Open-source News

Linux adoption accelerates as users seek alternatives to Windows 11  Technobezz

Take Control of systemd with This Rust-Based TUI Tool  Linuxiac

Linux Gets Rid Of Intel 440BX EDAC Driver For Old Pentium CPUs After Being Broken For 19+ Years  Phoronix

As some long overdue housekeeping, the Linux 7.0 kernel has removed an Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" driver for the Intel 440BX and 440GX chipset. The driver is being removed not only because that chipset was just used by old Celerons and Pentium II / Pentium III CPUs but that it's been in the kernel all this time while being known to be broken for 19+ years...

The slab memory allocator feature updates have been merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel. Most notable this cycle is expanded use of the recently-introduced Sheaves functionality...

Charles Hoskinson Post Quantum Plan Revealed, Backed by Google and Microsoft Research  TradingView

4 Linux commands that will make your terminal look incredible  How-To Geek

Merged for the Linux 6.19 kernel was initial Nova Lake S audio support. Now merged this week for the Linux 7.0 kernel is enabling sound support for additional Nova Lake platforms...

Libinput 1.31 Released With Configurable Timeouts, Fast 3-Finger Swipes  Phoronix

Red Hat's leading input expert Peter Hutterer announced the release overnight of libinput 1.31, the input handling library used by the Linux desktop on both X.Org and Wayland desktop sessions...

All of the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.0 merge window...

A Few More ASUS Motherboards Now Support Sensor Reporting With Linux 7.0  Phoronix

The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS kicked off 2026 by making many improvements to its kernel, device drivers, and user-space software...

Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS arrives with cumulative security and bug fixes  Help Net Security

Is Linux Finally Ready for Mainstream PC Gaming? | Outlook Respawn  Outlook Respawn

Atomic and Immutable Linux Distros Gain Momentum  findarticles.com

Linux 7.0 MM Changes Bring Some Very Nice Performance Optimizations  Phoronix

All of the memory management "MM" related patches have now been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.0 merge window...

The XFS file-system has some interesting new feature work and performance tuning with the Linux 7.0 kernel that will be used by the likes of Fedora 44 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS this spring...

NetworkManager 1.56 Released with New Features and Improvements  9to5Linux