As expected the stable Linux 7.0 kernel was just released today in marking this next kernel release. The Linux 7.0 milestone comes due to Linus Torvalds' preference of bumping the major version number after hitting X.19 as opposed to any single major change, but in any event there are a lot of great improvements and changes to find with this new kernel version. Linux 7.0 is also what's powering the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release.

There are many Linux 7.0 features and changes including more Intel Nova Lake enablement, more Intel Crescent Island accelerator bring-up, new AMD graphics IP blocks being enabled, self-healing capabilities for the XFS file-system, various performance optimizations, Intel TSX now defaults to auto mode, standardized generic I/O error reporting for the Linux kernel at long last, and much more as we have covered in dozens of Phoronix articles in recent weeks.

Hey all, Not long ago I shared my Artix Linux installer. I wanted to take it a little bit further (And learn some more Rust along the way), and make a companion site to make setting up the script settings even easier when wanting to run the installer - so here it is. Introducing the Lazy Web

This was developed using Rust, with Actix for the backend and egui + wasm for the frontend.

I had a few considerations when developing this, I wanted the encryption to occur clientside in the frontend in order to ensure your encryption password never makes it to the server. But also I wanted the decryption process to occur when the script downloads the settings. I also wanted the identifier that you use to connect and download the settings to be short and unique.

The website and the script are both still a work in progress, and i'm open to suggestions/feedback.

By Developer @Matty_r@programming.dev

Highlights

• Rust rewrite of GNU coreutils and sudo-rs
• TPM-backed Full Disk Encryption now considered stable
• More secure services (don't run as root if not needed, AppArmor profiles)
• AppArmor prompting for snaps is still experiemental unfortunately

Bazzite Linux is easily one of the most popular gaming-focused Linux builds to run on handhelds and gaming PCs, with a major new update launched. With Bazzite being based on Fedora, they're also gearing up towards the upcoming Fedora 44 release that's due next week. So we can look forward to even more improvements there once they rebase their packages onto Fedora 44 too.

With all the different countries and US states expanding age verification laws for various devices, here's what the Debian Linux team had to say about it.

It continues to be a sticky situation for many Linux distributions, with most taking a wait and see approach. We had previous posts covered here on GamingOnLinux from the likes of Ubuntu and Fedora, while System76 took the fight directly to law makers.

This full statement comes from the current Debian Linux project leader, Andreas Tille, written on their mailing list under "Bits from the DPL" that was posted April 4th.

KDE announced Frameworks 6.25 as the latest monthly update to its add-on libraries for Qt and KDE applications. This release maintains the regular monthly schedule and requires Qt 6.9. Here are the highlights.

In KIO, KDE’s file access and management framework, improvements include enhanced file preview handling, better WebDAV copy and move behavior, improved FTP UTF-8 negotiation after login, refined paste behavior when the clipboard is empty, and updated URL fallback handling in KUrlNavigator. KIO also benefits from numerous leak fixes and internal cleanups.

KGuiAddons also receives attention, with fixes for clipboard-related issues on Wayland. The updated code now waits up to one second for clipboard contents and correctly interrupts a thread if the client extension becomes inactive. KWindowSystem resolves a Wayland-side crash, and KWallet addresses intermittent Secret Service session key mismatches with libsecret.

I have basically combined the App and Mimetype icons of Colloid, the symbolic icons of Papirus and the Folder Icons of Zorin into one theme, I present to you Uniformity.

But this is not just a simple copy paste, here's what I changed.

1. Adapted the install script to this new structure so that it is easy to download themes with different folder colours.
2. Recreated the Zorin folder theme is SVG and changed all the glyphs.
3. Added over 40+ new app icons including a redesigned Flatseal Icon, Bazaar, Fragments, Eden, Musicbrainz and more.

I have made these and tested on Gnome only however they should work just fine with KDE as well. I would love for you to try it out and let me know what you'd like to see. I have laid down the groundworks for schemes which means you can adapt nord and catppuccin themes to this icon pack as well. The script works fairly well execpt the -t all flag seems to be a bit broken so I suggest installing colours individually.

OC by @acceptable_humor@lemmy.world