New story! Need Help Remembering Linux Commands? Try Brief

If you’ve been looking for an app to help you get to know Linux commands, Brief is a great option.

New story! Linux Aliases: The Ultimate Hack to Boost Your Terminal Efficiency

  • Make Tech Easier; By Anees Asghar (Posted by damien on Feb 19, 2026 8:32 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
Learn how to use Bash aliases to shorten commands, reduce errors, speed up tasks, and improve your productivity in the Terminal.

New story! Pocketblue Brings Fedora Atomic Linux to Mobile Devices

Pocketblue brings Fedora Atomic to select ARM-powered devices, providing users with an immutable Linux system on their phones and tablets.

New story! You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Feb 19, 2026 5:29 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
No worries if the US doesn't want to be friends with Europe anymore Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighter aircraft can be jailbroken "just like an iPhone," the Netherlands' defense secretary has claimed.…

New story! LoongArch Ready With New Features In Linux 7.0

The Linux 7.0 kernel is shipping improvements for LoongArch, the Chinese CPU architecture inspired by MIPS64 and RISC-V and has been showing much potential for their domestic PC manufacturing...

New story! How to Run Full-screen Games In Linux With Dual Monitors

  • Make Tech Easier; By Haroon Javed (Posted by damien on Feb 19, 2026 2:26 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
With a few simple tweaks, you can run your game fullscreen on one display while your other screen remains fully usable. Here is how to do so.

New story! Dell UltraSharp U5223KW: An Outstanding 52-Inch 6K Monitor With Extensive Connectivity

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Feb 19, 2026 12:55 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Earlier this month Dell sent over a review sample of their new UltraSharp U5223KW monitor. While the model number may not imply much, this monitor is outright incredible. The Dell UltraSharp U5223KW is a 52-inch 6K @ 120Hz monitor with integrated USB hub also working as a KVM switch, 140 Watt power delivery support for USB-C/Thunderbolt laptops, 2.5G Ethernet, and the color reproduction and visuals with this Dell 6K monitor are impeccable.

New story! Copilot spills the beans, summarizing emails it's not supposed to read

Data Loss Prevention? Yeah, about that... The bot couldn't keep its prying eyes away. Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat has been summarizing emails labeled “confidential” even when data loss prevention policies were configured to prevent it.…

New story! Linux 7.0 Showing Some Early Performance Regressions On Intel Panther Lake

With the Linux 7.0 merge window beginning to calm down ahead of the 7.0-rc1 release due out on Sunday, one of the areas I was most excited about benchmarking on Linux 7.0 was looking for any performance gains with the new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" given ongoing Intel Xe graphics driver improvements and other general kernel optimizations. Unfortunately, at large the Intel Panther Lake performance is moving in the wrong direction with the early Linux 7.0 benchmarking.

New story! Mrhbaan Syria! Fedora now available in Syria

As of 10 February 2026, Fedora is now available in Syria. The Fedora Infrastructure Team has lifted IP blocks on Syrian addresses following recent United States policy changes. This restores full access to Fedora Linux ISOs, repositories, and services. We are thrilled to welcome our Syrian contributors and users back to the community!

New story! KDE Plasma 6.6 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Feb 18, 2026 3:53 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE, Linux
The KDE project released today KDE Plasma 6.6 as the latest and greatest version of this modern and popular desktop environment for GNU/Linux operating systems.

New story! How to Install and Use Original Vim Editor on Linux

Vim is a popular text editor on Linux, providing advanced features and functionalities compared to its competitor, the GNU Nano editor.

New story! Experimental Out-Of-Tree Code Aims To Provide HDMI 2.1 FRL For AMD Linux Driver

One of the limitations of the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver has been the lack of its support for HDMI 2.1 and later. AMD has wanted to support HDMI 2.1+ functionality under Linux but it's been legally blocked by the HDMI Forum. But anxious independent users have been working on open-source patches for wiring up HDMI 2.1 into the AMDGPU driver outside of the realm of AMD and the HDMI Forum's blessings...

New story! Oh Là Là! Red Hat Open Sources Digital Sovereignty Readiness Tool

With a new digital sovereignty assessment and an open framework, Red Hat is courting Europe’s policymakers and CIOs — but homegrown EU rivals and U.S. politics make it an uphill climb.

New story! GNOME 50 Merges "sdr-native" Color Mode Support For Wide Color Gamut Displays

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Feb 18, 2026 4:10 AM EDT)
  • Groups: GNOME; Story Type: News Story
As a late stage change for GNOME 50 ahead of its official debut next month and following last week's GNOME 50 beta is plumbing the Mutter compositor for a new "sdr-native" color mode option...

