Linux News3 essential settings I change on every fresh Ubuntu install
Three quick tweaks that make Ubuntu feel faster and more comfortable from day one.
KaOS 2026.02 Debuts Niri Wayland Desktop While Exploring Life Beyond Systemd
KaOS 2026.02 is released without Plasma on the ISO, introducing the Niri and Noctalia Wayland desktops. Plasma 6 remains available in the repositories.
wlroots 0.20 Nears Release With New Protocols, Enhanced Vulkan Renderer
Version 0.20 of the popular wlroots Wayland support library is nearing its official release. Over the past week were two release candidates for wlroots 0.20 were published for this library used by Sway, Wayfire, Cage, Gamescope, and numerous other Wayland compositors...
Uptime Kuma 2.1 Adds Globalping Support, Expanded Notification Integrations
Uptime Kuma 2.1 introduces globalping support and new notification integrations, alongside monitoring and stability improvements.
If you only use Ubuntu, you’re missing out on what Linux is all about
If Ubuntu is your only Linux experience, you might be repeating the same pattern you tried to leave behind.
Linux Kernel Improvement Can Make Hibernation Several Times Faster With Slow SSDs
A patch series sent out for review this weekend can significantly improve the system hibernation performance under Linux. Particularly for those with slower SSDs, the patches can make Linux hibernate up to several times faster...
Mesa's KosmicKrisp Vulkan-On-Metal Achieves MoltenVK Feature Parity
Announced last year by consulting firm LunarG was KosmicKrisp as a Vulkan-on-Metal driver for efficiently leveraging the Vulkan API on Apple macOS systems as an alternative to the MoltenVK project. KosmicKrisp was upstreamed for Mesa 26.0 and continues making great progress for opening up more Vulkan possibilities in Apple's world...
NFS Server Adds Dynamic Thread Pool Sizing In Linux 7.0
The NFS server changes for Linux 7.0 happen to include some nice improvements for this big kernel version number release...
Power Sequencing Driver For PCIe M.2 Connectors Makes It Into Linux 7.0
The power sequencing subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 7.0 cycle. Typically not an area of the kernel too exciting but one new driver addition is the "pwrseq-pcie-m2" to provide power sequencing for PCIe M.2 connectors...
Linux Mint 23 expands user account editing to System Administration tool
Linux Mint 23 will expand its System Administration tool (mintsysadm) with a new Users section, enabling post-install home encryption and more.
Proxmox VE Series Part 2: Installing Proxmox
Installing Proxmox is a simple process. We will learn more in later articles, especially the next one about updating it, adding users and the like. There can be some configuration to do if you are running a Proxmox server without a subscription since it defaults to having a subscription. Download The first thing to do is to download Proxmox 8.4-1. Go to the Proxmox website at 'https://www.proxmox.com' and click on 'Downloads' at the top of the... https://www.linux.org/threads/proxmox-ve-series-part-2-installing-proxmox.59024/
Vim 9.2 Debuts Full Wayland and XDG Base Directory Support
Vim 9.2 now supports Wayland and the XDG Base Directory, and brings improvements to diff mode, fuzzy completion, and scripting features.
F2FS Delivers "Several Key Performance Optimizations" With Linux 7.0
The Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) has multiple performance improvements to provide its users with on the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel...
Vim 9.2 Is Out with Comprehensive Completion, Wayland Support, and More
Vim 9.2 open-source and highly configurable text editor is now available for download with comprehensive completion, full Wayland support, and more. Here's what's new!
X.Org Server's "Master" Branch Now Closed With Cleaned Up State On "Main"
This Valentine's Day there is a lot of red on the screen for the X.Org Server with the code delta as a result of renaming of their main Git development branch and in the process selectively dropping questionable patches to the prior "master" codebase...