New story! Mesa 25.3.5 Brings Vulkan Driver Fixes & Other Minor Changes -- Even For Old The R600g

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Feb 8, 2026 4:25 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
While Mesa 26.0 stable will be out soon, the belated Mesa 25.3.5 point release is now available for serving as the current latest stable point release...

New story! KDE Plasma 6.7 Prepares Smarter Window List and Window Management Improvements

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Feb 8, 2026 2:53 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE
Plasma 6.7 is shaping up to include an improved Window List widget with sorting and clearer grouping for easier window navigation.

New story! Linux 6.19 Features Include Many Benefits For Intel & AMD Users

With the Linux 6.19 stable kernel expected to be released tomorrow (8 February), here is a reminder about the top features to expect from this next version of the Linux kernel...

New story! Wine 11.2 Released With Faster PDB Loading and 32 Bug Fixes

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Feb 7, 2026 5:56 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Wine 11.2 is out with faster PDB loading, improved MSVC runtime support, and 32 bug fixes affecting games, tools, and audio.

New story! NetBSD 11.0-RC1 Available For Testing With Enhanced Linux Emulation

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Feb 7, 2026 4:24 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
The first release candidate of the big NetBSD 11.0 release is now available for testing...

New story! KDE Linux Gears Up for Beta Release with Plasma Login Manager, KDE Initial Setup

It’s been a few months since the KDE Project announced its in-house Linux distro, KDE Linux, and they’ve been very busy beefing it up with some of the latest technologies and hardware support for the upcoming beta release.

New story! How to Deploy Laravel on Ubuntu With Apache

Learn a step-by-step guide to deploying Laravel applications on Ubuntu with Apache and MySQL.

New story! Linux 6.19 Sees Last Minute Scheduler Regression Fixes

Ahead of the planned Linux 6.19 stable kernel release tomorrow, there have been some last-minute fixes submitted for the scheduler code, including for performance regressions...

New story! Linux Kernel Runtime Guard Reaches 1.0: A Major Milestone for Runtime Kernel Security

The Linux security landscape just reached an important milestone. Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) has officially hit version 1.0, marking its transition from a long-running experimental project into a mature, production-ready security tool. For administrators and security-conscious users, this release reinforces LKRG’s role as a powerful additional layer of defense for Linux systems.

New story! Microsoft Introduces LiteBox, a New Security-Focused Library OS

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Feb 7, 2026 8:47 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
LiteBox is a new open-source sandboxing library OS from Microsoft, designed to run code with a minimal, security-focused OS surface.

New story! Wine 11.2 Released With More Improvements & 32 Bug Fixes

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Feb 7, 2026 7:15 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Wine 11.2 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release in the road toward the Wine 12.0 stable release next January...

New story! A Pillar of the Linux Kernel: Greg Kroah-Hartman Honored with European Open Source Award

The open-source community is celebrating a well-deserved recognition. Greg Kroah-Hartman, one of the most influential figures in the Linux ecosystem, has been awarded the European Open Source Award, honoring decades of sustained contributions that have shaped Linux into the stable, trusted platform it is today.

New story! Toyota Developing A Console-Grade, Open-Source Game Engine - Using Flutter & Dart

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Feb 7, 2026 4:12 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Well, here's an unexpected combination... Toyota's Toyota Connected North America unit is developing a console-grade open-source game engine. Making it even more unusual is their engineering choices of building around the Flutter toolkit and in turn the Dart programming language. This new game engine creation is called Fluorite...

New story! Axera AX8850 edge platform arrives in a pyramid-style design

M5Stack introduced today an embedded platform with an unusual pyramid-shaped edge computing system built around the Axera AX8850 system-on-chip. Two models are offered for local AI inference workloads as well as applications that require multimedia processing and dual Ethernet connectivity. Both systems are based on the Axera AX8850 SoC, which integrates an octa-core Arm Cortex-A55 […]

New story! ML-LIB: Machine Learning Library Proposed For The Linux Kernel

Sent out today as a request for comments (RFC) by a Linux kernel engineer employed by IBM is a machine learning library for the Linux kernel. The intent is on plugging in running ML models to the Linux kernel that could be used for system performance optimizations and various other purposes...

New story! MusicPod: Music, Radio, and Podcast Player for Ubuntu

MusicPod is a decent local music player but an excellent podcast and internet radio player for your Ubuntu desktop that was written in Flutter.

