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.

A recently enacted law in California imposes an age-verification requirement on
operating-system providers beginning next year. The language of the Digital
Age Assurance Act does not restrict its requirements to proprietary or commercial
operating systems; projects like Debian, FreeBSD, Fedora, and others seem to be on
the hook just as much as Apple or Microsoft. There is some hope that the law will be
amended, but there is no guarantee that it will be. This means that the developer
communities behind Linux distributions are having to discuss whether and how to
comply with the law with little time and even less legal guidance.

Igalia has announced
the Moonforge Linux
distribution, based on OpenEmbedded
and Yocto.

Moonforge is an operating system framework for Linux devices that
simplifies the process of building and maintaining custom operating
systems.

It provides a curated collection of Yocto layers and configuration
files that help developers generate immutable, maintainable, and
easily updatable operating system images.

The goal is to offer the best possible developer experience for
teams building embedded Linux products. Moonforge handles the complex
aspects of operating system creation, such as system integration,
security, updates, and infrastructure, so developers can focus on
building and deploying their applications or devices.

Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such as being able to roll back in case of any problems. This article provides the steps to rebase to the newly released Fedora Linux 44 Beta, and how to revert if anything unforeseen […]

Over the past two years AMD has developed the AMDXDNA accelerator driver in the mainline Linux kernel for supporting the AMD Ryzen AI NPUs. But when it comes to user-space software on Linux actually able to leave the Ryzen AI NPUs it’s been… extremely limited with nothing really useful besides some niche bits of code. Even AMD’s own software like their GAIA on Linux has used Vulkan with their iGPUs rather than any NPU support. But finally today there is a significant shift with the Ryzen AI NPUs becoming useful on Linux and able to handle LLMs…

With GNOME 50 that is being used by default with the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release, you may be curious about the out-of-the-box performance especially compared to prior Ubuntu Linux releases — especially with Mutter 50 having some NVIDIA optimizations. In today’s article is a first look at how the NVIDIA Linux gaming performance on Ubuntu 26.04 is looking compared to the current Ubuntu 25.10 release.

Gateworks has introduced the GW16168, an M.2 AI acceleration card designed to add dedicated neural network processing to embedded and industrial systems. The module integrates NXP’s Ara240 discrete neural processing unit (DNPU) and is designed, tested, and assembled in the United States for industrial edge AI deployments. The GW16168 uses NXP’s Ara240 DNPU to deliver […]

The open-source D7VK project began to implement Direct3D 7 over Vulkan similar to DXVK and VKD3D-Proton providing support for newer Direct3D APIs atop Vulkan. With succeeding releases D7VK was extended to Direct3D 6 too and then Direct3D 5 support. Now with today’s D7VK 1.5 release, Direct3D 3 is implemented for faster acceleration using Vulkan…

Posted today were new Intel kernel graphics driver patches for Linux to enable Adaptive Sync SDP (Secondary Data Packet) handling for Panel Replay and Auxless Adaptive Link Power Management (ALPM) modes…