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📰 Valve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT Finally Working On Linux Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team is the one that worked on improving the old AMD Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics card support by making AMDGPU driver improvements so it could become the default for these Southern Islands and Sea Islands GPUs rather than the legacy Radeon kernel driver. That meant better performance, RADV Vulkan support out-of-the-box, and other benefits. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Harvested-GPUs-Linux #amd#kernel#linux

📰 Solus 4.9 “Serenity” Released with Linux 6.18 LTS, KDE Plasma 6.6, and More Solus 4.9 distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.18 LTS, Budgie 10.9.4, KDE Plasma 6.6, GNOME 49.5, and Xfce 4.20. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/solus-4-9-serenity-released-with-linux-6-18-lts-kde-plasma-6-6-and-more #budgie#gnome#kde#kernel#linux#plasma

📰 The "NTFS Resurrection" Has Occurred For Linux 7.1 As a very exciting follow-up to the recent article around the new NTFS driver being submitted for Linux 7.1 to address the shortcomings of the current Paragon NTFS3 driver and the prior read-only NTFS kernel driver, that work has been merged!... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-New-NTFS-Driver #kernel#linux

📰 New Lenovo Fan Driver, More ASUS Motherboards With Sensor Monitoring For Linux 7.1 All of the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 7.1 kernel... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-HWMON #kernel#linux

📰 Russian Baikal CPUs Are Losing Their Place in the Linux Kernel After sanctions, bankruptcy and removal of kernel maintainers, Baikal's unfinished kernel code is being removed. 🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17320657/linux-kernel-baikal-cpu-support-removal #kernel#linux

📰 Intel LASS In Good Shape For Linux 7.1 In addition to Linux 7.1 supporting FRED by default for Flexible Return and Event Delivery, another Intel CPU feature now in good shape for this next kernel version is Linear Address Space Separation (LASS)... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LASS-Linux-7.1 #intel#kernel#linux

📰 Linux Begins Removing Support For Russia's Baikal CPUs Beyond Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out Intel 486 CPU support, this next Linux kernel version is also beginning to remove driver code for supporting Russia's Baikal CPUs... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Baikal-CPUs #intel#kernel#linux

📰 AMD Linux Graphics Driver Introducing "Power Module" To Better Match Windows Behavior With the set of today's AMDGPU kernel graphics driver Display Core (DC) patches is a rather curious addition with wiring up the Linux code to a "power module" that looks like it will better match Microsoft Windows behavior with the AMD Radeon driver around display-related power savings features... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-DC-Power-Module #amd#kernel#linux

📰 WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD Merged For Linux 7.1: Significant Win For CPUs With Many Cores Per LLC The workqueue changes merged today for the Linux 7.1 kernel are significant for today's modern high-end processors where there can be many CPU cores per last level cache (LLC / L3 cache). The new WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD affinity scope can reduce some contention on such systems and help achieve greater performance... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-WQ #kernel#linux

📰 Zorin OS 18.1 released, new Lite edition available The first point release to Zorin OS 18 is now available for download, arriving six months and some 3.3 million downloads after the original launch. Zorin OS 18.1 is a point release update. It’s still based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS-based but adds a variety of desktop refinements, updated software and a new kernel (courtesy of the recent Ubuntu HWE from Canonical). A new Zorin OS Lite also launches today. 🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/zorin-os-18-1-released #kernel#ubuntu#zorin

📰 Linux Kernel 7.1 Drops 486 and AMD Elan CPU Support Linux kernel 7.1 development begins with x86 changes removing 486, 486SX, and AMD Elan CPU support. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/linux-kernel-7-1-drops-486-and-amd-elan-cpu-support/ #amd#kernel#linux

📰 Linus Torvalds Merged The Code Beginning To Remove Intel 486 CPU Support In Linux 7.1 As a follow-up to the news first-covered on Phoronix earlier this month about Linux 7.1 expected to begin removing i486 CPU support: it indeed happened. Linus Torvalds took the initial removal bits today without any fuss today for beginning the phase out of M486 / M486SX / ELAN kernel support... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Begins-Removing-i486 #intel#kernel#linux