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Experimental Zones Protocol Merged To Wayland After 2+ Years, 620+ Comments

Phoronix - Tue, 02/10/2026 - 21:22
After the merge request was opened back in 2023 and after going through 628 comments/activity, merged now to Wayland Protocols is the experimental zones "xx-zones" implementation for area-limited window positioning...

Linux 7.0 Adds support For BPF Filtering To IO_uring

Phoronix - Tue, 02/10/2026 - 21:09
The wonderful IO_uring for the Linux kernel for high performance asnyc I/O has picked up a new capability with Linux 7.0: BPF filtering...

Microsoft's Azure Linux Adds 6.12 HWE Kernel, ARM64 Kernel Tuning For More Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 02/10/2026 - 19:15
Microsoft overnight released Azure Linux 3.0.20260204 as the latest release of their in-house Linux distribution widely used within their Azure environment and elsewhere...

Linux 7.0 Brings Support For "Slow" Workload Hints For Intel Panther Lake

Phoronix - Tue, 02/10/2026 - 19:04
The many power management, thermal, and ACPI updates have been merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel. As usual there are many changes coming from fixes to new hardware support and more expansive thermal control capabilities under Linux...

MythTV 36 Released With Web App Improvements & FFmpeg 8 Support

Phoronix - Tue, 02/10/2026 - 18:45
MythTV 36 is now available for this long-time open-source digital video recorder "DVR" software that has been around now for more than two decades as the leading choice for those wishing to watch and/or record live TV under Linux especially as an HTPC...

LLVM 22.1-rc3 Released - LLVM To Provide Windows ARM Release Binaries Moving Forward

Phoronix - Tue, 02/10/2026 - 18:30
We are nearing the stable release of LLVM 22 in hopefully two weeks. Out today is the third release candidate of LLVM 22.1 for soliciting more testing of this open-source compiler stack...

Linux 7.0 Brings An EFI Framebuffer Quirk For Valve's Steam Deck

Phoronix - Tue, 02/10/2026 - 18:19
The EFI subsystem updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel. Worth mentioning here is a new quirk for helping Valve's Steam Deck handheld...

How to Find Command Location and Description in Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 02/10/2026 - 14:55
The post How to Find Command Location and Description in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In this guide, you’ll learn five practical commands for discovering quick information about any binary command: its purpose, location, and

The post How to Find Command Location and Description in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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