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📰 Archinstall 4.0 Arch Linux Installer Released with New Textual UI Archinstall 4.0 Arch Linux menu-based installer is now available for download with a new TUI (text-based user interface), new features, and various improvements. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/archinstall-4-0-arch-linux-installer-released-with-new-textual-ui #linux#arch

📰AMD Sends Out Linux Patches For Their Next-Gen AIE4 NPU Hitting the mailing list today are patches providing initial support for AMD's next-gen NPU "AIE4" platform, complete with SR-IOV support... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-AIE4-NPU-AMDXDNA #linux#amd

📰 Ubuntu MATE Leader Stepping Down, Seeking New Contributors After starting and leading the Ubuntu MATE flavor since 2014, Martin Wimpress announced he's looking to step down from leading this flavor of Ubuntu Linux with the MATE desktop environment. He's hoping for new passionate contributors to keep it going... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-MATE-Needs-Leader #linux#ubuntu

📰 Intel Graphics Driver For Linux 7.1 Preps Workaround For Dell XPS Panther Lake Laptop Sent out today was the latest batch of drm-intel-next changes as feature work toward DRM-Next for Linux 7.1 winds down. This week's drm-intel-next pull is mostly fixes and some low-level code refactoring. The only item really standing out is some new quirk infrastructure for dealing with laptop display panels that may have buggy Panel Replay handling... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-7.1-Panel-Replay #linux#intel

📰 AMD Revives Linux Kernel Patches For Hardware-Accelerated vIOMMU Back in 2023 AMD posted hardware-accelerated virtualized IOMMU patches for the Linux kernel as a request for comments (RFC). In 2024 they then posted a second iteration of the AMD vIOMMU patches but then seemingly fell off the radar. This morning is now the first set of updated AMD vIOMMU patches sent out on the Linux kernel mailing list with the RFC tag now removed... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-vIOMMU-2026-Linux #linux#amd#kernel

📰 Linux 7.0-rc6 Released With The Fixes Still Coming In Heavy Linux 7.0-rc6 was just released in quickly working toward the stable Linux 7.0 release in mid-April. This was another busy week with lots of bug fixes... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-rc6-Released #linux

📰 I stopped guessing why my Linux PC was slow and used one command to find out Your boot isn't slow for no reason, it just hasn't told you why yet. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/your-linux-pc-is-probably-booting-slower-than-it-should/ #linux

📰 Linux Ham Radio KISS Serial Driver Being Modernized In 2026 Here's something that wasn't on my bingo card for this year of the "MKISS" driver for ham radio being modernized in 2026 as opposed to just being dropped. The MKISS code hasn't seen much driver activity since the original Git import of the Linux kernel more than twenty years ago... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Ham-Radio-MKISS-2026 #linux#kernel

📰 Intel Prepares Wireless Mode Support For QAT Gen6 Hardware Last year Intel began preparing their QuickAsist Linux driver support for QAT Gen6 hardware with upcoming platforms. That initial Intel QAT Gen6 driver enablement landed back in Linux 6.16 while for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel they are preparing support for a new wireless mode with this next-gen QuickAssist hardware... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-QAT-Gen6-Wireless-Mode #linux#intel#kernel

📰 After 6 Years, One of Wayland’s Most Annoying Problems is Finally Getting Fixed The new xdg-session-management protocol finally brings session saving and restoration to Wayland, eliminating a long-standing annoyance for Linux users and paving the way for a smoother desktop experience. 🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17308544/wayland-session-management #wayland#linux

📰 RadeonSI Driver Lands Fixes For EDuke32 For Those Wanting To Enjoy Duke Nukem 3D In 2026 It's fairly rare for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver to hit OpenGL rendering game bugs these days as besides more games going opting for Vulkan API use, RadeonSI is rather robust and very mature at this stage. Recently though a Linux gamer that upgraded to a Radeon RX 9070 XT RDNA4 graphics card noticed that the open-source EDuke32 Duke Nukem 3D build and its derivatives were failing to render properly with the RadeonSI driver... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/RadeonSI-EDuke32-Fixes #opensource#linux

📰 MX Linux Takes Clear Stance Against Age Verification Requirements MX Linux opposes age verification rules, citing concerns about privacy and the impact on open source development. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/mx-linux-takes-clear-stance-against-age-verification-requirements/ #linux#opensource