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📰 I replaced Android with a full Linux desktop on my old phone, and it's shockingly usable Pocketblue, based on Fedora Atomic, is great on the OnePlus 6. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/replaced-android-full-linux-desktop-old-phone/ #linux#fedora#android

📰 Linux 7.1 Looks To Support Extended Attributes On Sockets For New GNOME & systemd Functionality While the Linux 7.0 feature merge window ended this past weekend and that next kernel release won't debut as stable until April, there are already features out on the horizon that are being positioned for likely merging into the Linux 7.1 kernel assuming no issues appear or objections raised by Linus Torvalds. One of the features already looking like it will be submitted for Linux 7.1 is supporting extended attributes on sockets... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Looks-xattrs-Sockets #linux#systemd#gnome#kernel

📰 Tails 7.5 Updates Tor Browser to 15.0.7 and Improves Thunderbird Security Tails 7.5, a privacy-focused Linux distro, upgrades Tor Browser to 15.0.7, updates the Tor client to 0.4.9.5, and improves Thunderbird security. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/tails-7-5-privacy-focused-linux-distro-released/ #linux#distro

📰 AlmaLinux Showing Nice Growth With More Than 2M System Update Check-Ins Per Week AlmaLinux as one of the leading, modern and community-minded alternatives to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) continues enjoying very nice growth. In their 2025 Year In Review they provided a look at their growth with now having more than two million systems per week checking in for software updates... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-2M-Weekly-Check-Ins #linux

📰 Intel Vulkan Driver Sees Some Minor Optimizations For DX12 Games On Linux Merged to Mesa 26.1-devel this week is a minor improvement to the Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver providing some slight enhancements to DirectX 12 games running on Linux by way of Valve's Steam Play with VKD3D-Proton... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.1-Intel-ANV-DX12-Minor #steam#linux#intel

📰 Some Linux kernels just got a nice LTS end-of-life extension, including 6.12 As much as the FOSS community has an excellent record for maintaining its software for long periods of time after a new version releases, people can't maintain an operating system forever. At some point, you have to cut off the old versions and redirect your efforts onto the newer ones. As such, Linux kernels do have an end-of-life date where support will end for that version. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/some-linux-kernels-just-got-a-nice-lts-end-of-life-date-extension/ #linux

📰 RK3588 and RK3576 video decoders support merged in the upstream Linux Kernel Support for Rockchip’s VDPU381 and VDPU383 decoders is now upstream in Linux, bringing mainline H.264/HEVC decode support, robust IOMMU-reset recovery, and new HEVC V4L2 UAPI controls aligned with Vulkan Video. 🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/rk3588-and-rk3576-video-decoders-support-merged-in-the-upstream-linux-kernel.html #linux#kernel

📰 Linux 6.18 LTS / 6.12 LTS / 6.6 LTS Support Periods Extended Greg Kroah-Hartman today extended the planned maintenance periods of the latest Linux 6.18, Linux 6.12, and Linux 6.6 Long Term Support (LTS) kernel series... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-LTS-6.12-6.6-Extend #linux#kernel

📰 Kernel 6.19: GPU, SoC, and Rust improvements Collabora continues to be a key contributor to the Linux kernel, with 125 patches from 21 developers! Highlights include Arm Mali GPU improvements, expanded MediaTek and Rockchip SoC support, Rust integration progress, and new Rockchip video capture functionality. 🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/kernel-619-gpu-soc-rust-improvements.html #linux#kernel#arm

📰 React Moves to the Linux Foundation With Launch of the React Foundation React and React Native will now operate under the newly formed React Foundation, hosted by the Linux Foundation and backed by major industry members. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/react-moves-to-the-linux-foundation-with-launch-of-the-react-foundation/ #linux

📰 Someone is Bringing Fedora Linux to Phones (And It’s Not Red Hat) A small community project is building immutable Fedora images for tablets and phones. 🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/news/fedora-pocketblue-remix-overview/ #linux#fedora

📰 OpenZFS 2.4.1 Released With Linux 6.19 Compatibility, Many Fixes Following the big OpenZFS 2.4 release back in December, OpenZFS 2.4.1 was released overnight to ship support for the latest Linux 6.19 stable kernel plus a variety of different bug fixes... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.4.1-Released #linux#kernel