Linux NewsArch-Based Omarchy 3.3 Brings AI Dictation Hibernation and Hyprland Fixes
Arch-based Omarchy 3.3 introduces local AI dictation with Voxtype, hibernation support, dynamic themes, and more.
Intel Panther Lake Laptops For Pre-Order Scarce So Far
On Monday at CES Intel announced Panther Lake as Core Ultra Series 3 with the initial laptop designs to be available for pre-order starting the following day, 6 January, while global availability is expected around 27 January. Now a few days after pre-orders opened up, few options are available and some of the models will not be shipping until mid-February...
I Thought This Wikipedia App for Linux was Pointless (I Was Wrong)
I don't need to tell you that this application is for the people who enjoy the free and open knowledge provided by Wikipedia.
I Thought This Wikipedia App for Linux was Pointless (I Was Wrong)
I don't need to tell you that this application is for the people who enjoy the free and open knowledge provided by Wikipedia.
NVIDIA Optimizes Printing Of Linux Memory Stats For 11% System Time Savings
A NVIDIA engineer restructuring some of the printf-related code within the memory resource controller "memcg" statistics printing code to reduce the system time by 11% for dumping those stats...
Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation"
The Linux kernel developers for months now have been debating proposed guidelines for tool-generated submissions to the Linux kernel. As part of the "tools", the main motivator for this documentation has been around the era of AI and large language models with coding assistants and more. Torvalds made some remarks on the Linux kernel mailing list around his belief in focusing the documentation on "tools" rather than explicitly focusing on AI, given the likelihood of AI-assisted contributions continuing regardless of documentation...
Linux Patches Enable Intel GPU Firmware Updating From Non-x86 Systems
The modern Intel Xe kernel graphics driver was designed from the start to be more broadly compatible with non-x86 architectures given their discrete graphics processors being front and center, unlike the legacy i915 kernel graphics driver being very x86 minded. While this allows running Intel Arc Graphics on ARM or RISC-V, there are some other kinks still being ironed out with using Intel graphics in the non-x86 world. One of those limitations currently being worked through is the lack of GPU firmware updating on non-x86 systems...
Etnaviv Driver Wires Up PPU Flop Reset Support Needed By Some Vivante Hardware
Sent out today was the latest batch of drm-misc-next changes to DRM-Next for staging ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle. The reverse-engineered Etnaviv DRM driver for Vivante graphics/NPU hardware has added a new "PPU flop reset" feature gleaned off studying the downstream vendor kernel driver...
Linux Kernel Considers Linking The Relocatable x86 Kernel As PIE In 2026
To allow for additional security hardening of the Linux kernel, a patch series has been updated more than one year later to link the relocatable x86_64 kernel as Position Independent Executable (PIE) code...
Ubuntu 25.04 Support Ends Next Week (Jan 15th)
Support for Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ officially ends on 15th January 2026 – which is next week, for those of you reading this before the fact. Beyond this date, Ubuntu 25.04 receives no further security updates or bug fixes, no matter how critical they are. At least, not from Canonical. Third-party apps and repos could continue to provide updates for a short while after, but time is ticking. How many people will this affect? While there aren’t stats on how many people use each Ubuntu version, but Ubuntu 25.10 was released last October so it has been out for around […]
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 8, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: What to expect in 2026; LAVD scheduler; libpathrs; Questions for the TAB; Graphite; 2025 timeline. Briefs: shadow-utils 4.19.0; Android releases; IPFire 2.29-199; Manjaro 26.0; curl strcpy(); GNU ddrescue 1.30; Ruby 4.0; Partial GPL ruling; Quotes; ... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
Fedora 44 Will Be the First Distro to Adopt KDE's Plasma Login Manager
The move replaces SDDM but means giving up on custom login themes.
Fedora 44 Will Be the First Distro to Adopt KDE's Plasma Login Manager
The move replaces SDDM but means giving up on custom login themes.
FEX 2601 Brings Various Fixes, Improvements For Wine & DXVK/VKD3D-Proton
FEX, the open-source emulator for running x86 and x86_64 binaries on AArch64 (ARM64) Linux and that is sponsored by Valve and to be used by the Steam Frame, is out with a new monthly feature release...
Try Joplin: Your Open Source Evernote Alternative
If you rely heavily on note-taking apps and want to switch from a proprietary to an open-source solution, this app might be what you're looking for. The post Try Joplin: Your Open Source Evernote Alternative appeared first on FOSS Force.