Shiva is entering development for Mesa Vulkan drivers as a new framework akin to Gallium3D but for Vulkan drivers rather than OpenGL. It’s going to be some time before the work will come to fruition but should hopefully lead to more code sharing and a better Mesa Vulkan driver development experience in the future…

Today, Mozilla has published the final builds of the Firefox 157 open-source web browser ahead of its official unveiling on September 29th, 2026, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements.

Today, Mozilla has published the final builds of the Firefox 157 open-source web browser ahead of its official unveiling on September 29th, 2026, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements.

As an initiative from NVIDIA for improving the Linux ecosystem outside the world of AI, they have been developing Display-Config-Server as a new solution to help enhance the Linux capabilities for complex display walls…

As an initiative from NVIDIA for improving the Linux ecosystem outside the world of AI, they have been developing Display-Config-Server as a new solution to help enhance the Linux capabilities for complex display walls…

SIMDjson is the open-source, high performance JSON parser that surprisingly began making use of AVX-512 to deliver big performance gains years ago. SIMDjson has continued further refining itself to deliver even greater speeds and out today is SIMDjson 5.0…

The Dutch government is building DAWO, a NixOS based replacement for Windows and Office, following similar moves already underway in France and Denmark.

Version 2.56 of the Git distributed
version-control system has been released. It has 748 non-merge commits
since Git 2.55 was released back in
June; those commits came from 104 developers, 39 of whom are first-time
contributors. New features include a safer workflow for conflict
resolution, smaller path-walk repacks, a new git history drop
sub-command, and much more. LWN looked at Git
2.56 recently and the GitHub blog has a lengthy
look at 2.56 as well.

Now queued up for introduction in the Linux 7.4 merge window later in October is the steal governor driver for preferred CPUs and steal-driven vCPU backoff for today’s virtualized world…

Qualcomm hiring one of Red Hat’s top x86_64 Linux laptop experts last year, Hans de Goede, is indeed having a positive benefit on enhancing the Fedora Linux support for Qualcomm Snapdragon X powered hardware…

F-Droid 2.0 brings a redesigned Android app store experience with a new UI, improved search and filtering, background updates, and smoother app installs.

As a professor of biomedical engineering, Martin Uecker perhaps does not
fit the profile of a typical presenter at Kernel Recipes. He is,
however, a longtime Linux user, and works on free software for controlling
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners. He was at the conference to
talk about the C programming language, the specific problem of undefined
behavior in C, and whether it can eventually be made into a memory-safe
language.

Ubuntu 26.10 brings AI dictation, a smarter memory manager and Windows-style window snapping. Here’s the release date and every confirmed feature.

The 7.3-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for
testing. Linus said: “I don’t think there’s any real pattern to it
other than ‘big’. But nothing looks particularly alarming, I think that
despite the diffstat it’s just the same old, same old.“

The Linux-based mobile operating system postmarketOS has officially changed its name to Nura after a year-and-a-half selection process.

Make a small compromise here, and a tiny compromise there, and pretty soon you’ve backed yourself into a huge compromised corner.

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Version 18.1 of the GDB interactive debugger has been released. Changes
include new commands to manipulate the environment of the subprocess, the
ability to save the command history to a file, support for a couple of new
targets, several Python API additions, and more. See the
NEWS file for the complete list.

GL.iNet has unveiled the Mango 2 (GL-MG1300), a compact travel router with dual-band Wi-Fi 5, Gigabit Ethernet and USB 3.0. The device supports WireGuard and OpenVPN, along with Ethernet, Wi-Fi repeater, USB tethering and USB cellular modem connections. The Mango 2 is powered by a dual-core MediaTek processor running at 880MHz, although GL.iNet does not […]

Going back to last year the Igalia open-source consulting firm has been working on enhancing the Linux kernel to help Steam Play gaming on ARM64 and ensuring the FEX emulator is operating efficiently for x86/x86_64 games running on the likes of the Steam Frame. After other kernel work in recent months, there’s finally an updated round of the FUTEX get_robust_list2 and set_robust_list2 system call patches…

Nginx Proxy Manager 2.16 introduces a new web UI log viewer, per-path access lists, security fixes, networking improvements, and updated Certbot support.