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Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls Wrong

Phoronix - Mon, 02/02/2026 - 19:32
Sylvestre Ledru who serves as the lead developer of the uutils project for the Rust Coreutils implementation presented at FOSDEM 2026 this weekend on this initiative. Ledru has spoken at FOSDEM in prior years on Rust Coreutils and this year's talk focused primarily on Ubuntu 25.10's adoption of it in place of GNU Coreutils...

Intel ISH Firmware Upstreamed For Linux With Dell's New Panther Lake Laptops

Phoronix - Mon, 02/02/2026 - 19:24
Ahead of Dell's new XPS 14 and XPS 16 laptops powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" expected to be shipping in volume beginning in March, more of the Linux support for these premium Panther Lake laptops continues to be finished up...

Linux From Scratch Abandoning SysVinit Support

Phoronix - Mon, 02/02/2026 - 19:12
Linux From Scratch was one of the holdouts continuing optional SysVinit init system support through 2026, but that's now ending. Linux From Scratch "LFS" and Beyond Linux From Scratch "BLFS" are ending their System V Init support moving forward...

Raspberry Pi Raises Prices As Much As $60 Due To Memory Demand

Phoronix - Mon, 02/02/2026 - 18:40
Last year Raspberry Pi announced price increases due to memory demand. Today they have announced another round of increased prices as a result of the memory shortages going on industry-wide...

Steam Survey Results For January 2026

Phoronix - Mon, 02/02/2026 - 18:18
After Steam on Linux gaming hit a record high in December of 3.58%, the January 2026 numbers are now published...

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