📰 Latest Raspberry Pi OS Release Disables Passwordless sudo by Default

Raspberry Pi OS 2026-04-13 is now available for download with a much-improved Control Center app, passwordless sudo disabled by default, Chromium enhancements, and many other changes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/latest-raspberry-pi-os-release-disables-passwordless-sudo-by-default

#chromium #raspberry

📰 X.Org Server 21.1.22 Released Due To Five New Security Vulnerabilities

X.Org Server 21.1.22 is out today and driven by five new security vulnerabilities being disclosed for the aging codebase. In turn these vulnerabilities also impact XWayland too and thus necessitating the XWayland 24.1.10 release...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-21.1.22

#security

📰 Tributary is a GTK4 reimagining of Rhythmbox music player

Ever wondered what a GTK4/libadwaita version of Linux music player Rhythmbox might look like? A new app in development imagines just that. Tributary is billed a “high-performance, Rhythmbox-style media manager written in pure Rust with GTK4 and libadwaita”. It’s more than a way to play local audio files, too. Tributary can access and stream music from Jellyfin, Plex, DAAP/iTunes shares, internet radio stations and Subsonic/Navidrome setups as...

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/tributary-music-player-gtk4

#linux

📰 Your home server monitor dies with your server — an old Android phone fixed this for free

Monitoring dashboards are a useful way to keep an eye on your self-hosted services. You think you are covered, but monitoring dashboards are dependent on the same infrastructure. I have hosted many services, such as Immich, Jellyfin, and Nextcloud, on my home server, and Uptime Kuma for the uptime monitoring of these services on the same server. Everything looked alright, a few self-hosted services and a monitoring tool to watch over them. On...

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/home-server-monitor-dies-with-server-old-android-phone-fixed/

#android #immich

📰 Nginx 1.30 Released With Multipath TCP, ECH & More

Nginx 1.30 was just released as the newest stable version of this popular web server. Nginx 1.30 incorporates all of the changes from the Nginx 1.29.x mainline branch to provide a lot of new functionality like Multipath TCP (MPTCP)...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nginx-1.30-Released

#nginx

📰 Opera GX for Linux arrives on Flathub & Snap store

Installing Opera GX on Linux is now easier, with official packages available on the Canonical Snap Store and Flathub. Opera GX made its debut Linux release in March 2026, with the gaming-centric web browser porting over many of the novel features that have helped to make it a modest hit on Windows and macOS. That includes CPU, RAM and network controls provided, background sounds, themes and eye-candy like web shaders.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/opera-gx-linux-snap-flathub

#linux

📰 Ubuntu 26.04 Delivers Great Performance Improvements For AMD Strix Point, Especially For RDNA 3.5 Graphics

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.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2604-strix-point

#amd #ubuntu

📰 Fedora 44 Release Delayed as Final Blocker Bugs Remain Open

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

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/fedora-44-release-delayed-as-final-blocker-bugs-remain-open/

#fedora

📰 LLM-Assisted Patches For Linux 7.1 May Have Negative Impact On 32-bit Systems

Code now merged for the Linux 7.1 kernel may provide some negative performance implications for those still running modern Linux kernels on 32-bit hardware. A fundamental change can present cache line alignment and slab sizing implications for 32-bit Linux OS users but will provide for cleaner code with modern 64-bit computing...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-VFS-Kino-32-bit

#kernel #linux

📰 AMD ROCm 7.2.2 Brings Optimization Guide For Ryzen AI / RDNA 3.5 Hardware

ROCm 7.2.2 is out today as a small point release to this open-source AMD GPU compute stack. There are a few code changes but most notable is arguably on the documentation side...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-7.2.2

#amd #opensource

📰 PocketTerm35 is a Raspberry Pi-powered handheld with a 3.5 inch screen and QWERTY keyboard

