As part of my ongoing testing around the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 release I have been running a lot of benchmarks. After recently showing some nice performance gains for AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" with Ubuntu 26.04, several Phoronix readers inquired about any performance uplift from the more modest but still powerful Strix Point laptops like the popular Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 SKU. Here are benchmarks showing the performance of Ubuntu 26.04 in its near final state compared to Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS with its HWE stack on an ASUS Zenbook S16.

Fedora 44 missed its April 14 release target after final blocker bugs forced a delay, pushing the expected launch to at least April 21.

NGINX 1.30 is now the new stable branch, introducing HTTP Early Hints, Encrypted ClientHello, sticky sessions, and backend HTTP/2 support.

In advance of the Linux 7.1 merge window opening, Miguel Ojeda sent out all of the Rust feature updates on Friday. This includes bumping the minimum Rust version for building the Linux kernel as well as a new experimental option that can provide better performance for Rust code within the kernel, alongside other updates...

What, you think basic usability is improved just for your benefit, human? Cloudflare is rebuilding Wrangler’s command-line tooling by adding commands for products and interfaces that still lack CLI support. And yes, AI agents are a big reason why.…

Sent out today was an initial patch series for comment on introducing the FTRFS file-system. The FTRFS proposal is more interesting than last week's VMUFAT file-system proposal...

Kontainer is a new KDE frontend for Distrobox that gives Plasma users a simpler way to create and manage Linux containers.

The Spack package manager is quite popular in the HPC / supercomputer space for scientific software. Even with the more selective niche than a typical general purpose OS package manager, large language models (LLMs) have already proven capable of being useful in generating new Spack packages. But there have also been some headaches involved too for Spack developers...

openSUSE Tumbleweed has replaced GRUB2-BLS with systemd-boot as the default bootloader for fresh installations.

Last month we showcased GreenBoost as an open-source means of augmenting NVIDIA GPU vRAM with system RAM and NVMe storage. This memory tiering solution for NVIDIA GPUs was developed by an open-source developer with a focus on CUDA and allowing larger LLMs to be handled on graphics cards with smaller vRAM capacities. There was a setback to the project due to NVIDIA legal but now the project is going in new form and also has introduced GreenBoost-Proton for helping Linux gaming on NVIDIA hardware...

The Linux 7.0 kernel is now out, and it’s one of the most impactful releases in years for networking professionals. Key improvements include:

Accurate Explicit Congestion Notification (AccECN) now default UDP performance boost IPv6 enhancements CAKE MQ (Common Applications Kept Enhanced) network scheduler integration

France is transitioning government desktops to Linux, with each ministry required to formalize its implementation plan by autumn 2026.

A big infrastructure grant from Anthropic, and an investment from the Linux Foundation's Alpha-Omega, quietly become seed money for Apache’s new “responsible AI” push.

DavMail 6.6 improves Exchange and Office 365 access on Linux with authentication fixes, XDG config support, and packaging updates.

The open-source, Rust-based Servo browser engine has been improving its Servoshell demo browser application while one of the most promising potentials for this engine is around embedded use as an alternative to the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). With the latest moves by Servo developers, they are making for a more compelling story for its use...

Linux 7.0 has been officially released, and while it will soon be available on the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Racoon) release, due out on April 23rd, 2026, you can install it right now on your Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) system.

Is AI coming for your sysadmin job? We analyzed 7,120 Linux job postings to find out. The answer: infrastructure skills aren't being replaced - they're being built on. But the floor of what you need to know is rising fast. AI appears in just 15.5% of listings while Docker and Kubernetes remain the tightest skill pair in the dataset. The real story is where the money is going - and which skills get you there.

Linux kernel 7.0 is now available, featuring stable Rust support and updates to filesystems, networking, virtualization, and security.

The Trisquel Project released Trisquel GNU/Linux 12.0 LTS (codename Ecne) today as the latest stable version of this 100% free operating system for home users, small enterprises, and educational centers.

Cage as the Wayland compositor providing a kiosk mode for single, maximized apps is out with a new feature release more than six months after its prior version...

The 287th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending April 12th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

As expected the stable Linux 7.0 kernel was just released today in marking this next kernel release. The Linux 7.0 milestone comes due to Linus Torvalds' preference of bumping the major version number after hitting X.19 as opposed to any single major change, but in any event there are a lot of great improvements and changes to find with this new kernel version. Linux 7.0 is also what's powering the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release...

Calibre 9.7 open-source e-book management software is now available for download with support for grouping results by any field in the annotations browser and other changes.

Once a fixture on the lecture circuit, GNU’s creator — and the father of Free Software — is slowly re?emerging in the US, updating his message for the 2020s.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Linux kernel 7.0, Trisquel 12.0, COSMIC Desktop 1.0.9, Nano 9.0, France launches government Linux desktop plan, AerynOS gets a new logo, and more.

Linux kernel 7.0 is now available for download, as announced today by Linus Torvalds himself, featuring enhanced hardware support, filesystem and networking improvements, security enhancements, and many other changes.

For those sticking to absolute free software ideals, Trisquel 12.0 was released this weekend for this Free Software Foundation (FSF) approved distribution for only containing free software and foregoing loadable microcode/firmware and running on the Linux-libre kernel even with its reduced scope in hardware support...

KDE Frameworks 6.25 open-source software suite is out now with various improvements and bug fixes for KDE apps and the Plasma desktop environment. Here’s what’s new!

FreeBSD has started public laptop testing as part of its larger effort to improve hardware support and become a stronger option for everyday desktop use.

With Linux 7.0 expected for release later today, in turn the Linux 7.1 merge window will kick off for the two week period of landing all sorts of exciting new features, changes, and removal of old features from the kernel. Here is a look at some of what is on the table for the Linux 7.1 merge window...