Open-source News

Linux gains native NVIDIA GeForce NOW support  Windows Central

UNIX V4 is back: I booted into the 1973 OS and it made me weirdly happy  How-To Geek

Natalie Vock as one of the open-source developers on Valve's Linux graphics team has been spearheading another big ray-tracing performance improvement for the AMD Radeon Vulkan driver. RADV ray-tracing performance improved a lot in 2025 but it's looking like 2026 could be even more exciting...

A new feature in the queue for likely introduction with the next version of the Linux kernel (Linux 6.20~7.0) is compiler-based context and locking analysis. This kernel code depends on the yet-to-be-released LLVM Clang 22 compiler but can provide some powerful insights to kernel developers...

Compiler-Based Context & Locking Analysis On Deck For Linux 7.0 Paired With Clang 22+  Phoronix

For those with Acer laptops running Linux on GitHub there has been an out-of-tree driver providing an experimental "acer-wmi-battery" kernel module to allow controlling battery-related features. Now a cleaned-up version of that driver is working on getting into the mainline Linux kernel...

Acer Laptop Battery Control Driver Looks Toward The Upstream Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Back in October was an initial proposal for a DRM splash screen client for the Linux kernel that would be primarily useful for embedded systems for rendering a simple "splash screen" when updating the system firmware/software, early display activation at boot, during system recovery, or similar processes. Sent out today was a second revision to the DRM splash screen code...

Someone made a sticky notes app within the Linux terminal, and you can download it right now  XDA

ZAWYA-PRESSR: Red Hat expands collaboration with NVIDIA to pair enterprise open source with rack-scale AI  TradingView — Track All Markets

Linux Foundation Growth Statistics  commandlinux.com

Someone recreated the Windows 8 Start menu in Linux for some reason  XDA

Nitrux 5.1 Drops Virtual Machine Support and Shifts Fully to Bare Metal  Linuxiac

Immutable Distro Nitrux 5.1 Released with Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS, New Tools  9to5Linux

AMD highlights ROCm 7.2.2 at CES 2026 with Ryzen AI 400 support and a single Windows plus Linux release  VideoCardz.com

The Linux kernel's "new mount API" that has been in the kernel since 2019 and recently made rounds for taking 6+ years to land the man page documentation on it will soon be the the only mount API internally within the kernel. Removing the "old" Linux kernel mount API internals is a candidate for the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel cycle...

Linux's Old Mount API Code On The Chopping Block For The 7.0 Kernel  Phoronix

The Gentoo Linux project published their 2025 retrospective this week with their many accomplishments, including the recruitment of four more developers and now being up to 31,663 ebuilds and a total of 89GB worth of x86_64 binary packages on mirrors...

2026 could be the year of the (KDE) Linux desktop  How-To Geek

Nvidia Expands GeForce Now to Linux and Fire TV at CES 2026  WebProNews