Linux NewsReturn of The Meme! Hannah Montana Linux Lives Again in 2026
A curious developer took it upon himself to revive this *iconic* gem.
Marek Olลกรกk At Valve Lands RADV Code That Can "Double Performance" With Some VRS Cases
Longtime AMD Linux graphics driver expert Marek Olลกรกk, who joined Valve earlier this year and now focusing more on RADV rather than the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, has seen some of his latest work now merged for Mesa 26.2. Marek landed a big overhaul to the variable rate shading (VRS) code that in some cases can double the performance...
[$] The kernel's iomap layer
Conversations about the kernel's filesystem implementations often involve a layer called "iomap", but relatively few people can reliably say what iomap actually is. That is just the kind of gap that LWN exists to fill. In short, iomap handles the mapping between data in the filesystem space (identified by a file of interest, and an offset within that file) and in the storage space (which may be a memory location, or a set of blocks on a storage device). Using that mapping, iomap handles a long list of common, filesystem-related tasks, allowing a lot of boilerplate code to be removed from individual filesystem implementations.
Kdenlive 26.04.3 Released as the Final Maintenance Update in the Series
Kdenlive 26.04.3, an open-source video editor, arrives with crash fixes, timeline improvements, effect corrections, and continued security hardening.
More than 43 Million Lines of Code in Linux Kernel 7.2
Using the cloc utility, Michael Larabel of Phoronix discovered that Linux kernel 7.2 has over 43 million lines of code.
Obsidian vs Logseq: Which Note-Taking App Fits Your Workflow Better?
Logseq and Obsidian are both powerful PKM tools, but they work differently. Hereโs a practical comparison based on years of using both.
FreeRDP 3.28 Released with Security Fixes, Revived iOS Client
FreeRDP 3.28 brings multiple security fixes, a revived iOS client, Android build updates, Windows client improvements, and better testing.
I tested the top 5 Linux distros on DistroWatchโhereโs how I rank them
How everyone else ranks Linux distros doesn't have to be how you rank them.
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8, grafana, grafana-pcp, kernel, ruby:2.5, and ruby:3.3), Debian (bird3, chromium, kernel, linux-6.1, mediawiki, nginx, openvpn, php-phpseclib, php8.2, php8.4, and sympa), Fedora (7zip, buildah, chromium, clamav, freerdp, leptonica, mariadb10.11, mariadb11.8, nextcloud, nsd, openqa, openvpn, os-autoinst, pdns, pdns-recursor, perl-Crypt-ScryptKDF, podman, python-jupyter-server, and python-streamlink), Mageia (mariadb and yt-dlp), Slackware (libevent, libseccomp, mozilla, mutt, and php82), SUSE (apache2, containerd, dnsmasq, docker, dracut, firewalld-legacy, gimp, glibc, golang-github-docker-libnetwork, google-guest-agent, gstreamer-plugins-bad, helm, kernel, kernel-devel, keybase-client, kitty, krb5, libarchive, libnfs, libslirp, nilfs-utils, openCryptoki, openQA, openssl-3, pacemaker, pcr-oracle, perl-DBI, perl-List-SomeUtils-XS, podman, python-pip, python-pydata-sphinx-theme, python-tornado6, python3-lxml, python311-m
Ryzen AI Developer Platform: AMD's Own Linux Distribution Built Atop Debian
With the AMD Ryzen AI Halo developer platform there is the option of ordering this Ryzen AI Max+ mini PC with either Microsoft Windows 11 or "Linux OS". When receiving a AMD Ryzen AI Halo review sample last month, I fully expected it to just be an Ubuntu LTS install with ROCm preloaded. I was quite surprised when powering it up to find that it's an OS called the AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform 1 "Rex" and is based on Debian Linux.
AMD Ryzen AI Halo Is An Excellent & Powerful Mini PC With Fully Open-Source Software
Earlier this year AMD announced the Ryzen AI Halo as their in-house mini PC offering built around their leading Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" platform. After pre-orders began last month, the Ryzen AI Halo is officially beginning to ship this week and over the past few weeks we have been testing it out at Phoronix.
4 custom keyboard shortcuts that drastically improved my Linux workflow
Keyboard shortcuts make Linux easier, more convenient, and more fun. These four make my workflow smoother than ever.
OpenSSH 10.4 Patches Multiple Security Issues in SSH, SCP, and SFTP
OpenSSH 10.4 is now available with fixes for sftp, scp, and sshd, plus experimental support for ML-DSA 44 and Ed25519 composite signatures.
Phosh 0.56 Linux Mobile Shell Adds New Top-Bar Load Meter
Phosh 0.56 GNOME-based mobile shell brings a new load meter plugin, better immutable distro support, lockscreen rotation fixes, and more.
Another German State Swaps Microsoft for โBorn in the EUโ Open Source
Digital sovereignty is driving European governments off US clouds and onto homegrown open source options. The post Another German State Swaps Microsoft for โBorn in the EUโ Open Source appeared first on FOSS Force.