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There’s the usual flurry of last minute fixes and other items being herded into the Linux 7.0 codebase today right ahead of the merge window being closed with the imminent Linux 7.0-rc1 release. Among that last minute work is now recognizing Stephen Rothwell’s contributions to creating and maintaining Linux-Next over the past eighteen years.

Stephen Rothwell stepped down in mid-January from maintaining Linux-Next. He still plans to be around the Linux kernel community but a less grueling role than creating and maintaining Linux-Next since 2008.

Linus Torvalds just capped off the Linux 7.0 merge window with the release of Linux 7.0-rc1. While the big version bump is coincidental with Linus Torvalds liking to bump it after x.19, Linux 7.0 is quite heavy on new features.

Linux 7.0 is packing a lot of changes and new features. Making this kernel all the more interesting beyond the changes and big version number is that it’s also expected to be the default kernel for the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44 for making this an extra special release. Linux 7.0 brings more enablement work for Intel Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids processors, more AMD Zen 6 enablement too, and a lot of new hardware driver support throughout – including for non-AMD/Intel platforms like more Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 upstreaming work. On the graphics side is also new AMD graphics hardware support for upcoming products.

I, for one, welcome our vigesimal BDFL.

I honestly think it would be much cooler if linux used semantic versioning instead of random versioning, but Linus bumping majors just because he feels like it is also funny and cool.

I search for files, and it never seems to find them. Plus it only does one drive at a time, and not just searches my external drives. Any suggestions?

I gave up on search utlities of GUIs after having the same problem with dolphin

ncdu

that’s fine if wanting a tui, like for its intended purpose, rather than something grepable/awkable/sortable/cutable/headable/tailable/etc. like better suited to file search

Developers behind the widely-used GNU Awk text processing utility today released Gawk 5.4.

Gawk 5.4 is now using the new MinRX regular expression matcher as the default regexp engine. The old regex and DFA engines remain available but the MinRX engine is now used by default. This new matcher was written by Mike Haertel who was the original developer behind GNU grep. The MinRX matcher is fully POSIX compliant unlike the existing GNU matchers.

Airport advertising sign, looks like they forgot to make the looping video full screen.

Photographer @mosspiglet@discuss.online

i love proxying images!!! i love proxying images!!!

I cannot express into words how much a loath Lemmy’s image proxying system

Following last week’s main set of DRM kernel graphics driver feature updates for Linux 7.0, merged on Friday to Linux 7.0 Git was the first round of fixes to these Direct Rendering Manager drivers. Dominating most of the code changes in this latest pull were AMDGPU fixes, including more enhancements for aging Radeon graphics processors.

The now-merged code to Linux 7.0 includes more AMDGPU fixes from Timur Kristóf of Valve’s open-source Linux graphics team. Timur Kristóf has been the one leading the effort to improve the old AMD GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 GPU support with the AMDGPU kernel driver and drove through that default change from the legacy Radeon DRM driver. Timur has continued taking care of some loose ends like some APU support issues. The latest patches now part of Linux 7.0 take care of a “black screen” issue observed with analog connector support when using the AMDGPU DC display code with the likes of the Radeon HD 7790. The code also makes the analog connector support more consistent and closer to parity with other display connector types in the AMDGPU display code.

Following the recent release of Plasma 6.6, KDE developers are now working on version 6.7. Among the planned features, users will be able to switch virtual desktops directly from Overview by scrolling or using the Page Up and Page Down keys.

On Wayland, Plasma 6.7 will optionally synchronize the stylus pointer with the mouse or touchpad pointer. Moreover, Printing will be enhanced with a new dedicated print queue viewer, replacing the legacy dialog. The new application will maintain simplicity for single-printer setups while supporting management of multiple print queues for both local and networked printers.

Regarding screen recording, Plasma 6.7 allows users to exclude specific windows from recordings via permanent window rules. Additionally, the screenshot utility Spectacle will get a new –release-capture command-line option, allowing the invocation of the “accept on click-and-release” behavior programmatically.

I so wish they can bring back the one-wallpaper-per-virtual-desktop thing. I’ve been missing it since the KDE 4.x days, but now seeing the dynamic virtual desktops thing in GNOME makes me wish KDE had it as an option (like, you could chosse between dynamic virtual desktops or fixed virtual desktops).

Try Activities.

What’s the impact here? Obviously no updates until new key, but will the new key trigger security warnings on future updates?