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AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 Adds i686 User-Space Packages

Phoronix | April 16, 2026, 11:20 a.m. | Original

The community-based AlmaLinux OS alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) continues exploring ways to better differentiate it from upstream RHEL and other derivatives. The latest difference is AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 adding i686 user-space packages for those wanting to run on a RHEL 10 based platform but still needing x86 32-bit user-space software compatibility.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 dropped support for 32-bit packages and 32-bit multilib packages were removed with customers

Intel Formally Announces Core Series 3 "Wildcat Lake"

Phoronix | April 16, 2026, 9:43 a.m. | Original

Intel today formally announced the Core Series 3 low-end mobile processors previously known as Wildcat Lake . These are the new Intel 18A offerings that are a step below the Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" SoCs that began shipping earlier this year.

Intel Core Series 3 is designed for value buyers, commercial and essential edge devices. Intel is promoting these low-end chips against a five-year-old PC (Tigerlake) for 47% better single threaded performance, up to 41% better

Rust 1.95 Released With Several Improvements

Phoronix | April 16, 2026, 9:19 a.m. | Original

Rust 1.95 was released to the wild today as the latest feature update to this popular programming language.

Rust 1.95 brings the new cfg_select! macro that serves the same purpose as the cfg-if crate. This cfg_select! acts similar to a compie-time match on cfg's.

Linux Mint 23 Making Progress On Ubuntu 26.04 Base, Linux 7.0 Kernel & Wayland

Phoronix | April 16, 2026, 8:58 a.m. | Original

The Linux Mint project published their March 2026 monthly status update where they note the ongoing work toward Mint 23 "Alfa" that will be released under their new longer development lifecycle. Linux Mint 23 will be out for Christmas (December) 2026 atop an Ubuntu 26.04 LTS base.

Mint 23 is using Ubuntu 26.04 LTS as its package base, making use of the Linux 7.0 kernel as the same current version used by Ubuntu 2

Mozilla Announces "Thunderbolt" As An Open-Source, Enterprise AI Client

Phoronix | April 16, 2026, 8:22 a.m. | Original

Mozilla today announced "Thunderbolt" as an open-source AI client built for control and independence. Mozilla Thunderbolt, while having the worst possible name, is built for organizations and others wanting to deploy self-hosted AI infrastructure.

Today's press release describes Thunderbolt as:

Thunderbolt is designed as a sovereign AI client – an open-source, extensible workspace where users can interact with AI through chat, search, and research, connect to enterprise data, and choose the models and tools that fit their needs.

It

Intel LASS In Good Shape For Linux 7.1

Phoronix | April 16, 2026, 7:02 a.m. | Original

In addition to Linux 7.1 supporting FRED by default for Flexible Return and Event Delivery, another Intel CPU feature now in good shape for this next kernel version is Linear Address Space Separation (LASS).

Linear Address Space Separation is a new CPU security feature found with newer Intel processors. LASS is able to mitigate a class of side-channel attacks relying on speculative access across the user/kernel space boundary. LASS was initially upstreamed in Linux 6.19 but some corner cases ended up remaining that are now

Linux Begins Removing Support For Russia's Baikal CPUs

Phoronix | April 16, 2026, 6:25 a.m. | Original

Beyond Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out Intel 486 CPU support , this next Linux kernel version is also beginning to remove driver code for supporting Russia's Baikal CPUs.

The Baikal CPUs were Russia's plans for replacing Intel / AMD CPUs with their own domestic processors . After Baikal first was planning for an Arm CPU, they went for MIPS and then years later pivoted back to ARM-based designs. Over the past decade various pieces of Baikal support made it into the mainline kernel but then further

Linux 7.1 Picks Up The MMC Changes After Rejected By Linus In Linux 7.0

Phoronix | April 16, 2026, 6:12 a.m. | Original

Back during the Linux 7.0 merge window the MMC changes were rejected by Linus Torvalds as "complete garbage" that wasn't building properly and not vetted through linux-next. He went without pulling any MMC changes for the v7.0 cycle while now for Linux 7.1 the code has been better tested and successfully merged.

The Linux 7.1 MMC changes have landed, including the MMC changes originally intended for Linux 7.0 that were not merged. This includes adding new IDs for NXP

KDE Gear 26.04 Released With Numerous Improvements To KDE Apps

Phoronix | April 16, 2026, 6:02 a.m. | Original

Following the recent KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop release, KDE Gear 26.04 is out today for shipping all the latest updated KDE desktop applications.

KDE Gear 26.04 brings a variety of enhancements to the many apps that are part of the KDE desktop ecosystem. Some of the standout highlights of KDE Gear 26.04 include:

- The Dolphin file manager now lets you add keyboard shortcuts for nearly any option in the menus, plugins, or extensions.

- The Merkuro Calendar brings

AMD Linux Graphics Driver Introducing "Power Module" To Better Match Windows Behavior

Phoronix | April 15, 2026, 8:48 p.m. | Original

With the set of today's AMDGPU kernel graphics driver Display Core (DC) patches is a rather curious addition with wiring up the Linux code to a "power module" that looks like it will better match Microsoft Windows behavior with the AMD Radeon driver around display-related power savings features.

Catching my eye when going through today's DC patches for the AMDGPU kernel driver is that AMD is introducing and adding a "power module" to Linux.

The patch introducing the power module explains of it:

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