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📰 LACT 0.9 Released With UI Updates, Voltage-Frequency Curve Editor For NVIDIA LACT, one of the leading open-source solutions to provide a graphics card management GUI that works across AMD / NVIDIA / Intel graphics hardware on Linux, is out with a major update this weekend... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/LACT-0.9-Released #amd#intel#linux#opensource

📰 Microsoft Reportedly Looking At Rebasing Azure Linux On Fedora Microsoft's in-house Azure Linux operating system used within Azure and for WSL and other purposes is reportedly pursuing an overhaul where it would be derived from Fedora Linux... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/MS-Azure-Linux-Fedora-Based #fedora#linux

📰 New NTFS Driver Sees A Number Of Fixes Ahead Of Linux 7.1-rc1 With the Linux 7.1-rc1 kernel release due out tomorrow to cap off the Linux 7.1 merge window, one of the most notable additions this cycle is the introduction of the new NTFS driver that aims to provide better performance and more modern features than the existing NTFS3 in-kernel driver that was originally contributed by Paragon Software... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/New-NTFS-Driver-Fixes-Linux-7.1 #kernel#linux

📰 Farewell ISDN, Ham Radio & Old Network Drivers: Linus Torvalds Merges 138k L.O.C. Removal Linus Torvalds did it! He merged the pull request to rid the Linux kernel of the old Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) subsystem and various other old network drivers largely for PCMCIA era network adapters. This was the code suggested for removal given the recent influx of AI/LLM-generated bug reports against this dated code that likely has no active upstream users remaining... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Removes-Old-Net #kernel#linux

📰 More ancient Linux device support faces the chop One way to deal with bug hunting LLMs: ditch the old drivers One tactic to deal with LLM-powered vulnerability detection is simple – just speed up the removal of old code. If it's gone, it no longer matters if it's buggy.… 🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/24/ancient_linux_drivers_going/ #linux

📰 Many Intel & AMD Laptop Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1 As usual in recent years, there were many x86 platform driver changes merged this cycle for benefiting modern AMD Ryzen and Intel Core (Ultra) laptops. A variety of new features and laptop hardware support additions were merged for Linux 7.1... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-x86-Platform-Drivers #amd#intel#linux

📰 Fedora is becoming the default Linux recommendation, and Ubuntu did this to itself Ubuntu used to be the easiest recommendation for a new Linux user, but recent bad decisions have caused things to shift in favor of Fedora. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/fedora-becoming-default-linux-recommendation-ubuntu-fault/ #fedora#linux#ubuntu

📰 Tails 7.7 Anonymous Distro Adds Detection of Outdated Secure Boot Certificates Tails 7.7 anonymous Linux distribution is now available for download with automatic detection of outdated Secure Boot certificates, Tor Browser 15.0.10, and other changes. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/tails-7-7-anonymous-distro-adds-detection-of-outdated-secure-boot-certificates #distro#linux

📰 Pull Request For Linux To Remove Old Network Drivers, ISDN Subsystem Due To AI/LLM Noise It was just days ago we reported on a proposal to drop old network drivers due to AI-driven bug reports becoming a burden on upstream kernel developers. Last night that culminated with an initial pull request to clear out some old, unused networking drivers plus also clearing out the entire ISDN subsystem and more... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-PR-Remove-Old-Net #kernel#linux

📰 HDMI FRL Support Achieved With Open-Source Nouveau For NVIDIA GPUs While the AMDGPU open-source driver has struggled with HDMI 2.1 support due to the HDMI Forum blocking open-source implementations, HDMI Fixed Rate Link (FRL) as a feature of the HDMI 2.1 specification is enjoying success now with the open-source Nouveau graphics driver on Linux for NVIDIA GPUs... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-FRL-On-Nouveau-Linux #linux#opensource

📰 Waydroid runs Android apps on Linux better than Windows ever ran them on WSA The Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) is history now. Microsoft caved in and killed the project, which angered a lot of users because it was one of the main highlights of the Windows 11 launch. Microsoft failed to anticipate the demand for running Android apps with Google Play Store support, and the option to only download apps via the Amazon Appstore didn’t appeal to a lot of users. I thought WSA would kill third-party Android emulators on... 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/waydroid-runs-android-apps-on-linux-better-than-windows-wsa/ #android#linux

📰 Gentoo-Based Redcore Linux Hardened 2601 Released with Kernel 6.19 Redcore Linux Hardened 2601 Vulpecula has been released, featuring Linux kernel 6.19, FFmpeg 8, and updates to the Sisyphus package manager. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/gentoo-based-redcore-linux-hardened-2601-released-with-kernel-6-19/ #ffmpeg#kernel#linux