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📰Star Labs StarFighter Linux Laptop Finally Goes on Sale Star Labs' StarFighter Linux laptop is now available with Intel and AMD options, coreboot firmware, LVFS updates, and a 16-inch display. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/star-labs-starfighter-linux-laptop-finally-goes-on-sale/ #amd#intel#linux

📰 AMD K5 CPUs The Latest To Be Retired With Linux's Aging & Stagnate Hardware Support Following Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out i486 CPU support and in turn drivers like those for the old AMD Elan SoCs now being removed, for Linux 7.2 the processor support removal is going further to now include some i586 and i686 class processors... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-K5-CPUs #amd#linux

📰 StarFighter Linux laptop with detachable webcam and premium specs finally launches Star Labs has been selling Linux laptops and mini PCs since 2017. While most of the company’s products have featured budget or mid-range hardware, Star Labs introduced a premium laptop called the StarFighter in 2022… and then never managed to ship that laptop. Until now. The Star Labs StarFighter is a Linux laptop with a . 🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/starfighter-linux-laptop-with-detachable-webcam-and-premium-specs-finally-launches/ #linux

📰 Flattened Image Tree 1.0 Specification For Embedded Linux Systems The Flattened Image Tree "FIT" 1.0 specification was recently finalized for this container format used by U-Boot on embedded systems for providing various boot components like DTBs, the Linux kernel image, and more into a single file... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flat-Image-Tree-1.0 #kernel#linux

📰 Archinstall 4.2 Shifts to Wayland-First Profiles, Leaving X.Org Behind by George WhittakerThe Arch Linux installer continues evolving alongside the broader Linux desktop ecosystem. With the release of Archinstall 4.2, a notable change has arrived: Wayland is now the default focus for graphical installation profiles, while traditional X.Org-based profiles have been removed or deprioritized. 🔗 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/archinstall-42-shifts-wayland-first-profiles-leaving-xorg-behind #arch#linux#wayland

📰 Linux Drivers For The AMD Elan SoCs From The 1990s On Track For Retirement Merged for the current Linux 7.1 cycle was beginning to phase out the Intel 486 processor support from the mainline kernel moving forward. That initial step with Linux 7.1 was dropping the various Kconfig options to allow compiling Linux kernel builds for targeting various i486 platforms. As part of that, the AMD Elan SoC configuration patches were dropped. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Elan-Linux-Driver-Removal #amd#intel#kernel#linux

📰 PyPI Packages Deliver ZiChatBot Malware via Zulip APIs on Windows and Linux Cybersecurity researchers have discovered three packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that are designed to stealthily deliver a previously unknown malware family called ZiChatBot on Windows and Linux systems."While these wheel packages do implement the features described on their PyPI web pages, their true purpose is to covertly deliver malicious files," Kaspersky. 🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/pypi-packages-deliver-zichatbot-malware.html #linux#python

📰 Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver For Workstation Graphics Performance When having the HP Z6 G5 A workstation in the lab for benchmarking, one of the curiosity-driven tests was seeing how well the latest open-source and upstream Nouveau driver stack is competing against the latest official NVIDIA R595 driver for workstations. The official NVIDIA Linux driver stack remains the best positioned software solution for RTX (PRO) hardware but Nouveau continues evolving while awaiting the Nova kernel driver to reach the... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-nouveau-nvk-may2026 #kernel#linux#opensource

📰 Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Now Supports Device Generated Commands "DGC" Exciting yesterday in the land of Intel's open-source Vulkan driver "ANV" for Linux systems was introducing experimental support for descriptor heaps with the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap extension. Today there is another separate exciting development for this open-source Intel driver: Vulkan device generated commands are finally merged!... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-Vulkan-DGC #intel#linux#opensource

📰 Dell & Lenovo Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service Dell and Lenovo have stepped up to become premier sponsors for the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) that provides for seamless system firmware and device/component firmware updating under Linux with the Fwupd client... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dell-Lenovo-Sponsoring-LVFS #linux

📰 VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 Brings More Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve's Linux graphics driver team announced the release today of VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 for Direct3D 12 over the Vulkan API... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/VKD3D-Proton-3.0.1 #linux#proton

📰 AMD Geode CPU Support Being Orphaned By Linux For those with fond memories of the AMD Geode x86 embedded processors, the Linux kernel is set to orphan these since discontinued and obsolete CPUs... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Geode-Orphaned-By-Linux #amd#kernel#linux