A roundup of FOSS and Linux news covers LightDM's revival under community maintainership, Nitrux's new Workspace Environment, the Linux Kernel 7.2 release with AMD Radeon HDMI 2.1 support and Apple M3 boot support, Canonical's clarified WSL growth comments, a new Xen Project Safety Committee, Murena's Fairphone 6 Plus with /e/OS, and PINE64 halting Linux tablet production due to soaring RAM prices tied to AI demand. Also included: coverage of AI companies destroying rare books for training data, guides on terminal multiplexers and apt, a GNOME theming tool called Rewaita, a Proton tool for tracking AI chatbot secret leaks, and the new stillOS distro review.
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What new hardware support was added in Linux Kernel 7.2?
Linux Kernel 7.2 adds HDMI 2.1 support for AMD Radeon GPUs, enables booting Linux on Apple M3 MacBooks for the first time, and turns on Btrfs large folio support by default. It is described as a busy point release with multiple hardware compatibility improvements. Track kernel release notes like these on daily.dev before rebuilding your Linux setup.
Why is PINE64 stopping production of its Linux tablets?
PINE64 is halting production of its Linux-based tablets because soaring RAM prices, driven by AI companies bulk-buying memory for data centers, made it impossible to keep pricing reasonable for hobbyist-focused devices. Rising disk and RAM costs tied to AI infrastructure demand are squeezing budget hardware makers. Follow how AI-driven hardware costs ripple into hobbyist devices via daily.dev.
Is Ubuntu actually growing faster on Windows than on native Linux desktops?
Not exactly. Canonical's VP of Engineering stated that Ubuntu's growth rate inside WSL is outpacing its growth rate on native desktops, a comparison about relative growth rate rather than absolute usage, which was widely misreported as Ubuntu growing faster on Windows than on Linux itself. Canonical later clarified the original statement. Cut through misread stats on Ubuntu and WSL adoption trends via daily.dev.