📰 Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS Is Now Available for Download with Linux 7.0 and Mesa 26.2

Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS (Noble Numbat) is now available for download powered by Linux kernel 7.0 and Mesa 26.2 graphics stack from Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon).

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-24-04-5-lts-is-now-available-for-download-with-linux-7-0-and-mesa-26-2

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📰 Linux Kernel is Getting Ready to Purge 55,00 Lines of Old 32-bit Arm Platform Code

These thirteen patches would delete the deprecated platform code, and the driver cleanup will follow later.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17444682/linux-kernel-old-arm-code-removal

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📰 Digital Research's GEM opens a new window on Linux

A radical new way to resolve the Gordian knot of X11 versus Wayland.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/09/11/digital-researchs-gem-opens-a-new-window-on-linux/5295546

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📰 Lunar colony-building automation sim The Crust 1.0 arrives with Linux and macOS support

The Crust is an automation-driven city builder and colony simulation set on the Moon. It just hit the big 1.0 release and now has Linux and macOS support too.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/lunar-colony-building-automation-sim-the-crust-1-0-arrives-with-linux-and-macos-support/

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📰 Patches Ready For AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Enabled By Default With Linux 7.4 With FreeSync, VRR & ALLM

Linux 7.4 is now set to reach the elusive milestone of HDMI 2.1 support for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver. After the HDMI Forum previously rejected HDMI 2.1 for the AMDGPU open-source driver implementation going back years, earlier this year something changed -- widely speculated to be with Valve's involvement -- that HDMI 2.1 patches began appearing for the AMDGPU driver. With the upcoming Linux 7.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-AMDGPU-HDMI-2.1-Go

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📰 Linux Mint Devs Introduce New EPUB Reader and Calendar Apps

Linux Mint devs introduce new apps for the upcoming Linux Mint 23 release, including Xepub EPUB reader and Clockenstein calendar.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-devs-introduce-new-epub-reader-and-calendar-apps

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📰 Bottles' Founder Has Managed to Run Microsoft 365 on Linux

As of now, he has the desktop app installing and signing in.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17445336/bottles-microsoft-365-early-look

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📰 Mold High Speed Linker Being Rewritten In Rust, Hopes To Be The Default Linker On Linux

The Mold high performance linker that typically outperforms the likes of LLVM lld, GNU LD, Wild, and others is being rewritten in the Rust programming language and also has an ambitious goal of being adopted as the default linker on Linux systems...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-Linker-In-Rust-Coming

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📰 CachyOS vs. Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS On Intel Wildcat Lake + 8GB RAM

Often times when testing different Linux distributions or comparing Windows vs. Linux it's on leading flagship desktop or server hardware, but today we are looking at the Ubuntu vs. CachyOS vs. Windows performance at the opposite end of the spectrum. With the new CHUWI UniBook $449 laptop powered by Intel Core 3 Wildcat Lake and with 8GB of system memory, here is a look at how those three operating systems compare across a variety of workloads.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/wildcat-lake-windows-linux

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📰 Linux's IO_uring Sees Some "Crazy" Patches That Deliver Very Nice Improvements

Linux block subsystem maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe continues to uncover new opportunities for making the wonderful IO_uring framework even more performant within the Linux kernel. For ending out the week he's posted some "crazy" patches delivering some significant gains...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-IO-uring-Crazy-Friday

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