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📰 AMD Introducing New Linux Driver For Their Halo Box: For Its RGB LED Light Bar AMD CEO Lisa Su back at CES 2026 showed off the Ryzen AI Halo box as a mini PC built around their excellent Strix Halo SoC. The Ryzen AI halo box is to serve as an AI development platform to compete with the likes of NVIDIA's DGX Spark and Dell GB10. This week is the first time I am seeing new Linux driver activity specifically referencing this exciting AMD "Halo Box" system... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Halo-Box-RGB-LED-Driver #amd#linux

📰 Thunderbird 150 Lands on Linux: Smarter Encryption, Better Tools, and a Polished Experience by George WhittakerMozilla has officially rolled out Thunderbird 150.0, the latest version of its open-source email client, bringing a mix of security-focused enhancements, usability upgrades, and workflow improvements for Linux and other platforms. Released in April 2026, this update continues Thunderbird’s steady evolution as a powerful desktop email solution. 🔗 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/thunderbird-150-lands-linux-smarter-encryption-better-tools-and-polished-experience #linux#opensource

📰 GTK2 Gets an Unofficial Revival Fork for Legacy Linux Apps A Devuan community developer has launched GTK2-NG, a fork designed to maintain compatibility for legacy GTK2 software on current Linux systems. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/gtk2-gets-an-unofficial-revival-fork-for-legacy-linux-apps/ #linux

📰Microsoft Reportedly Eyes Fedora Base for Azure Linux Microsoft is reportedly considering a Fedora-based foundation for Azure Linux, citing potential x86_64-v3 performance improvements in Fedora ELN meeting logs. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/microsoft-reportedly-eyes-fedora-base-for-azure-linux/ #fedora#linux

📰 IBM Updates Linux Patches For Introducing ARM64 KVM Virtualization On s390 At the start of April was the peculiar announcement of IBM collaborating with Arm on "dual architecture" hardware. The initial fruits of that collaboration at least are Linux kernel patches for enabling ARM64 virtualization acceleration on IBM Z servers. As we approach the end of the month, IBM has now posted a second iteration of those patches for enabling AArch64 software to run on IBM s390 via the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-On-s390-IBM-Z-v2 #arm#kernel#linux

📰 NVIDIA 595.71.05 stable driver released for Linux A tiny Recommended Driver update arrived for NVIDIA GPU owners on Linux, with version 595.71.05 now available.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. 🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/nvidia-595-71-05-stable-driver-released-for-linux/ #linux

📰AMD's Lemonade SDK 10.3 Now 10x Smaller By Getting Rid Of Electron Lemonade as the open-source local AI server backed by AMD and supported across AMD CPUs / GPUs / NPUs on Windows and Linux is out with a big update... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Lemonade-10.3 #amd#linux#opensource

📰Most Linux regret is actually distro regret, and you probably gave up too soon Let's say I'm introducing ice cream to an alien. I get a cone, put a dollop of vanilla ice cream onto it, and hand it over. The alien gives the ice cream a lick, says it doesn't like the flavor, and then states that, as a result, ice cream just isn't for them. Of course, people wouldn't allow the alien to believe that all ice creams taste bad because it didn't like the vanilla flavor; instead, they'd recommend different flavors of ice creams and... 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-regret-actually-distro-regret/ #distro#linux

📰 Fedora Linux 44 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New Fedora Linux 44 distribution is now available for download powered by Linux kernel 6.19 and featuring the latest GNOME 50 and KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environments, and many other enhancements. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/fedora-linux-44-is-now-available-for-download-heres-whats-new #fedora#gnome#kde#kernel#linux#plasma

📰7-Zip 26.01 Now Allows Making Use Of Huge Pages On Linux For Faster Compression 7-Zip 26.01 was released on Monday and making this release significant are huge pages support on Linux and some users may be interested in the new options around the path generation mode for the output directory when extracting archives... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/7-Zip-26.01 #linux

📰IPFire 2.29 Core Update 201 Linux Firewall Distro Released with DNS Firewall IPFire 2.29 Core Update 201 hardened Linux firewall distro is now available for download with DNS Firewall, Intrusion Prevention System improvements, updated components, and other changes. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/ipfire-2-29-core-update-201-linux-firewall-distro-released-with-dns-firewall #distro#linux

📰 Red Hat's Stratis Storage 3.9 Released With Online Encryption/Decryption/Reencryption It's crazy to realize it has been ten years already since Red Hat abandoned their Btrfs plans for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and dropped it, which was a technology preview feature since RHEL6. In its place Red Hat engineers began developing Stratis for next-gen Linux storage with ZFS/Btrfs-like features but instead building atop XFS, LUKS, Device Mapper, and Clevis. After a while since the last major release, Stratis Storage 3.9 released today... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Stratis-Storage-3.9-Released #linux