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I’ve tested dozens of Linux distros, and these 3 are the only ones I’d put on a laptop  How-To Geek

The b4 tool used by Linux kernel developers to help manage their patch workflow around contributions to the Linux kernel has been seeing work on a text user interface to help with AI agent assisted code reviews. This weekend it successfully was dog feeding with b4 review TUI reviewing patches on the b4 tool itself...

Linux's b4 Kernel Development Tool Now Dog-Feeding Its AI Agent Code Review Helper  Phoronix

A new BSD distribution I only learned about for the first time this weekend is smolBSD, a project built atop the netbsd-MICROVM kernel coming with NetBSD 11 for providing insanely fast booting micro-VMs intended for micro-services and similar environments...

Upstreamed for the Linux 6.19 kernel is the Uniwill laptop platform driver for exposing more features/settings for laptops made by this Taiwanese OEM/ODM, including the laptops from TUXEDO Computers. Coming for the next kernel cycle is further extending the Uniwill platform driver for now having support for adjusting the custom total graphics power "cTGP" for those laptops with a dedicated GPU...

cTGP Graphics Power Setting Coming For Uniwill / TUXEDO Laptops With Linux 7.0  Phoronix

During the last month on Phoronix were 296 original news articles from the Linux/open-source perspective as well as another 18 featured articles / Linux hardware reviews, written by your's truly. Here is a look back at the most popular news and reviews in the Linux world over the past month...

For newer Framework devices like the Framework 13 AMD that make use of the ChromeOS Embedded Controller (EC), the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel is adding fan target support as well as fan temperature threshold handling...

Framework 13 To See Fan Target & Fan Temperature Thresholds Support With Linux 7.0  Phoronix

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...