New story! Calibre 9.2 Ebook Manager Improves the Bookshelf View, Ebook Viewer, and More

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Feb 6, 2026 9:53 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Calibre 9.2 has been released today as the second update to the latest Calibre 9.0 series of this powerful, free, open-source, and cross-platform ebook management software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

New story! Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don’t Think So

Raspberry Pi has raised prices on many Pi 4, Pi 5, and Compute Module models as memory costs surge in 2026, undermining its once-low-cost SBC positioning.

New story! Pushing The Intel Panther Lake CPU Performance Further On Linux

Earlier this week I published the first Linux benchmarks of Intel's much anticipated Panther Lake with the Core Ultra X7 358H 16-core 18A processor. The Panther Lake SoC showed very nice generational gains especially with much better performance-per-Watt and the Intel Arc B390 graphics are also fascinatingly fast while continuing to be backed by open-source drivers. In today's article are more Panther Lake Linux benchmarks on the CPU side in looking at the performance potential when pushing the Core Ultra X7 358H with a higher power budget.

New story! Maca 2 enables high-power wireless connectivity for UAV and robotic systems

  • LinuxGizmos.com (Posted by bob on Feb 6, 2026 5:18 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
8devices has previewed the Maca 2, a compact, high-power data radio for long-range wireless communication in drone, robotics, and industrial systems. Designed and manufactured in Europe, the platform is NDAA and TAA compliant and integrates multiple interfaces for range-focused deployments. The system is built on Qualcomm’s QCS405 system-on-chip, featuring a 650 MHz 24Kc MIPS processor […]

New story! Latest VirtualBox Code Begins Supporting KVM Backend

As of this week Oracle's latest VirtualBox development code begins to work with Linux's native KVM back-end. Support for KVM or other native OS hypervisors in conjunction with VirtualBox has long been sought and it's finally becoming a reality...

New story! Difference Between Docker and Podman (Ultimate Guide)

Discover the differences between Podman and Docker, including daemonless architecture, rootless containers, systemd integration, and more. Learn which container management tool suits your needs best.

New story! Linux Foundation Operative Says We and Our Software All "Owe an Enormous Debt of Gratitude" to a Software Patents Reinforcer

OIN isn't the solution, it's not our solution; it exists to serve large American (and Japanese) companies.

New story! How to make a local open source AI chatbot who has access to Fedora documentation

  • Fedora Magazine (Posted by bob on Feb 6, 2026 11:12 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Fedora; Story Type: News Story
If you followed along with my blog, you’d have a chatbot running on your local Fedora machine. (And if not, no worries as the scripts below implement this chatbot!) Our chatbot talks, and has a refined personality, but does it know anything about the topics we’re interested in? Unless it has been trained on those […]

New story! "DHEI" Proposed For Linux To Help Cloud-Native Orchestrators & High Frequency Traders

Sent out today as a request for comments is a new patch series for Dynamic Housekeeping and Enhanced Isolation (DHEI). DHEI aims to provide run-time adjustments to kernel behavior around CPU isolation for helping with latency-sensitive tasks. The expressed goal is for helping cloud-native orchestrators and high frequency trading platforms dynamically re-partition CPU resources without downtime...

New story! Ardour 9.0 Audio Workstation Released With Multi-Touch GUI, Many New Features

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Feb 6, 2026 12:25 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Ardour 9.0 is out today as the latest major feature release to this leading open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software for musicians, recording engineers, and other audio editing needs...

New story! Tech Savvy Meets Principles in Emmabuntüs Debian 6

Helping those in need while saving old PCs from landfills is no easy task, but this Debian 12 spin paves the way.

New story! Krita 6.0 Beta Released - Using Qt6 & Wayland Color Management Support

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Feb 5, 2026 9:22 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The first beta release of Krita 6.0 is now available for this featureful digital painting program. Krita 6.0 is re-based against the Qt6 toolkit while Krita 5.3 Beta is also being released at the same time for those sticking to Qt5...

New story! GNU/Linux or Just Linux? Between Purism and Everyday Usage

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Feb 5, 2026 7:50 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Linux
A critical look at the GNU/Linux naming debate and why everyday usage settled on the shorter, simpler term: Linux.

New story! Darktable 5.4.1 Brings Noise Profiles for Canon EOS 10D and Sony ILCE-7CR Cameras

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Feb 5, 2026 6:19 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Darktable 5.4.1 has been released today as the latest stable version in the Darktable 5.4 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform RAW image editing software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

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