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📰 CachyOS Delivers More Performance Out Of Intel Panther Lake Most of my Intel Panther Lake benchmarking over the past two months for the new Core Ultra Series 3 hardware has been done with Ubuntu Linux given the pervasiveness of it, especially in the corporate/enterprise space. But for those looking at achieving even greater out-of-the-box Linux performance on Intel Panther Lake, the Arch Linux based CachyOS does a pretty fine job at further advancing the performance. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-panther-lake #linux#arch#ubuntu#intel

📰 Gentoo Releases Experimental Images Using GNU/Hurd Following an April Fools' Day tease of Gentoo claiming they were going to switch to GNU Hurd as their primary kernel moving forward, they have now acknowledged the joke but in fact also announcing there are now experimental Gentoo GNU/Hurd images available... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-GNU-Hurd-Experimental #gnu#kernel

📰 Chiaki-ng the open-source PlayStation Remote Play app gets better streaming quality and stability The open-source community made PlayStation Remote Play app Chiaki-ng v1.10.0 has rolled out, making it even better to stream games to other systems.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. 🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/chiaki-ng-the-open-source-playstation-remote-play-app-gets-better-streaming-quality-and-stability/ #opensource

📰 Meta Has A New Linux Optimization To Avoid Throttling TCP Throughput Unnecessarily Meta's great Linux engineering team have been working through some fresh performance optimizations recently from optimizing /proc/interrupts outputs to renewing their investment in jemalloc. A new Linux kernel patch this week provides another optimization to avoid a possible situation of throttling the TCP throughput unnecessarily on Linux systems... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-VM-Pressure-TCP-Through #linux#kernel

📰 Valve recently confirmed Steam game pricing updates across different regions At the end of March, Valve issued an announcement to game developers on Steam about changes to how games get priced across different regions.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. 🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/valve-recently-confirmed-steam-game-pricing-updates-across-different-regions/ #steam

📰 When a billboard survives the wind, but not the boot This GRUB is not an advert for some tasty fried food Bork!Bork!Bork! It's one thing to bare your undercarriage in private. It's a whole other thing to do so on the side of a road, risking the possibility that passing drivers will question your Linux competence.… 🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/03/when_a_billboard_survives_the/ #linux

📰 Snapdragon X2's Adreno X2-85 GPU Sees Driver Improvements For Linux 7.1 Rob Clark on Thursday sent out the batch of MSM DRM driver feature changes targeting the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window. This new work for DRM-Next includes enhancements to the Adreno X2-85 GPU support as found within the new Snapdragon X2 laptop SoCs plus various enhancements to existing Qualcomm graphics/display hardware... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Qualcomm-MSM #linux

📰 FreeBSD Laptop Project Hopes To Port Newer Linux Graphics Drivers This Year Developers working on the FreeBSD laptop initiative to make the FreeBSD operating system more suitable for running on modern laptop hardware have drafted their road-map of further action items they hope to accomplish in 2026... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Newer-GPU-Drivers-2026 #linux

📰 Arch-Based Artix Linux 2026.04 Released With XLibre as Default X Server Arch-based systemd-free Artix Linux 2026.04 is out with XLibre by default and PipeWire replacing PulseAudio in ISOs. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/artix-linux-2026-04-released-with-xlibre-as-default-x-serve/ #linux#systemd#arch

📰 Systemd-Free Artix Linux Sees First Release in 2026 with XLibre and PipeWire Artix Linux 2026.04 distribution is now available for download with XLibre and PipeWire by default, Linux kernel 6.19, and more. Here's what's new! 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/systemd-free-artix-linux-sees-first-release-in-2026-with-xlibre-and-pipewire #linux#systemd#kernel

📰 AMD P-State Driver Introducing New Features With Linux 7.1 A few Linux kernel releases have passed since there have been any new features to talk about for the AMD P-State driver for CPU frequency scaling / power management with modern AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors. But for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel there are some new features now ready for mainline... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-Linux-7.1 #linux#amd#kernel

📰 Parrot Linux Takes Stand Against Age Verification Parrot Linux publishes an official statement against age verification as opposition grows across the Linux and open-source world. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/parrot-linux-takes-stand-against-age-verification/ #linux#opensource