Linux Users of Central Illinois

Thursday June 4, 2026

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

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

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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Amazon's New Stargate Series Is Officially Dead

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Fedora Linux 43 Exposes 20-Year-Old Microsoft Outlook Security Failure

EU Plots To Abandon US Tech

MacBook Neo is So Popular That Apple Reportedly Doubled Production

Google Launches 'Gemma 4 12B' AI Model That Can Run On Your Laptop

Google Shares Fitbit Air Blueprints So Anyone Can 3D-Print Accessories

Microsoft Plans Linux Tools, RTX Spark Desktop For Windows Devs

Meta Workers Can Opt Out of Workplace Tracking for Up to 30 Minutes

Microsoft Claims New Quantum Chip 1,000 Times Better Than Before

Android Gets Fake Call Detection That Uses RCS

Thanks To Robots, Ukraine Is Now Talking About Winning, Not Just Surviving

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"

Benchmarking The Different CachyOS Linux Kernel Flavors

KDE Plasma 6.8 Still Planning To End X11 Support, 95% Of Plasma 6.6 Users Are On Wayland

The Linux Kernel Ready To Make TSC A Hard Requirement For x86 CPUs

Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Merges Mesh Shader Support

Mir 2.27 Released With More Wayland Rust Code

ASUS ZenVision Laptop Lid Screen Reverse Engineered & Now Able To Work On Linux

COSMIC Desktop's Frosted Glass Is Giving Windows Aero Vibes

Shotcut 26.6 Beta Brings Many Fixes, OpenFX & VST2 Plugin Support

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