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📰 Linux 7.1 To Expose AMD Zen 6's AVX-512 BMM For Guest VMs A small but important patch that looks like it will be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel is for enumerating AVX-512 BMM support for KVM virtualized guests. AVX-512 BMM is one of the exciting ISA additions with next-gen AMD Zen 6 processors... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-KVM-AVX-512-BMM #linux#amd#kernel

📰 This lightweight Linux distro is what old hardware has been waiting for Void Linux won’t be the right distro for everyone, but on old hardware, its lean design can feel like a second life. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/lightweight-linux-distro-what-old-hardware-waiting-for/ #distro#linux

📰 Skyscraper brings Bluesky to the Linux terminal What’s better than using a social network? Not using one, I suppose. Or using one in the nerdiest way you can. Case in point, Skyscraper. Created by developer Cameron Banga, Skyscraper is an open-source terminal client for Bluesky, written in Rust and available on GitHub. It does the core essentials – timeline browsing, posting, replies, reposts, likes and profile viewing. 🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/skyscraper-bluesky-terminal-client-linux #linux#opensource

📰 OpenRazer 3.12.1 Enables Two More Razer Devices Under Linux OpenRazer 3.12 released in mid-March as the latest feature update to these open-source drivers for Razer hardware on Linux. Out today is OpenRazer 3.12.1 for enabling two more Razer products on Linux plus shipping a couple fixes... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenRazer-3.12.1-Released #linux#opensource

📰 Arch-Based Omarchy 3.5 Brings Full Intel Panther Lake Support Arch-based Omarchy 3.5 adds Intel Panther Lake support with a patched Linux kernel 6.19, Dell XPS 2026 fixes, and new features. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/arch-based-omarchy-3-5-brings-full-intel-panther-lake-support/ #linux#arch#kernel#intel

📰 Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.32 Adds Wildcat Lake Support Intel today released their Linux NPU Driver 1.32 as the user-space driver components that interacts with the upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver for supporting the NPU hardware with Core Ultra processors... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-NPU-Linux-Driver-1.32 #linux#kernel#intel

📰 CachyOS Delivers More Performance Out Of Intel Panther Lake Most of my Intel Panther Lake benchmarking over the past two months for the new Core Ultra Series 3 hardware has been done with Ubuntu Linux given the pervasiveness of it, especially in the corporate/enterprise space. But for those looking at achieving even greater out-of-the-box Linux performance on Intel Panther Lake, the Arch Linux based CachyOS does a pretty fine job at further advancing the performance. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-panther-lake #linux#arch#ubuntu#intel

📰 Meta Has A New Linux Optimization To Avoid Throttling TCP Throughput Unnecessarily Meta's great Linux engineering team have been working through some fresh performance optimizations recently from optimizing /proc/interrupts outputs to renewing their investment in jemalloc. A new Linux kernel patch this week provides another optimization to avoid a possible situation of throttling the TCP throughput unnecessarily on Linux systems... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-VM-Pressure-TCP-Through #linux#kernel

📰 When a billboard survives the wind, but not the boot This GRUB is not an advert for some tasty fried food Bork!Bork!Bork! It's one thing to bare your undercarriage in private. It's a whole other thing to do so on the side of a road, risking the possibility that passing drivers will question your Linux competence.… 🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/03/when_a_billboard_survives_the/ #linux

📰 Snapdragon X2's Adreno X2-85 GPU Sees Driver Improvements For Linux 7.1 Rob Clark on Thursday sent out the batch of MSM DRM driver feature changes targeting the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window. This new work for DRM-Next includes enhancements to the Adreno X2-85 GPU support as found within the new Snapdragon X2 laptop SoCs plus various enhancements to existing Qualcomm graphics/display hardware... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Qualcomm-MSM #linux

📰 FreeBSD Laptop Project Hopes To Port Newer Linux Graphics Drivers This Year Developers working on the FreeBSD laptop initiative to make the FreeBSD operating system more suitable for running on modern laptop hardware have drafted their road-map of further action items they hope to accomplish in 2026... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Newer-GPU-Drivers-2026 #linux

📰 Arch-Based Artix Linux 2026.04 Released With XLibre as Default X Server Arch-based systemd-free Artix Linux 2026.04 is out with XLibre by default and PipeWire replacing PulseAudio in ISOs. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/artix-linux-2026-04-released-with-xlibre-as-default-x-serve/ #linux#systemd#arch