Collabora has announced two developments for open-source Arm Mali GPU support, with its Rust-based Kraid compiler becoming the default for newer Mali architectures in Mesa 27.0 and the Tyr kernel driver reaching a firmware-boot milestone in Linux 7.3. The updates improve shader compilation efficiency while advancing Rust-based GPU driver development in the Linux kernel. The…

While the Linux kernel and various file-system drivers already support the notion of the birth time for tracking a file/directory's birth/creation time, a slightly different provenance time "ptime" is now being proposed for the Linux kernel…

The Armbian team released Armbian Imager 2.5 today as a hefty update to this open-source utility for flashing the Armbian Linux operating system on single-board computers, bringing various new features and enhancements.

The sched_ext Microconference was very active this year at Linux Plumbers in Prague. It featured
six talks, preceded by an opening discussion on the future direction of sched_ext.

APT 3.3.5 improves dependency solver performance by up to 20%, reduces page faults by 65%, and updates repository signing-key handling.

Canonical has announced it’s ‘accelerating’ development of Ubuntu Core Desktop, its immutable, snap-based version of its desktop OS. Ubuntu Core Desktop was announced in 2023 and made available in preview for enthusiasts to try. But a lack of of obvious progress and direction (not to mention up-to-date builds) had left many wondering if Canonical was running cool on the idea. Now, things are…

Summit contributors weigh in on which would be better: Quitting Microsoft 365 cold turkey or a gradual withdrawal.

The RefreshOS project has released RefreshOS 3.1, bringing an updated Debian foundation, a dedicated software repository, improved 32-bit application compatibility, and several refinements to its KDE Plasma desktop experience. Released on October 27, 2026, the update advances the distribution's 3.x "Colorful Cosmos" series while introducing infrastructure that could significantly improve how…

System76 began teasing today the new Thelio Prime Desktop as an AMD-powered Linux mini PC that will begin shipping in November…

Ubuntu maker Canonical revealed today that they plan on reviving their immutable Ubuntu Core Desktop distribution with support for GNOME and KDE Plasma desktop environments and other new features.

The Ubuntu 24.04 support drop is thanks to the native builds requiring some newer dependencies. Anyhow, there’s more to this Ghostty release than that.

Hyprland 0.57 introduces new blur effects, workspace-specific screen sharing, wobbly window animations, and Lua configuration improvements.

With the recently released Ubuntu 26.10 and the nearly-released Fedora Workstation 45, Phoronix readers have begun inquiring about fresh benchmarks looking at how they stack up against the performance-optimized, Arch Linux based CachyOS. Up today are our first CachyOS vs. Fedora 45 vs. Ubuntu 26.10 benchmarks on an AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D2 desktop system.

CentOS and Rocky Linux founder Gregory Kurtzer unveils Ginux, an independent Rust-based kernel developed with AI in just 11 days.

Looking for an easier way to manage AppImage applications on Linux without using the AUR or manually building packages? In this video, I'll introduce Gear Lever, an AppImage manager for Linux that you can install directly from Flathub using Flatpak.

DietPi v10.8 introduces a dedicated WireGuard management utility, named software package identifiers, and an updated HAProxy installation package. The October release also improves network configuration, expands storage device support on Quartz64 platforms, and addresses several bugs affecting system management and applications. DietPi: DietPi is a lightweight, Debian-based operating system…

Of all the distros available that are based on Void, Algeria's Noid Linux stands out in a few ways. But not the least of which is this: Some might argue that it's the perfect entry point into the Void-based family of distros due to its polished Linux experience while letting the user dive deep when he or she chooses.

The folks at ATO said goodbye last week, but today they served up another helping of videos, photos, stats, and swag.

The mainline Linux 7.4 kernel will be capable of running on the Steam Frame VR headset…

Ghostty 1.4 delivers faster terminal processing, up to 90% lower scrollback memory usage, and major Linux rendering improvements.

Scribus 1.6.7 has been released today as a new stable update in the Scribus 1.6 series of this open-source and cross-platform desktop publishing app for Linux, BSD, Solaris, macOS, and Windows systems.

Ubuntu is planning a new linux-firmware-hwe package, in an effort to reduce the risk of firmware updates for newer kernels causing problems for users running older ones. On Ubuntu long-term support (LTS) releases, you can stick with the standard (GA) kernel it was released with for the duration of its support period, or you can install the HWE update, which brings newer Linux kernel versions to…

An initiative led by CodeWeavers this year has come to fruition for improving OpenGL support with WoW64 for bettering Windows 32-bit application/game support while using 64-bit system libraries…

Peter Robinson has written a blog post about the current state of Fedora support for Raspberry Pi 5 devices. According to Robinson, the upcoming Fedora 45 release will work—with caveats—on all variants of the Raspberry Pi Model 5B; the Compute Module 5 and Pi 500+ are still works in progress. For Fedora 44 release you need to have a temporary…

Fedora Linux 45 faces another delay due to unresolved blocker bugs, pushing its target release date to November 3, 2026.

The Espressif ESP-Mosaico is an expandable smart-interaction development kit based on the ESP32-S31 microcontroller. The compact device integrates a 2.16-inch square touch display, audio hardware, motion and magnetic sensors, NAND storage, haptic feedback and dual expansion interfaces for HMI, edge voice and multimedia applications. The ESP32-S31NRV16 at the center of the board provides two…

LXer's forums, story submissions and private mail now use Markdown, the plain-text way of formatting made popular by GitHub and others, complete with tables, footnotes and LaTeX math. Here is how it works on LXer, and how sixty years of text formatters, from RUNOFF to BBCode, led to it.

Firefox 159 fixes Wayland tab detachment and AMD GPU memory issues on Linux while adding tab search shortcuts and new web platform features.

Tired of the rising licensing cost of VMWare, Tesco seems to be looking to switch to Proxmox.

An interesting new open-source project born out of university research is Beeper to provide application-layer parsing within the in-kernel eBPF. With an HTTP parser implemented by Beeper in eBPF and providing an in-kernel HTTP cache, the throughput for web servers could be improved by 3x at high rates…