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! Zorin OS Says No to Mandatory Age Verification in Linux

Zorin OS says it has no plans to introduce mandatory age or ID verification into the Linux distribution.

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.

New story! Pangolin 1.17 Tunneled Reverse Proxy Adds Multiple Roles per User

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Apr 4, 2026 6:17 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Pangolin 1.17 tunneled reverse proxy adds multi-role RBAC, provisioning keys for sites, connection logs, SIEM log streaming, and more.

New story! Debian Is Figuring Out How Age Verification Laws Will Impact It

With age verification/attestation laws down to the OS level enacted by California and being decided upon by other US states, it's been a hot topic of discussion in the open-source world. For the Debian project that is strictly volunteer/community-driven unlike various commercial Linux platforms, they are figuring out how such laws will impact them...

New story! PrismML debuts energy-sipping 1-bit LLM in bid to free AI from the cloud

Bonasi 8B model is competitive with other 8B models but 14x smaller and 5x more energy efficient PrismML, an AI venture out of Caltech, has released a 1-bit large language model that outperforms weightier models, with the expectation that it will improve AI efficiency and viability on mobile devices, among other applications.…

New story! Arch-Based Artix Linux 2026.04 Released With XLibre as Default X Serve

Arch-based systemd-free Artix Linux 2026.04 is out with XLibre by default and PipeWire replacing PulseAudio in ISOs.

New story! Redox OS Introducing New CPU Scheduler For ~1.5x Performance In Heavy Tasks

The Rust-based Redox OS operating system is preparing to land a new CPU scheduler thanks to work being carried out by open-source developer Akshit Gaur on modernizing the platform's process scheduling subsystem...

New story! M5Stack Refreshes Lineup with CardKB2 Keyboard, ESP32-P4 Modules, and Core2 for AWS

M5Stack has introduced several new and updated products, including the CardKB2 keyboard unit, the Stamp-P4 module based on the ESP32-P4, a matching Wi-Fi expansion module, and an updated Core2 for AWS development kit. The lineup spans input devices, embedded modules, and IoT-focused development platforms. The CardKB2 is a compact 42-key keyboard built around the ESP32-C61HF4, […]

New story! Arch-Based Omarchy 3.5 Brings Full Intel Panther Lake Support

Arch-based Omarchy 3.5 adds Intel Panther Lake support with a patched Linux kernel 6.19, Dell XPS 2026 fixes, and new features.

New story! KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop Environment Is Coming on June 16th, Here’s What to Expect

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Apr 4, 2026 7:37 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE, Linux
It’s that time of the year when we get to take a closer look at the new features and improvements of the next major release of KDE’s Plasma desktop environment, KDE Plasma 6.7, due out in June 2026.

New story! Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Raises Desktop Minimum RAM Requirement

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) will increase the minimum RAM requirement for Desktop users from 4 GB to 6 GB.

New story! How to Install Opera Browser on Ubuntu and Other Linux Distros

Discover a step-by-step guide to installing the Opera browser on your favorite Ubuntu distribution or on the other popular Linux distros.

New story! Radxa Taco Updated for Raspberry Pi CM5 with SATA and RAID Support

Radxa has updated its Taco carrier board with a new revision designed around the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, targeting storage-heavy and network-oriented applications. The platform integrates multiple SATA interfaces, dual Ethernet ports, and PCIe expansion in a compact form factor. The V1.61 revision transitions the design to support the Raspberry Pi CM5 exclusively, replacing […]

New story! Gentoo GNU/Hurd Port Is Real, Despite the April 1 Joke

Gentoo’s joke about replacing the Linux kernel with Hurd was fake, but the project’s new experimental GNU/Hurd port is real.

New story! CachyOS Delivers More Performance Out Of Intel Panther Lake

Most of my Intel Panther Lake benchmarking over the past two months for the new Core Ultra Series 3 hardware has been done with Ubuntu Linux given the pervasiveness of it, especially in the corporate/enterprise space. But for those looking at achieving even greater out-of-the-box Linux performance on Intel Panther Lake, the Arch Linux based CachyOS does a pretty fine job at further advancing the performance.

New story! Wine 11.6 Brings Android Driver Work, Game Mod Fixes

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Apr 3, 2026 10:28 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Wine 11.6 brings early Android driver revival work, better game mod support through DLL load order changes, more VBScript fixes, and 28 bug fixes.

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