sent out today was an initial patch series for comment on introducing the FTRFS file-system. The FTRFS proposal is more interesting than last week's VMUFAT file-system proposal... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FTRFS-Linux-File-System #linux

📰 DavMail 6.6 Exchange Gateway Released with Office 365 Fixes DavMail 6.6 improves Exchange and Office 365 access on Linux with authentication fixes, XDG config support, and packaging updates. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/davmail-6-6-exchange-gateway-released-with-office-365-fixes/ #linux

📰Linux's Power Sequencing PCIe M.2 Driver To Support M.2 Key-E Connectors Merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel was a power sequencing driver for PCIe M.2 connectors as part of an effort to allow describing PCIe M.2 connectors in Device Tree files. For Linux 7.1, that driver is extending support for PCIe M.2 Key E connectors... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Power-Sequencing #kernel#linux

📰Mainline video capture and camera support for Rockchip RK3588 After over five years of development and collaboration across the Open Source community, mainline Linux support for Rockchip RK3588's video capture hardware has finally landed. 🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/mainline-video-capture-and-camera-support-for-rockchip-rk3588.html #linux#opensource

📰Open source RTS game Warzone 2100 version 4.7 brings major changes Warzone 2100 is an excellent classic real-time strategy (RTS) game that continues living on thanks to the open source community, with a huge new release out.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. 🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/open-source-rts-game-warzone-2100-version-4-7-brings-major-changes/ #opensource