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📰Miracle-WM 0.9 Makes This Mir-Based Wayland Compositor Truly Hackable Miracle-WM 0.9 brings WebAssembly plugins, a new Rust API, cursor theme support, and faster performance for this Mir-based Wayland compositor. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/miracle-wm-0-9-makes-this-mir-based-wayland-compositor-truly-hackable/ #wayland

📰Dynamic Music Pill brings lyrics to your GNOME desktop A clutch of new features are available in Dynamic Music Pill, the slick now playing and media controller extension for GNOME Shell. The “big” new addition is lyrics support. When you listen to a track with synced lyrics in a compatible player, you can view those lyrics by opening the applet controller and clicking on the album art inside of it: The lyrics are shown in a freely scrollable widget, with the active line bolder in white for more... 🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/lyrics-feature-dynamic-music-pill-extension #gnome

📰Linux 7.0 Adds Support For New Keys On Upcoming Laptops For Expanded AI Agent Interactions Since last year the Linux kernel already supported the Microsoft Copilot key appearing on recent laptops to trigger AI agent interactions. That keyboard key is becoming more common but now three additional new keys have been standardized for additional AI integration on future PCs. Merged today for Linux 7.0 is supporting those new standardized keycodes for AI use... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-New-AI-Agent-Keys #kernel#linux

📰 TrueNAS 26 Beta Brings Linux 6.18 LTS + OpenZFS 2.4 Combination For NAS Devices TrueNAS 26 Beta released today as the initial test release for this next version of this Linux-based operating system for network attached storage (NAS) devices and more... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/TrueNAS-26-Beta #linuxbased#linux

📰 Lilbits: Vertical tabs for Chrome, Mac OS 10 for the Nintendo Wii, and a CyberDeck Pi The CyberDeck Pi is a DIY handheld computer that looks like something designed for a world where smartphones never existed. It’s a chunky device that probably won’t fit in your pocket. But it’s also a full-fledged computer that can run desktop GNU/Linux software thanks to its Raspberry Pi brains. And it’s made using a combination . 🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/lilbits-vertical-tabs-for-chrome-mac-os-10-for-the-nintendo-wii-and-a-cyberdeck-pi/ #gnu#raspberry#linux

📰Bazzite is chopping 1GB off its image size—here's what got cut It has never been a better time to be a Linux gamer. With Proton making good headway, we're seeing gaming-oriented distros spring up in the wake of SteamOS to capitalize on the wave of titles Linux can now run. This includes Bazzite, which has posted some excellent performance demonstrations over the past few months, including that one time it outperformed Windows on Microsoft's branded handheld console. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/bazzite-chopping-1gb-off-its-image-size/ #linux

📰 Little Snitch, the macOS network tool, is now available on Linux A Linux version of Little Snitch, the iconic network monitoring and firewall tool for macOS, has been released. Little Snitch for Linux is written in Rust and uses eBPF for kernel-level traffic interception (which lets sandboxed code run inside the Linux kernel without modifying it). The tool lists processes on your machine making network connections, with options to block them. 🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/little-snitch-linux #linux#kernel

📰 GNU nano 9.0 CLI Text Editor Released with New Features and Improvements GNU nano 9.0 command line text editor for Unix-like systems is now available for download as a major update introducing new features and improvements. Here’s what’s new! 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/gnu-nano-9-0-cli-text-editor-released-with-new-features-and-improvements #gnu

📰 I tried Fedora and learned why it's not the beginner Linux distro everyone assumes it is Fedora is one of the best Linux distros out there, but if you're a beginner, it's probably not the best place to start. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/tried-fedora-learned-why-not-beginner-distro-everyone-assumes-it-is/ #distro#linux#fedora

📰 16 contributors, cross-stack improvements: Collabora's work on GStreamer 1.28 Our multimedia engineering team delivered major improvements to GStreamer 1.28: hardware acceleration and zero-copy pipelines, HDR and color support for Wayland, AI inference integration, plus critical codec and RTP/WebRTC interoperability fixes. 🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/16-contributors-cross-stack-improvements-collabora-work-gstreamer-128.html #wayland

📰Intel Releases OpenVINO 2026.1 With Backend For Llama.cpp, New Hardware Support Intel's OpenVINO toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inferencing across their range of hardware platforms is out with its newest quarterly feature update. There is official support for Intel's latest hardware as well as enabling more large language models and other new AI innovations for this excellent open-source Intel software project... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenVINO-2026.1-Released #opensource#intel

📰I stopped recommending the 3GB Raspberry Pi 4, and here's why As a hobbyist, I love experimenting with SBCs and microcontrollers. However, the launch of Raspberry Pi 4 with 3GB of RAM has bamboozled me. The new Pi model joins an already bloated lineup. It was introduced at $84 on April 1, 2026 — I had to investigate if it was a joke. Sadly, it isn't. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/i-stopped-recommending-3gb-raspberry-pi-4-heres-why/ #raspberry