Over a decade ago a consortium of companies came up with a plan to standardise computing around the dubious but self-serving idea (or topology) wherein, in practice, Microsoft would control which operating systems are permitted to boot on standard, off-the-shelf computer hardware

Following the recent NVIDIA R595 driver release for Windows, NVIDIA today released the 595.45.04 driver for Linux users as a beta version in the R595 release stream…

Debian Project Leader “DPL” Andreas Tille provided an update today on various happenings within the project and personal reflections on some recent topics. Among the topics in today’s DPL updates were around AI contributions, Debian’s need to become more diverse with its contributors, and needing more “thank yous” to show appreciation for contributions…

Sasha Levin has announced the release of the 6.12.76, 6.6.129, and 6.1.166 stable kernels. These releases
address a regression reported
by Peter Schneider; Levin said that an upgrade is only necessary for
those who have observed a build failure with the 6.12.75, 6.6.128, or
6.1.165 kernels.

The multi-generational LRU (MGLRU) is an
alternative memory-management algorithm that was merged for the 6.1 kernel
in late 2022. It brought a promise of much-improved performance and
simplified code. Since then, though, progress on MGLRU has stalled, and it
still is not enabled on many systems. As the 2026 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF) approaches,
several memory-management developers have indicated a desire to talk about
the future of MGLRU. While some developers are looking for ways to improve
the subsystem, another has called for it to be removed entirely.

Bash, an acronym for “Bourne-Again SHell“, is a superset of the shell (or sh) program written by Brian Fox for the GNU Project as a replacement for the traditional Bourne Shell (or sh).

There were some fairly exciting improvements made by the Redox OS developers over the course of February. They have the Vulkan API working on Redox OS for the first time along with more COSMIC desktop software and even Node.js…

AMD has begun staging AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver improvements for the upcoming Linux 7.1 cycle…

The Intel IVPU accelerator driver will be introducing limits on Intel NPU resource usage by non-root user-space programs beginning with the Linux 7.1 kernel…

In the monthly newsletter for February 2026, Linux Mint creator Clement Lefebvre talks about the new screensaver for the Cinnamon desktop environment that will be implemented in future Linux Mint releases.

The AMD Host System Management Port (HSMP) Linux driver that provides access to various system management features on modern EPYC server processors is preparing for the upcoming EPYC Zen 6 “Venice” processors…

Approaching twenty years after Intel’s Poulsbo platform began giving Linux users nightmares due to its Imagination PowerVR SGX graphics IP that blocked open-source 3D driver support, the GMA500 driver that ended up coming about to provide open-source display support at least is still seeing occasional upstream activity for the Linux kernel…

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Hyprland 0.54.1 is a minor patch update that delivers bug fixes, crash corrections, and stability improvements for the Wayland tiling compositor.

The Alliance For Open Media on Wednesday released libavif 1.4, the latest version of this reference library for encoding and decoding AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) content…

This week at MWC 2026, Lenovo announced the ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 as one of their new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” powered laptops alongside other products. With Panther Lake running rather well on Linux, the new ThinkPad T14 G7 should be in good standing on Linux and especially with a pending Xe graphics driver fix that is on the way…

Think before you downloadOpenClaw, the AI agent that can manage just about anything, is risky all by itself, but now fake installers for it are wreaking havoc. Users who searched Bing’s AI results for “OpenClaw Windows” were directed to a malicious GitHub repository that delivered information stealers and GhostSocks onto their machines.…

Engicam has introduced the SmarCore iQ6, a SMARC 2.2 system-on-module based on the Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-6 Series. The module targets industrial, IoT, and edge computing applications requiring a compact embedded platform with multimedia and AI capabilities. The SmarCore iQ6 is built around the Qualcomm IQ-615 processor and uses a heterogeneous CPU architecture composed of two […]

Just a heads up that some brief downtime to Phoronix.com is expected overnight during the replacement of an NVMe drive in the RAID array for this web server…

Linux Mint introduces a native Cinnamon screensaver with Wayland support and adds a sensors page to System Reports.