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This cool Linux app lets you play YouTube music from your terminal  XDA

Introduced to the mainline Linux kernel last year was "sheaves" as an opt-in per-CPU array-based caching layer. Sheaves was merged back in Linux 6.18 and while it started as an opt-in caching layer, the plan is to replace more CPU slabs / caches with sheaves. Queued up for slated introduction in the upcoming Linux 7.0 cycle is replacing more of those caches with sheaves...

Linux 7.0 Aims To Replace More Caching Code With Sheaves For "Hopefully" Improved Performance  Phoronix

Shotcut 26.1 Open-Source Video Editor Released with Hardware Video Decoding  9to5Linux

Shotcut 26.1 is now available as the latest feature update to this open-source and cross-platform video editing solution. Shotcut 26.1 is finally defaulting to GPU hardware accelerated video decoding by default for all platforms sans NVIDIA GPUs on Linux...

Shotcut Video Editor Now Using Hardware Decoding By Default Except For NVIDIA On Linux  Phoronix

8 “hidden” terminal features that make Linux feel like a power-user OS  How-To Geek

Galaxy S26 Ultra may offer Linux Terminal support  SamMobile

Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras presented today at FOSDEM on the latest work around Phosh, the mobile phone user interface / Wayland shell project for mobile Linux environments. Phosh has been making steady progress and has more features out on the horizon...

Phosh Mobile Phone UI Making Progress On GTK4 Port  Phoronix

Following the Budgie 10.10 release from earlier this month, Budgie 10.10.1 is now here for closing out January...

The Architect of Modern Linux Walks Away: Lennart Poettering's Departure from Microsoft Signals Shift in Open Source Development  WebProNews

The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra might get full Linux terminal support - GSMArena.com news  GSMArena.com

Presented today at FOSDEM in Brussels was the state of gaming on FreeBSD by Thibault Payet. Besides various open-source games able to be compiled natively for FreeBSD, this BSD can get in on the Steam Play gaming scene thanks to the "linuxulator-steam-utils" project as a set of workarounds for the Steam Linux client on FreeBSD 14 and newer. Linuxulator-steam-utils builds off FreeBSD's Linuxulator support for running Linux binaries to enjoy the likes of Steam and even Steam Play (Proton) Windows games running on this translation layer for Linux and in turn running on FreeBSD...

Linuxulator-Steam-Utils To Enjoy Steam Play Gaming On FreeBSD & Other Options  Phoronix

I found the ultimate "No Sudo" toolbox for Linux, and it’s a game-changer  How-To Geek

Podcast #854 - AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Review, DDR4 and Storage Prices, GOG Linux Focus, Windows 11 Awfulness and MORE  PC Perspective

Linux Kernel Community Approves Leadership Contingency Plan For Future Stability  Technetbook

NexPhone runs on Android, Linux and Windows 11 at once  hi-Tech.ua

Calibre's big update, the new Raspberry Pi OS alternative, and more Proton games: Linux news roundup  How-To Geek