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FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending April 17, 2026

 FOSS Force

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 FOSS Force

The "NTFS Resurrection" Has Occurred For Linux 7.1

 Phoronix

AMD FP-DSS Security Bug For Zen 1 CPUs Made Public, Linux Kernel Patched

 Phoronix

Wine 11.7 Brings VBScript Fixes, DirectSound 7.1 Channel Support

 Phoronix

This Week in Plasma: Per-Screen Virtual Desktops and Wayland Session Restore

 Planet KDE

Yifei Zhan: CommBank hardware MFA token

 Planet Debian

Wine 11.7 Begins MSXML Rework and Fixes 35 Bugs

 Linuxiac

AI Pushes Cal.com to Shutter Open and Go Nonfree

 FOSS Force

PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 can now auto-configure games for you

 GamingOnLinux

The first major update for Slay the Spire 2 is out now

 GamingOnLinux

Death Stranding 2 patch 1.4 should make it look better on lower settings

 GamingOnLinux

eBPF for Runtime Threat Detection: What Linux Admins Are Actually Deploying

 LinuxSecurity.com

Properly funny chaotic dungeon crawler Lucky Tower Ultimate 1.0 has launched

 GamingOnLinux

Web Review, Week 2026-16

 Planet KDE

Nintendo 64 emulator Gopher64 adds RetroAchievements support

 GamingOnLinux

METRO 2039 gets revealed for release this Winter

 GamingOnLinux

Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake Linux Graphics Performance Up ~17% Over Past Year

 Phoronix

Valve Developer Lands RADV/ACO Changes For AMD's GFX11.7 / RDNA 4m

 Phoronix

GIMP 3.2.4 Fixes Layer Fills, Text Tool Bugs, and File Import Issues

 Linuxiac

Russell Coker: Home Battery

 Planet Debian

Glibc Lands A Big Optimization For LoongArch CPUs

 Phoronix

Free Software Foundation Says OnlyOffice Cannot Use AGPL to Restrict Forks

 Linuxiac

Linux 7.1 Crypto Code Rework Enables More Optimizations By Default

 Phoronix

Fedora 44 Will Not Be Released Next Week

 Phoronix

Distribution Release: ZimaOS 1.6.0

 DistroWatch

GCC Compiler Adds Arm AGI CPU Target

 Phoronix

Linux 7.1 x86/x86_64 Aligns With Other Architectures Now For Supporting Custom Restart Handlers

 Phoronix

New Lenovo Fan Driver, More ASUS Motherboards With Sensor Monitoring For Linux 7.1

 Phoronix

Zero Trust for Email: Implementing Advanced Protections on Linux

 LinuxSecurity.com

Proton 11 Beta arrives to bring enhanced gaming compatibility to Linux / SteamOS

 GamingOnLinux

Planet News Roundup

 openSUSE News

Regresa La Palma Tech Tagoror

 Planet KDE

New NTFS File-System Driver Submitted For Linux 7.1

 Phoronix

Proton 11.0 Beta Released With More Games Playable On Steam Play

 Phoronix

Linux 7.1 sched_ext Brings cgroup Sub-Scheduler Groundwork, Idle SMT Sibling Improvement

 Phoronix

AlmaLinux Kitten 10 Adds i686 Userspace Support

 Linuxiac

FunOS: Ubuntu LTS with JWM and No Snaps

 FOSS Force

Forgejo 15.0 Dev Platform Released with OIDC and Ephemeral Runners

 Linuxiac

Sahil Dhiman: What is Life (to you)?

 Planet Debian

Mir 2.26 Begins Working On Rust-Based Input Platform

 Phoronix

New Media Drivers Merged For Linux 7.1

 Phoronix

Thunderbolt is an open-source ‘AI client’ from Mozilla’s for-profit arm

 OMG! Ubuntu!

Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus Performance In 340+ Linux Benchmarks

 Phoronix

AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 Adds i686 User-Space Packages

 Phoronix

Thunderbird Team Unveils Thunderbolt Self-Hostable AI Client

 Linuxiac

Linux Mint’s next release won’t be until Christmas 2026

 OMG! Ubuntu!

