Power Sequencing Driver For PCIe M.2 Connectors Makes It Into Linux 7.0
The power sequencing subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 7.0 cycle. Typically not an area of…
F2FS Delivers “Several Key Performance Optimizations” With Linux 7.0
The Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) has multiple performance improvements to provide its users with on the in-development Linux…
X.Org Server’s “Master” Branch Now Closed With Cleaned Up State On “Main”
This Valentine’s Day there is a lot of red on the screen for the X.Org Server with the…
GNOME OS To Use systemd-context, RustConn Provides Modern GTK4 Connection Manager
In addition to this week’s GNOME 50 beta release, there were also other exciting developments in the GNOME…
Linux 6.19 Features Include Many Benefits For Intel & AMD Users
With the Linux 6.19 stable kernel expected to be released tomorrow (8 February), here is a reminder about…
NetBSD 11.0-RC1 Available For Testing With Enhanced Linux Emulation
The first release candidate of the big NetBSD 11.0 release is now available for testing. NetBSD 11.0 had…
Linux’s b4 Kernel Development Tool Now Dog-Feeding Its AI Agent Code Review Helper
The b4 tool used by Linux kernel developers to help manage their patch workflow around contributions to the…
Linux 7.0 Aims To Replace More Caching Code With Sheaves For “Hopefully” Improved Performance
Introduced to the mainline Linux kernel last year was “sheaves” as an opt-in per-CPU array-based caching layer. Sheaves…
Shotcut Video Editor Now Using Hardware Decoding By Default Except For NVIDIA On Linux
Shotcut 26.1 is now available as the latest feature update to this open-source and cross-platform video editing solution.…
Phosh Mobile Phone UI Making Progress On GTK4 Port
Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras presented today at FOSDEM on the latest work around Phosh, the mobile phone user interface…
Several New X.Org Libraries See 2026 Releases
While we wait to see what comes of the new X.Org Server Git branch plans and a possible…
Linux Kernel Continuity Document Added: What Happens If Torvalds’ Git Repo Goes Away?
Following discussions from the 2025 Linux Maintainer Summit, merged overnight for the Linux 6.19 kernel is documentation concerning…