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📰 Linux 7.0 Release, Age Verification Laws, Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 & Other April Happenings A lot happened in the Linux and open-source world during the month of April. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44 shipped, a lot of news around age attestation/verification laws, the Linux 7.0 kernel was released, Linux 7.1 is bringing many exciting changes as well as removing of old hardware drivers, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition CPU was released, we began testing the Intel Arc Pro B70 "BMG-G31", and much more software and hardware content that... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/April-2026-Highlights #fedora#intel#kernel#linux#opensource#ubuntu

📰 Mesa Developers Consider Branching Off Some Older GPU Drivers - Including AMD R300/R600 Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics team has ignited a discussion over potentially shifting some of Mesa's older GPU drivers into a new legacy Git branch in order to better support the more modern OpenGL and Vulkan drivers without having to worry about breaking the legacy drivers and to allow for better cleaning of the Mesa codebase. Among the drivers that could be impacted are the ATI/AMD R300 and R600 drivers and many smaller drivers... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Considering-Amber-2 #amd#linux

📰 Linux 7.2 To Set Default DRM Scheduler Priority To "Fair", New AIE4 Hardware In AMDXDNA Even while the Linux 7.1 merge window was still ongoing this month, the initial "drm-misc-next" pull request to DRM-Next was sent out for beginning to queue new feature material toward the Linux 7.2 kernel coming this summer... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Initial-DRM-Misc-Next #kernel#linux

📰 The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed CopyFail threatens multi-tenant servers, CI/CD work flows, Kubernetes containers, and more. 🔗 Source: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/04/as-the-most-severe-linux-threat-in-years-surfaces-the-world-scrambles/ #linux

📰 Shotcut 26.4 Video Editor Adds Vulkan GPU to Speech to Text on Linux Shotcut 26.4 open-source video editor is now available for download with Vulkan GPU support for Speech to Text on Linux, 10-bit VP9 MP4 (E-AC-3) and 10-bit VP9 WebM (Opus) export presets, and more. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/shotcut-26-4-video-editor-adds-vulkan-gpu-to-speech-to-text-on-linux #linux#opensource

📰 Grml 2026.04 Linux Distro Is Out with Linux Kernel 6.19, Based on Debian 14 Forky Grml 2026.04 GNU/Linux distribution is now available for download based on Debian Testing/Forky and powered by Linux kernel 6.19. Here’s what’s new! 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/grml-2026-04-linux-distro-is-out-with-linux-kernel-6-19-based-on-debian-14-forky #debian#distro#gnu#kernel#linux

📰 Linux Mint To Begin Publishing HWE ISOs For Better Hardware Support Due to Linux Mint moving to a longer development cycle with their next release not due until December, Linux Mint developers have decided to begin regularly publishing hardware enablement "HWE" ISOs with newer Linux kernel versions to provide better support for new hardware... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-HWE-ISOs #kernel#linux

📰 AerynOS Gets New Branding and Updated Desktop Stacks AerynOS 2026.05 arrives with refreshed branding, GNOME 50.1, KDE Plasma 6.6.4, COSMIC 1.0.11, and Linux kernel 7.0.2. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/aerynos-gets-new-branding-and-updated-desktop-stacks/ #gnome#kde#kernel#linux#plasma

📰 CachyOS Linux Performance Leading Over Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Fedora Workstation 44 It's not too entirely surprising given the aggressive stance that the CachyOS Linux distribution has taken on out-of-the-box performance, but for those curious, it continues largely leading over the newly-released Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44 distributions for the leading performance on modern hardware. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-ubuntu-2604-fedora-44 #fedora#linux#ubuntu

📰 AerynOS Updated With Linux 7.0, Gaming Optimized Kernel Flavor AerynOS, the Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS, is out with a new monthly ISO refresh and details on other recent improvements to this original, from-scratch Linux distribution... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AerynOS-April-2026-Update #kernel#linux

📰 New Linux ‘Copy Fail’ flaw gives hackers root on major distros An exploit has been published for a local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed "Copy Fail" that impacts Linux kernels released since 2017, allowing an unprivileged local attacker to gain root permissions. 🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-linux-copy-fail-flaw-gives-hackers-root-on-major-distros/ #linux

📰 CPPC v4 Support Being Worked On NVIDIA For The Linux ACPI Driver Last year with the ACPI 6.6 specification release came revised Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) support for enhancing the capabilities around this standard for OS management of the performance of CPU cores using an abstract performance scale. That CPPC v4 support is now being worked on for the acpi_cppc Linux driver by NVIDIA engineers... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ACPI-CPPC-v4-Linux #linux