Get another 15 games for $15 in this new Humble Bundle for April

 GamingOnLinux

Rust 1.95 Released with New Match Guards and Stable API Additions

 Linuxiac

Intel Formally Announces Core Series 3 "Wildcat Lake"

 Phoronix

Linux Mint confirm longer release cycles, the next release is planned for Christmas 2026

 GamingOnLinux

Rust 1.95 Released With Several Improvements

 Phoronix

Mozilla announced "Thunderbolt", their open-source and self-hostable AI client

 GamingOnLinux

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

 Phoronix

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

 Phoronix

Linux Mint Targets Christmas 2026 for Next Major Release

 Linuxiac

KDE Gear 26.04 Marks KDE’s 30th Anniversary With App Updates

 Linuxiac

Intel LASS In Good Shape For Linux 7.1

 Phoronix

Distribution Release: RakuOS 2026.04.15

 DistroWatch

Linux Begins Removing Support For Russia's Baikal CPUs

 Phoronix

Gaming on Linux with an older GPU levels up with DXVK-Sarek v1.12 bringing major new features

 GamingOnLinux

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

 Phoronix

Vehicle-building bullet heaven survivor-like TerraTech Legion launches April 30

 GamingOnLinux

KDE Gear 26.04 Released With Numerous Improvements To KDE Apps

 Phoronix

Immersive sim boomer shooter Fortune's Run back in development as the developer is out of jail

 GamingOnLinux

SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) ban AI / LLM code contributions

 GamingOnLinux

US operating system age verification bill "Parents Decide Act" gets published

 GamingOnLinux

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

 Phoronix

Linux 7.1 Delivers Performance Regression Fix For Sheaves

 Phoronix

KDE Gear ⚙️ 26.04

 Planet KDE

Archinstall 4.2 Stops Installing X.Org Packages for Wayland Profiles

 Linuxiac

SDL Adds Policy To Forbid LLM/AI Generated Code Contributions

 Phoronix

WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD Merged For Linux 7.1: Significant Win For CPUs With Many Cores Per LLC

 Phoronix

Duane O’Brien Takes OSI’s Hot Seat

 FOSS Force

Arch Linux's Archinstall 4.2 Fixes Botched Disk Encryption Security

 Phoronix

Distribution Release: Zorin OS 18.1

 DistroWatch

Zorin OS 18.1 released, new Lite edition available

 OMG! Ubuntu!

Intel Arc Pro B70 Open-Source Linux Performance Against NVIDIA RTX & AMD Radeon AI PRO

 Phoronix

Paul Tagliamonte: designing arf, an sdr iq encoding format 🐶

 Planet Debian

CIQ Releases Compatibility Catalog for Rocky Linux

 Linux Magazine

KDE Gets Some Resuscitation

 Linux Magazine

Dirk Eddelbuettel: qlcal 0.1.1 on CRAN: Calendar Updates

 Planet Debian

Rocky Linux Expands Into Enterprise AI Infrastructure

 LinuxInsider

Road to Vostok is an incredibly impressive solo-developed hardcore survival shooter

 GamingOnLinux

TRX the open source re-implementation of Tomb Raider is making progress on Tomb Raider 3

 GamingOnLinux

Luanti (formerly Minetest) v5.15.2 brings critical security updates

 GamingOnLinux

After years in development v8 of the factory management RTS Mindustry is out

 GamingOnLinux

Book of Travels from Might and Delight goes offline in July but you'll still be able to play alone

 GamingOnLinux

Designer of Terra Nil reveals Combolands, a deckbuilder where cards are buildings and the map is your deck

 GamingOnLinux

Emmanuel Kasper: Minix 3 on Beagle Board Black (ARM)

 Planet Debian

SteamOS 3.7.21 released to stable with security and stability updates

 GamingOnLinux

Only 2 years after release Star Trek: Resurgence is being delisted

 GamingOnLinux

New US Congress bill proposal requires all operating system providers to verify ages

 GamingOnLinux

Encrypt Files on Linux with Hideout and Skip the Terminal

 FOSS Force

KDE Mega Sprint 2026

 Planet KDE

Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Debusine projects in GSoC, Debian CI updates, Salsa CI maintenance and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph)

 Planet Debian

Distribution Release: Raspberry Pi OS 2026-04-13

 DistroWatch

La Palma Tech Tagoror Is Back

 Planet KDE

Opera GX for Linux arrives on Flathub & Snap store

 OMG! Ubuntu!

