Linux NewsMesa 26.0 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
Mesa 26.0 open-source graphics stack is now available for download with new features and improvements across all supported drivers. Here's what's new!
Linux man pages 6.17 released
Version 6.17 of the Linux manual-page collection has been released. Along with a long list of updates to the man pages themselves, it includes some new utility programs of interest. The grepc(1) program is something that originated in this project, as it helped me find code quickly in glibc and the Linux kernel. However, I've found it incredibly useful outside of this project. I'll take some space to announce it, as it's much more than just a tool for writing manual pages, and I expect it to be useful to most --if not all-- C programmers. It is a command-line tool that finds C source code (for example, a function definition) in arbitrary projects. It doesn't use any indexing mechanism (unlike ctags and similar tools). This means that it can be used right after cloning some repository, without having to first generate an index.
VibeOps Folks Rejoice! Warp Launches Oz for Managing AI Coding Agents in the Cloud
Can run many agents simultaneously, targets developer teams.
Linux 7.0 Graphics Drivers See New AMD Hardware, Intel Xe SR-IOV + Multi-Device SVM
The massive set of Linux kernel graphics/display driver Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates were sent out and merged today for the Linux 7.0 kernel. This also includes the growing work around accelerator "accel" drivers for AI NPUs and the like...
Mesa 26.0 Released With RADV Ray Tracing Performance Gains
Mesa 26.0 improves RADV ray tracing performance and updates multiple Vulkan drivers with new extensions and maintenance promotions.
Linux Mint might overhaul its release schedule
The team is "very interested in adopting a longer development cycle."
Linus Torvalds Rejects MMC Changes For Linux 7.0 Cycle: "Complete Garbage"
The Linux MultiMediaCard "MMC" subsystem was set to see some new hardware support, optimized support for secure erase/trim on some eMMCs, and a variety of other improvements. But all of the MMC changes are rejected and will be for the duration of the Linux 7.0 cycle due to an apparent lack of testing and vetting via linux-next that led Linus Torvalds to calling it "complete garbage" and "untested crap"...
Linux Mint plans fewer releases per year
Linux Mint is considering a change to its traditional six-month release schedule. Project leader Clement Lefebvre says moving to a longer development cycle would allow the team to spend more time developing features, rather than testing and releasing. Moving to a ‘when it’s ready’ model, likely ahead of the Linux Mint 23 release, would mean an end the Ubuntu-based distro’s traditional pattern of two new releases a year, plus LMDE. For fixed-release Linux distributions, like Ubuntu, a predictable release schedule helps focus engineering priorities and gives users a reliable cadence to track. Not all follow this. ElementaryOS is perhaps best […]
Here Are Your Choices for a Self-hosted eBook Server
Thinking about self-hosting an ebook library? Here are the open source software you can consider.
The APT command has hidden powers, here are 5 of them
Elevate your Linux game with these APT power moves.
Linux Mint January 2026 Report Highlights Record Donations
Linux Mint raised $47,312 from 1,393 donors in December and is developing a new Cinnamon screensaver that will work natively on both X11 and Wayland.
[$] Evolving Git for the next decade
Git is ubiquitous; in the last two decades, the version-control system has truly achieved world domination. Almost every developer uses it and the vast majority of open-source projects are hosted in Git repositories. That does not mean, however, that it is perfect. Patrick Steinhardt used his main-track session at FOSDEM 2026 to discuss some of its shortcomings and how they are being addressed to prepare Git for the next decade.
postmarketOS FOSDEM 2026 and hackathon recap
The postmarketOS project has published a recap from FOSDEM 2026, including the FOSS on Mobile devroom, and a summary of its post-FOSDEM hackathon. This includes decisions on governance and the project's AI policy: AI policy: our current AI policy does not state that we forbid the use of generative AI in postmarketOS, so far this document just lists why we think it is a bad idea and misaligned with the project values. We discussed this and will soon change it (via merge request) to clearly state that we don't want generative AI to be used in the project. It was also noted that currently the policy is too long, it would make sense to split it into the actual policy and still keep, but separate the reasoning from it. [...] Power delegation and teams: in over two hours we discussed how to move forward with [postmarketOS change request] PMCR 0008 to organize ourselves better, and how it fits with soon having a legal entity. We figured that we need to rename "The Board" (which is currently f
Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Development Now Experimenting With AI Code Review
Well known open-source Linux graphics driver developer David Airlie of Red Hat, who is the co-maintainer of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display drivers and accelerator "accel" drivers, announced experimental work on AI-drive code/patch review for these open-source kernel drivers...
Sabayon Linux Creator Now Developing Gentoo-Based, Immutable matrixOS
Longtime Linux users may recall the Sabayon Linux distribution that was Gentoo-based and focused on a nice out-of-the-box experience from the mid 2000s through 2019 before fading away after 2018. Sabayon Linux creator Fabio Erculiani wrote in to Phoronix today to announce he's begun working on a new Linux distribution called matrixOS...