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📰 Fedora Rejects Proposal To Use systemd For Managing Per-User Environment Variables The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" this week rejected a change proposal for Fedora 45 that would use systemd's environment generator functionality for managing per-user environment variables... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Rejects-systemd-Feature #systemd#fedora

📰 NVIDIA announce a preview of "DRM Per-Plane Color Pipeline API" support on Linux (good for HDR) NVIDIA just announced something quite interesting, in the form of an upcoming update for their GPU drivers for Linux.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. 🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/nvidia-announce-a-preview-of-drm-per-plane-color-pipeline-api-support-on-linux-good-for-hdr/ #linux

📰 'NoVoice' Android malware on Google Play infected 2.3 million devices A new Android malware named NoVoice was found on Google Play, hidden in more than 50 apps that were downloaded at least 2.3 million times. 🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/novoice-android-malware-on-google-play-infected-23-million-devices/ #android

📰 Budget mini-PCs peaked with the N100, and nothing else comes close for the price – not even the Raspberry Pi The N100 is still the king of budget-friendly mini-PCs. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/budget-mini-pcs-peaked-with-the-n100/ #raspberry

📰HarfBuzz 14.0 Released With New GPU Accelerated Text Rendering Library HarfBuzz is the open-source text shaping engine originally born out of the FreeType project and now widely-used by GNOME, KDE, Java, Flutter, Godot, Chromium, LibreOffice, and countless other applications. HarfBuzz 14.0 released today and making this release quite exciting is introducing a GPU-accelerated text rendering library... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/HarfBuzz-14.0-Released #kde#opensource#chromium#gnome

📰 The Linux Kernel's Minimum Rust Version Supported Prepares For Rust 1.85 Baseline The Rust-For-Linux crew is preparing to raise the minimum supported Rust version for building the Linux kernel and and similarly also bumping the minimum supported version of bindgen, the tool for generating Rust FFI bindings for C code in the kernel... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Preps-For-Rust-1.85-Base #linux#kernel

📰 Wayland Protocols 1.48 Released With XDG Session Management Wayland Protocols 1.48 is out today with the long-awaited XDG Session Management protocol in tow as well as several new experimental protocols... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Protocols-1.48 #wayland

📰 Dell XPS 13 Snapdragon Elite Laptop Sees New EC Linux Driver To Improve Support Last month Dell upstreamed the firmware needed for their XPS 13 935 Snapdragon X1 Elite laptop. This makes the Linux outlook for this ARM-based Dell XPS laptop much better than before in not having to worry about extracting necessary firmware blobs from Windows 11. Now another step forward for the Dell XPS 13 9345 is being made with a new EC driver being posted to enhance the hardware support... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dell-XPS-13-9345-EC-Driver #arm#linux

Prices hiked on most Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 variants • The Register https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/01/raspberry_pi_price_hikes/

📰 AerynOS March 2026 Update Brings GNOME 50, KDE 6.6.3, and Linux 6.18 AerynOS March alpha ISO brings GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6.3, Linux kernel 6.18, and tooling improvements across moss and boulder. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/aerynos-march-2026-update-brings-gnome-50-kde-6-6-3-and-linux-6-18/ #kde#linux#kernel#plasma#gnome

📰 Claude AI finds Vim, Emacs RCE bugs that trigger on file open Vulnerabilities in the Vim and GNU Emacs text editors, discovered using simple prompts with the Claude assistant, allow remote code execution simply by opening a file. 🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/claude-ai-finds-vim-emacs-rce-bugs-that-trigger-on-file-open/ #gnu

📰 New Rust-Based BUS1 In-Kernel IPC In Development For The Linux Kernel After KDBUS failed to make it into the mainline Linux kernel more than one decade ago as an in-kernel version of D-Bus, BUS1 was proposed as a clean sheet design for in-kernel, capability-based inter-process communication (IPC). BUS1 didn't gain enough traction to make it to the mainline kernel and then many of the same developers devised Dbus-Broker as a more performant D-Bus user-space implementation. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/BUS1-Linux-2026 #linux#kernel