Linux NewsKDE Plasma Login Manager Won’t Support Systemd-Free Linux or BSD Systems
KDE's new Plasma Login Manager is tightly bound to systemd, making it unusable on systemd-free Linux distributions and BSD systems.
Updated Intel Panther Lake IPU Firmware Published With New Features & Bug Fixes
Ahead of the first Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake laptops expected to hit retail channels next week, Intel has published updated IPU7 (IPU 7.5) firmware for the image processing unit used by the web cameras on the higher-end Panther Lake laptops...
Rust 1.93 Brings Improvement For Inline Assembly Handling
Rust 1.93 is out today as the first feature release for this programming lanugage of 2026...
AMD AOMP 22.0-2 Released With Flang Fortran Improvements
Yesterday along with releasing ROCm 7.2 there was also the release of AOMP 22.0-2 as the newest version of their open-source downstream of LLVM/Clang/Flang that is focused on offering the best OpenMP/OpenACC offloading support to Instinct/Radeon hardware...
Steam Client Update Delivers Controller and Steam Input Improvements
Valve’s latest Steam client update fixes crashes, DRM-related game exits, and long-standing controller issues across Windows and Linux systems.
Prominent Intel Compiler Engineer Heads Off To AMD
James Brodman worked for the last 15 years at Intel on their ISPC SIMD compiler and then in more recent years on the Intel DPC++ compiler and SYCL support as part of Intel's oneAPI initiative. Rather interestingly, this compiler expert has now joined AMD...
ReactOS Celebrates 30 Years In Striving To Be An Open-Source Windows Implementation
The ReactOS project is celebrating today that it marks 30 years since their first code commit in the ReactOS source tree. During the past 30 years now the project has seen more than 88k commits from more than 300 developers as it seeks to be a robust open-source Windows implementation. In their 30 year birthday blog post they also provide a look ahead at what they're working on...
14 Years Later than Planned the NexPhone Goes Up for PreOrder
The NexPhone is finally available for pre-order, some 14 years after it was first announced (but “available” is be a tad generous since manufacturing is yet to begin). Created by Nex Computer, the company behind the NexDock laptop shells (think a premium version of the terrific CrowView Note devices), the NexPhone aims to deliver what Canonical’s Ubuntu Phone ultimately didn’t: convergence. The tech scene has changed dramatically since the NexPhone’s 2012 crowdfunder pitch. Back then, this phone was aiming to run Ubuntu Phone as its primary OS. As that didn’t last long, the 2026 NexPhone runs Android, Debian and Windows […]
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 22, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Singularity; fsconfig(); io_uring restrictions; GPG vulnerabilities; slab allocator; AshOS. Briefs: Pixel exploit; telnetd exploit; OzLabs; korgalore; Firefox Nightly RPMs; Forgejo 14.0; Pandas 3.0; Wine 11.0; Quotes; ... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
I Ran the Famed Affinity Designer on Linux. Here's How It Went
While compatibility isn't perfect, it's sufficient for getting a feel of the program (if that's your desire) and even potentially for using it to do real work.
Linux Finally Retiring HIPPI: The First Near-Gigabit Standard For Networking Supercomputers
While the Linux kernel has been seeing preparations from NVIDIA for 1.6 Tb/s networking in preparing for next-generation super-computing, the kernel has still retained support to now for the High Performance Parallel Interface. HIPPI was the standard for connecting supercomputers in the late 1980s and a portion of the 1990s with being the first networking standard for near-Gigabit connectivity at 800 Mb/s over distances up to 25 meters. But HIPPI looks like it will be retired from the mainline kernel with Linux 7.0...
Elecrow CrowPanel Rotary Display Review: A Smart Knob for DIY Enthusiasts
A hands-on review of the Elecrow CrowPanel Rotary Display, exploring its hardware quality, DIY setup, and real-world use with Home Assistant and smart devices.
[$] Cleanup on aisle fsconfig()
As part of the process of writing man pages for the "new" mount API, which has been available in the kernel since 2019, Aleksa Sarai encountered a number of places where the fsconfig() system call—for configuring filesystems before mounting—needs to be cleaned up. In the 2025 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) session that he led, Sarai wanted to discuss some of the problems he found, including at least one with security implications. The idea of the session was for him to describe the various bugs and ambiguities that he had found, but he also wanted attendees to raise other problems they had with the system call.
AMD Sends Out Linux Patches For Next-Gen EPYC Features: GLBE, GLSBE & PLZA
Sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list this afternoon were a set of 19 patches in preparing for some new CPU features presumably to be found with AMD's next-generation EPYC "Venice" processors...
Pandas 3.0 released
Version 3.0.0 of the pandas data analysis and manipulation library for Python has been released. Notable changes include a dedicated string type (str), new "copy-on-write" behavior, and much more. This release also removes a number of features that were deprecated in prior versions of pandas; developers are advised to upgrade to pandas 2.3 and ensure code is working without warnings before moving to 3.0. See the release notes for the full changelog.