One of the latest NVIDIA open-source contributions this week wasn’t for the in-development Nova kernel driver but for enhancing the existing Nouveau kernel driver. The patch posted is for bringing up the NVIDIA GA100 GPU under Nouveau using the GPU System Processor (GSP)…

In this article, you will learn how to install and configure Docker and Docker Containers with DockSTARTer on Linux.

With the Serial Peripheral Interface “SPI” subsystem updates for the Linux 7.0 kernel comes support for multi-lane SPI…

The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS kicked off 2026 by making many improvements to its kernel, device drivers, and user-space software…

Adding to the exciting features for the big Linux 7.0 kernel release is support for the Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Algorithm “ML-DSA” quantum-resistant signature algorithm…

systemd-manager-tui provides an interactive TUI for systemd, offering service control, log viewing, and unit inspection in one place.

Debian Project Leader (DPL) Andreas Tille has announced
a new delegation for Debian’s data projection team:

Following the end of the previous delegation, Debian was left
without an active Data Protection team. This situation has
understandably drawn external attention and highlighted the importance
of having a clearly identified point of contact for data protection
matters within the project.

I am therefore very pleased to announce that new volunteers have
stepped forward, allowing us to re-establish the Debian Data
Protection team with a fresh delegation.

Tille had put out a call for
volunteers in January after all previous members of the team had
stepped down. He has appointed Aigars Mahinovs, Andrew M.A. Cater,
Bart Martens, Emmanuel Arias, Gunnar Wolf, Kiran S Kunjumon, and Salvo
Tomaselli as the new members of the team. The team provides a central
coordination and advisory function around Debian’s data handling,
retention, dealing with deletion requests, and more.

The merge window for Linux 7.0 has opened, and with it
comes a number of interesting improvements and enhancements. At the time of
writing, there have been 7,695 non-merge commits accepted. The 7.0 release is
not special,

according to the kernel’s versioning scheme — just the release
that comes after 6.19. Humans love symbolism and round numbers, though, so it
may feel like something of a milestone.

At FOSDEM 2026 Petya
Kangalova, a senior tech partnership and engagement manager for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap
Team (HOT) spoke about how
the project helps people map their surroundings to assist in
disaster response and humanitarian aid. The project has
developed a stack of technology to help volunteers collectively map an
area and add in local knowledge metadata. “One of the core things
that we believe is that when we speak about disaster response or
people having access to data is that they really need accessible
technology that’s free and open for anyone to use.”

AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization with Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) provides memory encryption and integrity protections that can be especially useful in modern cloud computing. Typically a 2~10% performance overhead is reported when engaging AMD SEV-SNP for these hardware-backed security protections. In this article is an extensive look at the current AMD SEV-SNP performance impact for confidential computing on EPYC 9005 “Turin” servers. The current Ubuntu 24.04 LTS was tested as well as an Ubuntu 26.04 development snapshot in evaluating the latest optimizations and what is on the horizon this year for AMD EPYC Linux server performance.

The slab memory allocator feature updates have been merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel. Most notable this cycle is expanded use of the recently-introduced Sheaves functionality…

Flaw abused ‘in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals’Apple patched a zero-day vulnerability affecting every iOS version since 1.0, used in what the company calls an “extremely sophisticated attack” against targeted individuals.…

Record donations, busy developers, and a proposal to slow down Linux Mint’s release cadence. We want to know if you’re on board.

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Canonical released today Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS as the fourth point release of the long-term supported Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system series.

NetworkManager 1.56 has been released as the latest stable version of this popular open-source software for managing network connections inside a Linux-based operating system.

All of the memory management “MM” related patches have now been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.0 merge window…

The XFS file-system has some interesting new feature work and performance tuning with the Linux 7.0 kernel that will be used by the likes of Fedora 44 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS this spring…

Not in time for the current Linux 7.0 cycle but posted for another round of review is Intel’s latest work around Cache Aware Scheduling for enhancing the performance of modern CPUs with multiple cache domains. This is the first set of updates to Cache Aware Scheduling for the new year and succeed the v2 patches from early December. This work not only benefits modern Intel CPUs but our testing has shown can also provide some very nice gains too for AMD EPYC processors…

Sent out and already merged today for the Linux 7.0 kernel are the EXT4 file-system updates…

Merged today to Mesa 26.1-devel is unifying of the AMD video decode implementation between the RadeonSI Gallium3D and RADV Vulkan drivers…