#Phoronix

Linux 7.4 will orphan the i82975x, x38, xgene and i3200 EDAC drivers. Maintainer Borislav Petkov cited an "AI-generated fixes frenzy" for hardware no one can test, after a similar push in networking. A dummy driver for VM testing also arrives.

As of this past week in the FreeBSD source tree for FreeBSD 16, the last of the GNU GPL licensed code from the base system has been retired.

ReactOS, the open-source operating system working for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows computer programs and drivers, has reached the milestone of being able to enjoy the classic game Half-Life running on this open-source platform.

Asahi Linux is warning its users from trying out the new macOS 27 'Golden Gate' beta released this week by Apple

Following last week's disclosure of the Dirty Frag vulnerability for the Linux kernel, which only finished being patched up in mainline on Monday, Fragnesia is now public as a similar local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability.

Linux 7.1 merges MFD updates enabling Apple SMC power driver for MacBook battery metrics, plus Intel LPSS extensions. Asahi Linux efforts bring mainline parity to Silicon chips amid kernel's hardware push.

Canonical's Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Resolute Raccoon, ships with Linux 7.0, GNOME 50 Wayland-only, Rust sudo and coreutils. It drops X11 and cgroup v1, hikes RAM needs to 6GB, and bolsters server security with post-quantum crypto and confidential computing.

Intel archives its open-source evangelism repo and more projects amid restructuring, shifting from broad outreach to product-focused contributions. Layoffs and strategy changes orphan drivers and end demos like Clear Linux.

Rust's compile-time safeguards are making Linux kernels faster and far more reliable, from driver stability to 2% speedups in 7.1's inline helpers. Permanent since 7.0, it's reshaping core infrastructure without rewriting C.