New story! How to Run Android Applications on Ubuntu with Waydroid

Discover a step-by-step guide to install Waydroid on Ubuntu and learn the steps to install, list, run, and uninstall Android applications.

New story! Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working'

In space no one can you scream, at Microsoft Many a frustrated user has sworn they'll launch Microsoft Outlook into space, but NASA has actually done it – on a journey around the Moon, where it's now causing problems for astronauts.…

New story! Raspberry Pi CM5 TV Stick Lite Adapts Compute Module 5 for HDMI Dongle Use

A compact carrier board referred to as the Raspberry Pi CM5 TV Stick Lite adapts the Compute Module 5 into a plug-in HDMI form factor. The design allows the module to connect directly to a display while requiring only USB-C power. The board targets portable or embedded use cases where minimizing cabling is a priority. […]

New story! Tiny Corp Begins Accepting Pre-Orders For Their $10M Exabox

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Apr 7, 2026 4:54 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Open-source friendly company Tiny Corp that is behind the Tinygrad MIT-licensed neural network framework and developing a "sovereign" AMD GPU driver stack with their Tinybox hardware offerings has their sights on shipping the Exabox next year. The Tiny Corp's Exabox is expected to retail for around $10M USD but offer immense AI compute power...

New story! JetStream 3 Debuts as a Major Browser Benchmark Update

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Apr 7, 2026 3:23 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
JetStream 3 represents a significant BrowserBench update, supported by Apple, Google, Mozilla, and other browser engine contributors.

New story! Wine Staging 11.6 Ships Big Patch Series For Working On DirectComposition

Following Friday's release of Wine 11.6 with reviving the Android driver and improving game mod support as part of DLL loader updates, Wine-Staging 11.6 is out today with extra patches atop...

New story! Data-Driven Career Intelligence for Linux Professionals

After years offline, LinuxCareer.com returns with a new mission: turning real job postings into actionable career intelligence. Updated quarterly with current market data, the site breaks down which skills, certifications, and salary ranges employers are actually hiring for. All data is free, openly available, and published under a Creative Commons license. I hope you find it useful and welcome any feedback.

New story! PacHub Is a Sleek GTK4 Frontend for Arch’s Pacman and AUR

PacHub gives Arch Linux users a sleek GTK4 app for browsing, installing, and managing packages from official repos and the AUR.

New story! Rust Coreutils 0.8 Brings Significant Performance Gains

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Apr 6, 2026 9:17 PM EDT)
  • Groups: GNU; Story Type: News Story
Rust Coreutils 0.8 was released today as the newest major release to this alternative to GNU Coreutils...

New story! Red Hat Launches RHEL Extended Life Cycle Premium With 14-Year Support

Red Hat has launched RHEL Extended Life Cycle Premium, a stand-alone subscription that extends major-version support to 14 years.

New story! Patch to end i486 support hits Linux kernel merge queue

After a year of patchwork, maintainers look ready to start retiring 486-class CPUs It's taken nearly a full version number to get the pieces in order, but the long-awaited end of 486 chip support in the Linux kernel appears to be nigh with Linux 7.1's release later this year. …

New story! PeaZip 11.0 Released With Faster Archive Browsing

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Apr 6, 2026 3:43 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
PeaZip 11.0 improves archive browsing speed, updates 7z/p7zip to 26.00, adds batch archive testing, and refines the file manager.

New story! Meta Has A New Linux Optimization To Avoid Throttling TCP Throughput Unnecessarily

Meta's great Linux engineering team have been working through some fresh performance optimizations recently from optimizing /proc/interrupts outputs to renewing their investment in jemalloc. A new Linux kernel patch this week provides another optimization to avoid a possible situation of throttling the TCP throughput unnecessarily on Linux systems...

New story! Beginners Guide for Vdir Command on Linux

The vdir command is an equivalent to the “ls -l -b” command, printing the content in long list format and showing escape characters on the file or directory name, just like the dir command is equivalent to the “ls -C -b” command.

New story! KDE 4’s Air Theme Making a Comeback, Oxygen Gets Major Revamp for Plasma 6.7

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Apr 6, 2026 11:09 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE, Linux
Good news for fans of the classic Oxygen and Air themes from the old days of the KDE 4 desktop environment series, as they are getting some major improvements.

