Open-source News

AAEON’s UP Squared Series Gains Full Mainline Linux Support for 40-pin Header  Electronics Media

Linux 7.0 is ready for you to test as it hits Release Candidate status  XDA

AAEON UP Squared Series Gains Mainline Linux Support for 40-Pin GPIO in Linux 6.18  LinuxGizmos.com

Linus Torvalds jokingly ponders his successor as Linux boss  theregister.com

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 22nd, 2026  9to5Linux

Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 7.0 Release Candidate  9to5Linux

Linux 7.0-rc1 Released With Many New Features:  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds just capped off the Linux 7.0 merge window with the release of Linux 7.0-rc1. While the big version bump is coincidental with Linus Torvalds liking to bump it after x.19, Linux 7.0 is quite heavy on new features...

There's the usual flurry of last minute fixes and other items being herded into the Linux 7.0 codebase today right ahead of the merge window being closed with the imminent Linux 7.0-rc1 release. Among that last minute work is now recognizing Stephen Rothwell's contributions to creating and maintaining Linux-Next over the past eighteen years...

Linux 7.0 Credits Now Honor The Creator Of Linux-Next  Phoronix

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 8, 2026 (Feb 16 – 22)  Linuxiac

This opinionated desktop setup finally cured my distro-hopping problem  MakeUseOf

AMD FPGA Tools 2025.1/2025.2 Install on Ubuntu 24.04  Hackster.io

I finally fixed my Linux laptop’s constant fan noise — it wasn’t the hardware  MakeUseOf

Don't install another Linux distro until you've tried an immutable one  XDA

Developers behind the widely-used GNU Awk text processing utility today released Gawk 5.4...

I install these 7 CLI tools on every Linux system  How-To Geek

4 Debian-based Linux distros that are better than Debian  How-To Geek

Why Linux is the best place to learn coding  How-To Geek

While the Alliance For Open Media "AOMedia" is most known for developing the AV1 open video codec, the associated AV1 Image File Format (AVIF), and the next-generation AV2, they are now working on the Open Audio Codec (AOC)...