Linux To Drop ARCnet Support For Old ISA & PCMCIA Hardware
…AI/LLM Noise Many Great Networking Improvements Arrive In Linux 7.1 Many MediaTek MT76 WiFi Driver Improvements Coming For Linux 7.1 Claude Code Did The Heavy Lifting To Get Adobe…
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Redis 8.8 Released With New Array Data Structure, More Performance Optimizations
…Redis 8.8 also brings new performance improvements like now enabling link-time optimizations (LTO) by default for x86_64 release builds, improving thread utilization, reducing FFI overhead by porting some code…
KDE's KWin Compositor Lands First Step Toward Vulkan Support
…exciting start to see Vulkan code finally beginning to land in the mainline KWin codebase. Hopefully more of it will follow soon. Plasma 6.7 Improves Its Built-In Remote Desktop Server…
Linus Torvalds Merged The Code Beginning To Remove Intel 486 CPU Support In Linux 7.1
Linus Torvalds Merged The Code Beginning To Remove Intel 486 CPU Support In Linux 7.1 Written by Michael Larabel in Intel on 14 April 2026 at 08:14 PM EDT. 24…
GNOME Commander 2.0 Released Following Rewrite In Rust & GTK4
…Other App Improvements Linux's Latest Vulnerability Allows Reading Root-Owned Files By Unprivileged Users SDL Library Adds Support For The New Steam Controller Without Depending On Steam Claude Code Did The…
Linux 7.1 Features: New NTFS Driver, New Intel + AMD Hardware, Performance Optimizations & Modernization
…improvements for the extensible scheduler "sched_ext" code. - Intel LASS is now deemed in good shape for this Linear Address Space Separation security feature. - WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD as a workqueue improvement…
Linux 7.1 Revamps T10 PI Data Integrity Handling For Better Read Performance
…The new code is also more efficient particularly for read workloads. Read performance has improved by around 15% for 4K I/O and also enjoying lower QD1 latency for small I/O…
KDE Plasma 6.7 To Provide A Much Better Experience For CPU-Based Rendering
…7 Comments KDE developer Xaver Hugl has whipped up another nice improvement for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release. Due to QtWidgets still relying on CPU-based rendering and finding the…
Valve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT Finally Working On Linux
Valve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT Finally Working On Linux Written by Michael Larabel in Radeon on 19 April 2026 at 09:25 AM EDT. 63 Comments Timur…
AMD's GAIA Defaults To Better Model, Continued Improvements For Local AI
AMD's GAIA Defaults To Better Model, Continued Improvements For Local AI Written by Michael Larabel in AMD on 2 May 2026 at 04:19 PM EDT. 26 Comments AMD software engineers…