TTechnology Read More Linux 7.0-rc5 Released: Linux 7.0 “Starting To Calm Down”March 22, 2026 Linus Torvalds just issued Linux 7.0-rc5 as we inch toward the stable Linux 7.0 kernel release in April.…
TTechnology Read More Loongson Linux Display Driver No Longer OrphanedMarch 22, 2026 The Loongson Direct Rendering Manager driver for handling the display controller on LS7A/LS2K SoCs is no longer orphaned…
TTechnology Read More Bcachefs 1.37 Released With Linux 7.0 Support, Erasure Coding Stable & New Sub-CommandsMarch 15, 2026 Kent Overstreet today released Bcachefs 1.37 as the newest feature release to this out-of-tree file-system driver and user-space…
TTechnology Read More Linux 7.0 Lands Improvements To Deal With Upcoming Rust Changes, Build ReproducibilityMarch 15, 2026 Merged to mainline yesterday for Linux 7.0 were yet more Rust changes in preparing for upcoming Rust releases…
TTechnology Read More Open-Source “GreenBoost” Driver Aims To Augment NVIDIA GPUs vRAM With System RAM & NVMe To Handle Larger LLMsMarch 15, 2026 An open-source, independently developed Linux kernel module called GreenBoost aims to augment the dedicated video memory on NVIDIA…
TTechnology Read More Experimental Intel Nova Lake P Device Bits Merged For Mesa 26.1March 8, 2026 Merged this week for Mesa 26.1 are the initial Nova Lake P “NVL-P” device bits for Intel’s ANV…
TTechnology Read More digiKam 9.0 Leading Open-Source Digital Photo Manager Software ReleasedMarch 8, 2026 The KDE/Qt-aligned digiKam software for managing RAW digital photos is out today with the big digiKam 9.0 release.…
TTechnology Read More Linux 7.0 Adds A New Minor Performance Optimization Shown With AMD Zen 2 CPUsMarch 8, 2026 The Linux event poll “epoll” code for efficient I/O multiplexing and monitoring of file descriptors for seeing when…
TTechnology Read More GNU Hurd On Guix Is Ready With 64-bit Support, SMP Multi-Processor Support “Soon”March 1, 2026 After hearing last month that GNU Hurd is “almost there” with x86_64 support, it was exciting to kickoff…
TTechnology Read More GNU Gawk 5.4 Released With New MinRX Regex Matcher, Faster Reading Of FilesFebruary 22, 2026 Developers behind the widely-used GNU Awk text processing utility today released Gawk 5.4. Gawk 5.4 is now using…
TTechnology Read More AOMedia Open Audio Codec “OAC” Aims To Be The Successor To OpusFebruary 22, 2026 While the Alliance For Open Media “AOMedia” is most known for developing the AV1 open video codec, the…
TTechnology Read More Linux 7.0 Makes Preparations For Rust 1.95February 22, 2026 Last week was the main feature pull of Rust programming language updates for the Linux 7.0 kernel merge…