One of the first changes merged for the upcoming 7.0 release was nullfs,
an empty filesystem that cannot actually contain any files. One might
logically wonder why the kernel would need such a thing. It turns out,
though, that there are places where a null filesystem can come in handy.
For 7.0, nullfs will be used to make life a bit easier for init
programs; future releases will likely use nullfs to increase the isolation
of kernel threads from the init process.

Introduced with Linux 6.19 was the long in development DRM Color Pipeline API while it’s not the end of the road yet on enhancing the Linux desktop for modern high dynamic range (HDR) displays and color pipeline handling. AMD engineer Harry Wentland has more improvements pending for the AMDGPU driver as well as example compositor/desktop-side integration with KDE’s KWin…

AMD, Broadcom, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI jointly announced today the formation of the Optical Compute Interconnect (OCI) Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) optical scale-up consortium…

Sasha Levin has announced the release of the 6.19.7 and 6.18.17 stable kernels. As usual, each
contains important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised to
upgrade.

In Mesa 26.1 the Radeon Vulkan driver “RADV” has finally landed support for the VK_KHR_copy_memory_indirect extension that was introduced to the Vulkan API last year…

Mesa 26.0.2 is now available as the latest bi-weekly stable point release for this set of open-source graphics drivers predominantly used on Linux systems…

Qt developers today released Qt Creator 19 as the newest version of this cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE)…

Texas Instruments has introduced two new microcontroller families aimed at bringing artificial intelligence processing to low-power embedded systems. The MSPM0G5187 and AM13Ex devices integrate TI’s TinyEngine NPU, a hardware accelerator designed to improve the efficiency of neural network inference on microcontrollers. The MSPM0G5187 is based on an Arm Cortex-M0+ CPU running up to 80 MHz […]

Richard Hughes of Red Hat just announced the release of Fwupd 2.1.1 as the newest feature update to this solution for deploying system firmware updates and other device/peripheral firmware updates under Linux. Paired with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS), Fwupd has made firmware updating a breeze on Linux for an increasing number of devices…

Linux consulting firm Igalia announced this week Moonforge, a new in-house Linux distribution by them based on Yocto and OpenEmbedded…

Think of Bodhi Linux 7.0 as a digital walk for peace: a lightweight Moksha desktop, a small install footprint, and just enough polish to keep your aging hardware serene.

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Google knows asking agents to navigate GUIs designed for humans is ridiculous. Microsoft might notOpinion The command line interface is making a comeback because graphical user interfaces are a poor fit for autonomous agents, which could spell trouble for a lot of software – and software makers.…

The printenv command is an alternative to the env command used to fetch the value of a specified variable name (key) used as an argument.

TrueNAS deprecates its public build repository on GitHub, raising questions in the community about openness and release transparency.

Sigil 2.7.5 has been released today for this free, open-source, and cross-platform e-book editor software designed for those who want to edit books in the EPUB format, supporting both EPUB 2 and EPUB 3.

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Chardet; Linux and age verification; Debian AI; Python lazy imports; Python type-system PEP; PQC HTTPS certificates; MGLRU; Fedora strategy.
• Briefs: LLM vulnerability; NTP security; OpenWrt 25.12.0; SUSE sale; Buildroot 2026.02; digiKam 9.0.0; Rust 1.94.0; Quotes; …
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

PeerTube 8.1 enhances podcast playback, updates image management, and introduces domain-restricted embedding.

OBS Studio 32.1 is now available for this popular cross-platform desktop screen recording app that is also popular with game live-streaming and other uses…

It has been eight years already since System76 announced Thelio as their own built-in-the-USA, custom-engineered cases for desktops and workstations. System76 Thelio is an open hardware design and built exceptionally well out of their facilities in Colorado. System76 Thelio has served them well for their range of desktop systems over the years from ARM64 developer workstations to high-end AMD Linux systems. Now though they are preparing to introduce their next-generation Thelio design. Ahead of the announcement next week, here is an exclusive first look at the next-gen Thelio hardware.

Kitty 0.46 GPU-accelerated terminal introduces smooth pixel scrolling, momentum scrolling on Linux, draggable tabs, and mouse-based split resizing.