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The FreeBSD Project has published their Q4'2025 status report to outline progress made on their software, infrastructure, and other initiatives over the past quarter. Meanwhile among the work to look forward to this year in FreeBSD is getting their Rust kernel driver support up to scratch...

FreeBSD's Rust Kernel Support Could Be Stable Enough To Try This Year  Phoronix

It was less than four years ago that the modern AMDGPU/AMDKFD open-source driver stack was at four million lines of C code and header files. Now with the Linux 7.0 kernel it has surpassed six million lines. Or put another way, by the same calculations Linux 7.0-rc1 is at 39.2 million with the modern AMD kernel graphics driver now making up 15% of the kernel's entire codebase as the single largest driver...

Modern AMD Graphics Driver Surpasses Six Million Lines Of Code In Linux 7.0  Phoronix

Intel ANV Driver Sees Several Vulkan Video H.265 Encode Fixes  Phoronix

For those interested in Vulkan Video on the Intel "ANV" open-source Linux driver, merged last week to Mesa 26.1-devel were some H.265 encode fixes...

Why you should try these 9 "strange" Linux distros (even if you never switch)  How-To Geek

While these days nearly every major desktop Linux distribution is using Wayland or at least making it available, a decade ago before reaching that maturity one of the options for showing off the potential of Wayland was the oddly-named RebeccaBlack OS. With "RBOS" it shipped the very latest Wayland components and different desktop and toolkit options to easily try out Wayland-based environments from a live Linux environment. Released overnight was a surprise update to RBOS...

RBOS 2026-02-22 As Latest Linux Live ISO To Showcase Wayland  Phoronix

Kerbal Space Program spiritual successor Kitten Space Agency now has a Linux version  GamingOnLinux

Intel hiring GPU driver engineers for Linux  GamingOnLinux

Red Hat engineers this weekend released Tuned 2.27, the newest version of their open-source project to provide a tuning profile delivery mechanism for Linux. Tuned makes it easier to adjust Linux power and performance characteristics depending upon the hardware and the different workload(s) for your Linux system deployment. Tuned is a replacement/alternative to Linux's cpupower and power-profiles-daemon utilities...

NVIDIA hiring Linux driver engineers to help with Vulkan, Proton and more  GamingOnLinux

OmegaLinux switches from Ubuntu to Arch in 2026.02.21 release  Notebookcheck

FFmpeg developer Lynne is most known recently for all the Vulkan Video work to this open-source multimedia library while merged today to FFmpeg is another great contribution outside the scope of that: xHE-AAC MPS212 audio decoding support...

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

Handmade by human hands using machines  Digg

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