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.

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Python’s bitwise-inversion operator; atomic buffered I/O; keeping open source open; Magit and Majutsu; IIIF; free software and free tools.
• Briefs: Ad tracking; firmware updates; TCP zero-copy; Motorola GrapheneOS phones; Gram 1.0; groff 1.24.0; Texinfo 7.3; Quotes; …
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

FEX 2603 as the Valve-sponsored open-source project allowing Linux x86/x86_64 binaries to run on AArch64 Linux — including the likes of Steam and various games as will become important with the Steam Frame — is now out with its newest monthly release…

The T2 Linux team has released today T2 Linux 26.3, codenamed “Desktop Edition”, delivering a massive update for this highly portable source-based Linux distribution.

Following the mainline Linux kernel beginning to see Xe3P graphics enablement for upcoming Nova Lake integrated graphics as well as the Crescent Island AI inference accelerator, Intel’s Mesa OpenGL “Iris” and Vulkan “ANV” drivers are preparing to begin laying out their Xe3P driver support…

Brand-new stripped-down fork of the Zed all-Rust code editorGram is a new text editor written in Rust, created by removing almost all the fancy features from Zed… and it has already seemingly caused Zed Industries to change its terms of use service, according to Gram’s developer.…

A Digital Age Assurance Act law (AB 1043) in California, US, effective January 1st, 2027, requires operating systems to ask users to input their birth date during the initial setup to follow child privacy rules.

Announced this week at Mobile World Congress (MWC) by the Linux Foundation was the establishing of the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation for advancing open-source AI-RAN (Radio Access Network) innovations. OCUDU is building a reference platform and innovations around 5G and early 6G network solutions. With OCUDU being benchmark-friendly, I have been putting the early code through some performance tests on current AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon server platforms.

Linux Mint developers recently outlined their work on developing a new Wayland-compatible screensaver for use with their Cinnamon desktop environment. Linux Mint developers announced today that their new screensaver solution is ready for use…

Origami Linux leaves beta with the 2026.03 snapshot, introducing its first stable release built on Fedora 43 Atomic with the COSMIC desktop.

Sasha Levin has announced the release of the 6.19.6, 6.18.16, 6.12.75, 6.6.128, 6.1.165, 5.15.202, and 5.10.252 stable kernels. Each contains
important fixes throughout the tree; users of these kernels are
advised to upgrade.

Last week marked the release of systemd 260-rc1 with a new “mstack” feature, a new “FANCY_NAME” field for os-release, dropping System V service script support, and other changes. Out today is systemd 260-rc2 release with more changes in further working its way toward a stable release for empowering 2026 Linux distributions…

Heading toward the Linux 7.0 kernel and marked for back-porting to current stable Linux kernel versions is employing a new SEV-SNP security feature found on AMD Zen 5 processors for enhancing security of guest virtual machines…

AI gold rush or house of cards? How $110B OpenAI “deals” and Ellison’s media grab expose the announcement economy’s grift.

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In this article, you will learn about the short description of the init process, the runlevels of init, and the init command in a Linux system.