New story! COSMIC Desktop 1.0.7 Improves Workspaces Overview

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Feb 18, 2026 2:38 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
COSMIC Desktop 1.0.7 adds configurable typing actions in Workspaces Overview and resolves several full-screen and tiling-related crashes.

New story! GStreamer 1.28 brings AI inference to your media pipeline

With its latest release, GStreamer adds native support for AI inference engines including ONNX Runtime, LiteRT, and Burn, along with tensor decoders for YOLO, face detection, tracking, and more.

New story! NTFS3 Driver Sees Improvements In Linux 7.0 While "NTFS Remake" Driver Bakes

The NTFS3 driver maintained by Paragon Software for Microsoft NTFS file-systems today saw a batch of improvements merged for Linux 7.0 This comes as there is also the competing "NTFS Remake" driver that began a few months ago as the "NTFSPLUS" driver. That NTFS Remake driver isn't looking like it will be submitted for the Linux 7.0 merge window so at least for now the NTFS3 driver continues seeing improvements with the latest mainline kernel code...

New story! Oracle vows 'new era' for MySQL as users sharpen their forks

Commit drought and governance gripes push Big Red to reset Oracle has promised a "decisive new approach" to MySQL, the popular open source database it owns, following growing criticism of its approach and the prospect of a significant fork in the code.…

New story! Uh-Halp is an AI-Powered Command-Line Helper for Linux

Discover an AI-powered uh-halp command line tool that can help you in your command-line journey with the steps to install it in your favorite Linux distribution.

New story! DNF 5.4 Released With Some New Options & AI Contributions Policy

DNF 5.4 is out today as the latest release for this next-generation RPM package management solution used by Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and various other RPM-based Linux distributions...

New story! xSDR packs 2x2 MIMO, Artix-7 FPGA, and 3.8 GHz tuning into M.2 2230 form factor

Crowd Supply has featured the xSDR, a compact M.2 2230 A+E-key software-defined radio module that combines a Lime Microsystems LMS7002M RF transceiver with an AMD Artix-7 FPGA. Designed for direct integration into laptops, tablets, embedded PCs, and edge systems, it delivers 2×2 MIMO RX/TX operation across a 30 MHz to 3.8 GHz tuning range.

New story! KDE Plasma 6.6 Desktop Environment Released, This Is What’s New

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Feb 17, 2026 11:50 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE
KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop is out now, introduces an optional new login manager, improved zoom modes, and faster everyday desktop interactions.

New story! Build CachyOS Kernel 6.19.2 on Debian forky (VENV)

Start with Pre-installation step $ sudo apt install build-essential bpftool and include /usr/sbin in system $PATH variable. On Debian forky installation of libdw-dev and build dependencies for libdw-dev steps are required to succeed with build CachyOS 6.19.2 Kernel on top of Debian Testing ( forky native kernel 6.18.9 )

New story! Paris-based Murena and Germany’s Volla are teaming up on a tablet for people who want Android hardware without Google’s software.

Paris-based Murena and Germany’s Volla are teaming up on a tablet for people who want Android hardware without Google’s software.

New story! Lutris 0.5.20 Linux Game Manager Brings New Features, Wine Wayland Option

For fans of Lutris as the open-source desktop client for installing and playing many games on Linux, Lutris 0.5.20 is out today with new features that further enhance the integration with different emulators and compatibility layers...

New story! "AboutCode" is a Microsoft Proxy and Microsoft's Acquisition of the OSI Advances Via OSI Moles

  • Techrights; By Roy Schestowitz (Posted by schestowitz on Feb 17, 2026 6:04 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Microsoft
All we do is document all this as objectively as possible while presenting direct evidence anybody can verify

New story! Idea Raised For Nicer DRM Panic Screen Integration On Fedora Linux

DRM Panic is the Linux kernel infrastructure now supported by most of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display drivers for being able to render a QR code kernel error message or similar when a kernel panic occurs to provide a cleaner interface should your system run into serious problems. An idea has been raised now within the Fedora Linux camp to provide an improved experience around this feature akin to Windows' "Blue Screen of Death" functionality...

New story! KDE Responds to FUD Over Alleged systemd Mandate

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Feb 17, 2026 3:01 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE
KDE addresses misinformation about systemd requirements, stating Plasma remains usable on non-systemd systems.

New story! Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot

The Gentoo Linux project last year announced plans to move their code hosting to Codeberg rather than GitHub. Gentoo's desire to move away from GitHub was motivated by Microsoft's Copilot training on GitHub repositories. Those plans are turning into action now with the main Gentoo project up on Codeberg and honoring pull requests...

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