Steinar H. Gunderson: Looking for work

 Planet Debian

Dirk Eddelbuettel: anytime 0.3.13 on CRAN: Mostly Minor Bugfix

 Planet Debian

The Secrets update for Necesse includes collabs with Palworld, Rimworld, Core Keeper and Valheim

 GamingOnLinux

Tributary is the GTK4 Rhythmbox port of your dreams

 OMG! Ubuntu!

X.Org X server and Xwayland security advisory released for multiple issues

 GamingOnLinux

Petter Reinholdtsen: Talking to the Computer, and Getting Some Nonsense Back...

 Planet Debian

Broken Sword - The Smoking Mirror: Reforged is up on Kickstarter

 GamingOnLinux

Various Warhammer Classics arrive on Steam along with some returning upgraded games

 GamingOnLinux

Russell Coker: Furilabs FLX1s Finally Working

 Planet Debian

Sentinel is an achievement watcher for non-Steam games on Linux

 GamingOnLinux

No Man's Sky channels a little Pokemon with the Xeno Arena update

 GamingOnLinux

SteamVR Beta 2.16.3 brings Linux fixes for VRLink

 GamingOnLinux

SteamOS 3.8.2 Beta brings fixes for security issues, trackpad on Legion Go and Borderlands 2

 GamingOnLinux

Ravi Dwivedi: Hungary Visa

 Planet Debian

Dome Keeper free multiplayer update and Lost Keepers DLC have launched

 GamingOnLinux

Portal 2: Community Edition arrives in Beta on April 17

 GamingOnLinux

Amazon Luna rips out game stores, game purchases and third-party subscriptions

 GamingOnLinux

Following Up on ARMv9 Build Infrastructure

 openSUSE News

Triple-i Initiative Showcase had some really incredible announcements - a roundup

 GamingOnLinux

Dune: Awakening to get self-hosted servers, plus they're splitting PvE and PvP

 GamingOnLinux

The absolute classic Cave Story+ has a huge free upgrade on PC

 GamingOnLinux

Open source RTS game Warzone 2100 version 4.7 brings major changes

 GamingOnLinux

D7VK version 1.7 brings even more retro Direct3D gaming to Linux

 GamingOnLinux

Linux kernel 7.0 is out now

 GamingOnLinux

Quick Lofi – a GNOME extension for chill beats to study to

 OMG! Ubuntu!

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1168

 DistroWatch

Three Months After Georgia Tech, Stallman Heads to UT Austin

 FOSS Force

Linux 7.0: faster swap, Intel TSX & Rock Band 4 controller support

 OMG! Ubuntu!

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (15/2026): Cameras and External Screens

 LINMOB.net

Heroes of Might and Magic 2 project fheroes2 version 1.1.15 is out now

 GamingOnLinux

Dirk Eddelbuettel: littler 0.3.23 on CRAN: Mostly Internal Fixes

 Planet Debian

A week in Graz: KDE MegaSprint and Grazer Linuxtage

 Planet KDE

Distribution Release: Trisquel GNU/Linux 12.0

 DistroWatch

Colin Watson: Free software activity in March 2026

 Planet Debian

Vasudev Kamath: Hardening the Unpacakgeable: A systemd-run Sandbox for Third-Party Binaries

 Planet Debian

Russ Allbery: Review: The Teller of Small Fortunes

 Planet Debian

Pick up some quality adventure games in the Humble Golden Tales Bundle

 GamingOnLinux

Get some great tower defense games in a fresh Humble Bundle

 GamingOnLinux

FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending April 10, 2026

 FOSS Force

Analyzing KDE Project Health With git!

 Planet KDE

EFF Says It’s Quitting TwitterX

 FOSS Force

Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in March 2026

 Planet Debian

Humble Choice for April 2026 includes Assassin's Creed Valhalla and more indie gems

 GamingOnLinux

Ghostty finally lands in the Ubuntu repos

 OMG! Ubuntu!

Legendary, the free and open source Epic Games Launcher, has moved to a new organisation

 GamingOnLinux

Godot gets a funding boost from Slay the Spire 2 devs Mega Crit

 GamingOnLinux

Jamie McClelland: AI Hacking the Planet

 Planet Debian

Valve dev fixes up VRAM management on AMD GPUs to improve performance

 GamingOnLinux

Proton Experimental brings fixes for classic Resident Evil 1 & 2, Dino Crisis 1 & 2 and more

 GamingOnLinux

SteamVR Beta brings a number of fixes for Linux gamers

 GamingOnLinux

Web Review, Week 2026-15

 Planet KDE