New story! Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 14, 2026 (Mar 24 – Apr 5)

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Apr 6, 2026 9:37 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Netrunner 26, AerynOS, OpenSSH 10.3, Archinstall 4.0, Wine 11.6, Linux hits 5% on Steam, Debian addresses age verification, and more.

New story! Arch Linux Makes nft the Default Backend for iptables

Arch Linux developers have announced that iptables now defaults to the nft backend, replacing the previous iptables-nft package name.

New story! Mesa 26.1 Makes It Easier To "Fake" A GPU Reset Using LLVMpipe

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Apr 6, 2026 6:34 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
As a small but interesting addition coming for this quarter's Mesa 26.1 release is making it easy to simulate a GPU reset with the LLVMpipe software driver. While seemingly mundane, this can be quite handy for compositor developers and other app/software developers wanting to more easily test how their code behaves when encountering a GPU reset...

New story! Ventoy 1.1.11 Improves Windows UEFI Booting

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Apr 6, 2026 5:03 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Ventoy 1.1.11 fixes Windows and WinPE UEFI boot display issues, adds KylinSecOS support, and brings several Linux-side improvements.

New story! AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Performance Halved By Linux 7.0, But A Fix May Not Be Easy

An Amazon/AWS engineer raised the alarms on Friday over the current Linux 7.0 development kernel leading to the throughput for the PostgreSQL database server being around half that of prior kernel versions. The culprit halving the PostgreSQL performance is known but a revert looks like it may not happen and currently suggesting that PostgreSQL may need to be adapted...

New story! Linux 7.0-rc7 Released With Improved Docs For AI Agents, WiFi Driver Performance Fix

Timed for Easter this year is the seventh weekly release candidate for the Linux 7.0 kernel. If all goes well, Linux 7.0 stable will be out next week...

New story! 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: April 5th, 2026

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Apr 5, 2026 10:57 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
The 286th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending April 5th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

New story! NHS staff resist using Palantir software

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Apr 5, 2026 8:06 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Staff reportedly cite ethics concerns, privacy worries, and doubt the platform adds much Palantir's software was brought in to help NHS England improve care and cut delays, but new reports suggest some staff are resisting using it over ethical, privacy, and trust concerns.…

New story! Netrunner 26 “Twilight” released with Debian 13, Plasma 6, and Linux 6.16

Netrunner 26 “Twilight” is out now, based on Debian 13 Trixie, with KDE Plasma 6.3.6, Linux kernel 6.16, and updated desktop apps.

New story! Razer Wolverine V3 Pro & Betop KP50 Controllers To Be Supported By Linux 7.0

Ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.0-rc7 kernel release, this week's batch of input fixes were sent in and merged. Besides a few small input fixes are also some new device IDs and quirks for hardware now to be handled by Linux 7.0...

New story! Google battles Chinese open-weights models with Gemma 4

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Apr 5, 2026 3:31 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Apache; Story Type: News Story
Now with a more permissive license, multi-modality, and support for more than 140 languages Google on Thursday unleashed a wave of new open-weights Gemma models optimized for agentic AI and coding, under a more permissive Apache 2.0 license aimed at winning over enterprises.…

New story! Linux 7.1 To Expose AMD Zen 6's AVX-512 BMM For Guest VMs

A small but important patch that looks like it will be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel is for enumerating AVX-512 BMM support for KVM virtualized guests. AVX-512 BMM is one of the exciting ISA additions with next-gen AMD Zen 6 processors...

New story! Pidgin 3.0 Messaging Client Moves from Experimental Build to Alpha

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Apr 5, 2026 12:28 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Pidgin 3.0 has entered the alpha stage with version 2.95, featuring updated account settings and ongoing development of Zulip protocol support.

New story! 2D CAD Design Tool For GNOME Desktop Lands More Features

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Apr 4, 2026 10:57 PM EDT)
  • Groups: GNOME; Story Type: News Story
In the past few days was the release of FreeCAD 1.1 and SolveSpace 3.2 for open-source computer aided design (CAD) while now joining the party is Design 50 Alpha as a GNOME-aligned 2D CAD design tool...

New story! Debian Project Leader Addresses New Age Verification Laws

Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille says Debian has made no decision on age verification compliance and is still awaiting legal analysis.

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