Linux Users of Central Illinois

Friday June 5, 2026

The Linux Users Group of Springfield, Illinois and the surrounding area.

Some other users groups in the area:
Chicagoland Linux Users Group

Unix Hobbyists', Administrators' & Coders' Club

Meeting Info:

Meetings of the Linux Users of Central Illinois are the 2^nd and 4^th Tuesday of every month from 7 PM to 9 PM. Meetings are held on Jitsi Meet. Details are posted in the meeting announcement on the luci-announce mailing list.

The next LUCI meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, June 9, 2026.

The following LUCI meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, June 23, 2026.

News from around the web:

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Companies Are Using Reddit To Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search

Meta Keeps Delaying the Release of Its New AI Model to Developers

LinkedIn China Spying Threat Prompts Warning From US, Allies

Supreme Court Sides With Trump Administration On Federal Regulation of Telecom Companies

Samsung Ditches New Jersey For Texas, Costing Garden State 1,000 Jobs

Apple Is Bringing Age Verification To Texas This Week

Google Ordered To Put Clearer Links In AI Search, Let UK Publishers Opt Out

NASA Says Goodbye to Its Longtime Mars MAVEN Mission

ARM Linux Server Performance Up More Than 7x Geo Mean In 8 Years, As Much As 15x With NVIDIA Vera CPU

Vulkan 1.4.353 Released With Three New Extensions

More SpacemiT K3 & K1 Support Landing In Upstream Linux 7.2

NVIDIA's Nova Driver Continues Being Built Up In Linux 7.2 Along With Other DRM Rust Code

Linux 7.2 Continues Improving AMDGPU Support On POWER, ARM

GNOME 51 Retires Legacy NVIDIA Driver Support With Removing EGLStreams

Today Marks 22 Years Of Phoronix For Linux Hardware Testing & Benchmarking

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Linux 7.1 + Mesa 26.1 Performance With The Radeon RX 9070 GRE, RX 9070 XT

Linux 7.2 Will Be Able To Boot On Apple M3 Macs - But Far From Useful For End-Users

Qualcomm Gets The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 Snapdragon X2 Laptop Working On Linux

Blender 5.2 LTS Enters Beta With New Features

AMD's GAIA Finally Has A Nice Multi-Device Experience For AI

GCC Git Enables Additional Tuning For AMD Zen 6

systemd 261-rc3 Released With Individual Binaries Now Embedding dlopen ELF Metadata Note

AMD Submits Its Long-Awaited HDMI 2.1 FRL Support For Linux 7.2 AMDGPU

Crown Engine 0.63 Restores Its OpenGL Renderer For Legacy Hardware Support

LLVM To Begin Offering Zstd-Compressed Binaries For "Significantly Reduced" Downloads

Steam Survey For May 2026 After Delay: Linux Just Under 4%

Widely-Used libinput Updated Due To Arbitrary Root Code Execution

3mdeb Keeps Making Progress On Their Coreboot + AMD openSIL Port To Ryzen MSI Board

COSMIC Now Implements Wayland Pointer Constraints For Better Gaming Experience

AMD EPYC 8635P "Sorano" Benchmarks: Significant Upgrade Opportunity For EPYC 8004 Servers

Intel Preps GCC Function Multi-Versioning To Support APX & AVX10.2

Ubuntu To Ship Newer AMD ROCm Updates Via SRUs

NVIDIA Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support Moves Closer For Open-Source Nova Driver

Intel XPU Manager Adds Support For Arc Pro B65 + Arc Pro B70

Microsoft Announces Coreutils For Windows: Derived From Rust Coreutils

New "KRAID" Compiler Merged To Mesa For Panfrost/PanVK Drivers

Canonical Now Considers Their Steam Snap For ARM64 To Be Stable

Marek Olšák Scores Up To 100% Pixel Throughput Optimization For RADV Driver

Microsoft Announces Open-Source "Intelligent Terminal"


webmaster@luci.org	Last updated Tue May 26 20:12:13 2026.