📰 Waydroid runs Android apps on Linux better than Windows ever ran them on WSA

The Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) is history now. Microsoft caved in and killed the project, which angered a lot of users because it was one of the main highlights of the Windows 11 launch. Microsoft failed to anticipate the demand for running Android apps with Google Play Store support, and the option to only download apps via the Amazon Appstore didn’t appeal to a lot of users. I thought WSA would kill third-party Android emulators on...

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/waydroid-runs-android-apps-on-linux-better-than-windows-wsa/

#android #linux

📰 HDMI FRL Support Achieved With Open-Source Nouveau For NVIDIA GPUs

While the AMDGPU open-source driver has struggled with HDMI 2.1 support due to the HDMI Forum blocking open-source implementations, HDMI Fixed Rate Link (FRL) as a feature of the HDMI 2.1 specification is enjoying success now with the open-source Nouveau graphics driver on Linux for NVIDIA GPUs...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-FRL-On-Nouveau-Linux

#linux #opensource

📰 5 Reasons to Upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 (and 3 Reasons to Stay Away)

Should you skip this new release or jump on the bandwagon and upgrade to 26.04? Let me help you with that.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17324480/ubuntu-26-04-upgrade-or-not

#ubuntu

📰 Pull Request For Linux To Remove Old Network Drivers, ISDN Subsystem Due To AI/LLM Noise

It was just days ago we reported on a proposal to drop old network drivers due to AI-driven bug reports becoming a burden on upstream kernel developers. Last night that culminated with an initial pull request to clear out some old, unused networking drivers plus also clearing out the entire ISDN subsystem and more...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-PR-Remove-Old-Net

#kernel #linux

📰 Arm C1-Ultra Scheduling Model Merged For LLVM/Clang 23

Merged recently to the latest LLVM/Clang compiler development tree is the Arm C1-Ultra scheduling model for helping with delivering optimal binaries for that flagship next-gen Arm mobile CPU...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-C1-Ultra-Sched-LLVM-Clang

#arm

📰 Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

Mozilla shipped it in Firefox 149 without a mention in the release notes.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17324714/firefox-ships-brave-adblock-engine

#firefox

📰 Tails 7.7 Anonymous Distro Adds Detection of Outdated Secure Boot Certificates

Tails 7.7 anonymous Linux distribution is now available for download with automatic detection of outdated Secure Boot certificates, Tor Browser 15.0.10, and other changes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/tails-7-7-anonymous-distro-adds-detection-of-outdated-secure-boot-certificates

#distro #linux

📰 Fedora is becoming the default Linux recommendation, and Ubuntu did this to itself

Ubuntu used to be the easiest recommendation for a new Linux user, but recent bad decisions have caused things to shift in favor of Fedora.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/fedora-becoming-default-linux-recommendation-ubuntu-fault/

#fedora #linux #ubuntu

📰 Many Intel & AMD Laptop Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1

As usual in recent years, there were many x86 platform driver changes merged this cycle for benefiting modern AMD Ryzen and Intel Core (Ultra) laptops. A variety of new features and laptop hardware support additions were merged for Linux 7.1...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-x86-Platform-Drivers

#amd #intel #linux

📰 More ancient Linux device support faces the chop

One way to deal with bug hunting LLMs: ditch the old drivers One tactic to deal with LLM-powered vulnerability detection is simple – just speed up the removal of old code. If it's gone, it no longer matters if it's buggy.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/24/ancient_linux_drivers_going/

#linux

📰 Canonical finally gives Launchpad (a bit of) a glow-up

Launchpad, the home of Ubuntu development, has finally received some design attention. Canonical last updated the site’s homepage back in 2024, but many of the pages that the distro’s developers actually use or reference on a regular basis have remained untouched for the best part of a decade. Now that’s starting to change.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/ubuntu-launchpad-website-revamp

#distro #ubuntu

📰 Farewell ISDN, Ham Radio & Old Network Drivers: Linus Torvalds Merges 138k L.O.C. Removal

Linus Torvalds did it! He merged the pull request to rid the Linux kernel of the old Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) subsystem and various other old network drivers largely for PCMCIA era network adapters. This was the code suggested for removal given the recent influx of AI/LLM-generated bug reports against this dated code that likely has no active upstream users remaining...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Removes-Old-Net

#kernel #linux

📰 Raspberry Pi owners are missing this one free tweak that changes everything

A couple of years ago, when I was working on my Raspberry Pi 5, I noticed that it was very slow. I googled possible reasons, and the main one was its lack of RAM. It has 4 gigs of RAM, but I noticed that running multiple Chromium tabs made it run at a snail's pace. So, I looked for ways to increase the RAM. Given that I was using an SD Card as a hard drive, using a swap file wasn't really an option. However, I found a program called ZRAM and...

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/free-tweak-old-pi-changes-everything/

#chromium #raspberry

📰 KDE Plasma 6.7 Enables Overlay Planes For Intel Graphics, More Performance/Efficiency

KDE developers continued to land more feature changes for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release. It's a busy spring of fixes, optimizations, and shiny new features for Plasma 6.7...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.7-Intel-Overlay

#intel #kde #plasma

📰 Fedora 44 Releasing Next Week

After being deemed not ready for debuting this week as an early release target, Fedora stakeholders have decided that Fedora 44 will be ready to officially debut next Tuesday...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-44-Next-Week

#fedora

📰 New NTFS Driver Sees A Number Of Fixes Ahead Of Linux 7.1-rc1

With the Linux 7.1-rc1 kernel release due out tomorrow to cap off the Linux 7.1 merge window, one of the most notable additions this cycle is the introduction of the new NTFS driver that aims to provide better performance and more modern features than the existing NTFS3 in-kernel driver that was originally contributed by Paragon Software...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/New-NTFS-Driver-Fixes-Linux-7.1

#kernel #linux