Linux NewsA guide to effortless multi-file editing in Vim with buffers
Buffers keep many files open, windows show them side by side, and tabs organize layouts. This workflow finally made Vim click.
Fish Shell 4.4 Released With Vi Mode Improvements and New Themes
Fish Shell 4.4 introduces Vim-aligned word movements, operator counts, new color themes, and multiple interactive improvements.
GNOME 50 Lands Virtual Monitor / Remote Desktop Improvements - Including HiDPI
In time for next month's GNOME 50 release are some improvements merged today for the Mutter compositor code adding HiDPI and monitor mode emulation support to the screen-casting API and DevKit...
Intel Panther Lake Shows Strong Linux CPU Performance & Power Efficiency With Core Ultra X7 358H Benchmarks
For those that have been very eager to hear about the Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" performance on Linux, today's the day! Last Thursday the MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Evo laptop arrived that is powered by the Core Ultra X7 358H. Here is a look at how that Intel Core Ultra X7 358H competes for performance and power efficiency against a wide range of other laptops on an up-to-date Linux software stack in with around 300 benchmarks.
System-Wide Controls to Block AI Features Come to Firefox 148
Firefox 148 adds system-wide AI controls, letting users disable all current and future AI features from a single settings panel.
Linux Dropping SMC TCP ULP Support For Being "Fundamentally Broken"
Merged four years ago to the Linux kernel networking subsystem's Shared Memory Communications (SMC) code was TCP Upper Layer Protocol (ULP) support for allowing applications to replace TCP with the SMC protocol in-place as a transparent replacement. Except for the next kernel cycle it's set to be reverted after realizing it's "fundamentally broken."..
OpenIndiana Is Porting Solaris' IPS Package Management To Rust
OpenIndiana as the open-source project built atop Illumos that is continuing to maintain and advance the former OpenSolaris code is working on a big ambitions of modernizing the Image Packaging System (IPS) package management solution. As part of that they are working to move from a C and Python codebase over to Rust...
Reworked NTFS Linux Driver Posted With More Improvements & Fixes
Announced back in October was NTFS Plus as a new Linux driver for NTFS based on the former NTFS kernel driver prior to Paragon Software contributing the NTFS3 driver code. The intent with this new driver is for better performance. more features, public user-space utilities around it, and all-around a nice step forward for those reliant on this Microsoft file-system. Out this week is the sixth iteration of this remade NTFS driver...
X.Org Developers Conference 2026 Being Hosted By Arm In Toronto
The X.Org Foundation has announced that this year's X.Org Developers Conference will be taking place in Toronto, Canada and hosted by Arm...
Firefox’s AI Kill Switch Lands in Firefox Nightly, Slated for Firefox 148
Mozilla has implemented the long-anticipated Firefox AI Kill Switch controls that strips the web browser of any AI-powered features. You can test it right now in Firefox Nightly.
Git 2.53.0 released
Version 2.53.0 of the Git source-code management system has been released. Changes include documentation for the Git data model, the ability to choose the diff algorithm to use with git blame, a new white-space error class, and more; see the announcement for details.
Linux's Second-in-Command Greg Kroah-Hartman Bestowed With The European Open Source Award
Linux kernel maintainer honored at Brussels ceremony for decades of critical infrastructure work.
You’ll finally be able to turn off Firefox’s AI features
You will be able to disable AI features in Firefox 148, Mozilla has announced. The next major update of the web browser, scheduled for release in late February, will offer an AI feature kill-switch in its new AI Controls panel. You can turn off Firefox’s AI features at a granular level. If you want to use some features, like on-device translations, but not others, like Google Lens image search, you can: If you don’t want any AI features in Firefox at all, a single ‘Block AI enhancements’ toggle acts as a kill-switch. But notice the framing here: you’re not ‘disabling […]
Git 2.53 Released With New Maintenance Checks and Faster Diff Paths
Git 2.53 introduces maintenance “is-needed”, expands repo tooling, and ships performance work in diff, packs, and object database internals.
AI Makes Advances in 3D Printing
Many industries hope to benefit from artificial intelligence, but currently they know very little about where it works and where it’s unreliable. 3D printing is a good field to look at how AI is helping to improve accuracy and cost, ... Read more The post AI Makes Advances in 3D Printing appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).