Linux 7.0 is INSANE, Gentoo vs AI, Fedora’s New Panic Screen & More Wins
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A weekly Linux and open source news roundup covering major developments: Linux 7.0 merge window progress including Rust support becoming officially stable in the kernel, a 50-80x IO uring latency fix on idle systems, 50-75% memory reclamation improvements via folio batching, and PCIe 7 groundwork patches. Hardware highlights include Valve's AMD GPU fix for older iMacs, MediaTek MT7902 Wi-Fi driver patches, and expanded laptop support for AMD, Asus, HP, and Lenovo. Desktop news covers KDE Plasma 6.6, PipeWire 1.6, Weston 15 with Vulkan renderer, GNOME 50 color management, and Lutris native Wayland support. Distribution news includes Ubuntu 26.04 feature freeze, Gentoo migrating from GitHub to Codeberg over AI training concerns, FreeBSD gaining KDE Plasma installer support, and Fedora's proposed QR-code kernel panic screen. Also covered: Vulkan 1.4.344, HDMI 2.1 FRL patches for AMD GPUs, Asahi Linux M3 progress, and simdjson 4.3 with 30% JSON parsing speedup.