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📰 Linux 7.0 Release, Age Verification Laws, Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 & Other April Happenings A lot happened in the Linux and open-source world during the month of April. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44 shipped, a lot of news around age attestation/verification laws, the Linux 7.0 kernel was released, Linux 7.1 is bringing many exciting changes as well as removing of old hardware drivers, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition CPU was released, we began testing the Intel Arc Pro B70 "BMG-G31", and much more software and hardware content that... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/April-2026-Highlights #fedora#intel#kernel#linux#opensource#ubuntu

📰 Linux MAINTAINERS Cleaning For Recently Departed Intel Devs, Altera Drivers Oprhaned The layoffs and restructuring at Intel in 2025 caused unfortunate hits to their Linux/open-source engineering including various driver maintainers leaving and even their CPU temperature driver being orphaned for lack of maintainers. Sent out today were a number of additional updates to the MAINTAINERS file for the Linux kernel to reflect other Intel departures in recent months. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-MAINTAINERS-Intel-March #linux#opensource#intel#kernel

📰 Intel Begins Preparations For Xe3P Upstreaming To Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers Following the mainline Linux kernel beginning to see Xe3P graphics enablement for upcoming Nova Lake integrated graphics as well as the Crescent Island AI inference accelerator, Intel's Mesa OpenGL "Iris" and Vulkan "ANV" drivers are preparing to begin laying out their Xe3P driver support... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Mesa-Xe3P-Start #linux#opensource#intel#kernel

📰 New Framework 13 Pro is the first to be Ubuntu Certified Framework’s new 13 Pro laptop is the company’s first to ship as certified for Ubuntu, who say you can buy it knowing you’ll get “guaranteed support right out of the box”. Framework hardware have been popular with Linux users for years, not just for the company’s ethos around upgradeable and repairable hardware but their kernel contributions and financial support for open-source projects and developers. 🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/framework-13-pro-ubuntu-certified #kernel#linux#opensource#ubuntu

📰 Open-Source Nouveau Performance With Linux 7.0 + NVK Mesa 26.1-dev vs. NVIDIA Linux Driver As a few months have passed since our prior round of testing the fully open-source NVIDIA Linux driver stack with the Nouveau kernel driver and Mesa NVK Vulkan driver plus Zink, here is a fresh round of benchmarks using Linux 7.0 and Mesa 26.1-dev compared to the open-source stack shipped by Ubuntu 25.10 (Linux 6.17 + Mesa 25.2) for showing how far the open-source NVIDIA driver has progressed the past few months. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-70-nouveau #opensource#ubuntu#linux#kernel

📰Running Four Intel Graphics Cards Under Linux On Ubuntu 26.04 It's been nearly one year to the week since Intel introduced Project Battlematrix as their initiative for improving their Linux driver support for the Arc Pro B-Series with enhancements such as bettering the multi-GPU support in allowing up to eight Arc Pro GPUs per system as well as other open-source driver optimizations in the era of AI. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-pro-b70-four #intel#linux#opensource#ubuntu

📰 Linux's adorable Tux the Penguin mascot turns 30 today, and the OG design is still being used Whenever people think of Linux, the first thing that springs to mind, regardless of whether they're an open-source vet or if they've never even touched a Linux PC before, is Tux. Tux is the penguin associated with the Linux kernel as a whole, and he's found his way onto operating systems, merch, and various memes that depict the image creator's distaste for Windows. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/linuxs-tux-the-penguin-mascot-turns-30-today/ #kernel#linux#opensource

📰 Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver For Workstation Graphics Performance When having the HP Z6 G5 A workstation in the lab for benchmarking, one of the curiosity-driven tests was seeing how well the latest open-source and upstream Nouveau driver stack is competing against the latest official NVIDIA R595 driver for workstations. The official NVIDIA Linux driver stack remains the best positioned software solution for RTX (PRO) hardware but Nouveau continues evolving while awaiting the Nova kernel driver to reach the... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-nouveau-nvk-may2026 #kernel#linux#opensource

📰 RISC-V BeagleV Ahead Single Board Computer To See Working HDMI With Linux 7.1 The BeagleV Ahead is an open-source RISC-V single board computer S(BC) built around the quad-core TH1520 SoC. With the Linux 7.1 mainline kernel there is HDMI display support coming now that the Device Tree bits have been added... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-BeagleV-Ahead-HDMI #kernel#linux#opensource

📰 NXP Neutron NPU Kernel Driver Blocked For Now By A Closed-Source User-Space Blob Last month NXP posted open-source Linux kernel driver patches for their Neutron NPU accelerator. The NXP Neutron NPU aims to help with edge AI applications and this neural processing unit is found in their different SoCs. Unfortunately, their GitHub repository for the user-space software ends up containing a binary-only blob that will end up delaying plans on getting this driver into the mainline Linux kernel... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NXP-Neutron-NPU-User-Blob #opensource#linux#kernel

📰 OpenWrt 25.12 Released with APK Package Manager Replacing opkg OpenWrt 25.12 open-source router firmware arrives with a major shift to the APK package manager, replacing opkg, alongside Linux kernel 6.12. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/openwrt-25-12-released-with-apk-package-manager-replacing-opkg/ #kernel#linux#opensource

📰 Drgn v0.1 Released For Very Versatile Programmable Debugger Drgn is the programmable debugger developed by Meta engineer Omar Sandoval that has proven quite versatile and popular with Linux kernel developers and others. After nearly two dozen releases already, Drgn v0.1 was released this week as another big step forward for this open-source debugger... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Drgn-0.1-Released #opensource#linux#kernel