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Kconfirm Is On A Quest To Clean Up The Linux Kernel's Configuration System

Phoronix - 6 hours 28 min ago
New tooling being worked on for possible mainline Linux kernel inclusion is Kconfirm as a new tool for detecting misusage and efforts stemming from Kconfig, the configuration system for kernel builds...

Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 With Many Security Fixes

Phoronix - 12 hours 1 min ago
Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 on Saturday in order to ship the latest security fixes affecting a wide variety of open-source software projects...

Nocturne Is The Latest Music Player For GNOME To Hit v1.0

Phoronix - Sat, 05/09/2026 - 22:24
While since GNOME 48 Decibels is the new audio player of the GNOME desktop, there is no shortage of other GNOME/GTK-aligned music players. Last month was the big Amerbol music player update and there are Lollypop and others. The latest GNOME-aligned music player now hitting the 1.0 milestone is Nocturne...

Hyprland 0.55 Released With Lua-Based Configuration, User-Defined Layouts

Phoronix - Sat, 05/09/2026 - 21:56
Hyprland 0.55 is out today as a big feature update for this Wayland-based compositor...

FEX 2605 Brings Performance Improvements, Initial Snapdragon X2 Elite Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 05/09/2026 - 18:58
FEX 2605 is out this weekend as the newest monthly feature release to this emulator for running Linux x86_64 binaries on ARM64 (AArch64) devices. This is the open-source project sponsored by Valve and planned for use with the upcoming Steam Frame as well as being relevant to Linux gaming on other 64-bit ARM laptops and other devices...

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