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📰 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

📰 New NTFS File-System Driver Submitted For Linux 7.1 Making today very exciting in Linux 7.1 merge window land was a pull request being sent out for introducing the new, modern NTFS file-system driver. Linus Torvalds has yet to comment if he's going to merge the new driver but it looks like it's ready for providing a better Linux NTFS experience over the current NTFS3 driver that was upstreamed by Paragon Software a few years ago and hasn't seen too much feature progress... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/New-NTFS-Driver-Submitted-Linux #linux

📰 AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 Adds i686 User-Space Packages The community-based AlmaLinux OS alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) continues exploring ways to better differentiate it from upstream RHEL and other derivatives. The latest difference is AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 adding i686 user-space packages for those wanting to run on a RHEL 10 based platform but still needing x86 32-bit user-space software compatibility... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-Kitten-i686-Userspace #linux

📰COSMIC desktop surprised me, because it's the Linux DE I've been waiting for Discover the Linux desktop environment that's turning heads with its modern tech, superior performance, and unmatched user experience. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/cosmic-desktop-is-the-linux-de-ive-been-waiting-for/ #linux

📰 Linux Mint Will Adopt a Longer Development Cycle Starting with Linux Mint 23 Linux Mint devs announced that they will adopt a longer development cycle starting with the upcoming Linux Mint 23 release, as well as other important changes to the distribution. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-will-adopt-a-longer-development-cycle-starting-with-linux-mint-23 #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

📰 Arch Linux's Archinstall 4.2 Fixes Botched Disk Encryption Security Archinstall 4.2 is now available as the latest update to this very convenient, text-based Arch Linux OS installer... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Archinstall-4.2 #arch#linux#security

📰 Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager Kamila Szewczyk prefers old software, as back then people understood something could actually be finished No one can tell software developer Kamila Szewczyk that newer is better: She just fixed a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16, the old-school Linux window manager she favors partly because, she tells us, it is actually finished software.… 🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/enlightenment_e16_bug_patched/ #linux

📰 Sched QoS For Linux Aims To Improve Scheduling & Inspired In Part By Apple's QoS Classes Linux developer Qais Yousef with Google has announced the alpha release of Sched QoS as a new initiative for user-space assisted scheduling. The scheduling model in turn is based in part on Apple's quality of service classes used by iOS for classifying software as user interactive, user initiative, utility, or background tasks... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Sched-QoS-v0.1 #linux