New story! NVIDIA Developing "Display Config Server" To Improve Linux/Wayland On Display Walls

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Sep 29, 2026 8:27 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
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...

New story! Git 2.56 Adds New Options for Cleaning Up Branches and Resolving Conflicts

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Sep 29, 2026 6:55 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Git 2.56 has been released today as the latest stable update to this free and open-source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

New story! Fedora 45 To Feature Smoother Experience For Snapdragon X1 Laptops

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...

New story! Mozilla Firefox 158 Enters Public Beta Testing with Better PDF Handling

With the release of Firefox 157 rolling out to all supported platforms, Mozilla promoted the next major release, Firefox 158, to the beta channel for public testing, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements.

New story! Git 2.56 Released With Safer Conflict Resolution and Performance Gains

The latest Git release brings a dedicated resolved-files staging mode, new maintenance commands, and substantial scalability improvements.

New story! "Shiva" Being Developed For Mesa Vulkan Drivers, Akin To Gallium3D

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Sep 29, 2026 12:49 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
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...

New story! Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 1.03 Adds New Accessibility Features, Debian 13.7 Base

Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 6 1.03 has been released today as the third point release in the latest Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 6 series of this Debian-based distribution designed to facilitate the reconditioning of old computers.

New story! Thorium is the Fastest Browser on Earth (Installation + Tips)

Discover in this article Thorium, a high-speed browser based on the Chromium engine, offering optimized performance, along with installation and additional tips.

New story! Mozilla Firefox 157 Is Now Available for Download with Brand-New Design

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.

New story! Dutch Government Ditches Windows for NixOS, Following France's Lead

  • LinuxStans.com; By Linux Stans (Posted by Feenta on Sep 28, 2026 2:41 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The Dutch government is building DAWO, a NixOS based replacement for Windows and Office, following similar moves already underway in France and Denmark.

New story! Linux 7.4 To Introduce The Steal Governor For Helping Virtualized Workloads

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Sep 28, 2026 1:09 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
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...

New story! F-Droid 2.0 Android App Store Launches With New UI, Improved Search

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Sep 28, 2026 11:38 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Android
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.

New story! NVIDIA Vera SMT Performance Benchmarks

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Sep 28, 2026 10:06 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Recently I was provided remote access to a NVIDIA Vera server with the dual socket Vera CPU Superchip providing 176 Olympus cores plus with NVIDIA's Spatial Multithreading "SMT" implementation providing 352 total threads. With this benchmarking was free rein for testing, including CPU power and frequency monitoring. Over the next few weeks will be a number of articles looking at different areas of NVIDIA Vera performance. One of the areas I was most eager to test was looking at Vera's Spatial Multithreading. Here is a first look at the impact of NVIDIA Vera SMT.

New story! 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: September 27th, 2026

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Sep 28, 2026 7:36 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
The 311th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending September 27th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

New story! Apprise 2.0 Notification Tool Released With Smarter Retries and Async Support

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Sep 28, 2026 6:04 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Apprise 2.0 arrives with notification escalation, smarter retries, parallel delivery, native async support, and major internal changes.

New story! ESP32-S3 powers EWatch smartwatch with open drivers and DIY options

  • LinuxGizmos.com (Posted by bob on Sep 28, 2026 4:33 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
EWatch, developed by Ewan Wills, is a programmable ESP32-S3 smartwatch with a 1.69-inch color touchscreen, 350mAh battery, vibration feedback and USB-C connectivity. The platform is offered as a bare PCB, self-assembly kit or complete watch, following more than five years of development. The EWatch hardware is built around the ESP32-S3, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low […]

New story! OpenShot 4.0.1 Video Editor Released with Timeline and Zoom Improvements

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Sep 28, 2026 3:01 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
OpenShot 4.0.1 is now available for download as the first maintenance update to the latest OpenShot 4.0 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform video editing software written in Qt.

New story! Klassik Revives the KDE 3 Desktop on Modern Plasma 6

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Sep 28, 2026 1:30 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE
Klassik is a modern KDE Plasma 6 project recreating the look and feel of KDE 3 while supporting Wayland and fractional scaling.

New story! Linux 7.3-rc5 Released: "Another Week, Another Large RC"

In working toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release hopefully on 18 October, out today is Linux 7.3-rc5 as the newest weekly test candidate...

New story! Everything About /proc File System on Linux

In this article, you'll learn about the proc file system (short for "procfs", referring to the "/proc" directory) and how it's useful to check the running processes related information on Linux.

New story! Linux Kernel's LZ4 Compression Code Being Resynced For Better Performance & Cleanliness

In addition to the Linux kernel's Zstd compression code being improved, the LZ4 compression code within the kernel tree is also seeing a separate set of enhancements...

New story! Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 39, 2026 (September 21 – 27)

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Sep 27, 2026 7:24 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
Catch up on the latest Linux news: MX Linux 25.3, Systemd 262, COSMIC Desktop 1.9, Kitty 0.49, Samba 4.25, Ubuntu kernels move to weekly releases, and more.

New story! Ubuntu 26.10: Release Date & Every New Feature

  • LinuxStans.com; By Linux Stans (Posted by Feenta on Sep 27, 2026 5:52 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Ubuntu
Ubuntu 26.10 brings AI dictation, a smarter memory manager and Windows-style window snapping. Here’s the release date and every confirmed feature.

New story! postmarketOS Is Now Nura After Major Project Rebrand

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Sep 27, 2026 4:21 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The Linux-based mobile operating system postmarketOS has officially changed its name to Nura after a year-and-a-half selection process.

New story! Pocket-sized OpenWrt router offers dual-band Wi-Fi 5 and Gigabit Ethernet

  • LinuxGizmos.com (Posted by bob on Sep 26, 2026 7:16 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
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 […]

New story! New FUTEX Syscalls Back To Being Worked On For Helping Valve's ARM64 Gaming Ambitions

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...

New story! Nginx Proxy Manager 2.16 Adds Built-In Log Viewer

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Sep 26, 2026 4:13 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Nginx Proxy Manager 2.16 introduces a new web UI log viewer, per-path access lists, security fixes, networking improvements, and updated Certbot support.

New story! Go's Improving SIMD Support, Platform-Independent SIMD Interface

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Sep 26, 2026 2:42 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
A new blog post published on Thursday covers the experimental support for SIMD with the Go programming language. This expanding Go SIMD support also includes a platform-independent API for making use of SIMD with modern processors...

New story! OBS Studio 33 Promises Support for Latest NVIDIA Broadcast SDKs, Beta Out Now

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Sep 26, 2026 1:10 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
OBS Studio 33 has entered public beta testing today as a major release of this open-source, cross-platform, and free video recording and live streaming software that promises new features and improvements.

New story! Open-source flight controller pairs i.MX RT1176 with Pixhawk PAB compatibility

ARK Electronics recently showcased the ARKV6X-RT, an NDAA-compliant flight controller based on the FMUV6X-RT and Pixhawk Autopilot Bus open standards. The module uses an NXP i.MX RT1176 microcontroller and includes three synchronized IMUs, onboard FRAM, a secure element and PX4 Autopilot support. For context, the i.MX RT1176 integrates a 1GHz Arm Cortex-M7 core and a […]

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