A step-by-step guide to installing the COSMIC desktop environment on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS via a PPA repository.

It’s January 2026, and Google is finding innovative new ways to make one of its services worseImportant news for Gmail power users: Google is dropping the feature whereby Gmail can collect mail from other email accounts over POP3.…

Lisa Su’s keynote just wrapped up at CES 2026 and in turn the embargo regarding AMD’s first consumer product announcements for 2026. The AMD Ryzen AI 400 series and new Ryzen 7 9850X3D 3D V-Cache processors are what’s in focus for CES this year.

Phosh 0.52 introduces QR code sharing for Wi-Fi hotspots, lock screen brightness gestures, new debug controls, and more.

Intel just hosted their CES keynote where they formally launched Panther Lake as the Core Ultra Series 3 SoCs…

Forlinx’s FET1126Bx-S is described as a compact industrial system-on-module designed for low-power edge AI and embedded vision applications. The 40 mm × 40 mm module targets systems such as intelligent video analysis, smart infrastructure, and industrial monitoring, where local inference and long-term availability are required. The FET1126Bx-S is based on the Rockchip RV1126 B or […]

Remember when HP made its own CPUs and Unix? We wonder if it doesThe final version of HPE’s own flavor of Unix, HP-UX 11i v3, is now out of support. It is the end of a line that started in 1982.…

Back in November AMD began posting open-source Linux graphics driver patches for some next-gen graphics IP. Those IP block patches were for MMHUB, PSP, and other blocks making up modern AMD GPUs. The GFXHUB patch pointed it to being part of the GFX12 / RDNA4 family. Out today are new patches for enabling the SMU15 IP and an interesting takeaway there is some apparent NPU integration for future Radeon graphics…

The 273rd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on January 4th, 2026, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

VideoCardz reports that NVIDIA is preparing native Linux support for GeForce NOW, a long-awaited move for Linux gamers.

The calendar has flipped over to 2026; a new year has begun. That means
the moment we all dread has arrived: it is time for LWN to put out a set of
lame predictions for what may happen in the coming year. Needless to say,
we do not know any more than anybody else, but that doesn’t stop us from
making authoritative-sounding pronouncements anyway.

Both the GNOME desktop and Mozilla Firefox browser projects are considering disabling middle-click-paste functionality by default…

A developer from Valve working on the RADV Vulkan driver was once again the most prolific contributor to Mesa in 2025 followed by AMD’s Marek Olšák with continued improvements around RadeonSI and Gallium3D…

A clean and minimal KDE Plasma setup inspired by the calm atmosphere of a night waterfall. This configuration focuses on a dark, relaxing aesthetic while remaining simple, lightweight, and easy to apply for daily use.

Konstantin Seurer as one of the open-source developers working on the RADV driver for Valve has landed another ray-tracing performance optimization for the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release…

Running out of disk space on Linux can cause many issues. Discover simple, safe ways to clean files, logs, and unused packages, and free up disk space.

The newest open-source Apple Silicon driver being submitted for review in working toward its inclusion in the mainline Linux kernel is the Apple Silicon SMC power driver for being able to expose MacBook battery power metrics as well as AC power adapter status reporting under Linux…

Version 1.30 of the GNU
ddrescue data recovery tool has been released. Notable changes in
this release include improvements to automatic recovery of a drive
with a dead head, addition of a --no-sweep option to disable
reading of skipped areas, and more.

Patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list are hoping to provide mainline support for the Acer Swift SFA14-11 laptop powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite X1E78100 SoC…

Intel engineer Francois Dugast today sent out the new patch series for enabling Transparent Hugepages (THP) support within the drm_pagemap code with a focus on the Intel Xe kernel driver usage. This enabling of THP support and in turn 2MB pages by the Xe driver is yielding “significant” performance improvements when using Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) such as for GPU compute workloads…