A one-line patch to the HP WMI x86 platform driver for Linux was posted for allowing the HP OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-fb1xxx to correctly hit its rated TDP limit for allowing better performance outside of the Microsoft Windows confines…
Category Archives: Linux
How to Install and Use Perl on Linux
Learn how to install Perl on Linux and run your first Perl program. Discover why Perl remains a powerful choice for text processing, system administration, and web development.
libinput 1.31 Bringing Support For Fast Three-Finger Swipes
Linux input expert Peter Hutterer of Red Hat announced today the first release candidate of libinput 1.31, the input handling library used by both modern X.Org Server and Wayland desktop environments…
AMD Expands FPGA Offerings With Mid-Range Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2
AMD announced today an expansion of their FPGA prodict line-up with the Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 for “intelligent, high performance systems” for medical, industrial, and other fields…
Stop Using Outdated Docker Images – How I Used WUD to Track Container Updates
What’s Up Docker shows which Docker containers need updates, tracks versions, and lets you manage them safely through a simple dashboard.
Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support
Many vital open source resources rely on the devotion of a few individualsIt’s hard to imagine something as fundamental to computing as the sudo command becoming abandonware, yet here we are: its solitary maintainer is asking for help to keep the project alive.…
The February 2026 Issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine
The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the February 2026 issue.
Leveraging urunc For Efficiently Running BSD Applications In Linux Environments
While there is the Linuxulator as a kernel-level solution on FreeBSD for running unmodified Linux binaries that can even work for gaming on FreeBSD, running BSD applications on Linux isn’t talked about as much. But developers have found that for those wanting to run BSD applications in Linux environments, the urunc lightweight container runtime can work out rather well for efficiently handling BSD apps on Linux…
Arch Linux February ISO Is Out With Kernel, Desktop, and Security Updates
Arch Linux has released its updated February installation ISO, bringing a new kernel, refreshed system libraries, desktop updates, and security fixes.
Core Ultra HX powers RTX-equipped NUC 15 workstation
SimplyNUC is shipping the Jean Canyon NUC 15 Performance, a compact 3-liter workstation that runs Linux or Windows on Intel Core Ultra Series 2 HX processors with discrete NVIDIA RTX Laptop GPUs. The Jean Canyon platform is available in two main configurations based on Intel’s Core Ultra 9 275-HX or Core Ultra 7 255-HX processors. […]
NVIDIA DLSS For Blender Under Review But Licensing Concerns Persist
A few months ago at SIGGRAPH was a demo of Blender with NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) integration. The pull request is now open for landing NVIDIA DLSS support into Blender for better quality upscaling/denoising and performance but concerns persist over the licensing due to NVIDIA DLSS binaries…
Dank Fedora MiracleWM & Other Fedora 44 Changes Approved
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee “FESCo” has signed off on the latest batch of Fedora 44 change proposals as they work toward nearing the end of feature work for this spring update to Fedora Linux. Plus some early changes for Fedora 45 have also been granted…
System76 Releases COSMIC 1.0.5 with New Option to Show Battery Percentage
Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.0.5 today as the latest stable update to this Rust-based desktop environment for Pop!_OS Linux and other GNU/Linux distributions.
Libreboot 26.01 Open-Source Boot Firmware Released With New Board Support
Libreboot 26.01, an open-source boot firmware, is now available, adding support for several new boards and stability fixes.
GNOME 50 Lands Virtual Monitor / Remote Desktop Improvements – Including HiDPI
In time for next month’s GNOME 50 release are some improvements merged today for the Mutter compositor code adding HiDPI and monitor mode emulation support to the screen-casting API and DevKit…
Intel Panther Lake Shows Strong Linux CPU Performance & Power Efficiency With Core Ultra X7 358H Benchmarks
For those that have been very eager to hear about the Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” performance on Linux, today’s the day! Last Thursday the MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Evo laptop arrived that is powered by the Core Ultra X7 358H. Here is a look at how that Intel Core Ultra X7 358H competes for performance and power efficiency against a wide range of other laptops on an up-to-date Linux software stack in with around 300 benchmarks.
[$] The future for Tyr
The
team behind
Tyr started 2025 with little to show in our quest to
produce a Rust GPU driver for Arm Mali hardware, and by the end of the
year, we were able to play SuperTuxKart (a 3D open-source racing
game) at the Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC). Our prototype was a joint
effort between Arm, Collabora, and Google; it ran well for the duration
of the event, and the performance was more than adequate for players.
Thankfully, we picked up steam at precisely the right moment: Dave
Airlie just
announced in the Maintainers Summit that the DRM subsystem
is only “about a year away
” from disallowing new drivers written in C
and requiring the use of Rust. Now it is time to lay out a
possible roadmap for 2026 in order to upstream all of this work.
Linux Dropping SMC TCP ULP Support For Being “Fundamentally Broken”
Merged four years ago to the Linux kernel networking subsystem’s Shared Memory Communications (SMC) code was TCP Upper Layer Protocol (ULP) support for allowing applications to replace TCP with the SMC protocol in-place as a transparent replacement. Except for the next kernel cycle it’s set to be reverted after realizing it’s “fundamentally broken.”..
OpenIndiana Is Porting Solaris’ IPS Package Management To Rust
OpenIndiana as the open-source project built atop Illumos that is continuing to maintain and advance the former OpenSolaris code is working on a big ambitions of modernizing the Image Packaging System (IPS) package management solution. As part of that they are working to move from a C and Python codebase over to Rust…
Reworked NTFS Linux Driver Posted With More Improvements & Fixes
Announced back in October was NTFS Plus as a new Linux driver for NTFS based on the former NTFS kernel driver prior to Paragon Software contributing the NTFS3 driver code. The intent with this new driver is for better performance. more features, public user-space utilities around it, and all-around a nice step forward for those reliant on this Microsoft file-system. Out this week is the sixth iteration of this remade NTFS driver…