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📰 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

📰 LLM-Assisted Patches For Linux 7.1 May Have Negative Impact On 32-bit Systems Code now merged for the Linux 7.1 kernel may provide some negative performance implications for those still running modern Linux kernels on 32-bit hardware. A fundamental change can present cache line alignment and slab sizing implications for 32-bit Linux OS users but will provide for cleaner code with modern 64-bit computing... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-VFS-Kino-32-bit #kernel#linux

📰 Opera GX for Linux arrives on Flathub & Snap store Installing Opera GX on Linux is now easier, with official packages available on the Canonical Snap Store and Flathub. Opera GX made its debut Linux release in March 2026, with the gaming-centric web browser porting over many of the novel features that have helped to make it a modest hit on Windows and macOS. That includes CPU, RAM and network controls provided, background sounds, themes and eye-candy like web shaders. 🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/opera-gx-linux-snap-flathub #linux

📰Tributary is a GTK4 reimagining of Rhythmbox music player Ever wondered what a GTK4/libadwaita version of Linux music player Rhythmbox might look like? A new app in development imagines just that. Tributary is billed a “high-performance, Rhythmbox-style media manager written in pure Rust with GTK4 and libadwaita”. It’s more than a way to play local audio files, too. Tributary can access and stream music from Jellyfin, Plex, DAAP/iTunes shares, internet radio stations and Subsonic/Navidrome setups as... 🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/tributary-music-player-gtk4 #linux

📰 Sentinel is an achievement watcher for non-Steam games on Linux Love achievement hunting but play games outside of Steam on Linux? Sounds like Sentinel is an open source tool you'll want to see.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. 🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/sentinel-is-an-achievement-watcher-for-non-steam-games-on-linux/ #linux#opensource#steam

📰 SteamVR Beta 2.16.3 brings Linux fixes for VRLink Seems SteamVR for Linux really is getting some more attention recently, after a number of fixes in the previous Beta we have a few more here.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. 🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/steamvr-beta-2-16-3-brings-linux-fixes-for-vrlink/ #linux

📰 user.* xattrs On Sockets Merged For Linux 7.1 As Sought By GNOME & systemd Developers On this first day of the Linux 7.1 merge window, among the early pull requests merged were beginning to land the various VFS pull requests submitted by Christian Brauner. Among that code merged is enabling support for user.* extended attributes on sockets... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-User-xattrs-Sockets #gnome#linux#systemd

📰 Fake Linux leader using Slack to con devs into giving up their secrets Google Sites lure leads to bogus root certificate Imagine getting asked to do something by a person in authority. An unknown malware slinger targeting open source software developers via Slack impersonated a real Linux Foundation official and used pages hosted on Google.com to steal developers' credentials and take over their systems.… 🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/13/linux_foundation_social_engineering/ #linux#opensource

📰 Kontainer Brings a Native KDE GUI to Distrobox Container Management Kontainer is a new KDE frontend for Distrobox that gives Plasma users a simpler way to create and manage Linux containers. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/kontainer-brings-a-native-kde-gui-to-distrobox-container-management/ #kde#linux#plasma

📰 Rust For Linux 7.1 Bringing Experimental Option That Can Help Performance In advance of the Linux 7.1 merge window opening, Miguel Ojeda sent out all of the Rust feature updates on Friday. This includes bumping the minimum Rust version for building the Linux kernel as well as a new experimental option that can provide better performance for Rust code within the kernel, alongside other updates... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Rust #kernel#linux

📰 An Open Source Dev Has Put Together a Fix for AMD GPU's VRAM Mismanagement on Linux Six kernel patches and two utilities later, the VRAM situation for AMD GPUs is better now. 🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17318424/linux-amd-gpu-vram-fix #amd#kernel#linux#opensource