Waveshare’s new PocketTerm35 is a handheld computer with a 3.5 inch, 640 x 480 pixel touchscreen IPS display, a 67-key keyboard for thumb typing, dedicated buttons for gaming, and a stereo speaker. Designed to use a Raspberry Pi for brains, the system also has four USB Type-A ports, Gigabit Ethernet, a microSD card reader, headphone .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/pocketterm35-is-a-raspberry-pi-powered-handheld-with-a-3-5-inch-screen-and-qwerty-keyboard/

#raspberry

📰 Linus Torvalds Merged The Code Beginning To Remove Intel 486 CPU Support In Linux 7.1

As a follow-up to the news first-covered on Phoronix earlier this month about Linux 7.1 expected to begin removing i486 CPU support: it indeed happened. Linus Torvalds took the initial removal bits today without any fuss today for beginning the phase out of M486 / M486SX / ELAN kernel support...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Begins-Removing-i486

#intel #kernel #linux

📰 The Optocam Zero is a Raspberry Pi Zero camera you can make with store-bought parts

It has been a good last few weeks for people who like to build their own cameras. Back in late March, we checked out an open-source Raspberry Pi camera that looked like it came out of an 80s sci-fi movie, complete with different filters you can choose from. And while that was an amazing project, you can never have enough DIY cameras.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/the-optocam-zero-is-a-raspberry-pi-zero-camera-you-can-make-with-store-bought-parts/

#opensource #raspberry

📰 A PHP Dev Just Solved a 20+ Year-Old KDE Plasma Problem No One Else Would

KWin can now show different virtual desktops on each screen independently.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17319404/kde-plasma-per-screen-virtual-desktops

#kde #plasma

📰 GNOME 50.1 Released with Basic Zoom Support for the Captive Portal

GNOME 50.1 is now available as the first point release to the GNOME 50 desktop environment series with various bug fixes and improvements across several core components and default apps.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/gnome-50-1-released-with-basic-zoom-support-for-the-captive-portal

#gnome

📰 SteamOS 3.7.21 released to stable with security and stability updates

While Valve are working to get SteamOS 3.8 Beta into stable with lots of big changes, a small SteamOS stable update has been released.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/steamos-3-7-21-released-to-stable-with-security-and-stability-updates/

#security

📰 Raspberry Pi OS ends open-door policy for sudo

Command prefix will require password by default The latest version of Raspberry Pi OS now requires a password for sudo by default.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/raspberry_pi_os_sudo/

#raspberry

📰 Linux Kernel 7.1 Drops 486 and AMD Elan CPU Support

Linux kernel 7.1 development begins with x86 changes removing 486, 486SX, and AMD Elan CPU support.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/linux-kernel-7-1-drops-486-and-amd-elan-cpu-support/

#amd #kernel #linux

📰 Sched QoS For Linux Aims To Improve Scheduling & Inspired In Part By Apple's QoS Classes

Linux developer Qais Yousef with Google has announced the alpha release of Sched QoS as a new initiative for user-space assisted scheduling. The scheduling model in turn is based in part on Apple's quality of service classes used by iOS for classifying software as user interactive, user initiative, utility, or background tasks...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Sched-QoS-v0.1

#linux

📰 Actively Exploited nginx-ui Flaw (CVE-2026-33032) Enables Full Nginx Server Takeover

A recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting nginx-ui, an open-source, web-based Nginx management tool, has come under active exploitation in the wild.The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-33032 (CVSS score: 9.8), an authentication bypass vulnerability that enables threat actors to seize control of the Nginx service. It has been codenamed MCPwn by Pluto Security.".

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/critical-nginx-ui-vulnerability-cve.html

#nginx #opensource #security

📰 Zorin OS 18.1 released, new Lite edition available

The first point release to Zorin OS 18 is now available for download, arriving six months and some 3.3 million downloads after the original launch. Zorin OS 18.1 is a point release update. It’s still based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS-based but adds a variety of desktop refinements, updated software and a new kernel (courtesy of the recent Ubuntu HWE from Canonical). A new Zorin OS Lite also launches today.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/zorin-os-18-1-released

#kernel #ubuntu #zorin